• Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires 

      Cardil, Adrián; de Miguel, Sergio; Silva, Carlos A.; Reich, Peter B.; Calkin, David; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Vibrans, Alexander C.; Gamarra, Javier G. P.; Zhou, M.; Pijanowski, Bryan C.; Hui, Cang; Crowther, Thomas W.; Hérault, Bruno; Piotto, Daniel; Salas-Eljatib, Christian; North Broadbent, Eben; Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M.; Picard, Nicolas; Aragão, Luiz E.O. C.; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Routh, Devin; van den Hoogen, Johan; Peri, Pablo Luis; Liang, Jingjing (IOP Publishing, 2020-12-11)
      Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). ...
    • The number of tree species on Earth 

      Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; Reichd, Peter B.; Gamarra, Javier G. P.; Crowtherh, Tom.; Hui, Cang.; Morera, Albert.; Bastin, Jean-Francois.; de-Miguel, Sergio; Jan Nabuurs, Gert.; Svenning, Jens -Christian; Peri, Pablo Luis; Liang, Jingjing. (National Academy of Sciences, 2022-02-08)
      One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth. However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties connected to the species concept definition, ...