Cultivation, processing, and consumption of coffee are dynamic processes that connect
coffee farmers and agro-ecosystems with coffee drinkers spanning the globe. As a cash …

Alongside global warming, droughts are expected to increase in frequency, severity, and
extent in the near future, which will likely result in significant impacts on forest growth …

Current climate change patterns may cause more extreme and variable climates in the
future, threatening agricultural productivity in many areas of the world. Because many …

The objective of this study was to compare the spatial occurrences of droughts, detected by
remotely sensed drought-indices over the desert-steppe and desert geo-botanical zones of …

Remote sensing data are a key tool to assess large forested areas, where limitations such
as accessibility and lack of field measurements are prevalent. Here, we have analysed …

An inevitable consequence of global climate change is that altered patterns of temperature
and precipitation threaten agriculture in many tropical regions, requiring strategies of human …

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and
sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a …

A vegetation cover increase has been identified at global scales using satellite images and
vegetation indices. This fact is usually explained by global climatic change processes such …

Estimates of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of CO2 have been measured on a variety of
ecosystems world wide including grasslands, savannahs, boreal, pine, deciduous …

The North American monsoon (NAM) region in northwestern Mexico is characterized by
seasonal precipitation during the summer that leads to a major shift in ecosystem processes …