Robert Fahey

Abstract Reliable resilience indicators are urgently needed to monitor global forest health under increasing climate stress. Lag-1 temporal autocorrelation (TAC) of satellite vegetation indices captures forest recovery speed and is widely used as a resilience metric, but its mechanistic underpinnings and methodological reliability have been questioned.

Introduction Following years of declining approval ratings both for his government and for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stepped down in August 2024, announcing that he would not be running for re-election in the party's internal leadership contest the following month. Nine candidates secured nominations for the leadership race, a record high, with veteran lawmaker Shigeru Ishiba eventually beating right-wing favourite Sanae Takaichi by a narrow margin.

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