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A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth's remaining moist tropical forests

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

A three-fund approach to incorporating government, public and private forest stewards into a REDD funding mechanism

Advances in remote sensing technology and implications for measuring and monitoring forest carbon stocks and change

article by Scott Goetz & Ralph Dubayah published June 2011 in Carbon Management

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

scientific article published in Science

Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Anticipating social equity impacts in REDD+ policy design: An example from the Democratic Republic of Congo

scholarly article by Johanne Pelletier et al published June 2018 in Land Use Policy

Assessing development pressure in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: an evaluation of two land-use change models

scientific article published on June 2004

Assessment and extension of the MODIS FPAR products in temperate forests of the eastern United States

Baseline data on forest loss and associated uncertainty: advances in national forest monitoring

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

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Bottom-up drivers of future fire regimes in western boreal North America

scientific article published in 2022

Can Smart Growth Save the Chesapeake Bay?

Carbon Accumulation Patterns During Post-Fire Succession in Cajander Larch (Larix cajanderi) Forests of Siberia

Carbon stock corridors to mitigate climate change and promote biodiversity in the tropics

scholarly article by Patrick Jantz et al published 26 January 2014 in Nature Climate Change

Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift

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Changing permafrost in a warming world and feedbacks to the Earth system

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Citizen-science data provides new insight into annual and seasonal variation in migration patterns

article published in 2015

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Climatic suitability for malaria transmission in Africa, 1911-1995

scientific article

Comparison of methods for measuring and assessing carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in terrestrial carbon pools. How do the accuracy and precision of current methods compare? A systematic review protocol

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Comparison of surface meteorological variables from TOVS and AVHRR

scientific article published in 2002

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Corrigendum: Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences

scholarly article published in Environmental Research Letters

Crisis in Earth Observation

scientific article published in Science

Cross-scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest mega-fires

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Delineating the Ecosystems Containing Protected Areas for Monitoring and Management

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Detecting early warning signals of tree mortality in boreal North America using multiscale satellite data

scientific article published on 24 March 2018

Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses

scientific article published on 20 October 2022

Ecosystem responses to climate change at a Low Arctic and a High Arctic long-term research site

scientific article (publication date: February 2017)

Expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa.

scientific article

Fifty Years of Earth Observation Satellites: Views from above have lead to countless advances on the ground in both scientific knowledge and daily life

scientific article (publication date: September 2008)

Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society

scientific article published in 2020

Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary

scientific article published in 2020

Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions

scientific article published in 2020

Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Greater shrub dominance alters breeding habitat and food resources for migratory songbirds in Alaskan arctic tundra

scientific article

High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change

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Human and natural controls of the variation in aboveground tree biomass in African dry tropical forests

scientific article

Humid tropical vertebrates are at lower risk of extinction and population decline in forests with higher structural integrity

scientific article published on 3 November 2022

Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Implications of increased deciduous cover on stand structure and aboveground carbon pools of Alaskan boreal forests

scientific article published in 2012

Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Integrating LiDAR, Multispectral and SAR Data to Estimate and Map Canopy Height in Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Introducing ‘Environmental Research: Ecology’—a new journal devoted to addressing global challenges at the interface of environmental and ecological science, biodiversity and conservation

scientific article published in 2022

Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

scientific article published in 2023

Lidar remote sensing variables predict breeding habitat of a Neotropical migrant bird

scientific article

Linking the diversity and abundance of stream biota to landscapes in the mid-Atlantic USA

scientific article published in 2008

Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks with satellite observations: a comparison of methods

scientific article

Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010

scholarly article by Belinda Arunarwati Margono et al published 19 July 2012 in Environmental Research Letters

Mapping migratory bird prevalence using remote sensing data fusion

scientific article

Measurement and monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under REDD+

Model comparisons for estimating carbon emissions from North American wildland fire

scholarly article

Modeling vegetation pattern using digital terrain data

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Plant response to climate change along the forest-tundra ecotone in northeastern Siberia

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Recent advances in remote sensing of biophysical variables

scientific article published in 2002

Regional-scale application of lidar: Variation in forest canopy structure across the southeastern US

scientific article published in 2014

Remote sensing in BOREAS: Lessons learned

scientific article published in 2004

Reply to 'Priorities for conservation corridors'

Response to letter to the editor on “Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal biome shift”

scientific article published in 2022

Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift

scientific article published in 2022

Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences

Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences

Satellite-based primary forest degradation assessment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000–2010

scholarly article by I Zhuravleva et al published 1 June 2013 in Environmental Research Letters

Satellite-observed photosynthetic trends across boreal North America associated with climate and fire disturbance

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Scoping Completed for an Experiment to Assess Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems

Seasonal and interannual variability of climate and vegetation indices across the Amazon

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Shrub expansion and climate feedbacks in Arctic tundra

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

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Spatial variation in vegetation productivity trends, fire disturbance, and soil carbon across arctic-boreal permafrost ecosystems

scholarly article by Michael M Loranty et al published 1 September 2016 in Environmental Research Letters

Spatiotemporal remote sensing of ecosystem change and causation across Alaska

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Ten ways remote sensing can contribute to conservation

scientific article

Terra and Aqua: new data for epidemiology and public health

scientific article published on November 1, 2004

The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation

scientific article published in 2023

The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing

The influence of vegetation height heterogeneity on forest and woodland bird species richness across the United States

scientific article

The lost promise of DESDynI

scientific article published in 2011

The relative importance of climate and vegetation properties on patterns of North American breeding bird species richness

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The role of science in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)

Time-series maps reveal widespread change in plant functional type cover across Arctic and boreal Alaska and Yukon

scientific article published in 2022

Tundra vegetation effects on pan-Arctic albedo

article published in 2011

Uncertainty in the spatial distribution of tropical forest biomass: a comparison of pan-tropical maps

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Urbanization and the loss of resource lands in the chesapeake bay watershed

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Using Widely Available Geospatial Data Sets to Assess the Influence of Roads and Buffers on Habitat Core Areas and Connectivity

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Using the Sleuth Urban Growth Model to Simulate the Impacts of Future Policy Scenarios on Urban Land Use in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

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Varying boreal forest response to Arctic environmental change at the Firth River, Alaska

scholarly article by Laia Andreu-Hayles et al published 1 October 2011 in Environmental Research Letters

Varying boreal forest response to Arctic environmental change at the Firth River, Alaska

scholarly article by Laia Andreu-Hayles et al published 23 November 2011 in Environmental Research Letters

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

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Vegetation productivity patterns at high northern latitudes: a multi-sensor satellite data assessment

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Vulnerability of eastern US tree species to climate change

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Winter conditions influence biological responses of migrating hummingbirds

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