Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands
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Experiments suggest that biodiversity enhances the ability of ecosystems to maintain multiple
functions, such as carbon storage, productivity, and the buildup ... |
Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization
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The collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan, one of the earliest urban civilizations, remains an enigma. Urbanism flourished in the western region of the Indo-Gange... |
Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review
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Soils of grasslands represent a large potential reservoir for storing CO2, but this potential likely depends on how grasslands are managed for large mammal graz... |
WHY FORESTS ARE PIVOTAL IN PLANNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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17 slides show carbon-forest relationships including logging and carbon in US forests |
Science-2015-Schindler-953-4.pdf
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PNAS-2015-Crowder-1423674112.pdf
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Global declines in oceanic nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification
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Ocean acidification produced by dissolution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in seawater has profound conse- quences for marine ecology and bioge... |
Unburnable Carbon – Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?
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The Carbon Tracker initiative is a new way of looking at the carbon emissions
problem. It is focused on the fossil fuel reserves held by publically listed
com... |
Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave
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Socio-economic stress from the unequivocal warming of the global climate system(1)could be mostly felt by societies through weather and climate extremes (2). Th... |
Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss
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The extent to which biodiversity change in local assemblages contributes to global biodiversity
loss is poorly understood. We analyzed 100 time series from bio... |
Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets
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Governments should not meet existing conservation targets using the compensation that developers pay for damaging biodiversity, say Martine Maron and colleagues... |
Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise
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Terrestrial plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere through photo- synthesis, a process that is accompanied by the loss of water vapour from leaves1. The ratio of... |
Biodiversity gains from efficient use of private sponsorship for flagship species conservation
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To address the global extinction crisis, both efficient use of existing conservation funding and new sources of funding are vital. Private sponsorship of charis... |
1.5°C or 2°C: a conduit’s view from the science-policy interface at COP20 in Lima, Peru
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An average global 2°C warming compared to pre-industrial times is commonly understood as the most important target in climate policy negotiations. It is a temp... |
Not All About Consumption
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Resource exploitation can lead to increased
ecological impacts even when overall
consumption levels stay the same
15 March 2013 VOL 339 SCIENCE |
A drought-induced pervasive increase in tree mortality across Canada’s boreal forests
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Drought-induced tree mortality is expected to increase worldwide under projected future climate changes (1–4). The Canadian boreal forests, which occupy about... |
Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production
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Strategies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions include substitution of fossil fuel with bioenergy from forests1, where carbon emitted is expected to be recapt... |
Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production
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Strategies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions include substitution of fossil fuel with bioenergy from forests1, where carbon emitted is expected to be recapt... |
Saturation-state sensitivity of marine bivalve larvae to ocean acidification
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Ocean acidification results in co-varying inorganic carbon system variables. Of these, an explicit focus on pH and organismal acid–base regulation has failed ... |
Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
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Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overl... |