Trees outside forests in global drylands

Project Information

TOFDRY

Grant agreement ID: 947757

DOI

10.3030/947757

Project closed

EC signature date 20 August 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 31 January 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 711 467,00

EU contribution

€ 1 711 467,00

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Recent decrease of the impact of tropical temperature on the carbon cycle linked to increased precipitation

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, Guy Schurgers, Josep Peñuelas, Rasmus Fensholt, Hui Yang, Jing Tang, Xiaowei Tong, Philippe Ciais & Martin Brandt
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36727-2

An Operational Framework to Track Individual Farmland Trees Over Time at National Scales Using PlanetScope

Author(s): Florian Reiner, Dimitri Gominski, Rasmus Fensholt, Martin Brandt
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 1109-1121, ISSN 1939-1404
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2024.3494869

Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

Author(s): Compton Tucker, Martin Brandt, Pierre Hiernaux, Ankit Kariryaa, Kjeld Rasmussen, Jennifer Small, Christian Igel, Florian Reiner, Katherine Melocik, Jesse Meyer, Scott Sinno, Eric Romero, Erin Glennie, Yasmin Fitts, August Morin, Jorge Pinzon, Devin McClain, Paul Morin, Claire Porter, Shane Loeffler, Laurent Kergoat, Bil-Assanou Issoufou, Patrice Savadogo, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Benjamin Poulter, Ph
Published in: Nature, Issue 615, 2023, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05653-6

Beyond tree cover: Characterizing southern China's forests using deep learning

Author(s): Qian Li, Yuemin Yue, Siyu Liu, Martin Brandt, Zhengchao Chen, Xiaowei Tong, Kelin Wang, Jingyi Chang, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022, ISSN 2056-3485
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.292

Global quantification of the bidirectional dependency between soil moisture and vegetation productivity

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, Fangli Wei, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Matthias Forkel, Martin Brandt
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 313, 2022, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108735

Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, MarkRandall, Marina B.Jensen, Martin Brandt, Qiao Wang, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 71, 2021, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102385

A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

Author(s): Xiaoxin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Philippe Ciais, Yuemin Yue, Xiangming Xiao, Wenmin Zhang, Kelin Wang & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 321-328 (2022), ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00843-y

Large‐scale characterization of horizontal forest structure from remote sensing optical images

Author(s): Xin Xu, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Yuemin Yue, Sizhuo Li, Qiue Xu, Siyu Liu, Florian Reiner, Kelin Wang, Zhengchao Chen, Yongqing Bai, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2026, ISSN 2056-3485
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.70058

Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

Author(s): Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Martin Brandt, Jérôme Chave, Florian Reiner, David L. Skole, Ankit Kariryaa, Christian Igel, Pierre Hiernaux, Philippe Ciais, Ole Mertz, Xiaoye Tong, Sizhuo Li, Gaspard Rwanyiziri, Thaulin Dushimiyimana, Alain Ndoli, Valens Uwizeyimana, Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Fabian Gieseke, Compton J. Tucker, Sassan Saatchi & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2023, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01544-w

Deep learning enables image-based tree counting, crown segmentation, and height prediction at national scale

Author(s): Sizhuo Li, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Ankit Kariryaa, Christian Igel, Fabian Gieseke, Thomas Nord-Larsen, Stefan Oehmcke, Ask Holm Carlsen, Samuli Junttila, Xiaoye Tong, Alexandre d’Aspremont, Philippe Ciais
Published in: PNAS Nexus, 2023, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad076

Mapping every adult baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) across the Sahel to uncover the co-existence with rural livelihoods

Author(s): ke huang, Martin Brandt, Pierre Hiernaux, Compton Tucker, Laura Rasmussen, Florian Reiner, Sizhuo Li, Ankit Kariryaa, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Bowy Braber, Jennifer Small, Scott Sino, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3243009/v1

The Carbon Sink Potential of Southern China After Two Decades of Afforestation

Author(s): X. M. Zhang; M. Brandt; Y. M. Yue; X. W. Tong; K. L. Wang; R. Fensholt
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002674

More than one quarter of Africa’s tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest

Author(s): Florian Reiner, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, David Skole, Ankit Kariryaa, Philippe Ciais, Andrew Davies, Pierre Hiernaux, Jérôme Chave, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Christian Igel, Stefan Oehmcke, Fabian Gieseke, Sizhuo Li, Siyu Liu, Sassan Saatchi, Peter Boucher, Jenia Singh, Simon Taugourdeau, Morgane Dendoncker, Xiao-Peng Song, Ole Mertz, Compton J. Tucker & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37880-4

Trees on smallholder farms and forest restoration are critical for Rwanda to achieve net zero emissions

Author(s): Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Martin Brandt, Athanase Mukuralinda, Philippe Ciais, Florian Reiner, Ankit Kariryaa, Christian Igel, Jérôme Chave, Ole Mertz, Pierre Hiernaux, Xiaoye Tong, Gaspard Rwanyiziri, Dimitri Gominski, Sizhuo Li, Siyu Liu, Ivan Gasangwa, Yves Hategekimana, Alain Ndoli, Jean Nduwamungu, Sassan Saatchi, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01278-x

Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade

Author(s): Martin Brandt, Dimitri Gominski, Florian Reiner, Ankit Kariryaa, Venkanna Babu Guthula, Philippe Ciais, Xiaoye Tong, Wenmin Zhang, Dhanapal Govindarajulu, Daniel Ortiz-Gonzalo, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 860-868, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01356-0

A strong but uneven increase in urban tree cover in China over the recent decade

Author(s): Xiaoxin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, Xiaowei Tong, Wenmin Zhang, Florian Reiner, Sizhuo Li, Feng Tian, Yuemin Yue, Weiqi Zhou, Bin Chen, Xiangming Xiao, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Cities, Issue 2, 2025, Page(s) 460-469, ISSN 2731-9997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00227-9

Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Author(s): Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, Martin Brandt, Lei Fan, Xiaojun Li, Sean Crowell, Xiaocui Wu, Russell Doughty, Yao Zhang, Fang Liu, Stephen Sitch & Berrien Moore III
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 442-448, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01026-5

Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

Author(s): Lei Fan, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, Jérome Chave, Martin Brandt, Stephen Sitch, Chao Yue, Ana Bastos, Xin Li, Yuanwei Qin, Wenping Yuan, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Liudmila Mukhortova, Xiaojun Li, Xiangzhuo Liu, Mengjia Wang, Frédéric Frappart, Xiangming Xiao, Jingming Chen, Mingguo Ma, Jianguang Wen, Xiuzhi Chen, Hui Yang, Dave van Wees & Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2022, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01087-x

Projected Rainfall‐Driven Expansion of Woody Cover in African Drylands

Author(s): Wenmin Zhang, Rasmus Fensholt, Martin Brandt
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 50, 2024, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl103932

Mapping the Abundance of Multipurpose Agroforestry <i>Faidherbia albida</i> Trees in Senegal

Author(s): Tingting Lu; Martin Brandt; Xiaoye Tong; Pierre Hiernaux; Louise Leroux; Babacar Ndao; Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14030662

The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe

Author(s): Siyu Liu, Martin Brandt, Thomas Nord-Larsen, Jerome Chave, Florian Reiner, Nico Lang, Xiaoye Tong, Philippe Ciais, Christian Igel, Adrian Pascual, Juan Guerra-Hernandez, Sizhuo Li, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Sassan Saatchi, Yuemin Yue, Zhengchao Chen, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh4097

Globally Increasing Atmospheric Aridity Over the 21st Century

Author(s): Zhongxiang Fang, Wenmin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Earth's Future, 2022, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2022ef003019

Trees outside of forests as natural climate solutions

Author(s): David Skole, Cheikh Mbow, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Martin Brandt, Jay Samek
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 1013-1016, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01230-3

High-resolution sensors and deep learning models for tree resource monitoring

Author(s): Martin Brandt, Jerome Chave, Sizhuo Li, Rasmus Fensholt, Philippe Ciais, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Fabian Gieseke, Sassan Saatchi, C. J. Tucker, Christian Igel
Published in: Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, Issue 2, 2025, Page(s) 13-26, ISSN 2948-1201
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44287-024-00116-8

Book chapters (1)

Get Your Embedding Space in Order: Domain-Adaptive Regression for Forest Monitoring

Author(s): Sizhuo Li, Dimitri Gominski, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, Philippe Ciais
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024, 2024, Page(s) 94-111
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72980-5_6