Global pattern of forest disturbances and its shift under climate change

J Altman, P Fibich, V Trotsiuk, N Altmanova - Science of the total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forests are continuously altered by disturbances. Yet, knowledge of global pattern of forest
disturbance agents, its drivers, and shifts under changing climate remain scarce. Here we …

Warming and disturbances affect Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience across northwestern North America

Y Zhang, JA Wang, LT Berner, SJ Goetz… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Rapid warming and increasing disturbances in high-latitude regions have caused extensive
vegetation shifts and uncertainty in future carbon budgets. Better predictions of vegetation …

Perspectives: Predicting the effects of climate change on ancient woodlands when it interacts with pressures from surrounding land use/land cover

HS to Bühne, N Pettorelli - Forest Ecology and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Predicting the impact of climate change on forests at management-relevant spatial and
temporal scales is a key challenge for forestry science. Making such predictions accurately …

Shifts in ecological legacies support hysteresis of stand type conversions in boreal forests

XJ Walker, K Okano, LT Berner, R Massey, SJ Goetz… - Ecosystems, 2023 - Springer
Many disturbances are shifting in severity, frequency, and extent due to changing climate
and human activities. Altered disturbance regimes can trigger shifts in ecosystem state …

Oil and natural gas wells across the NASA ABoVE domain: fugitive methane emissions and broader environmental impacts

LA Klotz, O Sonnentag, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Arctic-boreal regions are experiencing major anthropogenic disturbances in addition to
intensifying natural disturbance regimes as a consequence of climate change. Oil and …

Ecosystems Disturbance Recovery: What It Was or What It Could Have Been?

H Dashti, M Chen, WK Smith, K Zhao… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The time it takes for an ecosystem to recover from a disturbance is a key to environmental
management. Conventionally, recovery is defined as a return to the pre‐disturbance state …

Tundra fire increases the likelihood of methane hotspot formation in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, USA

E Yoseph, E Hoy, CD Elder, SM Ludwig… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning
ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and …

Wildfire‐induced increases in photosynthesis in boreal forest ecosystems of North America

JE Kim, JA Wang, Y Li, CI Czimczik… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of the annual cycle of atmospheric CO2 in high northern latitudes provide
evidence for an increase in terrestrial metabolism in Arctic tundra and boreal forest …

A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC)

B Qu, A Roy, JR Melton, TA Black… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change is rapidly altering composition, structure, and functioning of the boreal
biome, across North America often broadly categorized into ecoregions. The resulting …

Forest management practices and policies exert strong impacts on the spatio-temporal variations of forest disturbance in Hunan Province, China over the last three …

Y Zhang, S Liu, Y Wang, H Gao, Y Jiang… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest disturbance has a profound impact on the ecological function of forests. Although
there are already global forest disturbance products, how accurate and whether they can be …