Temperate forests cover about ∼ 1.5 billion ha of Earth’s surface (∼ 16% of total forests). The extensive coverage of temperate forests underscores their importance in Earth system processes, encompassing biogeochemical cycles and the provision of ecosystem services. Approximately 17% of ...
The year 2022 saw record breaking temperatures in Europe during both summer and fall. Similar to the recent 2018 drought, close to 30% (3.0 million km2) of the European continent was under severe summer drought. In 2022, the drought was located in centra
The study was conducted in the Azores archipelago (between 36°55 N and 39°42 N and 25°00 W and 31°30′ W), situated between North America and Europe, about 1500 km west of mainland Portugal. The archipelago has a total area of 2323 km2and comprises nine inhabited islands of volcani...
The Amazon basin contains the largest rainforest on Earth, almost 5.8 million km2, and occupies about 40% of South America; more than 60% of the basin is located in Brazil and the rest in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. Over the past ...
All land cover data was extracted on the basis of imagery available from the year 2016. Download: Download full-size image Fig. 1. (a) Location of the wider study area in the Brazilian cerrado biome within the 903,357-km2 state of Mato Grosso, Brazil; (b) and the spatial extent of ...
about the appropriateness of this approach. The forests of concern were disturbed by cyclone Ita, one of the worst storms to hit New Zealand in decades, that brought strong winds and rain to the islands on 17 April 2014 and caused insured losses of US $42.9 million (https://hwe.niwa.co...
more than 90% of Gabon’s population lived in urban areas, compared to asub-Saharan Africa average of 41%. Gabon also has a very low population density, with just eight people per square kilometer (about 21 per square mile) compared to the average of 45 per km2 (117 per mi2)...
cover in major ways. These changes combined present a challenge to environmental management. Adaptive management is a scientific approach to managing the adverse impacts of climate and landscape change. Nature and Impacts of Climate Change Every week it seems there is an article about global warming...
4). Forests in Mato Grosso covered a total area of 295,383 km2 in 2010 (Table 3), accounting for about 63% of the total study area. Our results show that, until 2010, 25% of the total forested area was disturbed (Table 3). Forest cover percentage varied considerably across ...
Temperate forests cover about ∼ 1.5 billion ha of Earth’s surface (∼ 16% of total forests). The extensive coverage of temperate forests underscores their importance in Earth system processes, encompassing biogeochemical cycles and the provision of ecosystem services. Approximately 17% of...