Trees outside forests in global drylands

Project Information

TOFDRY

Grant agreement ID: 947757

DOI 10.3030/947757

EC signature date 20 August 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 711 467,00

EU contribution € 1 711 467,00

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Recent decrease of the impact of tropical temperature on the carbon cycle linked to increased precipitation

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, Guy Schurgers, Josep Peñuelas, Rasmus Fensholt, Hui Yang, Jing Tang, Xiaowei Tong, Philippe Ciais & Martin Brandt
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36727-2

Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

Author(s): Compton Tucker, Martin Brandt, Pierre Hiernaux, Ankit Kariryaa, Kjeld Rasmussen, Jennifer Small, Christian Igel, Florian Reiner, Katherine Melocik, Jesse Meyer, Scott Sinno, Eric Romero, Erin Glennie, Yasmin Fitts, August Morin, Jorge Pinzon, Devin McClain, Paul Morin, Claire Porter, Shane Loeffler, Laurent Kergoat, Bil-Assanou Issoufou, Patrice Savadogo, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Benjamin Poulter, Ph
Published in: Nature, Issue 615, 2023, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05653-6

Beyond tree cover: Characterizing southern China's forests using deep learning

Author(s): Qian Li, Yuemin Yue, Siyu Liu, Martin Brandt, Zhengchao Chen, Xiaowei Tong, Kelin Wang, Jingyi Chang, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022, ISSN 2056-3485
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.292

Global quantification of the bidirectional dependency between soil moisture and vegetation productivity

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, Fangli Wei, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Matthias Forkel, Martin Brandt
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 313, 2022, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108735

Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, MarkRandall, Marina B.Jensen, Martin Brandt, Qiao Wang, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 71, 2021, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102385

A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

Author(s): Xiaoxin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Philippe Ciais, Yuemin Yue, Xiangming Xiao, Wenmin Zhang, Kelin Wang & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 321-328 (2022), ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00843-y

Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

Author(s): Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Martin Brandt, Jérôme Chave, Florian Reiner, David L. Skole, Ankit Kariryaa, Christian Igel, Pierre Hiernaux, Philippe Ciais, Ole Mertz, Xiaoye Tong, Sizhuo Li, Gaspard Rwanyiziri, Thaulin Dushimiyimana, Alain Ndoli, Valens Uwizeyimana, Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Fabian Gieseke, Compton J. Tucker, Sassan Saatchi & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2023, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01544-w

Deep learning enables image-based tree counting, crown segmentation, and height prediction at national scale

Author(s): Sizhuo Li, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Ankit Kariryaa, Christian Igel, Fabian Gieseke, Thomas Nord-Larsen, Stefan Oehmcke, Ask Holm Carlsen, Samuli Junttila, Xiaoye Tong, Alexandre d’Aspremont, Philippe Ciais
Published in: PNAS Nexus, 2023, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad076

The Carbon Sink Potential of Southern China After Two Decades of Afforestation

Author(s): X. M. Zhang; M. Brandt; Y. M. Yue; X. W. Tong; K. L. Wang; R. Fensholt
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002674

More than one quarter of Africa’s tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest

Author(s): Florian Reiner, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, David Skole, Ankit Kariryaa, Philippe Ciais, Andrew Davies, Pierre Hiernaux, Jérôme Chave, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Christian Igel, Stefan Oehmcke, Fabian Gieseke, Sizhuo Li, Siyu Liu, Sassan Saatchi, Peter Boucher, Jenia Singh, Simon Taugourdeau, Morgane Dendoncker, Xiao-Peng Song, Ole Mertz, Compton J. Tucker & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37880-4

Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Author(s): Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, Martin Brandt, Lei Fan, Xiaojun Li, Sean Crowell, Xiaocui Wu, Russell Doughty, Yao Zhang, Fang Liu, Stephen Sitch & Berrien Moore III
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 442-448, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01026-5

Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

Author(s): Lei Fan, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, Jérome Chave, Martin Brandt, Stephen Sitch, Chao Yue, Ana Bastos, Xin Li, Yuanwei Qin, Wenping Yuan, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Liudmila Mukhortova, Xiaojun Li, Xiangzhuo Liu, Mengjia Wang, Frédéric Frappart, Xiangming Xiao, Jingming Chen, Mingguo Ma, Jianguang Wen, Xiuzhi Chen, Hui Yang, Dave van Wees & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2022, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01087-x

Mapping the Abundance of Multipurpose Agroforestry <i>Faidherbia albida</i> Trees in Senegal

Author(s): Tingting Lu; Martin Brandt; Xiaoye Tong; Pierre Hiernaux; Louise Leroux; Babacar Ndao; Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14030662

Globally Increasing Atmospheric Aridity Over the 21st Century

Author(s): Zhongxiang Fang, Wenmin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Earth's Future, 2022, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2022ef003019

Trees outside of forests as natural climate solutions

Author(s): David Skole, Cheikh Mbow, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Martin Brandt, Jay Samek
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 1013-1016, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01230-3