The world's forests influence climate through physical, chemical, and biological processes
that affect planetary energetics, the hydrologic cycle, and atmospheric composition. These …

Land cover changes (LCCs) play an important role in the climate system. Research over
recent decades highlights the impacts of these changes on atmospheric temperature …

This paper presents an update and extension of HYDE, the History Database of the Global
Environment (HYDE version 3.2). HYDE is an internally consistent combination of historical …

Aim This paper presents a tool for long‐term global change studies; it is an update of the
History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) with estimates of some of the …

Aim To map and characterize anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
before and during the Industrial Revolution, from 1700 to 2000. Location Global. Methods …

The last 6000years are of particular interest to the understanding of the Earth System
because the boundary conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in …

Agricultural activities have dramatically altered our planet's land surface. To understand the
extent and spatial distribution of these changes, we have developed a new global data set of …

The purpose of this paper is to give a rather comprehensive description of the models for
natural and anthropogenically driven changes in biogeography as implemented in the land …

This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

The trend in global wildfire potential under the climate change due to the greenhouse effect
is investigated. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which …