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Spatial patterns and policy implications for residential water use
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The front yard makes a powerful visual statement about the
occupants of the residence. As visible statements, yards are likely
to induce a behavioral response... |
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Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes
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Deforestation in mid- to high latitudes is hypothesized to have the potential to cool the Earth’s surface by altering biophysical processes1–3. In climate m... |
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Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests – Completely paid after 160 years?
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The time-delayed extinction of plant species following habitat fragmentation is a well-known phenomenon in ecology. The length of the relaxation time until this... |
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nclimate2695.pdf
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Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions
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It has been suggested that tropical forest and savanna could represent alternative stable states,
implying critical transitions at tipping points in response t... |
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The influence of conversion of forest types on carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services in the South Central United States
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This paper develops a forestland management model for the three states in the South Central United States (Arkansas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi). Forest type a... |
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Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities
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Organisms are expected to adapt or move in response to climate change, but observed
distribution shifts span a wide range of directions and rates. Explanations... |
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Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change
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Climate warming has led to changes in the composition, density and distribution of Arctic vegetation in recent decades1–4. These changes cause multiple opposi... |
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Green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011
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As the Earth’s third pole, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced a pronounced warming in the past decades. Recent studies reported that the start of the vegetat... |
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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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Science-LOCAL.pdf
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Untangling human and environmental effects on geographical gradients of mammal species richness: a global and regional evaluation
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1. Different hypotheses (geographical, ecological, evolutionary or a combination of them) have been suggested to account for the spatial variation in species ri... |
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Natural and anthropogenic variations in methane sources during the past two millennia
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Methane is an important greenhouse gas that is emitted from multiple natural and anthropogenic sources. Atmospheric methane concentrations have varied on a numb... |
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Integration and scaling of UV-B radiation effects on plants: from DNA to leaf
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A process-based model integrating the effects of UV-B radiation through epidermis, cellular DNA, and its consequences to the leaf expansion was developed from k... |
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PLoSONE-Farming.pdf
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Insect herbivory alters impact of atmospheric change on northern temperate forests
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Stimulation of forest productivity by elevated concentrations of CO2 is expected to partially offset continued increases in anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However... |
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Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change
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A focus on species interactions may improve predictions of the effects of climate change
on ecosystems.
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Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems
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Intensive land use reduces the diversity and abundance of many soil biota, with consequences for the processes that they govern and the ecosystem services that ... |
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Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss
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Soil organic matter is the largest terrestrial carbon pool1. The pool size depends on the balance between formation of soil organic matter from decomposition of... |
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Diffusion into new markets: evolving customer segments in the solar photovoltaics market
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The US residential solar market is growing quickly, and as solar adoption diffuses into new populations, later adopters may differ significantly from earlier on... |
