Protected areas provide thermal buffer against climate change

The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

(2021) Joanne M. Bennett et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid thermophilization of understorey plant communities in a 9 year‐long temperate forest experiment

(2021) Sanne Govaert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Human land uses reduce climate connectivity across North America

(2020) Sean A. Parks et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival

(2020) Cristian Román-Palacios et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global variation in the thermal tolerances of plants

(2020) Lesley T. Lancaster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ERA5 Global Reanalysis

(2020) Hans Hersbach et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

(2020) Florian Zellweger et al.   SCIENCE

Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane

(2020) Toni Lyn Morelli et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Keeping pace with climate change in global terrestrial protected areas

(2020) Paul R. Elsen et al.   Science Advances

A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate

(2020) E. Dinerstein et al.   Science Advances

Nonlocal Effects Dominate the Global Mean Surface Temperature Response to the Biogeophysical Effects of Deforestation

(2019) Johannes Winckler et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

(2019) Pieter De Frenne et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation

(2019) Jennifer Sunday et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures

(2019) Jonas Geldmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity can benefit from climate stabilization despite adverse side effects of land-based mitigation

(2019) Haruka Ohashi et al.   Nature Communications

Quantifying the Relative Importance of Direct and Indirect Biophysical Effects of Deforestation on Surface Temperature and Teleconnections

(2018) N. Devaraju et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The mark of vegetation change on Earth’s surface energy balance

(2018) Gregory Duveiller et al.   Nature Communications

Canopy structure and topography jointly constrain the microclimate of human-modified tropical landscapes

(2018) Tommaso Jucker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Attribution of surface temperature anomalies induced by land use and land cover changes

(2017) Angela J. Rigden et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Protected areas and agricultural expansion: Biodiversity conservation versus economic growth in the Southeast of Brazil

(2017) Mayra Cristina Prado de Moraes et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

(2017) John Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The impact of anthropogenic land use and land cover change on regional climate extremes

(2017) Kirsten L. Findell et al.   Nature Communications

Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

(2017) Laura Kehoe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Forest ecosystems of temperate climatic regions: from ancient use to climate change

(2016) Frank S. Gilliam   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Achieving climate connectivity in a fragmented landscape

(2016) Jenny L. McGuire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Weather stations lack forest data

(2016) P. De Frenne et al.   SCIENCE

Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

(2016) R. Alkama et al.   SCIENCE

Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

(2016) Claudia L. Gray et al.   Nature Communications

Protected areas’ role in climate-change mitigation

(2015) Jerry M. Melillo et al.   AMBIO

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

(2015) M. C. Urban   SCIENCE

Local cooling and warming effects of forests based on satellite observations

(2015) Yan Li et al.   Nature Communications

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

(2015) Pete Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

The performance and potential of protected areas

(2014) James E. M. Watson et al.   NATURE

Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

(2014) J. M. Sunday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development of an Operational Calibration Methodology for the Landsat Thermal Data Archive and Initial Testing of the Atmospheric Compensation Component of a Land Surface Temperature (LST) Product from the Archive

(2014) Monica Cook et al.   Remote Sensing

Vegetation controls on northern high latitude snow-albedo feedback: observations and CMIP5 model simulations

(2013) Michael M. Loranty et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Influence of Leaf Area Index Prescriptions on Simulations of Heat, Moisture, and Carbon Fluxes

(2013) Jatin Kala et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

(2013) P. De Frenne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying global greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change for crop production

(2011) Helen C. Flynn et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A global comparison between station air temperatures and MODIS land surface temperatures reveals the cooling role of forests

(2011) David J. Mildrexler et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

(2011) Xuhui Lee et al.   NATURE

Land surface skin temperature climatology: benefitting from the strengths of satellite observations

(2010) Menglin Jin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming

(2010) Michael E. Dillon et al.   NATURE

Regional simulations to quantify land use change and irrigation impacts on hydroclimate in the California Central Valley

(2010) Jiming Jin et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

A Review of Climate-Change Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation

(2009) JONATHAN R. MAWDSLEY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Impact of Vegetation Types on Surface Temperature Change

(2008) Young-Kwon Lim et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation

(2008) K. S. Andam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ECOLOGY: Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

(2008) J. J. Tewksbury et al.   SCIENCE