Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps
Lightning is a fundamental Earth system process that influences the world's major forest biomes and their carbon storage through two primary pathways. Lightning is the major cause of boreal forest fires, while lightning strikes kill patches of trees in tropical forests. We summarized the current understanding of these processes and identified knowledge gaps.
Authors
- Thomas Janßen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-8039)
- Masha T. van der Sande (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6845-2308)
- Sander Veraverbeke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1362-5125)
- Matthew W. Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3480-7980)
- Bianca Zoletto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5570-0588)
- Esther Brambleby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1400-0628)
Institutions
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Global Change Biology
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70179
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.53
Funders
- UK Research and Innovation
- European Commission
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme
- Natural Environment Research Council
- HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council