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Climate variability, vegetation productivity and people at risk

Global and Planetary Change, 2005
Human domination of ecosystems has been pervasive over the last century, with nearly half of Earth’s surface transformed by human actions. It is widely accepted that humans appropriate up to 50% of global net primary production (NPP), the energy base of all the trophic levels on the land surface.
Cristina Milesi   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

A clustering review of vegetation-indicating parameters in urban thermal environment studies towards various factors.

open access: yesJournal of Thermal Biology, 2022
People in outdoor areas suffer from more heat stress than indoors during warm seasons due to the lack of shelters or cooling facilities. This problem is pressing with urban heat island and continuous global warming.
Jian Zhang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Alpine vegetation in the context of climate change: A global review of past research and future directions.

open access: yesScience of the Total Environment, 2020
Climate change is causing extensive alterations to ecosystems globally, with some more vulnerable than others. Alpine ecosystems, characterised by low-temperatures and cryophilic vegetation, provide ecosystems services for billions of people but are ...
Brodie Verrall, C. Pickering
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

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