Double stress of waterlogging and drought drives forest–savanna coexistence

CRC Mattos, M Hirota, RS Oliveira… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Forest–savanna boundaries are ecotones that support complex ecosystem functions and
are sensitive to biotic/abiotic perturbations. What drives their distribution today and how it …

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

BM Flores, E Montoya, B Sakschewski, N Nascimento… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

[HTML][HTML] Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends

A Dewan, G Kiselev, D Botje, GI Mahmud… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is currently a lack of knowledge regarding the spatiotemporal variation of day and
night surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) in the major cities of Bangladesh. These …

More than one quarter of Africa's tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest

F Reiner, M Brandt, X Tong, D Skole, A Kariryaa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The consistent monitoring of trees both inside and outside of forests is key to sustainable
land management. Current monitoring systems either ignore trees outside forests or are too …

Harmonized global maps of above and belowground biomass carbon density in the year 2010

SA Spawn, CC Sullivan, TJ Lark, HK Gibbs - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Remotely sensed biomass carbon density maps are widely used for myriad scientific and
policy applications, but all remain limited in scope. They often only represent a single …

Prevalence and drivers of abrupt vegetation shifts in global drylands

M Berdugo, JJ Gaitán… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The constant provision of plant productivity is integral to supporting the liability of
ecosystems and human wellbeing in global drylands. Drylands are paradigmatic examples …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots of snow cover changes in global mountain regions over 2000–2018

C Notarnicola - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantification of snow cover changes and related phenology in global mountain areas has
not been consistently addressed, despite the well-known importance of the snow in this …

Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance

KT Davis, SZ Dobrowski, ZA Holden, PE Higuera… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Forest canopies buffer climate extremes and promote microclimates that may function as
refugia for understory species under changing climate. However, the biophysical conditions …

Long-term monitoring of evapotranspiration using the SEBAL algorithm and Google Earth Engine cloud computing

L Laipelt, RHB Kayser, AS Fleischmann… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for several applications in water
resources management. ET models using remote sensing data have flourished in recent …

A global database of soil plant available phosphorus

RW McDowell, A Noble, P Pletnyakov, PM Haygarth - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Soil phosphorus drives food production that is needed to feed a growing global population.
However, knowledge of plant available phosphorus stocks at a global scale is poor but …