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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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Global change and the groundwater management challenge
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With rivers in critical regions already exploited to capacity throughout the world and ground- water overdraft as well as large-scale contamination occurring in... |
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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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International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations
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Human activities are causing Earth’s sixth major extinction event1— an accelerating decline of the world’s stocks of biological diversity at rates 100 to ... |
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Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests – Completely paid after 160 years?
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The time-delayed extinction of plant species following habitat fragmentation is a well-known phenomenon in ecology. The length of the relaxation time until this... |
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH ILLUSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE
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Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced... |
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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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Anthropogenic influence on multidecadal changes in reconstructed global evapotranspiration
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Global warming is expected to intensify the global hydrological cycle1, with an increase of both evapotranspiration (EVT) and precipitation. Yet, the magnitude ... |
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Inhomogeneous forcing and transient climate sensitivity
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Understanding climate sensitivity is critical to projecting climate change in response to a given forcing scenario. Recent analyses1–3 have suggested that tra... |
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On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change
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Most climate change predictions omit species interactions and interspecific variation in dispersal. Here, we develop a model of multiple competing species along... |
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The cost of policy simplification in conservation incentive programs
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Incentive payments to private landowners provide a common strategy to conserve biodiversity and enhance the supply of goods and services from ecosystems. To del... |
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Global Cooling by Grassland Soils of the Geological Past and Near Future
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Keywords
grass, mammal, coevolution, paleosol, paleoclimate, carbon sequestration, albedo
Abstract
Major innovations in the evolution of vegetation such as t... |
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Seeing the landscape for the trees: Metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments
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Rising water temperature (Tw) due to anthropogenic climate change may have serious conse- quences for river ecosystems. Conservation and/or expansion of riparia... |
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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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The subnivium: a deteriorating seasonal refugium
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For many terrestrial organisms in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is a period of resource scarcity and energy deficits, survivable only because a seasonal refug... |
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Vulnerability of terrestrial island vertebrates to projected sea-level rise
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Sea-level rise (SLR) from global warming may have severe consequences for biodiversity; however, a baseline, broad- scale assessment of the potential consequenc... |
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Systemic trade risk of critical resources
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Complex Systems: In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the role of strongly interconnected markets in causing systemic instability has been increasingly ack... |
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Regional growth decline of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and its potential causes
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Sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh) has experienced poor vigor, regeneration failure, and elevated mortality across much of its range, but there has been relativ... |
