Communications Earth & Environment

AuthorsLion R. Martius; Pablo Sanchez-Martinez; Vanessa Negrão-Rodrigues; Paulo Bittencourt; Wout Cherlet; Wouter van den Broeck; Zane Cooper; Louise Terryn; Caterina Buranelli; Calil Torres-Amaral; Ross Deans; Oliver Binks; Mateus C. Silva; Anthony Barbosa da Silva; Renan Domingues Pacheco; Grazielle Sales Teodoro; João Athaydes Silva Junior; Kim Calders; Mathias Disney; Sassan Saatchi; Edward T. A. Mitchard; Rafael S. Oliveira; Lucy Rowland; Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa; Maurizio Mencuccini; Patrick Meir

Affiliations1. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 2. Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil; 3. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil; 4. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; 5. Department of Geography, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; 6. Q-ForestLab – Laboratory of Quantitative Forest Ecosystem Science, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 7. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil; 8. CREAF, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola del, Vallés, Spain; 9. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil; 10. Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK; 11. NERC National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), London, UK; 12. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA; 13. Space Intelligence Ltd., Edinburgh, UK; 14. Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil; 15. ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

AuthorsGabriele Russo; Faysal Bibi; Chrysa Tsimopoulou; Mathieu Duval; Yamandù H. Hilbert; Maya Haïdar-Boustani; Dorothée G. Drucker; Sireen El Zaatari

Affiliations1. Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 2. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany; 3. Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, Department of Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus T.C., Komotini, Greece; 4. Institute of Appied Bioarchaeological Research, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece; 5. Geochronology & Geology, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain; 6. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; 7. Palaeoscience Labs, Dept. Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, Australia; 8. HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence for Integrative Human Origins Studies (EXC 3101), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 9. Musée de Préhistoire libanaise, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, Beirut, Lebanon; 10. Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 11. Biogeology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

AuthorsGabriele Russo; Florent Rivals; Mathieu Duval; Scott D. McLin; Majid Aljaber Abo Fakher; Maya Haïdar-Boustani; Virginia Martinez-Pillado; Altug Hasözbek; Andrew Garrard; Faysal Bibi; Yamandú H. Hilbert; Sireen El Zaatari

Affiliations1. Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 2. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain; 3. ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; 4. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament d’Història i Història de l’Art, Tarragona, Spain; 5. Geochronology & Geology, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain; 6. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), Griffith University, Nathan, Australia; 7. Palaeoscience Labs, Department Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia; 8. EXC 3101 “HUMAN ORIGINS—Excellence Cluster for Integrative Human, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 9. Musée de Préhistoire libanaise, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, Beirut, Lebanon; 10. Centro Mixto sobre Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, UCM-ISCIII, Madrid, Spain; 11. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK; 12. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany

AuthorsTakayuki Takahashi; Takuro Ogura; Kotaro Iizuka; Yoshiya Iwasa; Yuichi S. Hayakawa; Tatsuto Aoki; Nobuhisa Matta

Affiliations1. International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 2. Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan; 3. Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 4. School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan; 5. Faculty of Education, University of Teacher Education Fukuoka, Munakata, Japan; 6. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 7. Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan; 8. Graduate School of Education, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

AuthorsEmily Nagamoto; Mohammed Ombadi; Fabio Ciulla; Jared D. Willard; Rosemary W. H. Carroll; Charuleka Varadharajan

Affiliations1. Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA; 2. Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA; 3. Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; 4. Computing Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA; 5. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Learning, and Intelligent Systems Group, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, USA; 6. Division of Hydrologic Science, Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

AuthorsJiameng Xu; Xiao Zhang; Kaighin A. McColl; Alexis Berg; Sha Zhou; Jian Yang; Zhaoyu Dong; Yuanyuan Luo; Yuanchao Fan

Affiliations1. Institute of Environment and Ecology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China; 2. Key Laboratory of Ecological Carbon Fixation and Sink Enhancement in Ordinary Universities of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China; 3. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 4. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 5. Department of Geography, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; 6. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Disaster Risk Reduction, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; 7. Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; 8. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

AuthorsCynthia Whaley; Yang Li; Isabelle Valiquette; Sophie Kiley; Ruth Digby

Affiliations1. Climate Modelling Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, Canada; 2. Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, USA; 3. School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

AuthorsJos Barlow; Nathália S. Carvalho; Cássio Alencar Nunes; Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar; Ane Alencar; Liana O. Anderson; Luiz E.O.C Aragão; Fabricio Baccaro; Mike Barrett; Erika Berenguer; Kristian Bodolai; Paulo Monteiro Brando; Thiago B. A. Couto; Tomas Ferreira Domingues; Fernando Elias; Ted R. Feldpausch; Igor José Malfetoni Ferreira; Joice N. Ferreira; Bernardo M. Flores; David Galbraith; Toby Alan Gardner; Emanuel Gloor; Marina Hirota; Valerie Kapos; David M. Lapola; Cecília Leal; Alexander Charles Lees; Bel Lyon; Marcia N. Macedo; Yadvinder Malhi; Beatriz Schwantes Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon Junior; Patrick Meir; Lina M. Mercado; Oliver Metcalf; Leonardo de Sousa Miranda; Edward T. A. Mitchard; Douglas C. Morton; Jeanne L. Nel; Rafael Silva Oliveira; Oliver L. Phillips; Lucy Rowland; Juliana Schietti; Camila V. J. Silva; Celso H. L. Silva-Junior; Patrícia S. Silva; Juliana M. Silveira; Divino Vicente Silvério; Stephen Sitch; Paulo Amador Tavares; Cristina Telhado; Ima C. G. Vieira; Helga Correa Wiederhecker

Affiliations1. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; 2. National Institute for Space Research – INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil; 3. Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil; 4. TRopical Ecosystems and Environmental Sciences lab (TREES), Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil; 5. Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil; 6. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil; 7. WWF-UK, Surrey, UK; 8. Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 9. Space Intelligence, Edinburgh, UK; 10. Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, USA; 11. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; 12. Departamento de Biologia - FFCLRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; 13. LEAF, Botany Department, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil; 14. Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; 15. Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Brazil; 16. EqualSea Lab-CRETUS, University of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain; 17. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; 18. Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; 19. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil; 20. UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK; 21. Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil; 22. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK; 23. Columbia University, New York, USA; 24. State University of Mato Grosso UNEMAT, Nova Xavantina, Brazil; 25. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 26. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom; 27. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA; 28. Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; 29. Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Sao Luis, Brazil; 30. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Cuiabá, Brazil; 31. Universidade do Estado do Amapá, Macapá, Brazil; 32. Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil; 33. WWF-Brazil, Brasília, Brazil

AuthorsBei Chen; Ian H. Campbell; Richard J. Arculus

Affiliations1. Organic and Earth Surface Geochemistry, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 2. Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

AuthorsPauline H. Cornard; Tilmann Schwenk; Greta Feddersen; Christian France-Lanord; Cecilia McHugh; Till J. J. Hanebuth; Hermann R. Kudrass; Nikolas Römer-Stange; Bingbing Wei; Walter Geibert; Anja Zander; Volkhard Spieß; Elda Miramontes

Affiliations1. MARUM–Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; 2. Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; 3. CRPG, Université de Lorraine-CNRS, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France; 4. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York Flushing, New York, USA; 5. Marine and Polar Geophysics Division, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Palisades, New York, USA; 6. Department of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, USA; 7. State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; 8. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; 9. Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany