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Characterizing Fire-on-Fire interactions in three Large Wilderness areas
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The interaction of fires, where one fire burns into another recently burned area, is receiving increased attention from scientists and land managers wishing to ... |
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Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss
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The extent to which biodiversity change in local assemblages contributes to global biodiversity
loss is poorly understood. We analyzed 100 time series from bio... |
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Reliability of Indicators of Decline in Abundance
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Although there are many indicators of endangerment (i.e., whether populations or species meet criteria that justify conservation action), their reliability has ... |
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Clone history shapes Populus drought responses
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Just as animal monozygotic twins can experience different environmental conditions by being reared apart, individual genetically identical trees of the genus Po... |
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Impacts of biofuel cultivation on mortality and crop yields
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Ground-level ozone is a priority air pollutant, causing ∼22,000 excess deaths per year in Europe1, significant reductions in crop yields2 and loss of biodiver... |
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Spatially and temporally consistent prediction of heavy precipitation from mean values
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Extreme precipitation can cause flooding, result in substantial damages and have detrimental effects on ecosystems1,2. Climate adaptation must therefore account... |
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Cross-scale impact of climate temporal variability on ecosystem water and carbon fluxes
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While the importance of ecosystem functioning is undisputed in the context of climate change and Earth system modeling, the role of short-scale temporal variabi... |
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Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States
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Federal lands across the conterminous United States (CONUS) account for 23.5% of the CONUS terrestrial area but have received no systematic studies on their eco... |
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Continuous flux of dissolved black carbon from a vanished tropical forest biome
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Humans have used fire extensively as a tool to shape Earth’s vegetation. The slash-and-burn destruction of Brazil’s Atlantic forest, which once covered over... |
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Delayed phenology and reduced fitness associated with climate change in a wild hibernator
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The most commonly reported ecological effects of climate change are shifts in phenologies, in particular of warmer spring temperatures leading to earlier timing... |
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Predator-induced reduction of freshwater carbon dioxide emissions
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Predators can influence the exchange of carbon dioxide between ecosystems and the atmosphere by altering ecosys- tem processes such as decomposition and primary... |
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Pervasive Externalities at the Population, Consumption, and Environment Nexus
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Growing concerns that contemporary patterns of economic development are unsustainable have given rise to an extensive empirical literature on population growth,... |
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What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States?
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Scientific interest in carbon sequestration on rangelands is largely driven by their extent, while the interest of ranchers in the United States centers on oppo... |
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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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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability
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A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporati... |
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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability
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A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporati... |
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Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation
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For more than a decade, the target of keeping global warming below 2 6C has been a key focus of the international climate debate1. In response, the scientific c... |
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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 tropical biodiversity: a new focus
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Considerable efforts are focused on the consequences of climate change for tropical rainforests. However, potentially the greatest threats to tropical biodivers... |
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Disturbance−diversity models: what do they really predict and how are they tested?
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and the dynamic equilibrium model (DEM) are influential theories in ecology. The IDH predicts large species number... |
