ERL特刊征稿|​聚焦人类世热带森林和稀树草原的复原力

特刊详情

客座编辑

• Arie Staal，荷兰乌特勒支大学
• Bernardo M Flores，巴西圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学
• Marina Hirota，巴西圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学

主题范围

The resilience of tropical forests and savannas determines how ongoing pressures of climate change, land use change and anthropogenic disturbances affect the future state of these ecosystems. Resilience, the capacity of ecosystems to persist or adapt in the face of disturbances, can be continuously reshaped by external stressors such as drought and by feedbacks with the environment. However, large uncertainties remain on the trajectories of tropical forests and savannas in the Anthropocene, such as regarding the role of different feedbacks in resilience and leverage points to avoid unwanted tipping of forests and savannas into degraded ecosystems. This Focus Issue aims to make an impactful contribution to the understanding of the resilience of tropical forest and savanna ecosystems against a backdrop of ongoing and future global change. We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines and on different spatial scales, including, but not limited to:

• Cross-scale analyses of global-change impacts on tropical forest and savanna resilience
• Qualitative and quantitative work on pathways to avoid undesired tipping points and build desired resilience in the tropics
• Insights on tropical ecosystem functioning after the occurrence of tipping points
• Theoretical or empirical analyses on mechanisms that prevent tipping points in tropical ecosystems
• Research on feedbacks relevant to tropical ecosystem structure and resilience
• Estimates of the effects of compounding disturbances on resilience and tipping points in tropical ecosystems

投稿流程

特刊文章与ERL期刊常规文章遵循相同的审稿流程和内容标准，并采用同样的投稿模式。

有关准备文章及投稿的详细信息，可以参阅IOPscience页面的作者指南。

作者可登入期刊主页进行在线投稿，先选择“文章类型”，然后在“选择特刊”的下拉框中选择“Focus on Resilience of Tropical Forests and Savannas in the Anthropocene”。

投稿截止日期：2024年9月30日。