The Budyko models provide a transparent framework for analyzing climate-catchment
interactions and therefore have been widely used to quantify the role of vegetation …

Numerous studies have reported that treelines are moving to higher elevations and higher
latitudes. Most treelines are temperature limited and warmer climate expands the area in …

Deforestation is currently a widespread phenomenon and a growing environmental concern
in the era of rapid climate change. In temperate regions, it is challenging to quantify the …

Current large-scale deforestation poses a threat to ecosystems globally, and imposes
substantial and prolonged changes on the hydrological and carbon cycles. The tropical …

Wetlands have long been drained for human use, thereby strongly affecting greenhouse gas
fluxes, flood control, nutrient cycling and biodiversity,. Nevertheless, the global extent of …

Precipitation (P) and potential evaporation (Ep) are commonly studied drivers of changing
freshwater availability, as aridity (Ep/P) explains∼ 90% of the spatial differences in mean …

Trade-offs between tree planting programs and wetland conservation are unclear. Here, we
employ satellite-derived inundation data and a process-based land surface model …

The global hydrological cycle is undergoing unprecedented changes with the
intensifications of climate change and human activities. In particular, the impact of vegetation …

With overwhelming evidence of change in habitats, biologists today must assume that few, if
any, study areas are natural and that biological variability is superimposed on trends rather …

Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes
in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and …