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Bird population trends are linearly affected by climate change along species thermal ranges
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Beyond the effects of temperature increase on local population trends and on species distribution shifts, how populations of a given species are affected by cli... |
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall: body size and prey abundance influence predator −prey ratios
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Large carnivores are highly threatened, yet the processes underlying their population declines are still poorly understood and widely debated. We explored how b... |
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Modeling sediment accumulation in North American playa wetlands in response to climate change, 1940–2100
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Playa wetlands on the west-central Great Plains of North America are vulnerable to sediment infilling from upland agriculture, putting at risk several important... |
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winds of change
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On average, terrestrial near-surface winds have slowed down in recent decades. This change will affect both wind energy and hydrology. |
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Thermal legacies: transgenerational effects of temperature on growth in a vertebrate
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Transgenerational plasticity (TGP), a generalisation of more widely studied maternal effects, occurs whenever environmental cues experienced by either parent pr... |
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Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
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KEY FINDINGS
Biodiversity and ecosystems are already more stressed than at any comparable period of human history. Climate change almost always exacerbates the... |
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Challenges in the conservation, rehabilitation and recovery of native stream salmonid populations: beyond the 2010 Luarca symposium
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– In May 2010, I chaired a session on challenges to salmonid conservation at the international symposium
‘Advances in the population ecology of stream salm... |
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Cumulative Effects of Fire and Fuels Management on Stream Water Quality and Ecosystem Dynamics
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Prescribed fires and wildland fire-use are increasingly important management tools used to reduce fuel loads and restore the ecological integrity of western for... |
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Regional variability in extinction thresholds for forest birds in the north-eastern United States: an examination of potential drivers using long-term breeding bird atlas datasets
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Main conclusions: Extinction threshold estimates varied tremendously across species and landscapes. Thus, habitat thresholds are difficult to generalize as they... |
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Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity
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Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well-being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and ... |
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The Latest on Volcanic Eruptions and Climate
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2nd paragraph: It is well known that large volcanic eruptions inject sulfur gases into the stratosphere, which convert to sulfate aerosols with a life- time of ... |
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The Rescaling of Global Environmental Politics
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Key Words
governance, international, linked issues, networks, scale
Abstract
In the past half-century, the practice and study of global environmental politic... |
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On the forest cover–water yield debate: from demand- to supply-side thinking
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Several major articles from the past decade and beyond conclude the impact of reforestation or afforestation on water yield is negative: additional forest cover... |
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The New Era Of Climate Risk Disclosure
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In February of this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made clear in no uncertain terms that corporations have a duty to disclose risks faced thr... |
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Too late for two degrees? Low carbon economy index 2012
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Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of
warming by the end of the century. To give ourselv... |
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Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the western United States
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Sequestration of carbon (C) in forests has the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change by offsetting
future emissions of greenhouse gases. However,... |
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A long-term perspective on a modern drought in the American Southeast
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The depth of the 2006–9 drought in the humid, southeastern US left several metropolitan areas
with only a 60–120 day water supply. To put the region’s re... |
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The State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere Based on Global Observations through 2013
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The WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) coordinates observations of the most important contributors to climate change: long-lived greenhouse gases(LLGHG). In the ... |
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Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
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A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challeng... |
