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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06788-9
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through START grant [Y895-B25]
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant [605728]
- Fonds institutionnel de recherche de l'Universite du Quebec en Abitibi-Temiscamingue
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Tembec
- EACOM Timber Corporation
- FONDECYT [11150835]
- NSF [1262687, 1738104]
- US NSF
- Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship
- Environment Research and Technology Development Fund of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment [S-14]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [15KK0022]
- Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund grant
- US Joint Fire Sciences Program [14-1-06-22]
- UC ANR competitive grants
- institutional project MSMT [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000803]
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Trust
- US Joint Fire Science Program [09-1-06-3, 12-3-01-3, 16-3-01-4]
- Future Earth/bioDISCOVERY
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1738104] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15KK0022] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Increasing evidence indicates that forest disturbances are changing in response to global change, yet local variability in disturbance remains high. We quantified this considerable variability and analyzed whether recent disturbance episodes around the globe were consistently driven by climate, and if human influence modulates patterns of forest disturbance. We combined remote sensing data on recent (2001-2014) disturbances with in-depth local information for 50 protected landscapes and their surroundings across the temperate biome. Disturbance patterns are highly variable, and shaped by variation in disturbance agents and traits of prevailing tree species. However, high disturbance activity is consistently linked to warmer and drier than average conditions across the globe. Disturbances in protected areas are smaller and more complex in shape compared to their surroundings affected by human land use. This signal disappears in areas with high recent natural disturbance activity, underlining the potential of climate-mediated disturbance to transform forest landscapes.
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