Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown

Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds

Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...

African forests have shifted from carbon sink to source
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#carbon #forests #biomass #EarthObservation

It was an enriching experience to take part in #COP30 from within the Blue Zone as an @nceoscience.bsky.social and University of Leicester delegate. Thanks to Heiko, Frank, the Institute for Environmental Futures and @esa.int for organising the biomass-related events and supporting my participation!

It's out today🚨 -- Thanks to @iris-hordijk.bsky.social for leading this paper! 👇

Radiative forcing reduced by early twenty-first century increase in land albedo - Nature Effects of snow cover dynamics, land use or land cover conversions and non-conversion regions on albedo variations during 2001–2020 are quantified and their induced radiative forcing estimated, highli...

New study @nature.com shows increasing reflectance of sunlight by the land surface due to #climate change over past 2 decades:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is in stark contrast with changes over oceans where clouds are becoming less reflective, leading to greater heating:
doi.org/10.1088/1748...

World‐wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands Environmental changes and their effects are among the most pressing topics of today's ecological research. Shrublands, although widespread across the globe, remain understudied in this respect. We co...

New paper published New Phytologist. We quantified globl shrubland sensitivity to climate change and nitrogen addition. @globalecounit.bsky.social @tompugh.bsky.social @n-acil.bsky.social @xdomene.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations Daijun! Nice to see this paper published! Thank you for your perseverance!

📖Published📖

Addressing the need for improved tree species classification, Puliti et al. present the FOR-species20K dataset, a large, diverse, individual tree point cloud DL-ready benchmark dataset for platform and sensor agnostic tree species classification tasks 🌳 🌎 🧪

https://buff.ly/4hI7P8F

🚀 Milestone achieved for @esa.int #BIOMASS mission! the satellite has fully deployed its 12m antenna!

First to use P-band radar in orbit, BIOMASS will help us better understand forest carbon and the global carbon cycle🌳

#EarthObservation #Climate #Forests

@space4climate.bsky.social

Eagerly awaiting the first image acquisitions!

ESA's #BIOMASS satellite launches today!

Using radar, it will measure forest mass, track carbon storage, and help scientists monitor climate change.

You can watch the launch live on ESA Web TV from 10:00AM (BST).

#SpaceForClimate #EarthObservation #ClimateAction #NCEO

Thank you Susanne!

Working on #biodiversity and planning to attend #EGU25? Consider submitting your abstract to our session ITS3.12/BG0.8 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... convened by @daijunliu.bsky.social
Deadlines: 15 Jan 2025, 13:00 CET

Many thanks to my fantastic co-authors @tompugh.bsky.social , Jon Sadler, Cornelius Senf, @ssuvanto.bsky.social and the great support from TreeMort, ERC, BIFoR, NCEO, University of Birmingham and University of Leicester

… and associated visualisation tool on Google Earth Engine ee-treemort-disturbances-nacil.projects.earthengine.app/view/patchme...

Landscape patterns in stand-replacing disturbances across the world’s forests - Nature Sustainability Forests are subject to natural and human-induced disturbances, which can be important in shaping their form and function. In this study, the authors examine the landscape patterns of global forest dis...

How are disturbances shaped across the world’s #forests and how are humans influencing these patterns? We built a global map of forest disturbance structures to explore these questions. Check out my first paper in Nature Sustainability @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...