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A global reference data set for land cover mapping at 10 m resolution Open

Myroslava Lesiv, S. Fritz, Ivelina Georgieva, Marcel Buchhorn, Luc Bertels , et al. · 2025

This paper presents a unique global reference data set for land cover mapping at a 10 m resolution, aligned with Sentinel-2 imagery for the year 2015. It contains more than 16.5 million data records at a 10 m resolution (or 165 K data reco…

A System Reanalysis of the Current Greenhouse Gases Budget of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Russia Open

А. Shvidenko, Philippe Ciais, Prabir K. Patra, Ana Bastos, Shamil Maksyutov , et al. · 2025

This study synthesizes the budgets of three greenhouse gases (GHG, namely CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O) for Russia over two decades (2000–2009 and 2010–2019) using bottom‐up and top‐down approaches, as part of the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment a…

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world’s woody ecosystems Open

Fabian Jörg Fischer, Rebecca Banbury Morgan, Toby Jackson, Jérôme Chave, David Coomes , et al. · 2025

Woody canopies regulate exchanges of energy, water and carbon, and their three-dimensional (3D) structure supports much of terrestrial biodiversity. Remote sensing technologies such as airborne laser scanning (ALS) now enable the 3D mappin…

A Comparative Assessment of Food Security in South and North Korea Using Food Demand and Supply Open

Whijin Kim, Rastislav Skalský, Christian Folberth, Sujong Lee, Dmitry Schepaschenko , et al. · 2025

South Korea and North Korea share the same environment on the Korean peninsula, but they differ in socio-economic conditions, which leads to differences in crop productivity and status of food security. This study aimed at assessing food s…

A global reference data set for land cover mapping at 10 m resolution Open

Myroslava Lesiv, Steffen Fritz, Martina Duerauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Marcel Buchhorn , et al. · 2025

This paper presents a unique global reference data set for land cover mapping at a 10 m resolution, aligned with Sentinel-2 imagery for the year 2015. It contains more than 16.5 million data records at a 10 m resolution (or 165 K data reco…

The importance of distinguishing between natural and managed tree cover gains in the moist tropics Open

Xueyuan Gao, Peter B. Reich, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Matthew E. Fagan, Robin L. Chazdon , et al. · 2025

Estimation of Impact of Disturbances on Soil Respiration in Forest Ecosystems of Russia Open

Dmitry Schepaschenko, Liudmila Mukhortova, А. Shvidenko · 2025

Soil respiration (Rs) is a significant contributor to the global carbon cycle, with its two main sources—microbial (heterotrophic, Rh) and plant root (autotrophic, Ra) respiration—being sensitive to various environmental factors. This stud…

New directions in mapping the Earth’s surface with citizen science and generative AI Open

Linda See, Qingqing Chen, Andrew Crooks, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Dilek Fraisl , et al. · 2025

Forest Ecosystems Under Climate Change Open

Florian Kraxner, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Georg Kindermann, Andrey Krasovsky · 2025

Forest ecosystems are significantly impacted by climate change, particularly through drought and increased weather variability. Forests are characterized by their long-lived vegetation, making it essential to consider climate projections w…

A Comparative Assessment of Food Security in South and North Korea from 1991 to 2020: Demand, Supply, and Agricultural Productivity Open

Whijin Kim, Rastislav Skalský, Christian Folberth, Sujong Lee, Dmitry Schepaschenko , et al. · 2025

Design and performance of the Climate Change Initiative Biomass global retrieval algorithm Open

Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, S. Quegan, Heather Kay, Richard Lucas , et al. · 2024

A new global hybrid map of annual herbaceous cropland at a 500 m resolution for the year 2019 Open

Steffen Fritz, Myroslava Lesiv, Linda See, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Katya Pérez-Guzmán , et al. · 2024

The global spatial extent of croplands is a crucial input to global and regional agricultural monitoring and modeling systems. Although many new remotely-sensed products are now appearing due to recent advances in the spatial and temporal …

The enduring world forest carbon sink Open

Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Oliver L. Phillips, R. A. Houghton, Jingyun Fang , et al. · 2024

Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Big Data for Land Cover and Land Use Mapping and Monitoring Open

Linda See, Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko · 2024

The last few decades have seen an explosion in the availability of remotely sensed and geospatial big data, which are defined by the 3 Vs: a large volume of data; a variety of different forms of data; and the rapid velocity of data arrival…

Multi-purpose afforestation scenarios under climate change for carbon dioxide reduction  Open

Florian Kraxner, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Sabine Fuss, Andrey Krasovskiy, А. Shvidenko , et al. · 2024

This study aims at identifying the carbon dioxide reduction (CDR) potential of large-scale and multi-purpose afforestation/reforestation at the global level with special emphasis on the Mid-Latitude Region (MLR). Applying a combined remote…

Improving high-resolution spatial information on agricultural land use management in Europe for economic land use modelling and the assessment of policy impacts Open

Linda See, Orysia Yashchun, Зоряна Романчук, Juraj Balkovič, Rastislav Skalský , et al. · 2024

There is currently a lack of high-resolution pan-European information on land use management, especially in terms of how intensively and extensively cropland and grassland are managed. This is partly due to the lack of ground-based informa…

Global patterns of tree wood density Open

Hui Yang, Siyuan Wang, Rackhun Son, Hoontaek Lee, Vitus Benson , et al. · 2024

Wood density is a fundamental property related to tree biomechanics and hydraulic function while playing a crucial role in assessing vegetation carbon stocks by linking volumetric retrieval and a mass estimate. This study provides a high‐r…

War drives forest fire risks and highlights the need for more ecologically-sound forest management in post-war Ukraine Open

Maksym Matsala, Andrii Odruzhenko, Taras Hinchuk, Viktor Myroniuk, Igor Drobyshev , et al. · 2024

Since 24 February 2022, Ukraine has experienced full-scale military aggression initiated by the Russian Federation. The war has had a major negative impact on vegetation cover of war-affected regions. We explored interactions between pre-w…

The importance of distinguishing natural forest regrowth from managed tree systems Open

Xueyuan Gao, Peter B. Reich, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Matthew D. Potts, Matthew C. Hansen , et al. · 2024

Nature-based climate solutions, such as forest landscape restoration, offer a promising approach to mitigate the effects of global climate change, conserve biodiversity, and enhance rural livelihoods. Heinrich et al. (Nature, 2023) used sa…

Improving the method of mapping organic carbon in the forest litter in Central Federal District Open

Д.В. Ершов, E.N. Sochilova, Н. В. Королева, Dmitry Schepaschenko · 2024

Climate Change Threatens the Sustainability of Current Timber Harvesting Practices Across a Latitudinal Gradient in Siberia Open

Eric J. Gustafson, Melissa S. Lucash, А. Shvidenko, Brian R. Sturtevant, Dmitry Schepaschenko , et al. · 2024

Design and Performance of the Climate Change Initiative Biomass Global Retrieval Algorithm Open

Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, S. Quegan, Heather Kay, Richard Lucas , et al. · 2024

Climate Change and Disturbance Interact to Alter Landscape Reflectivity (Albedo) in Boreal Forests Across a Large Latitudinal Gradient in Siberia Open

Eric J. Gustafson, Melissa S. Lucash, А. Shvidenko, Brian R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda , et al. · 2024

Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition Open

Élise Bouchard, Eric B. Searle, Pierre Drapeau, Jingjing Liang, Javier G. P. Gamarra , et al. · 2023

Aim To determine the relationships between the functional trait composition of forest communities and environmental gradients across scales and biomes and the role of species relative abundances in these relationships. Location Global. Tim…

RECCAP2 Future Component: Consistency and Potential for Regional Assessment to Constrain Global Projections Open

Chris Jones, Tilo Ziehn, Jatin Anand, Ana Bastos, Eleanor Burke , et al. · 2023

Projections of future carbon sinks and stocks are important because they show how the world's ecosystems will respond to elevated CO 2 and changes in climate. Moreover, they are crucial to inform policy decisions around emissions reduction…

Global ground-based data and estimates of forest carbon stock and sink from 1990-2020 Open

Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Oliver L. Phillips, R. A. Houghton, Jingyun Fang , et al. · 2023

Carbon dioxide uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is critical for moderating climate change but the processes involved are challenging to observe, quantify and model. To provide an independent, ground-based assessment of the contribution of …

Transnational strategy on the sustainable management and responsible use of non-native trees in the Alpine Space Open

Katharina Lapin, Anja Bindewald, Giuseppe Brundu, Aleksander Marinšek, Debojyoti Chakraborty , et al. · 2023

Non-native tree species – defined as those species intentionally or unintentionally introduced by humans – have long been a part of the Alpine Space, providing numerous benefits, but also posing a potential threat to native biodiversity an…

Wall-to-wall mapping of carbon loss within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone after the 2020 catastrophic wildfire Open

Maksym Matsala, Viktor Myroniuk, О.А. Борсук, Denis Vishnevskiy, Dmitry Schepaschenko , et al. · 2023

Key message We propose a framework to derive the direct loss of aboveground carbon stocks after the 2020 wildfire in forests of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone using optical and radar Sentinel satellite data. Carbon stocks were adequately pre…

Pantropical distribution of short-rotation woody plantations: spatial probabilities under current and future climate Open

Katharina Schulze, Žiga Malek, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Myroslava Lesiv, Steffen Fritz , et al. · 2023

Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia Open

Neil G. Williams, Melissa S. Lucash, M. Ouellette, Thomas Brussel, Eric J. Gustafson , et al. · 2023

Background Climate change is expected to increase fire activity across the circumboreal zone, including central Siberia. However, few studies have quantitatively assessed potential changes in fire regime characteristics, or considered poss…

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