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Dmitry Schepaschenko
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Open AccessWar drives forest fire risks and highlights the need for more ecologically-sound forest management in post-war Ukraine
Since 24 February 2022, Ukraine has experienced full-scale military aggression initiated by the Russian Federation. The war has had a major negative impact on vegetation cover of war-affected regions. We explo...
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Open AccessIntegrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system1. Remote-sensing estimates to quantify carbon losses from gl...
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Open AccessThe global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit
Understanding what controls global leaf type variation in trees is crucial for comprehending their role in terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon, water and nutrient dynamics. Yet our understanding of the fa...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
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Open AccessNative diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species1,2. Tree invasions in particular have been relatively overlooked, even ...
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Open AccessWall-to-wall map** of carbon loss within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone after the 2020 catastrophic wildfire
We propose a framework to derive the direct loss of aboveground carbon stocks after the 2020 wildfire in forests of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone using optical and radar Sentinel satellite data. Carbon stocks w...
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Open AccessPantropical distribution of short-rotation woody plantations: spatial probabilities under current and future climate
Short-rotation woody plantations (SRWPs) play a major role in climate change mitigation and adaptation plans, because of their high yields of woody biomass and fast carbon storage. However, their benefits, tra...
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Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances
Siberian forests are generally thought to have acted as an important carbon sink over recent decades, but exposure to severe droughts and fire disturbances may have impacted their carbon dynamics. Limited avai...
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Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centurie...
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Open AccessGlobal forest management data for 2015 at a 100 m resolution
Spatially explicit information on forest management at a global scale is critical for understanding the status of forests, for planning sustainable forest management and restoration, and conservation activitie...
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Open AccessDrivers of tropical forest loss between 2008 and 2019
During December 2020, a crowdsourcing campaign to understand what has been driving tropical forest loss during the past decade was undertaken. For 2 weeks, 58 participants from several countries reviewed almos...
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Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
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Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how multiple targets can be p...
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Open AccessRussian forest sequesters substantially more carbon than previously reported
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and transition to a new forest inventory system, Russia has reported almost no change in growing stock (+ 1.8%) and biomass (+ 0.6%). Yet remote sensing products indicate...
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Open AccessThe Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass
Forest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth’s ecosystems and climate. It is a critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estimation of carbon losses and forest degradation, assessment o...
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Open AccessA spatial assessment of the forest carbon budget for Ukraine
The spatial representation of forest cover and forest parameters is a prerequisite for undertaking a systems approach to the full and verified carbon accounting of forest ecosystems over large areas. This stud...
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Ground Data are Essential for Biomass Remote Sensing Missions
Several remote sensing missions will soon produce detailed carbon maps over all terrestrial ecosystems. These missions are dependent on accurate and representative in situ datasets for the training of their al...
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Open AccessRecent Advances in Forest Observation with Visual Interpretation of Very High-Resolution Imagery
The land area covered by freely available very high-resolution (VHR) imagery has grown dramatically over recent years, which has considerable relevance for forest observation and monitoring. For example, it is...
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Open AccessSpatial distribution of arable and abandoned land across former Soviet Union countries
Knowledge of the spatial distribution of agricultural abandonment following the collapse of the Soviet Union is highly uncertain. To help improve this situation, we have developed a new map of arable and aband...
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Open AccessA global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data
Global land cover is an essential climate variable and a key biophysical driver for earth system models. While remote sensing technology, particularly satellites, have played a key role in providing land cover...
