Carmen Josse

TL;DR: This paper developed a broad definition of grassland as a distinct biotic and ecological unit, noting its similarity to savanna and distinguishing it from woodland and wetland, and integrated International Vegetation Classification (IVC) grassland types with the map of Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (TEOW).

TL;DR: A comprehensive accounting of aboveground carbon dynamics inside and outside Amazon protected lands is provided, finding that ITs and PNAs stored more than one-half of the region’s carbon in 2016 but were responsible for just 10% of the net change (−1,290 MtC).

TL;DR: It is found that many endemic species and ecological systems are lacking national-level protection; a third of endemic species have distributions completely outside of national protected areas; new complementary protected areas are needed to safeguard these endemics and ecosystems.

TL;DR: EcoVeg as mentioned in this paper is a vegetation classification approach that can describe the diversity of terrestrial ecosystems and their transformations over large time frames, span the full range of spatial and geographic scales across the globe, and provide knowledge of reference conditions and current states of ecosystems required to make decisions about conservation and resource management.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical vegetation classification was developed by African ecosystem scientists and vegetation geographers, who also provided sample locations of the newly classified vegetation units and ecosystems were then mapped across the continent using a classification and regression tree (CART) inductive model, which predicted the potential distribution of vegetation types from a suite of biophysical environmental attributes including bioclimate region, biogeographic region, surficial lithology, landform, elevation and land cover.