Publications

Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2025. Publisher Correction: Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00546-0

Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2025. Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00518-4

Anomalous precipitation patterns associated with climate change increasingly threaten global crop supply. Forests, as major moisture source, could potentially buffer these risks, yet their specific role in sustaining agriculture and global crop supply remains underexplored. We investigate global forests’ contribution to crop production and export by estimating moisture flows from forests to agricultural areas and pairing them ...

Xingxing Zhang, Hua Wu, Lan Wang Erlandsson, Zhaofei Liu, Hou Jiang, Zhaocai Wang, Liguang Jiang, Yizhu Zhu, Yaozhi Jiang, Zhijun Yao, Zhaoliang Li. 2025. Significant Shifts in Continental Precipitation Sources in the 21st Century. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040157

Continental precipitation patterns have undergone profound changes in the 21st century, characterized by an increasing dominance of oceanic moisture sources over terrestrial ones. Using the WAM-2layers (Water Accounting Model-2 layers) moisture tracking model and ERA5 reanalysis data (1941–2023), we identified a significant upward trend in ocean-derived moisture, particularly from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with an incre...

Massoud Behboudian, Mohammad Javad Emami-Skardi, Sara Anamaghi, Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Rares Halbac-Cotoară-Zamfir, Zahra Kalantari. 2025. Social resilience of tropical forest ecosystems: A systematic review of core principles and their application. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127319

Tropical forest systems (TFSs), play a crucial role in maintaining the planet's ecological balance, supporting life on Earth, and providing different ecosystem services, which are vulnerable to environmental (e.g., severe droughts) and human-induced disturbances (e.g., deforestation).The resilience concept is usually considered in evaluating a forest system under these severe disturbances. However, while resilience evaluations...

Michael J. Lathuillière, Rafaela Flach, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Vivian Ribeiro, Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen, Carlos M. Souza, Jr. 2025. International reliance on Brazil’s water through soy and beef supply chains. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02658-7

As commodities enter supply chains, consumers rely on distant freshwater sources to ensure continued supply. This information often lacks the traceability and granularity required to assess the reliance of supply chains on specific river basins and their level of water scarcity. Here, we quantify the volume and source of freshwater for the production and export of Brazilian soy and beef to China and the EU, together with defor...

Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Michele-Lee Moore, Line Gordon, Carl Folke, Malin Falkenmark. 2025. Fostering water resilience in the Anthropocene. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10035

Vajira Lasantha, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Juan Rocha, Ruud van der Ent, Markus Hrachowitz. 2025. Characterizing Anthropogenic Modification of Root Zone Storage Capacity. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18391

Vegetation plays a crucial role in regulating the water cycle through transpiration, which is influenced by the root zone storage capacity ( S R ). S R is dynamically influenced by climate, land use, and vegetation, with ecosystems adapting to environmental changes by modulating S R . Human interventions, such as deforestation, agriculture, and irrigation, significantly alter S R by changing vegetation cover and w...

Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Fabian Stenzel, Dieter Gerten, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Miina Porkka, Lars Wiersma, Malin Lundberg Ingemarsson, Johan Rockström. 2025. Critical freshwater requirements for meeting the Paris Agreement. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15423

Intact land and freshwater ecosystems are a prerequisite for limiting global warming in accordance with the Paris Agreement. However, the critical co-dependence of climate mitigation outcomes and freshwater dynamics tends to be neglected in both research and policies. Here, we suggest a framework for systematically quantifying the indispensable freshwater requirements for mitigation measures, focused on natural and managed ter...

Simon Felix Fahrländer, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Dieter Gerten, Marta Tuninetti, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Arie Staal, Johan Rockström, Nico Wunderling. 2025. Exploring global interdependencies from the hydrological cycle to virtual water flows through a network analysis. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15699

Freshwater is fundamental to Earth system processes, yet its global dynamics are often overlooked in water governance. With half of all terrestrial precipitation originating from land evaporation, the global interdependencies of atmospheric moisture flows remain underrepresented in policies addressing water security and climate adaptation. In particular, its impacts on global supply chains have not been assessed so far. Theref...

Johan Rockström, Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, Maria A. Martin, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Katherine Richardson. 2025. Publisher Correction: Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00696-5