[BOOK][B] The economics of biodiversity

P Dasgupta - 2024 - books.google.com
We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] TransU-Net++: Rethinking attention gated TransU-Net for deforestation map**

A Jamali, SK Roy, J Li, P Ghamisi - International Journal of Applied Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deforestation has become a major cause of climate change, and as a result, both
characterizing the drivers and estimating segmentation maps of deforestation have piqued …

Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data

D Requena Suarez, DMA Rozendaal… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As countries advance in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting for climate change mitigation,
consistent estimates of aboveground net biomass change (∆ AGB) are needed. Countries …

Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests

D Liu, T Wang, J Peñuelas, S Piao - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Restoring species diversity is proposed as a strategy to improve ecosystem resistance to
extreme droughts, but the impact of species diversity on resistance has not been evaluated …

Substantial and increasing global losses of timber-producing forest due to wildfires

CG Bousfield, DB Lindenmayer, DP Edwards - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
One-third of global forest is harvested for timber, generating~ US $1.5 trillion annually. High-
severity wildfires threaten this timber production. Here we combine global maps of logging …

Global forest management data for 2015 at a 100 m resolution

M Lesiv, D Schepaschenko, M Buchhorn, L See… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Spatially explicit information on forest management at a global scale is critical for
understanding the status of forests, for planning sustainable forest management and …

Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide

DN Karger, M Kessler, M Lehnert, W Jetz - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Tropical cloud forests (TCFs) are one of the world's most species-and endemism-rich
terrestrial ecosystems. TCFs are threatened by direct human pressures and climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Map** global patterns of land use decision-making

Ž Malek, PH Verburg - Global Environmental Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Humans have changed most of the terrestrial surface by changing land-use and land-cover.
The spatial distribution and extent of land-cover changes have been studied and mapped …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon removals from nature restoration are no substitute for steep emission reductions

K Dooley, Z Nicholls, M Meinshausen - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
The role of nature restoration in mitigating the impacts of climate change is receiving
increasing attention, yet the mitigation potential is often assessed in terms of carbon removal …

[HTML][HTML] Shared and environmentally just responsibility for global biodiversity loss

Z Sun, P Behrens, A Tukker, M Bruckner, L Scherer - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Human land use is the main driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss. It has been argued that
producers and consumers have a shared responsibility for biodiversity loss because this …