Anita D. Bayer

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and analyzed a global soil visible-near infrared (vis-NIR) spectral library, which is currently the largest and most diverse database of its kind, and showed that the information encoded in the spectra can describe soil composition and be associated to land cover and its global geographic distribution, which acts as a surrogate for global climate variability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the terrestrial biosphere absorbs about 20% of fossil fuel CO2 emissions and the overall magnitude of this sink is constrained by the difference between emissions, the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and the ocean sink.

TL;DR: This paper provides a synthesis of available approaches, models and tools, and data sources, that are able to better link ecosystem service mapping to current understanding of the role of ecosystem service providing organisms and land/seascape structure in ecosystem functioning and opens avenues for further model development using hybrid approaches tailored to available resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the effect of representing agricultural land management in a dynamic global vegetation model, and find that accounting for harvest, grazing and tillage resulted in cumulative E-LUC since 1850 ca. 70% larger than in simulations ignoring these processes, but also changed the timescale over which these emissions occurred and led to underestimation of the carbon sequestered by possible future reforestation actions.

TL;DR: Two approaches for the quantification of soil organic carbon, iron oxides, and clay content based on field and laboratory spectroscopy of natural surfaces are tested, developed based on extensive ground reference data of 163 sampled sites collected in the Thicket Biome, South Africa.