During periods of strong environmental change, some areas may serve as refugia, where
components of biodiversity can find protection, persist and potentially expand from should …

Meeting global commitments to conservation, climate, and sustainable development
requires consideration of synergies and tradeoffs among targets. We evaluate the spatial …

Carbon finance projects that protect tropical forests could support both nature conservation
and climate change mitigation goals. Global demand for nature-based carbon credits is …

As climate change continues to threaten human and natural systems, the search for cost-
effective and practical mitigation solutions is gaining momentum. Reforestation has recently …

Carbon credits generated through jurisdictional-scale avoided deforestation projects require
accurate estimates of deforestation emission baselines, but there are serious challenges to …

Increasing heat and aridity in coming decades is expected to negatively impact tree growth
and threaten forest sustainability in dry areas. Maintaining low stand density has the …

Climate sensitivity of vegetation has long been explored using statistical or process‐based
models. However, great uncertainties still remain due to the methodologies' deficiency in …

Proactively identifying where land conversion might occur is critical to targeted and effective
conservation planning. Previous efforts to map future habitat loss have largely focused on …

Scientists still poorly understand how biotic interactions and dispersal limitation jointly
interact and affect the ability of species to track suitable habitats under climate change. Here …

Trees are spread worldwide, as the watchmen that experience the intricate ecological effects
caused by various environmental factors. In order to better understand such effects, it is …