Peatlands are carbon‐rich ecosystems that cover 185–423 million hectares (Mha) of the earth's surface. The majority of the world's peatlands are in temperate and boreal zones …
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …
FLUXNET comprises globally distributed eddy-covariance-based estimates of carbon fluxes between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Since eddy covariance flux towers have a …
Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong global carbon sink over recent decades,, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably …
There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …
The response of tropical forests to droughts is highly uncertain. During the dry season, canopy photosynthesis of some tropical forests can decline, whereas in others it can be …
Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …
Feedbacks between land carbon pools and climate provide one of the largest sources of uncertainty in our predictions of global climate,. Estimates of the sensitivity of the terrestrial …
The seasonality of sunlight and rainfall regulates net primary production in tropical forests. Previous studies have suggested that light is more limiting than water for tropical forest …