Important role of forest disturbances in the global biomass turnover and carbon sinks

Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

(2019) Thomas A. M. Pugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Windthrows control biomass patterns and functional composition of Amazon forests

(2018) Daniel Magnabosco Marra et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pervasive Rise of Small-scale Deforestation in Amazonia

(2018) Michelle Kalamandeen et al.   Scientific Reports

Disturbance Distance: quantifying forests' vulnerability to disturbance under current and future conditions

(2017) Katelyn A Dolan et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

(2017) Christopher P O Reyer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities

(2017) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

(2017) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   NATURE

A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series

(2017) Joanne C. White et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Branchfall dominates annual carbon flux across lowland Amazonian forests

(2016) David C Marvin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

(2016) Jill F Johnstone et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The muddle of ages, turnover, transit, and residence times in the carbon cycle

(2016) Carlos A. Sierra et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

(2016) Valerio Avitabile et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests - a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling

(2016) Markus Kautz et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Biomass turnover time in terrestrial ecosystems halved by land use

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   Nature Geoscience

Importance of vegetation dynamics for future terrestrial carbon cycling

(2015) Anders Ahlström et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

(2015) Maurizio Santoro et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

(2015) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Nuno Carvalhais et al.   NATURE

Large-Scale Wind Disturbances Promote Tree Diversity in a Central Amazon Forest

(2014) Daniel Magnabosco Marra et al.   PLoS One

Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

(2014) Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo et al.   Nature Communications

Recovery and resilience of tropical forests after disturbance

(2014) Lydia E. S. Cole et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

(2014) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Modeling respiration from snags and coarse woody debris before and after an invasive gypsy moth disturbance

(2014) Heidi J. Renninger et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests

(2013) Martin Thurner et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

(2013) Andrew D. Friend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The steady-state mosaic of disturbance and succession across an old-growth Central Amazon forest landscape

(2013) J. Q. Chambers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

A comparison of Canadian and Russian boreal forest fire regimes

(2012) William J. de Groot et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Allometric relationships predicting foliar biomass and leaf area:sapwood area ratio from tree height in five Costa Rican rain forest species

(2011) J. C. Calvo-Alvarado et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Storm intensity and old-growth forest disturbances in the Amazon region

(2010) F. D. B. Espírito-Santo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

(2009) S. Frolking et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest

(2008) MIKE FLANNIGAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

(2003) Kirsten Thonicke et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY