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Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
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Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of clima... |
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Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species’ Optimum Elevations
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Uphill shifts of species’ distributions in response to historical warming are well documented, which leads
to widespread expectations of continued uphill shi... |
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Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
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Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of clima... |
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Alleles underlying larval foraging behaviour influence adult dispersal in nature
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The dispersal and migration of organisms have resulted in the colonisation of nearly every possible habitat and ultimately the extraordinary diversity of life. ... |
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Reconciling nature conservation and traditional farming practices: a spatially explicit framework to assess the extent of High Nature Value farmlands in the European countryside
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Agriculture constitutes a dominant land cover worldwide, and rural landscapes under extensive farming practices acknowledged due to high biodiversity levels. Th... |
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Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Climate change and habitat loss are both key threatening processes driving the global loss in biodiversity. Yet little is known about their synergistic effects ... |
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Incorporating climate change adaptation into national conservation assessments
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The Convention on Biological Diversity requires that member nations establish protected area networks that are representative of the country’s biodiversity. T... |
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The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass
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Recently, several studies have quantified the effects on atmospheric CO2 concentration of an increased harvest level in forests. Although these studies agreed i... |
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TRY – a global database of plant traits
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Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and
their organs – determine how primar... |
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Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change
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Ongoing climate change is assumed to be exceptional because of its unprecedented velocity. However, new geophysical research suggests that dramatic climatic cha... |
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Emerging Techniques for Soil Carbon measurements
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Soil carbon sequestration is one approach to mitigate greenhouse gases. However, to reliably
assess the quantities sequestered as well as the chemical structur... |
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The Wheel of Life Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy
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The links between climate change and industrial agriculture create a nexus of crises—food
insecurity, natural resource depletion and degradation, as well as ... |
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Fragmentation and thermal risks from climate change interact to affect persistence of native trout in the Colorado River basin
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Impending changes in climate will interact with other stressors to threaten aquatic ecosystems and their biota. Native Colorado River cutthroat trout (CRCT; Onc... |
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Afforestation Effects on Soil Carbon Storage in the United States: A Synthesis
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Afforestation (tree establishment on nonforested land) is a management option for increasing terrestrial C sequestration and mitigating rising atmo- spheric car... |
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Pedoecological Modeling to Guide Forest Restoration using Ecological Site Descriptions
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the u.s. department of agriculture (usda)-natural resources conservation service (nrcs) uses an ecological site description (esd) framework to help incorporate ... |
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Pedoecological Modeling to Guide Forest Restoration using Ecological Site Descriptions
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the u.s. department of agriculture (usda)-natural resources conservation service (nrcs) uses an ecological site description (esd) framework to help incorporate ... |
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Coupling snowpack and groundwater dynamics to interpret historical streamflow trends in the western United States
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A key challenge for resource and land managers is predicting the consequences of climate warming on streamflow and water resources. During the last century in t... |
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Drought, disease, defoliation and death: forest pathogens as agents of past vegetation change
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The temperate and boreal forests of Europe and North America have been subject to repeated pathogen (fungal disease and phytophagus insect) outbreaks over the l... |
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Pedoecological Modeling to Guide Forest Restoration using Ecological Site Descriptions
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the u.s. department of agriculture (usda)-natural resources conservation service (nrcs) uses an ecological site description (esd) framework to help incorporate ... |
