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View article: Disturbance Dynamics and Its Effects on Carbon in Human‐Impacted Mountain Forests in Northwestern Yunnan, China
Disturbance Dynamics and Its Effects on Carbon in Human‐Impacted Mountain Forests in Northwestern Yunnan, China Open
Human activities alter disturbance regimes, influencing forest structure and ecosystem carbon. Identifying and quantifying natural and anthropogenic disturbances at fine spatial scales are critical to assessing the role of forests in clima…
View article: A Meta‐Regression of 18 Wildfire Chronosequences Reveals Key Environmental Drivers and Knowledge Gaps in the Boreal Nitrogen Balance
A Meta‐Regression of 18 Wildfire Chronosequences Reveals Key Environmental Drivers and Knowledge Gaps in the Boreal Nitrogen Balance Open
Climate change has increased the size and frequency of wildfires across the boreal biome. Severe wildfires in boreal forests have been found to trigger shifts from evergreen to deciduous canopies, which has cascading effects on carbon and …
View article: A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key drivers of the boreal nitrogen balance
A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key drivers of the boreal nitrogen balance Open
Ecosystem productivity and carbon uptake in the circumpolar boreal forest are contingent on available nitrogen, which ultimately originates from inputs via deposition and biological nitrogen fixation. Nitrogen deposition rates in boreal fo…
View article: Climate and evolutionary history shape latitudinal patterns of angiosperm wood density
Climate and evolutionary history shape latitudinal patterns of angiosperm wood density Open
Wood density (WD) indicates important plant functions and plays a key role in carbon cycling of forest ecosystems by affecting wood decomposition. However, how WD varies globally and how it evolved through the evolutionary history of angio…
View article: Wind disturbance in forests: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review
Wind disturbance in forests: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review Open
Forests are susceptible to sudden disturbances, particularly those induced by wind, leading potentially to important ecological changes and economic losses. The extensive multidisciplinary literature on this topic poses challenges for trad…
View article: Mapping the Landscape of Research on Wind Disturbance in Forests: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review
Mapping the Landscape of Research on Wind Disturbance in Forests: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review Open
Forests are susceptible to sudden disturbances, particularly those induced by wind, which can cause ecological and economic losses. Researchers have published a large number of articles from different disciplines and perspectives, leading …
View article: A temperature-based model of biomass accumulation in humid forests of the world
A temperature-based model of biomass accumulation in humid forests of the world Open
Forests benefit humans in numerous ways. Many of these benefits are greater from forests with large trees and high biomass (i.e., above-ground biomass) than from young forests with small trees. Understanding how the biomass accumulation ra…
View article: Corrigendum: Elevation, aspect, and slope influence woody vegetation structure and composition but not species richness in a human-influenced landscape in northwestern Yunnan, China
Corrigendum: Elevation, aspect, and slope influence woody vegetation structure and composition but not species richness in a human-influenced landscape in northwestern Yunnan, China Open
Incorrect Funding In the published article, we missed the Funding statement. The correct Funding statement appears below.FUNDINGThis research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32171539).The authors apol…
View article: Elevation, aspect, and slope influence woody vegetation structure and composition but not species richness in a human-influenced landscape in northwestern Yunnan, China
Elevation, aspect, and slope influence woody vegetation structure and composition but not species richness in a human-influenced landscape in northwestern Yunnan, China Open
Elevation-for-latitude substitution offers a tool for studying the influence of temperature and precipitation variability on vegetation structure and composition. Understanding how elevation, aspect, and slope influence vegetation patterns…
View article: Effects of climate and plant functional types on forest above-ground biomass accumulation
Effects of climate and plant functional types on forest above-ground biomass accumulation Open
Background Forest above-ground biomass (AGB) accumulation is widely considered an important tool for mitigating climate change. However, the general pattern of forest AGB accumulation associated with age and climate gradients across variou…
View article: Global biodiversity patterns of woody and herbaceous flowering plants in space and time
Global biodiversity patterns of woody and herbaceous flowering plants in space and time Open
Plant biodiversity can be structured into different growth forms (i.e. woody vs. herbaceous) with divergent distributions, evolutionary histories, and relationships with climate thus they should be separately analyzed to better understand …
View article: Pongamia: A Possible Option for Degraded Land Restoration and Bioenergy Production in Indonesia
Pongamia: A Possible Option for Degraded Land Restoration and Bioenergy Production in Indonesia Open
Indonesia has 14 million ha of degraded and marginal land, which provides very few benefits for human wellbeing or biodiversity. This degraded land may require restoration. The leguminous tree Pongamia pinnata syn. Milettia pinnata (pongam…
View article: Impact of Rising Temperatures on the Biomass of Humid Old-Growth Forests of the World
Impact of Rising Temperatures on the Biomass of Humid Old-Growth Forests of the World Open
Background: Understanding how warming temperatures are influencing biomasses in the world’s forests is necessary for quantifying future global C (carbon) budgets. A temperature-driven decrease in future C stocks could dangerously strengthe…
View article: Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems in Degraded Landscapes in West Java, Indonesia
Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems in Degraded Landscapes in West Java, Indonesia Open
When restoring degraded landscapes, approaches capable of striking a balance between improving environmental services and enhancing human wellbeing need to be considered. Agroforestry is an important option for restoring degraded land and …
View article: What Would a Tree Say About Its Size?
What Would a Tree Say About Its Size? Open
When developing theories, designing studies, and interpreting the results, researchers are influenced by their perception of tree size. For example, we may compare two trees of the same size belonging to different species, and attribute an…
View article: Wind and Gravity in Shaping Picea Trunks
Wind and Gravity in Shaping Picea Trunks Open
Understanding why trunks (tree stems) are the size that they are is important. However, this understanding is fragmented into isolated schools of thought and has been far from complete. Realistic calculations on minimum trunk diameters nee…
View article: Additional file 1 of Impact of rising temperatures on the biomass of humid old-growth forests of the world
Additional file 1 of Impact of rising temperatures on the biomass of humid old-growth forests of the world Open
Additional file 1. Sensitivity of results relative parameters, parameter bounds and data selection criteria.
View article: Wind and Gravity in Shaping Picea Trunks
Wind and Gravity in Shaping Picea Trunks Open
Background:Understanding why trunks (tree stems) are the size that they are is important. However, this understanding is fragmented into isolated schools of thought and has been far from complete. Realistic calculations on minimum trunk di…
View article: Decadal‐Scale Recovery of Carbon Stocks After Wildfires Throughout the Boreal Forests
Decadal‐Scale Recovery of Carbon Stocks After Wildfires Throughout the Boreal Forests Open
Boreal forests store 30% of the world's terrestrial carbon (C). Consequently, climate change mediated alterations in the boreal forest fire regime can have a significant impact on the global C budget. Here we synthesize the effects of fore…
View article: Land degradation along a climatic gradient in Mali: Farmers' perceptions of causes and impacts
Land degradation along a climatic gradient in Mali: Farmers' perceptions of causes and impacts Open
Land degradation (LD) in Mali is prevalent and leads to an enduring environmental and humanitarian crisis. Farmers' ecological knowledge has proven to be a valuable tool in addressing its challenges. How farmers perceive LD affects how the…
View article: Above-ground carbon stocks and timber value of old timber plantations, secondary and primary forests in southern Ghana
Above-ground carbon stocks and timber value of old timber plantations, secondary and primary forests in southern Ghana Open
High deforestation rates, especially in the tropics, currently result in the annual emission of large amounts of carbon, contributing to global climate change. There is therefore an urgent need to take actions to mitigate climate change bo…
View article: Post-fire carbon stocks in boreal forests.xlsx
Post-fire carbon stocks in boreal forests.xlsx Open
The file contains data from 16 long-term forest fire chronosequences distributed throughout the boreal zone. Dataset includes post-fire C stocks in living trees, dead trees, ground vegetation and soil organic layer. The climatic variables,…
View article: Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia and its relation to primary productivity
Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia and its relation to primary productivity Open
Aims Plant height is a key functional trait related to aboveground biomass, leaf photosynthesis and plant fitness. However, large-scale geographical patterns in community-average plant height (CAPH) of woody species and drivers of these pa…
View article: Payments for adding ecosystem carbon are mostly beneficial to biodiversity
Payments for adding ecosystem carbon are mostly beneficial to biodiversity Open
Biodiversity conservation is often considered to be an important co-benefit of REDD+ and other mechanisms aiming to increase carbon in biomass and soil to mitigate climate change. This reasoning is based on the assumption that the level of…
View article: Ecosystem carbon and biodiversity in thirteen landscapes around the world
Ecosystem carbon and biodiversity in thirteen landscapes around the world Open
Impacts on biodiversity are considered one of the main detrimental consequences of changing climates. However, climate change mitigation is also directly influencing biodiversity if it is done by adding ecosystem carbon relative to a refer…
View article: Post-fire carbon and nitrogen accumulation and succession in Central Siberia
Post-fire carbon and nitrogen accumulation and succession in Central Siberia Open
Improved understanding of carbon (C) accumulation after a boreal fire enables more accurate quantification of the C implications caused by potential fire regime shifts. We coupled results from a fire history study with biomass and soil sam…
View article: CarboScen: a tool to estimate carbon implications of land‐use scenarios
CarboScen: a tool to estimate carbon implications of land‐use scenarios Open
Land use directly impacts ecosystem carbon and indirectly influences atmospheric carbon. Computing ecosystem carbon for an area experiencing changes in land use is not trivial, as carbon densities change slowly after land‐use changes. We d…