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Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss
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Soil organic matter is the largest terrestrial carbon pool (1). The pool size depends on the balance between formation of soil organic matter from decomposition... |
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Solar energy development impacts on land cover change and protected areas
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Decisions determining the use of land for energy are of exigent concern as land scarcity, the need for ecosystem services, and demands for energy generation hav... |
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Solar energy development impacts on land cover change and protected areas
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Decisions determining the use of land for energy are of exigent concern as land scarcity, the need for ecosystem services, and demands for energy generation hav... |
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A dispersal-induced paradox: synchrony and stability in stochastic metapopulations
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Understanding how dispersal influences the dynamics of spatially distributed populations is a major priority of both basic and applied ecologists. Two well-know... |
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
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The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated... |
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Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
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We find that the peak warming caused by a given cumulative carbon dioxide emission is better constrained than the warming response to a stabilization scenario. ... |
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
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The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated... |
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Old Trees: Extraction, Conservation Can Coexist
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BECAUSE LARGE OLD TREES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR FOREST ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY AND BIODIVERsity,
timber extraction in managed forests should preferentially be concentrat... |
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Highly episodic fire and erosion regime over the past 2,000 y in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon
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Fire is a primary mode of natural disturbance in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Increased fuel loads following fire suppression and the occurrence of sev... |
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Landscape-scale carbon storage associated with beaver dams
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Beaver meadows form when beaver dams promote
prolonged overbank flooding and floodplain retention of
sediment and organic matter. Extensive beaver meadows fo... |
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Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
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Global efforts to mitigate climate change are guided by projections of future temperatures1. But the eventual equilibrium global mean temperature associated wit... |
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Forests fuel fish growth in freshwater deltas
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Aquatic ecosystems are fuelled by biogeochemical inputs from surrounding lands and within- lake primary production. Disturbances that change these inputs may af... |
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Strong increase in convective precipitation in response to higher temperatures
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Precipitation changes can affect society more directly than variations in most other meteorological observables1–3, but precipitation is difficult to characte... |
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Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains
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Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme ... |
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Relationships of Fire and Precipitation Regimes in Temperate Forests of the Eastern United States
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Fire affects virtually all terrestrial ecosystems but occurs more commonly in some than in others. This paper investigates how climate, specifically the moistur... |
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From plant to power
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Petrol might yet survive the green revolution. Some investors are taking seriously the con- cept of ‘green gasoline’ — transforming the woody remains of p... |
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Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss
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Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and... |
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Higher Hydroclimatic Intensity with Global Warming
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Because of their dependence on water, natural and human systems are highly sensitive to changes in the hydrologic cycle. The authors introduce a new measure of ... |
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Impacts in the third dimension
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Despite reports of no trends in snow- and rainfall, rivers in the northwest USA have run lower and lower in recent decades. A closer look at high- and low-altit... |
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Satellite-based global-ocean mass balance estimates of interannual variability and emerging trends in continental freshwater discharge
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Freshwater discharge from the continents is a key component of Earth’s water cycle that sustains human life and ecosystem health. Surprisingly, owing to a num... |
