Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation

SC Cook-Patton, CR Drever, BW Griscom… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Limited time and resources remain to constrain the climate crisis. Natural climate solutions
represent promising options to protect, manage and restore natural lands for additional …

Advancing systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services

J Villarreal-Rosas, LJ Sonter, RK Runting… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Conservation and sustainable management activities are critical for enhancing ecosystem
services. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a spatial decision support process used …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

P Meyfroidt, A De Bremond, CM Ryan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation,
climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we …

Understanding the spatial relationships and drivers of ecosystem service supply-demand mismatches towards spatially-targeted management of social-ecological …

J Shen, S Li, H Wang, S Wu, Z Liang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Managing relationships among ecosystem service supplies and demands and manipulating
certain drivers to maintain well-balanced ecosystem service suites are key challenges for …

The economic values of global forest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis

FA Taye, MV Folkersen, CM Fleming, A Buckwell… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents a meta-analysis of the economic values of global forest ecosystem
services. The meta-analysis is conducted based on data from primary studies published …

Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests

E Berenguer, GD Lennox, J Ferreira… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
With humanity facing an unprecedented climate crisis, the conservation of tropical forests
has never been so important–their vast terrestrial carbon stocks can be turned into …

Regional scalable priorities for national biodiversity and carbon conservation planning in Asia

L Zhu, AC Hughes, XQ Zhao, LJ Zhou, KP Ma… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
To achieve the goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, we must identify
representative targets that effectively protect biodiversity and can be implemented at a …

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

C Blundo, J Carilla, R Grau, A Malizia, L Malizia… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better 10
understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts 11 …

Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon and biodiversity cobenefits

FAR Matos, LFS Magnago… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests store large amounts of carbon and high biodiversity, but are being degraded
at alarming rates. The emerging global Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) agenda …