Pieter S. A. Beck

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided the most detailed estimate of the carbon density of vegetation and associated carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation for ecosystems across the tropics across the world, including tropical rainforests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new method for monitoring vegetation activity at high latitudes, using MODIS NDVI, which estimates the NDVI of the vegetation during winter and applies a double logistic function, which is uniquely defined by six parameters that describe the yearly NDVI time series.

TL;DR: The authors showed that climate change could lead to a major redistribution of vegetation across the Arctic, with important implications for biosphere-atmosphere interactions, as well as for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services.

TL;DR: Research now indicates that temperature and vegetation seasonality in northern ecosystems have diminished to an extent equivalent to a southerly shift of 4°– 7° in latitude, and may reach the equivalent of up to 20° over the twenty-first century.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed circumpolar data from 37 Arctic and alpine sites in 9 countries, including 25 species, and ∼42,000 annual growth records from 1,821 individuals, and demonstrated that the sensitivity of shrub growth to climate was heterogeneous, with European sites showing greater summer temperature sensitivity than North American sites, and higher at sites with greater soil moisture and for taller shrubs (for example, alders and willows) growing at their northern or upper elevational range edges.