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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
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With projected climate change, we
expect to face much more forest
fi re in the coming decades. Policymakers
are challenged not to categorize all
fires as de... |
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Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow
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Current land surface models assume that groundwater, streamflow and plant transpiration are all sourced and mediated by the same well mixed water reservoir—th... |
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A paradigm shift in understanding and quantifying the effects of forest harvesting on floods in snow environments
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A well-established precept in forest hydrology is that any reduction of forest cover will always have a progressively smaller effect on floods with increasing r... |
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Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change
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Warming experiments are increasingly relied on to estimate plant responses to global climate change1,2. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of fut... |
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PNASProtectedAreasNotEnough.pdf
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A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere
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Terrestrial net primary (plant) production provides a measurable boundary for human consumption of Earth’s biological resources. |
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Rebuilding Soils on Mined Land for Native Forests in Appalachia
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The eastern U.S. Appalachian region supports the world’s most extensive
temperate forests, but surface mining for coal has caused forest loss. New
reclamati... |
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Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets
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Governments should not meet existing conservation targets using the compensation that developers pay for damaging biodiversity, say Martine Maron and colleagues... |
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Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology
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We show that the phenology of vegetation activity changed severely (by more than 2 standard deviations in one or more dimensions of phe- nological change) on 54... |
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Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America
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Ecosystems in biogeographical transition zones, or ecotones, tend to be highly sensitive to climate and can provide early indications of future change. To evalu... |
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Changes in winter precipitation extremes for the western United States under a warmer climate as simulated by regional climate models
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We find a consistent and statistically significant increase in the intensity of future extreme winter precipitation events over the western United States, as si... |
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Challenges in the conservation, rehabilitation and recovery of native stream salmonid populations: beyond the 2010 Luarca symposium
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– In May 2010, I chaired a session on challenges to salmonid conservation at the international symposium
‘Advances in the population ecology of stream salm... |
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Negative density-dependent dispersal in the American black bear (Ursus americanus) revealed by noninvasive sampling and genotyping
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Although the dispersal of animals is influenced by a variety of factors, few studies have used a condition-dependent approach to assess it. The mechanisms under... |
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Life history predicts risk of species decline in a stochastic world
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Understanding what traits determine the extinction risk of species has been a long-standing challenge. Natural populations increasingly experience reductions in... |
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Approaching the Limits: A book review in Science
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Excerpts: "In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil traces the historical development of human consumption of biological resources and evaluates whether we coul... |
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Biodiversity and the Feel-Good Factor: Understanding Associations between Self-Reported Human Well-being and Species Richness
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Over half of the world’s human population lives in cities, and for many, urban greenspaces are the only places where they encounter biodiversity. This is of p... |
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BOTANY AND A CHANGING WORLD: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL CHANGE
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The impacts of global change have heightened the need to understand how organisms respond to and influence these changes. Can we forecast how change at the glob... |
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Spatial patterns and policy implications for residential water use
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The front yard makes a powerful visual statement about the
occupants of the residence. As visible statements, yards are likely
to induce a behavioral response... |
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Carbon Market Lessons and Global Policy Outlook
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Summary: Ongoing work on linking markets and mixing policies builds on successes and failures in pricing and trading carbon. Closing sentence, 1st paragraph: Ar... |
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Using and improving the social cost of carbon: Regular, institutionalized updating and review are essential
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The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial tool for economic analysis of climate policies. The SCC estimates the dollar value of reduced climate change damage... |
