Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

PI Macreadie, MDP Costa, TB Atwood… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Land use and land cover changes and their impacts on surface-atmosphere interactions in Brazil: A systematic review

CB Caballero, A Ruhoff, T Biggs - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Major land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have taken place in Brazil, including large
scale conversion of forest to agriculture. LULCC alters surface-atmosphere interactions …

Urban development versus wetland loss in a coastal Latin American city: Lessons for sustainable land use planning

C Rojas, J Munizaga, O Rojas, C Martínez, J Pino - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Urbanization is a primary cause of wetland loss in coastal metropolitan regions. Therefore, it
challenges the preservation of biodiversity and the provision of key ecosystem services for …

Assessing climate change impact on flood discharge in South America and the influence of its main drivers

JPLF Brêda, RCD de Paiva, VA Siqueira… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A warmer atmosphere is able to hold more water which consequently intensifies the
hydrological cycle. The projected increase in extreme precipitation has been associated with …

Socio-ecological well-being perspectives of wetland loss scenario: A review

M Let, S Pal - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous original research focused on wetland loss and finding out its drivers across
different regional units of the world. A few reports also tried to account world's condition on …

Meta-analysis of wetland classification using remote sensing: A systematic review of a 40-year trend in North America

M Mahdianpari, JE Granger, F Mohammadimanesh… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
North America is covered in 2.5 million km2 of wetlands, which is the remainder of an
estimated 56% of wetlands lost since the 1700s. This loss has resulted in a decrease in …

Remote sensing for cost-effective blue carbon accounting

ME Malerba, MD de Paula Costa, DA Friess… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCE) include mangrove forests, tidal marshes, and seagrass
meadows, all of which are currently under threat, putting their contribution to mitigating …

Assessing L-band GNSS-reflectometry and imaging radar for detecting sub-canopy inundation dynamics in a tropical wetlands complex

K Jensen, K McDonald, E Podest… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite the growing number of remote-sensing products from satellite sensors, mapping of
the combined spatial distribution and temporal variability of inundation in tropical wetlands …

Land use and land cover in tropical forest: Global research

A Velastegui-Montoya, N Montalván-Burbano… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple
ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …