Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth's forests

WM Hammond, AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Earth's forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts
increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite the vital …

Soil hydrology in the Earth system

H Vereecken, W Amelung, SL Bauke… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Soil hydrological processes (SHP) support ecosystems, modulate the impact of climate
change on terrestrial systems and control feedback mechanisms between water, energy and …

Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - IPCC AR6 WGI, final …, 2021‏ - hal.science
ES 6: 3-5 Replace “It is unequivocal that emissions of the well-mixed greenhouse gases
(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) from human activities …

A climate risk analysis of Earth's forests in the 21st century

WRL Anderegg, C Wu, N Acil, N Carvalhais, TAM Pugh… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Earth's forests harbor extensive biodiversity and are currently a major carbon sink. Forest
conservation and restoration can help mitigate climate change; however, climate change …

The EC-earth3 Earth system model for the climate model intercomparison project 6

R Döscher, M Acosta, A Alessandri… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
The Earth System Model EC-Earth3 for contributions to CMIP6 is documented here, with its
flexible coupling framework, major model configurations, a methodology for ensuring the …

Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

NG McDowell, CD Allen, K Anderson-Teixeira… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Forest dynamics arise from the interplay of chronic drivers and transient
disturbances with the demographic processes of recruitment, growth, and mortality. The …

Iterative integration of deep learning in hybrid Earth surface system modelling

M Chen, Z Qian, N Boers, AJ Jakeman… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Earth system modelling (ESM) is essential for understanding past, present and future Earth
processes. Deep learning (DL), with the data-driven strength of neural networks, has …

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

KK McLauchlan, PE Higuera, J Miesel… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits,
population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling …

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

The Community Land Model version 5: Description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

DM Lawrence, RA Fisher, CD Koven… - Journal of Advances …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Community Land Model (CLM) is the land component of the Community Earth
System Model (CESM) and is used in several global and regional modeling systems. In this …