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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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Post-clearcut dynamics of carbon, water and energy exchanges in a midlatitude temperate, deciduous broadleaf forest environment
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Clearcutting and other forest disturbances perturb carbon, water, and energy balances in significant ways, with corre- sponding influences on Earth’s climate ... |
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Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Forest Ecosystems: General Technical Report PNW-GTR-870 December 2012
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This report is a scientific assessment of the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the United States relative to climatic variab... |
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How novel is too novel? Stream community thresholds at exceptionally low levels of catchment urbanization
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Novel physical and chemical conditions of many modern ecosystems increasingly diverge from the environments known to have existed at any time in the history of ... |
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The declining uptake rate of atmospheric CO2 by land and ocean sinks
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Through 1959–2012, an airborne fraction (AF) of 0.44 of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions remained in the atmosphere, with the rest being taken up by land and... |
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Spatial aspects of tree mortality strongly differ between young and old-growth forests
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In young forests, mortality should be primarily density dependent due to competition for light, leading to an increasingly spatially uniform pattern of survivi... |
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Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl
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Relative abundances of elk, roe deer, red deer and wild boar within the Chernobyl exclusion zone are similar to those in four (uncontaminated) nature reserves ... |
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UrbanBatsgcb12884.pdf
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The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss
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The cryosphere—the portion of the Earth’s surface where water is in solid form for at least one month of the year—has been shrinking in response to climat... |
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UrbanEcosys60sMatter.pdf
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How global extinctions impact regional biodiversity in mammals
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Phylogenetic diversity (PD) represents the evol- utionary history of a species assemblage and is a valuable measure of biodiversity because it cap- tures not on... |
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Mountain landscapes offer few opportunities for high-elevation tree species migration
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Climate change is anticipated to alter plant species distributions. Regional context, notably the spatial complexity of climatic gradients, may influence specie... |
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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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Persistent reduced ecosystem respiration after insect disturbance in high elevation forests
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Amid a worldwide increase in tree mortality, mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) have led to the death of billions of trees from Mexico to A... |
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Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest U.S. from 1980–2009 and implications for salmonid fishes
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Thermal regimes in rivers and streams are fundamentally important to aquatic ecosystems and are expected to change in response to climate forcing as the Earth�... |
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Management practices increase the impact of roads on plant communities in forests
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The question of the interaction between management practices and road effects on forest biodiversity is of critical interest for sustainable practices and the c... |
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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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Editorial: The “New Conservation”
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EDITORIAL: OPENING PARAGRAPHS A powerful but chimeric movement is rapidly gaining recognition and supporters. Christened the “new conservation,” it promotes... |
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Functional response of U.S. grasslands to the early 21st-century drought
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Grasslands across the United States play a key role in regional livelihood and national food security. Yet, it is still unclear how this important resource will... |
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Historical legacies accumulate to shape future biodiversity in an era of rapid global change
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Main conclusions : The failure to give adequate consideration to widespread cumulative time-lags often masks the full extent of biodiversity changes that have a... |
