Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, L Fahrig, M Tabarelli… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

F Hua, LA Bruijnzeel, P Meli, PA Martin, J Zhang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems

DA Keith, JR Ferrer-Paris, E Nicholson, MJ Bishop… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract As the United Nations develops a post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the
Convention on Biological Diversity, attention is focusing on how new goals and targets for …

Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

P Potapov, X Li, A Hernandez-Serna… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Consistent, large-scale operational monitoring of forest height is essential for estimating
forest-related carbon emissions, analyzing forest degradation, and quantifying the …

Biophysical and economic constraints on China's natural climate solutions

N Lu, H Tian, B Fu, H Yu, S Piao, S Chen, Y Li… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions (NCS) are strategies for climate mitigation in the land sector that
increase carbon storage or avoid GHG emissions. Here we estimate China's historic NCS …

Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

A Di Sacco, KA Hardwick, D Blakesley… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics

C Vancutsem, F Achard, JF Pekel, G Vieilledent… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Accurate characterization of tropical moist forest changes is needed to support conservation
policies and to quantify their contribution to global carbon fluxes more effectively. We …

Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests

NT Hoang, K Kanemoto - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Deforestation, a significant threat to biodiversity, is accelerated by global demand for
commodities. Although prior literature has linked deforestation to global supply chains, here …