Establishing planted forests (PF) by afforestation and naturally regenerating forests (NF) are
important measures of enhance carbon (C) sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems …

Drylands, as highly vulnerable ecosystems, support environmental functions and human
well-being. Nevertheless, widespread land degradation and desertification present …

Aims Moss biocrusts are important functional components of dryland soils. They could
potentially be used to restore degraded dryland soils, but in sandy deserts, few cases of …

Subtropical drylands, such as the South American Dry Chaco, harbor azonal grasslands in
ancient river beds (hereafter, paleochannels). These grasslands host high biodiversity and …

As global ecological degradation intensifies, the long-term impacts of afforestation on
productivity and soil fertility in barren lands have become critical in improving global …

Land use changes are known to account for over 20% of human greenhouse gas emissions
and tree cover losses can significantly influence land-climate dynamics. Land-climate …

Storm-resolving simulations where deep convection can be explicitly resolved are
performed in the idealized radiative-convective equilibrium framework to explore the climatic …

Urbanization and migration are two major interlinked demographic features of the 21st
century, with 90% of the increased urban population by 2050 projected to be in Africa and …