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Migrating Like a Herd of Cats: Climate Change and Emerging Forests in British Columbia
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We combine climate tolerances of tree species with probable changes in insect, disease, fire, and other abiotic factors to describe probable changes in distribu... |
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Managing Wildfire Risk in Fire-Prone Landscapes: How Are Private Landowners Contributing?
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The fire-prone landscapes of the West
include both public and private lands.
Wildfire burns indiscriminately across
property boundaries, which means that the... |
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Time to Adapt to a Warming World, But Where’s the Science?
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With dangerous global warming seemingly inevitable, users of climate information—
from water utilities to international aid workers—are turning to climate ... |
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Delayed detection of climate mitigation benefits due to climate inertia and variability
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Climate change mitigation acts by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thus curbing, or even reversing, the increase in their atmospheric concentration. This ... |
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Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance
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Animal migration is one of the great wonders of nature, but the factors that determine how far migrants travel remain poorly understood. We present a new quanti... |
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Logging Debris Matters: Better Soil, Fewer Invasive Plants
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The logging debris that remains after
timber harvest traditionally has been seen
as a nuisance. It can make subsequent tree
planting more difficult and becom... |
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The timing of climate change
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An innovative assessment of climate change calculates the year in which ongoing warming will surpass the limits of historical climate variability. Three experts... |
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Monsoon Melee
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The rhythms of life across South Asia depend on the Indian monsoon. Climate scientists
are locking horns over the cause of the summer deluges
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Australia is ‘free to choose’ economic growth and falling environmental pressures
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Over two centuries of economic growth have put undeniable pressure on the ecological systems that underpin human well-being. While it is agreed that these press... |
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Hot climates, high sensitivity
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Concluding paragraph: One sure solution to the problem posed by uncertainty of climate sensitivity in hot climates is simply not to go there. Unfortunately, it ... |
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Ramification of stream networks
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The geometric complexity of stream networks has been a source of fascination for centuries. However, a comprehensive understanding of ramification—the mechani... |
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The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate
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Plant biodiversity is often correlated with ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about the relative and combined effects of ... |
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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
.
Our ability to unders... |
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Nonrandom, diversifying processes are disproportionately strong in the smallest size classes of a tropical forest
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Here, we use one of the world’s longest-running, plot-based forest dynamics projects to compare nonrandom outcomes across stage classes. We considered a cohor... |
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Is Embracing Change Our Best Bet?
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Restoration ecology and conservation
biology are both under pressure to
adapt to accelerated anthropogenic
global change. Pristine areas free from human
inf... |
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Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America
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The worldwide energy consumption in 2006 was close to 498 exajoules. This is equivalent to an energy convergence of 15.8 TW into the populated regions, where en... |
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Climate negotiations under scientific uncertainty
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How does uncertainty about “dangerous” climate change affect the prospects for international cooperation? Climate negotiations usually are depicted as a pri... |
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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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Energy intensities, EROIs (energy returned on invested), and energy payback times of electricity generating power plants
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The energy returned on investment, EROI, has been evaluated for typical power plants representing wind energy, photovoltaics, solar thermal, hydro, natural gas,... |
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Divergent global precipitation changes induced by natural versus anthropogenic forcing
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As a result of global warming, precipitation is likely to increase in high latitudes and the tropics and to decrease in already dry sub-tropical regions (1). Th... |
