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SE US megalopolis.pdf
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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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Four-year response of underplanted American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and three competitors to midstory removal, root trenching, and weeding treatments in an oak-hickory forest
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American chestnut (Castanea dentata) has been killed or reduced to recurrent stump sprouts throughout its range following the importation of multiple pathogens ... |
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Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification
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Ecological intensification has been promoted as a means to achieve environmentally sustainable increases in crop yields by enhancing ecosystem functions that re... |
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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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Not All About Consumption
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Resource exploitation can lead to increased
ecological impacts even when overall
consumption levels stay the same
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Spatial relationship between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity
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Vegetation forms a main component of the terrestrial biosphere and plays a crucial role in land-cover and climate- related studies. Activity of vegetation syste... |
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What is the future of conservation?
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In recent years, some conservation biologists and con- servation organizations have sought to refocus the field of conservation biology by de-emphasizing the go... |
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Pathways for Conservation
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NEXT WEEK, CONSERVATION SCIENTISTS WILL GATHER AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR
Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Baltimore, Maryland, to grapple with the challe... |
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Human mining activity across the ages determines the genetic structure of modern brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations
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Humans have exploited the earth’s metal resources for thousands of years leaving behind a legacy of toxic metal contamination and poor water quality. The sout... |
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Climate change, income and happiness: An empirical study for Barcelona
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The present article builds upon the results of an empirical study exploring key factors which determine life satisfaction in Barcelona. Based on a sample of 840... |
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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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Greenhouse Gassed: Carbon Dioxide Spells Indigestion for Food Chains
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The author closes with a quote from a biologist who asks who will be chasing wild ungulates with nutrition supplements. CO2 is a fertilizer, with side effects. ... |
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Invited Review: Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities
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By altering fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture exchanges between the land surface and atmosphere, forestry and other land-use activities affect climate. Alt... |
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Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals
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It is thought that behaviourally flexible species will be able to cope with novel and rapidly changing environments associated with human activity. However, it ... |
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Rapid deposition of oxidized biogenic compounds to a temperate forest
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We report fluxes and dry deposition velocities for 16 atmospheric compounds above a southeastern United States forest, including: hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitr... |
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Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States
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Climate change predictions include warming and drying trends, which are expected to be particularly pronounced in the southwestern United States. In this region... |
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Comment: Time to Model all Life on Earth
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To help transform our understanding of the biosphere, ecologists — like climate scientists — should simulate whole ecosystems, argue Drew Purves and colleag... |
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Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
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Environmental problems have contributed to numerous collapses of civilizations in the past. ... But today, for the first time, humanity’s global civilization�... |
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Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities
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Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes. These organisms face multiple environmental changes1, includ... |
