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Human land-use-driven reduction of forest volatiles cools global climate
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Human conversion of forest ecosystems to agriculture is a major driver of global change. Conventionally, the impacts of the historical cropland expansion on Ear... |
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Comment:Nuclear winter is a real and present danger
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Models show that even a ‘small’ nuclear war would cause catastrophic climate change. Such findings must inform policy, says Alan Robock. |
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Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient
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All human–environment systems adapt to climate and its natural variation. Adaptation to human-induced change in climate has largely been envisioned as increme... |
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Increased River Alkalinization in the Eastern U.S.
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The interaction between human activities and watershed geology is accelerating long-term changes in the carbon cycle of rivers. We evaluated changes in bicarbon... |
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From sink to source: Regional variation in U.S. forest carbon futures
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The sequestration of atmospheric carbon (C) in forests has partially offset C emissions in the United States (US) and might reduce overall costs of achieving em... |
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Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea-level rise and storms
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Extreme weather, sea-level rise and degraded coastal ecosystems are placing people and property at greater risk of damage from coastal hazards 1–5. The likeli... |
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Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?
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1st paragraph: Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have ... |
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Competitive and demographic leverage points of community shifts under climate warming
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Accelerating rates of climate change and a paucity of whole-community studies of climate impacts limit our ability to forecast shifts in ecosystem structure and... |
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Water-controlled wealth of nations
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Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the access to water resources. At a country level, some populations use... |
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Invited Review: Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities
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By altering fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture exchanges between the land surface and atmosphere, forestry and other land-use activities affect climate. Alt... |
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Microhabitats in the tropics buffer temperature in a globally coherent manner
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Vegetated habitats contain a variety of fine-scale features that can ameliorate temperate extremes. These buffered microhabitats may be used by species to evade... |
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Conservation value of forests attacked by bark beetles: Highest number of indicator species is found in early successional stages
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Heavy natural disturbance in large protected areas of former commercial forests increasingly evokes European parliaments to call for management intervention bec... |
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Significant anthropogenic-induced changes of climate classes since 1950
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Anthropogenic forcings have contributed to global and regional warming in the last few decades and likely affected terrestrial precipitation. Here we examine ch... |
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Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy
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Depletion of ecosystem carbon stocks is a significant source of atmospheric CO2 and reducing land-based emissions and maintaining land carbon stocks contributes... |
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Adaptive management of biological systems: A review
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Adaptive Management (AM) is widely considered to be the best available approach for managing biolog- ical systems in the presence of uncertainty. But AM has arg... |
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Impacts of climate change on the world’s most exceptional ecoregions
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The current rate of warming due to increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is very likely unprecedented over the last 10,000 y. Although the majority of cou... |
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Carbon sequestration in the U.S. forest sector from 1990 to 2010
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From 1990 through 2005, the forest sector (including forests and wood products) sequestered an average 162 Tg C year1 . In 2005, 49% of the total forest sector ... |
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Predicting ecosystem shifts requires new approaches that integrate the effects of climate change across entire systems
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Most studies that forecast the ecological conse- quences of climate change target a single species and a single life stage. Depending on climatic impacts on oth... |
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Both population size and patch quality affect local extinctions and colonizations
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Currently, the habitat of many species is fragmented, resulting in small local populations with individuals occasionally dispersing between the remaining habita... |
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The rebound effect is overplayed
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Increasing energy efficiency brings emissions savings. Claims that it backfires are a distraction, say Kenneth Gillingham and colleagues. |
