Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes—A review on its environmental consequences and climate change

PS Roy, RM Ramachandran, O Paul, PK Thakur… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Springer
The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

Drought–heatwave nexus in Brazil and related impacts on health and fires: A comprehensive review

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Annals of the new …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is drastically altering the frequency, duration, and severity of compound
drought‐heatwave (CDHW) episodes, which present a new challenge in environmental and …

Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the
Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed, much of the Pantanal …

Long-term landsat-based monthly burned area dataset for the Brazilian biomes using deep learning

AAC Alencar, VLS Arruda, WV Silva, DE Conciani… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fire is a significant agent of landscape transformation on Earth, and a dynamic and
ephemeral process that is challenging to map. Difficulties include the seasonality of native …

Increased burned area in the Pantanal over the past two decades

DB Correa, E Alcântara, R Libonati, KG Massi… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildfires are behaving differently now compared to other time in history in relation to
frequency, intensity and affected ecosystems. In Brazil, unprecedented fires are being …

An agenda for land data assimilation priorities: Realizing the promise of terrestrial water, energy, and vegetation observations from space

S Kumar, J Kolassa, R Reichle, W Crow… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The task of quantifying spatial and temporal variations in terrestrial water, energy, and
vegetation conditions is challenging due to the significant complexity and heterogeneity of …

[HTML][HTML] Heatwaves and fire in Pantanal: Historical and future perspectives from CORDEX-CORE

PS Silva, JL Geirinhas, R Lapere, W Laura… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Pantanal biome, at the confluence of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, is the largest
continental wetland on the planet and an invaluable reserve of biodiversity. The exceptional …

[HTML][HTML] Flood susceptibility mapping to improve models of species distributions

E Ebrahimi, MB Araújo, B Naimi - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
As significant ecosystem disturbances flooding events are expected to increase in both
frequency and severity due to climate change, underscoring the critical need to understand …

Space-based Earth observation in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement

MI Hegglin, A Bastos, H Bovensmann… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Space-based Earth observation (EO), in the form of long-term climate data records, has
been crucial in the monitoring and quantification of slow changes in the climate system …

The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics

AM Mc Cartney, G Formenti, A Mouton, D De Panis… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
A global genome database of all of Earth's species diversity could be a treasure trove of
scientific discoveries. However, regardless of the major advances in genome sequencing …