Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

BACKGROUND Forests have considerable potential to help mitigate human-caused climate
change and provide society with a broad range of cobenefits. Local, national, and …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Large datasets of greenhouse gas and energy surface-atmosphere fluxes measured with
the eddy-covariance technique (eg, FLUXNET2015, AmeriFlux BASE) are widely used to …

Forests are currently a substantial carbon sink globally. Many climate change mitigation
strategies leverage forest preservation and expansion, but rely on forests storing carbon for …

Annual forest area burned (AFAB) in the western United States (US) has increased as a
positive exponential function of rising aridity in recent decades. This non‐linear response …

Compared with disturbance maps produced at annual or multi-year time steps, monthly
mapping of forest harvesting can provide more temporal details needed for studying the …

Subalpine forests in the northern Rocky Mountains have been resilient to stand-replacing
fires that historically burned at 100-to 300-year intervals. Fire intervals are projected to …