Characterizing forest recovery following stand-replacing disturbances in boreal forests: contributions of optical time series and airborne laser scanning data by Joanne C. White

“…The application of remote sensing for monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery is a rapidly growing area of research globally; however, despite the large amount of disturbance and the disproportionate effects of climate change in the boreal, the boreal biome is relatively underrepresented in the remote sensing forest recovery literature. …”
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Non-Ignorable Differences in NIRv-Based Estimations of Gross Primary Productivity Considering Land Cover Change and Discrepancies in Multisource Products by Jiaxin Jin, Weiye Hou, Longhao Wang, Songhan Wang, Ying Wang, Qiuan Zhu, Xiuqin Fang, Liliang Ren

“…Notably, previous studies have reported that the relationship between NIRv and GPP seems to be biome-specific (or land cover) at the ecosystem scale due to both biotic and abiotic effects. …”
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Engagement of scientific community and transparency in C accounting: the Brazilian case for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry by M M C Bustamante, J S O Silva, R Z Cantinho, J Z Shimbo, P V C Oliveira, M M O Santos, J P H B Ometto, M R Cruz, T R B Mello, D Godiva, C A Nobre

“…This system was built to support climate change policies as an important legal apparatus and by increasing access to emissions and land-use change data.…”
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Grassland Conservation Effectiveness of National Nature Reserves in Northern China by Siqing Zhao, Xiang Zhao, Jiacheng Zhao, Naijing Liu, Mengmeng Sun, Baohui Mu, Na Sun, Yinkun Guo

“…Grasslands are crucial ecosystem biomes for breeding livestock and combatting climate change. …”
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Mudança no uso e cobertura da terra na bacia hidrográfica do rio Araguaia e seus reflexos nos recursos hídricos, o trecho médio do rio Araguaia em Goiás by Maximiliano Bayer, Pâmela Camila Assis, Tainá Medeiros Suizu, Matheus Cardoso Gomes

“…Probable effects associated to climatic change, such as the sharp decline in maximum flow values in recent years, have not yet been assessed principal et dans les environs. …”
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Infrastructure to factorially manipulate the mean and variance of precipitation in the field by Jennifer A. Rudgers, Anthony Luketich, Melissa Bacigalupa, Lauren E. Baur, Scott L. Collins, Kristofer M. Hall, Enqing Hou, Marcy E. Litvak, Yiqi Luo, Tom E. X. Miller, Seth D. Newsome, William T. Pockman, Andrew D. Richardson, Alex Rinehart, Melissa Villatoro‐Castañeda, Brooke E. Wainwright, Samantha J. Watson, Purbendra Yogi, Yu Zhou

“…Abstract Extensive ecological research has investigated extreme climate events or long‐term changes in average climate variables, but changes in year‐to‐year (interannual) variability may also cause important biological responses, even if the mean climate is stable. …”
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Effects of root dominate over aboveground litter on soil microbial biomass in global forest ecosystems by Yanli Jing, Peng Tian, Qingkui Wang, Weibin Li, Zhaolin Sun, Hong Yang

“…Specifically, root exclusion significantly inhibited arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and actinomycetes by 22.9%, 43.8%, and 7.9%, respectively. The negative effects of aboveground litter removal on microbial biomass increased with mean annual temperature and precipitation, whereas that of root exclusion on microbial biomass did not change with climatic factors but amplified with treatment duration. …”
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Effects of Agricultural Cropping Systems on Soil Water Capacity: The Case in Cross-Border Altai by Andrey Bondarovich, Patrick Illiger, Gerd Schmidt, Elena Ponkina, Aliya Nugumanova, Almasbek Maulit, Maxim Sutula

“…Against the background of climatic changes, a further intensification of these processes and conditions is to be expected. …”
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Decreased soil moisture due to warming drives phylogenetic diversity and community transitions in the tundra by Ruud Scharn, Chelsea J Little, Christine D Bacon, Juha M Alatalo, Alexandre Antonelli, Mats P Björkman, Ulf Molau, R Henrik Nilsson, Robert G Björk

“…Complementary to functional diversity, phylogenetic diversity has been useful in climate change studies, but has so far been understudied in the Arctic. …”
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Decadal Fire Effects on the Structure, Composition, Diversity, and Aboveground Carbon Stocks of a Neotropical Savanna by Sarah Cristine Martins Neri, Barbara Bomfim, Reginaldo Sérgio Pereira, Pâmela Virgilio dos Santos, Alexandre França Tetto

“…Fire is a common disturbance in the Brazilian savanna (the cerrado), wherein high-frequency fires drive the vegetation structure, composition, function, and dynamics of savanna ecosystems. Under climate change pressure, further understanding of fire–vegetation relationships and interactions can provide new approaches for establishing integrated fire management strategies and can promote post-fire savanna vegetation recovery. …”
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Transient Effects of Snow Cover Duration on Primary Growth and Leaf Traits in a Tundra Shrub by Lucrezia Unterholzner, Angela Luisa Prendin, Angela Luisa Prendin, Raffaella Dibona, Roberto Menardi, Valentino Casolo, Sara Gargiulo, Sara Gargiulo, Francesco Boscutti, Marco Carrer

“…In the context of future warming scenarios, our results support the hypothesis of shrub biomass increase within the tundra biome. Yet, the picture is still far from being complete and further research should focus on transient and fading effects of changing conditions in the long term.…”
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Modeling the effect of grazing on carbon and water use efficiencies in grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau by Xiaotao Huang, Geping Luo, Zhen Ma, Buqing Yao, Yangong Du, Yongsheng Yang

“…Abstract Background Carbon and water use efficiencies (CUE and WUE, respectively) are vital indicators of the adaptability of plants to environmental conditions. However, the effects of grazing and climate change on the spatiotemporal changes in CUE and WUE in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau grasslands (QTPG) are still unclear. …”
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Effects of Livestock Pressure and Vegetation Cover on the Spatial and Temporal Structure of Soil Microarthropod Communities in Iberian Rangelands by Carlos Lozano Fondón, Jesús Barrena González, Manuel Pulido Fernández, Sara Remelli, Javier Lozano-Parra, Cristina Menta

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Current policies are insufficient to protect or restore Brazil’s cost-effective conservation priority zones by Rafael G Ramos, Marluce Scarabello, Aline C Soterroni, Pedro R Andrade, Rolf Simões, Heloisa M Ruivo, Florian Kraxner, Fernando M Ramos

“…Results, which include the effects of climate change on the expansion of the Brazilian agriculture, project native vegetation losses (through deforestation) or gains (through restoration) inside unprotected CEZs. …”
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Biostimulant Substances for Sustainable Agriculture: Origin, Operating Mechanisms and Effects on Cucurbits, Leafy Greens, and Nightshade Vegetables Species by Francesco Cristofano, Christophe El-Nakhel, Youssef Rouphael

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Plants’ Physio-Biochemical and Phyto-Hormonal Responses to Alleviate the Adverse Effects of Drought Stress: A Comprehensive Review by Abdul Wahab, Gholamreza Abdi, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Baber Ali, Saqib Ullah, Wadood Shah, Sahar Mumtaz, Ghulam Yasin, Crina Carmen Muresan, Romina Alina Marc

“…Water, a necessary component of cell protoplasm, plays an essential role in supporting life on Earth; nevertheless, extreme changes in climatic conditions limit water availability, causing numerous issues, such as the current water-scarce regimes in many regions of the biome. …”
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Slope position controls prescribed fire effects on soil: a case study in the high-elevation grassland of Itatiaia National Park by Ana Paula Pessim de Oliveira, Eduardo Carvalho da Silva Neto, Robson Altiellys Tosta Marcondes, Marcos Gervasio Pereira, Marcelo Souza Motta, Yan Vidal de Figueiredo Gomes Diniz, Hugo de Souza Fagundes, Rafael Coll Delgado, Otavio Augusto Queiroz dos Santos, Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos

“…ABSTRACT There is a need for greater knowledge about the medium- and long-term effects of prescribed fire management on soil in ecosystems prone to wildfires and more vulnerable to climate change. …”
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Land use/land cover and plant community dynamics in the Benin's forest reserves: The effectiveness of participatory forest management by Soumanou Abdul Aziz, Assèdé Émeline Sêssi Pelagie, Biaou Séverin, Balagueman Ogoulonou Rodrigue, Ayihouenou Bertrand, Biaou Samadori Sorotori Honoré

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Estimating site-specific optimum air temperature and assessing its effect on the photosynthesis of grasslands in mid- to high-latitudes by Qing Chang, Xiangming Xiao, Xiaocui Wu, Russell Doughty, Wenzhe Jiao, Rajen Bajgain, Yuanwei Qin, Jie Wang

“…The optimum air temperature for photosynthesis is one of the major parameters in data-driven and process-based photosynthesis models that estimate the gross primary production (GPP) of vegetation under a changing climate. To date, most models use the biome-specific optimum air temperature ( ${T}_{{\rm{o}}{\rm{p}}{\rm{t}}-{\rm{b}}}$ ) parameter. …”
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OCO-2 Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Variability across Ecoregions of the Amazon Basin and the Extreme Drought Effects of El Niño (2015–2016) by Antony Oswaldo Castro, Jia Chen, Christian S. Zang, Ankit Shekhar, Juan Carlos Jimenez, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, Mengistie Kindu, Victor Hugo Morales, Anja Rammig

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