Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

By R. Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti. Science, 2016

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Forest Soil Bacteria: Diversity, Involvement in Ecosystem Processes, and Response to Global Change (2017, neutral): “forest, reforestation, afforestation, and others (11, 14).”
Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review (2019, background): “Another source of variation is latitude; boreal habitats experience smaller changes in mean air temperature following forest clearing than temperate or tropical regions, probably due to the effects of snow albedo (Alkama & Cescatti, 2016; Findell et al., 2017).”
Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States (2016, background): “First are management actions that help reduce atmospheric warming, which intensifies drought, such as increasing forest carbon storage (McKinley et al., 2011) and manipulating forest cover to alter site radiation balance (Luyssaert et al., 2014; Alkama and Crescatti, 2016).”
Biophysical effects on temperature and precipitation due to land cover change (2017, neutral): “Observations show the same warming effect of deforestation with a comparable magnitude to the modeled data (0.41 ± 0.57 °C), while showing a cooling effect of 0.87 °C in case of forestation (Zhang et al 2014, Alkama and Cescatti 2016), five times higher than that detected by models.”