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Conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire varies along an elevation gradient in a ponderosa pine forest, Oregon, USA
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Climate change is expected to increase disturbances such as stand-replacing wildfire in many ecosystems, which have the potential to drive rapid turnover in eco... |
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Three perspectives on U.S. fire policy
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Following a 2015 paper on US wildfire policy and practices, published by Science, Science published two letters challenging the paper, and authors of the paper ... |
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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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Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming
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Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to favor species adapted to warmer conditions and/or reduce the abundance ... |
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Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size
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Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing
substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations1
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Our ability to unders... |
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Climate change and the world economy: short-run determinants of atmospheric CO2
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Volcanic eruptions, the El Nin ̃ o Southern oscillation (ENSO), world population, and the world economy are the four variables usually discussed as influencing... |
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Focus on poleward shifts in species’ distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change
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Species are largely predicted to shift poleward as global temperatures increase, with this fingerprint of climate change being already observed across a range o... |
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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Incentives: A Summary of Federal Programs
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Energy is crucial to the operation of a modern industrial and services economy. Recently, there have been growing concerns about the availability and c... |
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Identifying the World’s Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals
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Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on biodiversity, including increasing extinction rates. Current approaches to quantifying such impacts focus on me... |
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Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
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The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation. Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ur... |
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OCEAN–ATMOSPHERE COUPLING Mesoscale eddy effects
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1st paragraph: Because of its enormous heat capacity, the ocean plays a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate. Up to about a decade ago, it was gene... |
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Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change
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Climate warming has led to changes in the composition, density and distribution of Arctic vegetation in recent decades1–4. These changes cause multiple opposi... |
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What Does Zero Deforestation Mean?
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Ambiguous defi nitions and metrics create risks
for forest conservation and accountability.
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Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change
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Storm surges are responsible for much of the damage and loss of life associated with landfalling hurricanes. Understanding how global warming will affect hurric... |
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The energetic implications of curtailing versus storing solar- and wind-generated electricity
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We present a theoretical framework to calculate how storage affects the energy return on energy
investment (EROI) ratios of wind and solar resources. Our metho... |
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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
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Palaeontologists characterize mass extinctions as times when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short interval, as has ha... |
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Social Science at the Wildland-Urban Interface: a Compendium of Research Results to Create Fire-Adapted Communities
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Over the past decade, a growing body of research has been conducted on the human dimensions of wildland fire. Building on a relatively small number of foundatio... |
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WWF: China Ecological Footprint Report 2012 Consumption, Production and Sustainable Development
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From the Executive Summary p. 3 : "We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to halt th... |
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The elephant, the blind, and the intersectoral intercomparison of climate impacts
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1st paragraph: When decision makers discuss anthropogenic climate change, they often ignore the mighty elephant in the room, namely the question of what global ... |
