Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén, TB Atwood, ES Bakker… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

MA Bradford, WR Wieder, GB Bonan, N Fierer… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Planetary warming may be exacerbated if it accelerates loss of soil carbon to the
atmosphere. This carbon-cycle–climate feedback is included in climate projections. Yet …

The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau

C Mu, BW Abbott, AJ Norris, M Mu, C Fan, X Chen… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Permafrost regions at high latitudes and altitudes store about half of the Earth's soil organic
carbon (SOC). These areas are also some of the most intensely affected by anthropogenic …

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

OJ Schmitz, CC Wilmers, SJ Leroux, CE Doughty… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Modern advances in remote-sensing technology are providing
unprecedented opportunities to accurately measure the global distribution of carbon held in …

Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

P Smith, K Calvin, J Nkem, D Campbell… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food
production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation …

The community and ecosystem consequences of intraspecific diversity: A meta‐analysis

A Raffard, F Santoul, J Cucherousset… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has major
implications. Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships are generally investigated at …

Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores

WJ Ripple, JA Estes, RL Beschta, CC Wilmers… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background The largest terrestrial species in the order Carnivora are wide-ranging and rare
because of their positions at the top of food webs. They are some of the world's most …

CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change

CM Roberts, BC O'Leary, DJ McCauley… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Strong decreases in greenhouse gas emissions are required to meet the reduction trajectory
resolved within the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, even these decreases will not avert …