Search Results - "Wang, Jonathan A"
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Extensive land cover change across Arctic–Boreal Northwestern North America from disturbance and climate forcing
Published in Global change biology (01-02-2020)“…A multitude of disturbance agents, such as wildfires, land use, and climate‐driven expansion of woody shrubs, is transforming the distribution of plant…”
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The role of land cover change in Arctic-Boreal greening and browning trends
Published in Environmental research letters (01-12-2019)“…Many studies have used time series of satellite-derived vegetation indices to identify so-called greening and browning trends across the northern…”
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Mapping causal agents of disturbance in boreal and arctic ecosystems of North America using time series of Landsat data
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-04-2022)“…The arctic and boreal biomes are changing as temperatures increase, including changes in the type, frequency, intensity, and seasonality of disturbances…”
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Interactions between urban vegetation and surface urban heat islands: a case study in the Boston metropolitan region
Published in Environmental research letters (01-05-2016)“…Many studies have used thermal data from remote sensing to characterize how land use and surface properties modify the climate of cities. However, relatively…”
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Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea
Published in Environmental research letters (01-08-2023)“…Abstract South and North Korea have experienced contrasting economic developments since the 1950s while sharing similar climates. Previous studies revealed an…”
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Oil and natural gas wells across the NASA ABoVE domain: fugitive methane emissions and broader environmental impacts
Published in Environmental research letters (01-03-2023)“…Abstract Arctic-boreal regions are experiencing major anthropogenic disturbances in addition to intensifying natural disturbance regimes as a consequence of…”
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Rising forest exposure and fire severity from climate warming amplify tree cover losses from wildfire in California
Published in Environmental research letters (01-11-2024)“…Abstract Warmer temperatures and severe drought are driving increases in wildfire activity in the western United States, threatening forest ecosystems…”
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Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses
Published in Environmental research letters (01-11-2022)“…Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic…”
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Soil respiration strongly offsets carbon uptake in Alaska and Northwest Canada
Published in Environmental research letters (01-08-2021)“…Abstract Soil respiration (i.e. from soils and roots) provides one of the largest global fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere and is likely to…”
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Losses of Tree Cover in California Driven by Increasing Fire Disturbance and Climate Stress
Published in AGU advances (01-08-2022)“…Forests provide natural climate solutions for sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change, yet are increasingly threatened by increasing temperature and…”
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A Global Land Cover Training Dataset From 1984 to 2020
Published in Scientific data (07-12-2023)“…State-of-the-art cloud computing platforms such as Google Earth Engine (GEE) enable regional-to-global land cover and land cover change mapping with machine…”
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The influence of near-field fluxes on seasonal carbon dioxide enhancements: results from the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)
Published in Carbon balance and management (30-01-2021)“…Background Networks of tower-based CO 2 mole fraction sensors have been deployed by various groups in and around cities across the world to quantify…”
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Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests
Published in Nature climate change (01-05-2021)“…Climate change is altering vegetation and disturbance dynamics in boreal ecosystems. However, the aggregate impact of these changes on boreal carbon budgets is…”
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Anthropogenic and biogenic CO₂ fluxes in the Boston urban region
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-07-2018)“…With the pending withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, cities are now leading US actions toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions…”
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Accounting for urban biogenic fluxes in regional carbon budgets
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-08-2017)“…Many ecosystem models incorrectly treat urban areas as devoid of vegetation and biogenic carbon (C) fluxes. We sought to improve estimates of urban biomass and…”
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Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions
Published in Environmental science & technology (18-08-2020)“…Global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (FFCO2) emissions will be dictated to a great degree by the trajectory of emissions from urban areas. Conventional methods to…”
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Wildfire‐induced increases in photosynthesis in boreal forest ecosystems of North America
Published in Global change biology (01-01-2024)“…Observations of the annual cycle of atmospheric CO2 in high northern latitudes provide evidence for an increase in terrestrial metabolism in Arctic tundra and…”
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The magnitude and pace of photosynthetic recovery after wildfire in California ecosystems
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-04-2023)“…Wildfire modifies the short- and long-term exchange of carbon between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, with impacts on ecosystem services such as…”
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Using remote sensing to quantify the additional climate benefits of California forest carbon offset projects
Published in Global change biology (01-11-2022)“…Nature‐based climate solutions are a vital component of many climate mitigation strategies, including California's, which aims to achieve carbon neutrality by…”
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Biophysical Determinants of Shifting Tundra Vegetation Productivity in the Beaufort Delta Region of Canada
Published in Ecosystems (New York) (01-11-2022)“…Temperature increases across the circumpolar north have driven rapid increases in vegetation productivity, often described as ‘greening’. These changes have…”
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