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TRUST, CULTURE, AND COOPERATION: A Social Dilemma Analysis of Pro-Environmental Behaviors
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Social dilemmas require a choice between cooperation, or sacrificing for the greater good, and self-interest. One commonly studied social dilemma is environment... |
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The Historical Dynamics of Socio-ecological Traps
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Environmental degradation is a typical unintended
outcome of collective human behavior. Hardin’s
metaphor of the ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ has beco... |
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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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Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes
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Many climatic extremes are changing1–5, and decision-makers express a strong need for reliable information on further changes over the coming decades as a bas... |
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Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges
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National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) in the United States play an important role in the adaptation of social-ecological systems to climate change, land-use change,... |
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Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants
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Climate change will lead to loss of range for many species, and thus to loss of genetic diversity crucial for their long-term persistence. We analysed range-wid... |
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The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century
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The distribution and future fate of ectothermic organisms in a warming world will be dictated by thermal-scapes across landscapes. That is particularly true for... |
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Maximizing return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA
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Efficient conservation planning requires knowledge about conservation targets, threats to those targets, costs of conservation and the marginal return to additi... |
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A systems approach to evaluating the air quality co-benefits of US carbon policies
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Because human activities emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and conventional air pollutants from common sources, policy designed to reduce GHGs can have co-benefits f... |
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Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse
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Theory predicts that the approach of catastrophic thresholds in natural systems (e.g., ecosystems,
the climate) may result in an increasingly slow recovery fro... |
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Societal challenges in understanding and responding to regime shifts in forest landscapes
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2 excerpts: "The degradation of seminatural landscapes at regional scales, whereby essential functional capabilities and biotic elements are permanently lost as... |
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Global and regional trends in greenhouse gas emissions from livestock
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Following IPCC guidelines (IPCC 2006), we estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to livestock in 237 countries and 11 livestock categories during the period ... |
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From Past to Future Warming
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Analyses of past observations help to
predict the human contribution to future
climate change.
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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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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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Thinking Big: Linking Rivers to Landscapes
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Exploring relationships between
landscape characteristics and rivers is
an emerging field of study, bolstered
by the proliferation of satellite data,
advanc... |
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Defaunation in the Anthropocene
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We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species
and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abunda... |
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Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave
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Socio-economic stress from the unequivocal warming of the global climate system(1)could be mostly felt by societies through weather and climate extremes (2). Th... |
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Analysis of monotonic greening and browning trends from global NDVI time-series
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Remotely sensed vegetation indices are widely used to detect greening and browning trends; especially the global coverage of time-series normalized difference v... |
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Response of the North Atlantic storm track to climate change shaped by ocean– atmosphere coupling
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A poleward shift of the mid-latitude storm tracks in response to anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing has been diagnosed in climate model simulations1,2. Explan... |
