Climate change risks to global forest health: emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide

H Hartmann, A Bastos, AJ Das… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and
drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack …

Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tip** elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tip** elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Time‐lag effects of global vegetation responses to climate change

D Wu, X Zhao, S Liang, T Zhou, K Huang… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Climate conditions significantly affect vegetation growth in terrestrial ecosystems. Due to the
spatial heterogeneity of ecosystems, the vegetation responses to climate vary considerably …

Global variations in critical drought thresholds that impact vegetation

X Li, S Piao, C Huntingford, J Peñuelas… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the thresholds of drought that, if crossed, suppress vegetation functioning is vital
for accurate quantification of how land ecosystems respond to climate variability and …

[HTML][HTML] Global analysis of time-lag and-accumulation effects of climate on vegetation growth

Y Ding, Z Li, S Peng - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate dominantly controls vegetation over most regions at most times, and vegetation
responses to climate change are often asymmetric with temporal effects. However …

Three-dimensional dynamic characteristics of vegetation and its response to climatic factors in the Qilian Mountains

Y Ma, Q Guan, Y Sun, J Zhang, L Yang, E Yang, H Li… - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the trend of vegetation change and its reaction to climate variation is
important for revealing the mechanism of ecosystem behavior. However, current research …

Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy

S Saatchi, S Asefi-Najafabady… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Recent Amazonian droughts have drawn attention to the vulnerability of tropical forests to
climate perturbations. Satellite and in situ observations have shown an increase in fire …

[HTML][HTML] Drought-related cumulative and time-lag effects on vegetation dynamics across the Yellow River Basin, China

C Zhan, C Liang, L Zhao, S Jiang, K Niu, Y Zhang - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Yellow River Basin (YRB), a climate-sensitive and ecologically compromised area
in China, is increasingly affected by extreme climate events (especially droughts) resulting …

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 …

Environmental change and the carbon balance of A mazonian forests

LEOC Aragão, B Poulter, JB Barlow… - Biological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme climatic events and land‐use change are known to influence strongly the current
carbon cycle of A mazonia, and have the potential to cause significant global climate …