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Can forest management be used to sustain water-based ecosystem services in the face of climate change?
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Forested watersheds, an important provider of ecosystems services related to water supply, can have their structure, function, and resulting streamflow substant... |
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A paradigm shift in understanding and quantifying the effects of forest harvesting on floods in snow environments
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A well-established precept in forest hydrology is that any reduction of forest cover will always have a progressively smaller effect on floods with increasing r... |
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Conservation threats: biofuel
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Biofuels: Europe’s largest conservation charity has launched a campaign to heighten the threat to wildlife habitats and biodiversity from plantations of fuel ... |
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Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage
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The projected responses of forest ecosystems to warming and drying associated with twenty-first-century climate change vary widely from resiliency to widespread... |
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Changes in Wind Pattern Alter Albatross Distribution and Life-History Traits
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Westerly winds in the Southern Ocean have increased in intensity and moved poleward. Using
long-term demographic and foraging records, we show that foraging ra... |
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Effects of irrigation on global climate during the 20th century
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Various studies have documented the effects of modern‐day irrigation on regional and global climate, but none, to date, have considered the time‐varying imp... |
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Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments
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During the decline to extinction, animal populations may present dynamical phenomena not exhibited by robust populations (1,2). Some of these phenomena, such as... |
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Improved probability of detection of ecological “surprises”
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Ecological “surprises” are defined as unexpected findings about the natural environment. They are critically important in ecology because they are catalysts... |
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Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health
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Editorial: Journal of the American Medical Association. Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this rela... |
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Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species
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Species distributions have shifted in response to global warming in all major ecosystems on the Earth. Despite cogent evidence for these changes, the underlying... |
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Differences and sensitivities in potential hydrologic impact of climate change to regional-scale Athabasca and Fraser River basins of the leeward and windward sides of the Canadian Rocky Mountains respectively
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Sensitivities to the potential impact of Climate Change on the water resources of the Athabasca River Basin (ARB) and Fraser River Basin (FRB) were investigated... |
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A megacity in a changing climate: the case of Kolkata
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Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest that there will be an increase in the frequency and intensity of climate extremes in the 21... |
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Conservation VALUE OF ROADLESS AREAS FOR VULNERABLE FISH AND Wildlife Species in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Montana
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The Crown of the Continent Ecosystem is one of the most spectacular landscapes
in the world and most ecologically intact ecosystem remaining in the
contiguous... |
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Politics for the day after tomorrow: The logic of apocalypse in global climate politics
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The recent global climate change discourse is a prominent example of a securitization of environmental
issues. While the problem is often framed in the languag... |
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Scherrer_et_al-2011-Journal_of_Biogeography 1.pdf
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The subnivium: a deteriorating seasonal refugium
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For many terrestrial organisms in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is a period of resource scarcity and energy deficits, survivable only because a seasonal refug... |
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Traversing the mountaintop: world fossil fuel production to 2050
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During the past century, fossil fuels—petroleum liquids, natural gas and coal—were the dominant source of world energy production. From 1950 to 2005, fossil... |
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Barking up the Wrong Tree? Forest Sustainability in the wake of Emerging Bioenergy Policies
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The spotted owl controversy revealed that federal forest management policies alone could not guarantee functioning forest ecosystems. At the same time as the ow... |
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Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity
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Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key id... |
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Safe Havens, Safe Passages for Vulnerable Fish and Wildlife
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Some of the best-known and most-cherished mountains on Earth are set in the
Canadian Rockies of British Columbia and Alberta. Indeed, the mention of
Banff, Ja... |
