Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

Y Yang, ML Roderick, H Guo, DG Miralles… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Evapotranspiration (ET)—the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by
vegetation—is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine …

Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

P Jaureguiberry, N Titeux, M Wiemers, DE Bowler… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Effective policies to halt biodiversity loss require knowing which anthropogenic drivers are
the most important direct causes. Whereas previous knowledge has been limited in scope …

Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Y Wang, W Lv, K Xue, S Wang, L Zhang, R Hu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) foster biodiversity, store carbon,
maintain productivity and support pastoral livelihoods. These systems are being altered by …

Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

G Forzieri, V Dakos, NG McDowell, A Ramdane… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and
anthropogenic perturbations (that is, their resilience) 1. Experimental evidence of sudden …

Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

L Mo, CM Zohner, PB Reich, J Liang, S De Miguel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and
climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system. Remote-sensing estimates to …

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) …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Drivers and impacts of changes in China's drylands

C Li, B Fu, S Wang, LC Stringer, Y Wang, Z Li… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world's cities

L Zhang, L Yang, CM Zohner, TW Crowther, M Li… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Urban environments, regarded as “harbingers” of future global change, may exert positive or
negative impacts on urban vegetation growth. Because of limited ground-based …