Jean‐François Bastin
A5000674760- Forest ecology and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Climate variability and models
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Bioenergy crop production and management
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
2013-2025
University of Liège
2013-2025
Université du Québec à Montréal
2023
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
2023
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
2021
Université de Montpellier
2021
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2021
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2021
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
2021
UMR Botanique et Modélisation de l’Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
2015-2021
The restoration of trees remains among the most effective strategies for climate change mitigation. We mapped global potential tree coverage to show that 4.4 billion hectares canopy cover could exist under current climate. Excluding existing and agricultural urban areas, we found there is room an extra 0.9 cover, which store 205 gigatonnes carbon in areas would naturally support woodlands forests. This highlights as our solution date. However, will alter this coverage. estimate if cannot...
Mapping the world's dry forests The extent of forest area in dryland habitats, which occupy more than 40% Earth's land surface, is uncertain compared with that other biomes. Bastin et al. provide a global estimate drylands, calculated from high-resolution satellite images covering 200,000 plots. Forests drylands are much extensive previously reported and cover total similar to tropical rainforests or boreal forests. This increases estimates by at least 9%, finding will be important...
We report above-ground biomass (AGB), basal area, stem density and wood mass estimates from 260 sample plots (mean size: 1.2 ha) in intact closed-canopy tropical forests across 12 African countries. Mean AGB is 395.7 Mg dry ha⁻¹ (95% CI: 14.3), substantially higher than Amazonian values, with the Congo Basin contiguous forest region attaining values (429 ha⁻¹) similar to those of Bornean forests, significantly greater East or West forests. therefore appears generally palaeo- compared...
Abstract Tropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical countries aspire to protect forest fulfil climate mitigation policy targets, but the conservation strategies needed achieve these two functions depend critically on tree diversity-carbon storage relationship. Assessing this relationship is challenging due scarcity inventories where stocks in aboveground biomass species identifications have been simultaneously robustly quantified. Here, we compile a...
Thermal sensitivity of tropical trees A key uncertainty in climate change models is the thermal forests and how this value might influence carbon fluxes. Sullivan et al. measured stocks fluxes permanent forest plots distributed globally. This synthesis plot networks across climatic biogeographic gradients shows that dominated by high daytime temperatures. extreme condition depresses growth rates shortens time resides ecosystem killing under hot, dry conditions. The effect temperature worse...
Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO). Built on Google desktop cloud computing technologies, facilitates access to multiple freely available archives satellite imagery, including with very high spatial resolution imagery (Google Earth, Bing Maps) those temporal (e.g., Engine, Engine Code Editor). Collectively, these offer an unparalleled amount information current past dynamics any location...
Abstract Tree restoration is an effective way to store atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. However, large-scale tree-cover expansion has long been known increase evaporation, leading reduced local water availability streamflow. More recent studies suggest that increased precipitation, through enhanced moisture recycling, can offset this effect. Here we calculate how 900 million hectares of global tree would impact evaporation precipitation using ensemble data-driven Budyko models...
Late-spring frosts (LSFs) affect the performance of plants and animals across world’s temperate boreal zones, but despite their ecological economic impact on agriculture forestry, geographic distribution evolutionary these frost events are poorly understood. Here, we analyze LSFs between 1959 2017 resistance strategies Northern Hemisphere woody species to infer trees’ adaptations for minimizing damage leaves forecast forest vulnerability under ongoing changes in frequencies. Trait values...
Significance Identifying and explaining regional differences in tropical forest dynamics, structure, diversity, composition are critical for anticipating region-specific responses to global environmental change. Floristic classifications of fundamental importance these efforts. Here we provide a classification that is explicitly based on community evolutionary similarity, resulting identification five major regions their relationships: ( i ) Indo-Pacific, ii Subtropical, iii African, iv...
Combating climate change requires unified action across all sectors of society. However, this collective is precluded by the 'consensus gap' between scientific knowledge and public opinion. Here, we test extent to which iconic cities around world are likely shift in response change. By analyzing city pairs for 520 major world, if their 2050 will resemble more closely own current conditions or other different bioclimatic regions. Even under an optimistic scenario (RCP 4.5), found that 77%...
Abstract Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system 1 . Remote-sensing estimates to quantify losses from global forests 2–5 characterized by considerable uncertainty we lack comprehensive ground-sourced evaluation benchmark these estimates. Here combine several 6 satellite-derived approaches 2,7,8 evaluate forest potential outside agricultural urban lands. Despite regional variation,...
Significance Tree diversity is fundamental for forest ecosystem stability and services. However, because of limited available data, estimates tree at large geographic domains still rely heavily on published lists species descriptions that are geographically uneven in coverage. These limitations have precluded efforts to generate a global perspective. Here, based ground-sourced database, we estimate the number biome, continental, scales. We estimated richness (≈73,300) ≈14% higher than...
Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting spread invasive species1,2. Tree in particular have been relatively overlooked, even though they potential to transform economies3,4. Here, leveraging global tree databases5-7, we explore how phylogenetic functional diversity communities, human pressure environment influence establishment species subsequent invasion severity. We find that anthropogenic factors are key predicting...
Trees structure the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response environmental change, as very little is known about species. A focus on common may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns using inventory data 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations
Large tropical trees and a few dominant species were recently identified as the main structuring elements of forests. However, such result did not translate yet into quantitative approaches which are essential to understand, predict monitor forest functions composition over large, often poorly accessible territories. Here we show that above-ground biomass (AGB) whole can be predicted from large relationship is proved strikingly stable in 175 1-ha plots investigated across 8 sites spanning...
Abstract Quantifying the relationship between tree diameter and height is a key component of efforts to estimate biomass carbon stocks in tropical forests. Although substantial site‐to‐site variation height–diameter allometries has been documented, time consuming nature measuring all heights an inventory plot means that most studies do not include height, or else use generic pan‐tropical regional allometric equations height. Using dataset 73 plots where at least 150 trees had in‐field...
Abstract Aim Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms evolutionarily, morphologically physiologically distinct from other trees, these differences have important consequences for services (e.g., carbon sequestration storage) in terms responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns palm relative abundance help improve understanding forests reduce uncertainty about under Location...
A topic of major interest in socio-ecology is the comparison chimpanzees and bonobos' grouping patterns. Numerous studies have highlighted impact social environmental factors on different evolution group cohesion seen these sister species. We are still lacking, however, key information about bonobo traits across their habitat range, order to make accurate inter-species comparisons. In this study we investigated cohesiveness at nesting sites depending fruit availability forest-savannah mosaic...
Abstract Aim Large tropical trees form the interface between ground and airborne observations, offering a unique opportunity to capture forest properties remotely investigate their variations on broad scales. However, despite rapid development of metrics characterize canopy from sensed data, gap remains aerial field inventories. To close this gap, we propose new pan‐tropical model predict plot‐level structure biomass only largest trees. Location Pan‐tropical. Time period Early 21st century....
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ABSTRACT Ecosystem monitoring is fundamental to our understanding of how ecosystem change impacting natural resources and vital for developing evidence‐based policy management. However, the different types monitoring, along with their recommended applications, are often poorly understood contentious. Varying definitions strict adherence a specific type can inhibit effective leading poor program development, implementation outcomes. In an effort develop more consistent clear programs, we here...
Abstract The global movement for ecosystem restoration has gained momentum in response to the Bonn Challenge (2010) and UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UNDER, 2021–2030). While several science‐based guidelines exist aid achieving successful outcomes, significant variation remains outcomes of projects. Some this disparity can be attributed unexpected responses components planned interventions. Given complex nature ecosystems, we propose that concepts from Complex Systems Science (CSS) are...