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Rapid Global Deforestation Leaves Forest-Dependent Raptors With Half of Their Suitable Habitat Remaining. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
O'Bryan CJ, Xie Z, Li H, Buechley ER, Bader MK, Allan JR, Buij R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Open‐land‐derived agroforestry and effects of abandonment of management of the main crop on ecosystem services and woody plant diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi, Kristoffer Hylander, Thiago S. de Melo, Ayco J. M. Tack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and the rising threat of vector-borne diseases in the Andes. [PDF]

One Health
Ortiz-Prado E, Vasconez-Gonzalez J, Pazmiño-Almeida JC, Serrano-Núñez MR, Acosta-Muñoz E, Sánchez-Bustamante JS, Salazar-Santoliva C, Bastidas AP, Altamirano-Castillo JA, Villacis-Pauta SV, Izquierdo-Condoy JS.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Development and adoption of Kernza—A perennial grain crop for sustainable agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Annual cereal grains account for ~50% of human food calories, but cultivation of these crops has resulted in major environmental and social issues worldwide. For nearly three decades, researchers have been breeding intermediate wheatgrass—a perennial cool‐season grass—to serve as the world's first commercial‐scale perennial grain crop to improve ...
Jessica L. Gutknecht, James A. Anderson, George Annor, Prabin Bajgain, Timothy E. Crews, Colin Cureton, Lee DeHaan, Erin Meier, Tessa Peters, Valentín Picasso, Evelyn C. Reilly, Aaron Reser, Tara Ritter, Aubrey Streit Krug, Nicole Tautges, Jacob M. Jungers   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality. [PDF]

Nat Clim Chang
Reddington CL, Smith C, Butt EW, Baker JCA, Oliveira BFA, Yamba EI, Spracklen DV.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Persistence and potential of soil organic carbon in nature‐based climate solutions: A review of managed disturbances

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Implementing nature‐based climate solutions is important for mitigating climate change, which is a global issue, but requires local adjustments in management practices. Using the association between soil carbon and minerals as a proxy for carbon persistence, we evaluated the effect of different management regimes on soil carbon sequestration and loss ...
Adam Pellegrini, Katerina Georgiou, Robert Powell, Christopher Bousfield   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban boundaries are an underexplored frontier for ecological restoration. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ferreira LS, di Giulio G, Chaves RB, Lupinetti-Cunha A, Duarte D, Nascimento N, Ruggiero P, Silva LSE, Victor RABM, Metzger JP.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Wall‐to‐wall Amazon forest height mapping with Planet NICFI, Aerial LiDAR, and a U‐Net regression model

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Tree canopy height is a key indicator of forest biomass and structure, yet accurate mapping across the Amazon remains challenging. Here, we generated a canopy height map of the Amazon forest at ~4.8 m resolution using Planet NICFI imagery and a deep learning U‐Net model trained with airborne LiDAR data.
Fabien H. Wagner, Ricardo Dalagnol, Griffin Carter, Mayumi C. M. Hirye, Shivraj Gill, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum, Samuel Favrichon, Michael Keller, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, Lorena Alves, Cynthia Creze, Stephanie P. George‐Chacon, Shuang Li, Zhihua Liu, Adugna Mullissa, Yan Yang, Erone G. Santos, Sarah R. Worden, Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais, Stephen C. Hagen, Sassan Saatchi   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brazil is already experiencing the brutal impacts of climate change. [PDF]

Rev Saude Publica
Lorenz C, Cavendish TA, Azevedo TS, Bell M, Nardocci A, Andrade MF, Nogueira T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Improving forest age estimation to understand subtropical forest regrowth dynamics using deep learning image segmentation of time‐series historical aerial photographs

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Accurately estimating forest age is key to understanding how forests recover and evaluating restoration success. We developed a two‐step deep learning approach using historical greyscale aerial photographs to map forest age at fine spatial scales. By combining a pre‐trained model with localized fine‐tuning, our U‐Net + ResNet50 architecture achieved ...
Ying Ki Law, Yi‐Fei Gu, Shuwen Liu, Guangqin Song, Aland H. Y. Chan, Cham Man Tse, Zhonghua Liu, Martha J. Ledger, Billy C. H. Hau, Sawaid Abbas, Jin Wu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source