Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

Y Yang, Y Shi, W Sun, J Chang, J Zhu, L Chen… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an
important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity

AF Feldman, X Feng, AJ Felton, AG Konings… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Regardless of annual rainfall amount changes, daily rainfall events are becoming more
intense but less frequent with anthropogenic warming. Larger rainfall events and longer dry …

Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events

J Yin, P Gentine, L Slater, L Gu, Y Pokhrel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Compound drought–heatwave (CDHW) events are one of the worst climatic stressors for
global sustainable development. However, the physical mechanisms behind CDHWs and …

Estimation of China's terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects

S Piao, Y He, X Wang, F Chen - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
China announced its national goal to reach the peak of carbon emission by 2030 and
achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, during the General Assembly of the United Nations in …

Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - IPCC AR6 WGI, final …, 2021 - hal.science
ES 6: 3-5 Replace “It is unequivocal that emissions of the well-mixed greenhouse gases
(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) from human activities …

Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

JMC Denissen, AJ Teuling, AJ Pitman, S Koirala… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems are essential for food and water security and CO2 uptake. Ecosystem
function is dependent on the availability of soil moisture, yet it is unclear how climate change …

European forests under global climate change: Review of tree growth processes, crises and management strategies

Z Vacek, S Vacek, J Cukor - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing global climate change is challenging all sectors, forestry notwithstanding. On
the one hand, forest ecosystems are exposed to and threatened by climate change, but on …

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

W Jiao, L Wang, WK Smith, Q Chang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation
productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint on vegetation …

Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y **a, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest

J Wang, AR Taylor, L D'Orangeville - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
Large projected increases in forest disturbance pose a major threat to future wood fiber
supply and carbon sequestration in the cold-limited, Canadian boreal forest ecosystem …