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The Next Dust Bowl
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Drought is the most pressing problem caused by climate change. It receives too little attention, says Joseph Romm. |
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Plant species richness: the world records
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Questions: The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for plant... |
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Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle(1,2), and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming cen... |
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Looking at the Big Picture: The Importance of Landbase Interactions Among Forests, Agriculture, and Climate Mitigation Policies
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Land use change is a key part of global
change. Deforestation, urban sprawl,
agriculture, and other human influences
have substantially altered natural ecosy... |
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Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
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We conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is within 1 km of the forest’s edge, subject to the degrading effects o... |
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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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Developing a broader scientific foundation for river restoration: Columbia River food webs
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Well-functioning food webs are fundamental for sustaining rivers as ecosystems and maintaining associated aquatic and terrestrial communities. The current empha... |
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Brownness of organics in aerosols from biomass burning linked to their black carbon content
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Atmospheric particulate matter plays an important role in the Earth’s radiative balance. Over the past two decades, it has been established that a portion of ... |
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A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa
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Observations and simulations link anthropogenicgreenhouse and aerosol emissions with rapidly
increasing Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs). Over the ... |
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Integrated assessment of global water scarcity over the 21st century under multiple climate change mitigation policies
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Water scarcity conditions over the 21st century both globally and regionally are assessed in the context of climate change and climate mitigation policies, by e... |
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rainfall preceded by air passage over forests
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Vegetation affects precipitation patterns by mediating moisture, energy and trace-gas fluxes between the surface and atmosphere1. When forests are replaced by p... |
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Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA
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Pine forest in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, USA, are experiencing the most severe moun- tain pine beetle epidemic in recorded history, and possible d... |
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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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Duality in climate science
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Delivery of palatable 2 °C mitigation scenarios depends on speculative negative emissions or changing the past. Scientists must make their assumptions transpar... |
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Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
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The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation. Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ur... |
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Soil warming, carbon–nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgets
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Soil warming has the potential to alter both soil and plant processes that affect carbon storage in forest ecosystems. We have quantified these effects in a lar... |
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A phantom road experiment reveals traffic noise is an invisible source of habitat degradation
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Decades of research demonstrate that roads impact wildlife and suggest traffic noise as a primary cause of population declines near roads. We created a “phant... |
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Carbon Dynamics of the Forest Sector
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Main points: The basic ecosystem science behind carbon dynamics in forests is relatively straightforward (really!).This science doesn’t seem to be applied ver... |
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Creating Wetlands: Primary Succession, Water Quality Changes, and Self-Design over 15 Years
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The succession of vegetation, soil development, water quality changes, and carbon and nitrogen dynamics are summarized in this article for a pair of 1-hectare f... |
