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Toro_et_al-2015-Diversity_and_Distributions.pdf
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Plant species richness: the world records
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Questions: The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for plant... |
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Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty
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Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world’s dire challenges. Claims of conservation’s contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain controve... |
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UrbanBatsgcb12884.pdf
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Creation of a Gilded Trap by the High Economic Value of the Maine Lobster Fishery
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Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a few economically valuable species. This lack of diversity may... |
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Buried by bad decisions
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From the text: Alas, research shows that when human beings make decisions, they tend to focus on what they are getting and forget about what we are forgoing. |
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Not All About Consumption
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Resource exploitation can lead to increased
ecological impacts even when overall
consumption levels stay the same
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The material footprint of nations
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Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rat... |
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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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Management practices increase the impact of roads on plant communities in forests
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The question of the interaction between management practices and road effects on forest biodiversity is of critical interest for sustainable practices and the c... |
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Ecosystem Processes and Human Influences Regulate Streamflow Response to Climate Change at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites
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Analyses of long-term records at 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada indicate that climate change effects on streamflow are not as clear as migh... |
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Historical Evaluation and Future Prediction of Eastern North American and Western Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones in the CMIP5 Models during the Cool Season
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Extratropical cyclone track density, genesis frequency, deepening rate, and maximum intensity distributions over eastern North America and the western North Atl... |
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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 2010 Amazon Drought
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Several global circulation models (GCMs)
project an increase in the frequency and
severity of drought events affecting the
Amazon region as a consequence of ... |
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Climate change and the invasion of California by grasses
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Over the next century, changes in the global climate are expected to have major consequences for plant communities, possibly including the exacerbation of speci... |
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Timing of climate variability and grassland productivity
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Future climates are forecast to include greater precipitation variability and more frequent heat waves, but the degree to which the timing of climate variabilit... |
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Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptation
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This study arises from the concern that changes in weather patterns will be one of the principal effects of climate change and with these will come extreme weat... |
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Sea-level and salinity fluctuations during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum in Arctic Spitsbergen
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Palaeoenvironmental manifestations of the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM; ~ 56 Ma) are relatively well documented in low- to mid-latitude settings and... |
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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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Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals
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It is thought that behaviourally flexible species will be able to cope with novel and rapidly changing environments associated with human activity. However, it ... |
