Forests are among the most important terrestrial ecological systems in terms of the multitude
of ecosystem functions and services they provide. These biotic systems are vital not only for …

General circulation models that predict large-scale climatic changes at present account
neither for the effects of these changes on terrestrial and aquatic biota nor for feedbacks …

Humans rely on healthy forests to supply energy, building materials, and food and to provide
services such as storing carbon, hosting biodiversity, and regulating climate. Defining forest …

Forest ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented changes in environmental conditions
due to global change impacts. Modification of global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and …

Fossil-fuel burning and deforestation have emerged as principal anthropogenic sources of
rising atmospheric CO2 and consequential global warming. Variability in temperature …

Climate change policies currently focus on reducing the concentration of industrial
atmospheric greenhouse gases due to burning fossil fuels and deforestation, but pay limited …

The inclusion of forests as potential biological sinks in the Kyoto Protocol to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1997 has attracted …

Climate policy has thus far focused solely on carbon stocks and sequestration to evaluate
the potential of forests to mitigate global warming. These factors are used to assess the …

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Tropical forests are global epicentres of biodiversity and important modulators of the rate of
climate change. Recent research on deforestation rates and ecological changes within intact …