Urban environments, regarded as “harbingers” of future global change, may exert positive or
negative impacts on urban vegetation growth. Because of limited ground-based …

Primary production, a key regulator of the global carbon cycle, is highly responsive to
variations in climate. Yet, a detailed, continental‐scale risk assessment of climate‐related …

Mapping of surface soil Hg concentrations, a priority pollutant, at continental scale is
important in order to identify hotspots of soil Hg distribution (eg mining or industrial pollution) …

Devastating wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity over the last few years,
worsened by climate change and prolonged droughts. Wildfire susceptibility mapping with …

Disease outbreaks induced by humans increasingly threaten wildlife communities
worldwide. Like predators, pathogens can be key top‐down forces in ecosystems, initiating …

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced rapid warming in recent decades. However, the
meteorological stations of the TP are scarce and mostly located at the eastern and southern …

Data across scales are required to monitor ecosystem responses to rapid warming in the
Arctic and to interpret tundra greening trends. Here, we tested the correspondence among …

Land degradation is a complex socio-environmental threat, which generally occurs as
multiple concurrent pathways that remain largely unexplored in Europe. Here we present an …

The recent adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees formally recognizes not only the
importance of supporting the nearly 26 million people who have sought asylum from conflict …

Snow is considered a vital component in the northern climate system, however, our
understanding of the impacts of snowmelt on spring phenological shifts is still limited for high …