Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Non-technical summary Greenhouse gas emissions and land use change – from deforestation, forest degradation, and agricultural intensification – are contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss. Important land-based strategies such as planting trees or growing bioenergy crops (with carbon capture and storage) are needed to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and to enhance biodiversity. The integrated Land Ecosystems Atmospheric Processes Study (iLEAPS) is an international knowledge-exchange and capacity-building network, specializing in ecosystems and their role in controlling the exchange of water, energy and chemical compounds between the land surface and the atmosphere. We outline priority directions for land–atmosphere interaction research and its contribution to the sustainable development agenda. Technical summary Greenhouse-gas emissions from human activities and land use change (from deforestation, forest degradation, and agricultural intensification) are contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss. Afforestation, reforestation, or growing bioenergy crops (with carbon capture and storage) are important land-based strategies to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and to enhance biodiversity. The effectiveness of these actions depends on terrestrial ecosystems and their role in controlling or moderating the exchange of water, heat, and chemical compounds between the land surface and the atmosphere. The integrated Land Ecosystems Atmospheric Processes Study (iLEAPS), a global research network of Future Earth, enables the international community to communicate and remain up to date with developments and concepts about terrestrial ecosystems and their role in global water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. Covering critically important topics such as fire, forestry, wetlands, methane emissions, urban areas, pollution, and climate change, the iLEAPS Global Research Programme sits center stage for some of the most important environmental questions facing humanity. In this paper, we outline the new challenges and opportunities for land–atmosphere interaction research and its role in supporting the broader sustainable development agenda. Social Media Summary Future directions for research into land–atmosphere interactions that supports the sustainable development agenda
Source: Global Sustainability
DOI: 10.1017/sus.2024.3
Authors: Garry Hayman, Benjamin Poulter, Sachin D. Ghude, Eleanor Blyth, Vinayak Sinha, Sally Archibald, Kirsti Ashworth, Victoria Barlow, Silvano Fares, Gregor Feig, Tetsuya Hiyama, Jiming Jin, Sirkku Juhola, Meehye Lee, Sebastian Leuzinger, Miguel D. Mahecha, Xianhong Meng, David Odee, Gemma Purser, Hisashi Sato, Pallavi Saxena, Valiyaveetil S. Semeena, Allison Steiner, Xuemei Wang, Stefan Wolff
Institutions: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, University of the Witwatersrand, Lancaster University, National Research Council, Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean, South African Environmental Observation Network, University of Pretoria, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya University, Yangtze University, University of Helsinki, Korea University, Auckland University of Technology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, University of Delhi, University of Michigan, Jinan University, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,450
OpenAlex ID: W4391817331