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Hot climates, high sensitivity
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Concluding paragraph: One sure solution to the problem posed by uncertainty of climate sensitivity in hot climates is simply not to go there. Unfortunately, it ... |
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OCEAN–ATMOSPHERE COUPLING Mesoscale eddy effects
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1st paragraph: Because of its enormous heat capacity, the ocean plays a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate. Up to about a decade ago, it was gene... |
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THE COST OF INACTION: RECOGNISING THE VALUE AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
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The asset management industry—and thus the wider community of investors of all sizes— is facing the prospect of significant losses from the effects of clima... |
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Density stratification in an estuary with complex geometry: Driving processes and relationship to hypoxia on monthly to inter-annual timescales
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The density field in Narragansett Bay (NB), a northeast U.S. estuary with complex geometry that suffers hypoxia, is described and related to driving factors usi... |
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Ramification of stream networks
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The geometric complexity of stream networks has been a source of fascination for centuries. However, a comprehensive understanding of ramification—the mechani... |
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The search for unknown biodiversity
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1st paragraph: in a world being rapidly transformed by human activities, an alarming possibility is that many species might disappear before we have a chance to... |
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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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Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States
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Federal lands across the conterminous United States (CONUS) account for 23.5% of the CONUS terrestrial area but have received no systematic studies on their eco... |
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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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Societal challenges in understanding and responding to regime shifts in forest landscapes
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2 excerpts: "The degradation of seminatural landscapes at regional scales, whereby essential functional capabilities and biotic elements are permanently lost as... |
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Pervasive Externalities at the Population, Consumption, and Environment Nexus
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Growing concerns that contemporary patterns of economic development are unsustainable have given rise to an extensive empirical literature on population growth,... |
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Seasonal and diel patterns in the migrations of fishes between a river and a floodplain tributary
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The population behaviours associated with the migrations of fishes in lowland river ecosystems are amongst the most poorly-understood dispersal mechanisms of te... |
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Contemporary ocean warming and freshwater conditions are related to later sea age at maturity in Atlantic salmon spawning in Norwegian rivers
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Atlantic salmon populations are reported to be declining throughout its range, raising major management concerns. Variation in adult fish abundance may be due t... |
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Seasonal and diel patterns in the migrations of fishes between a river and a floodplain tributary
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The population behaviours associated with the migrations of fishes in lowland river ecosystems are amongst the most poorly-understood dispersal mechanisms of te... |
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Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size
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Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing
substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations1
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Our ability to unders... |
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Expanding options for habitat conservation outside protected areas in Kenya: The use of environmental easements
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This paper examines wildlife conservation in Kenya on land outside protected areas. It presents a context within which environmental easements as a mechanism to... |
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Is Embracing Change Our Best Bet?
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Restoration ecology and conservation
biology are both under pressure to
adapt to accelerated anthropogenic
global change. Pristine areas free from human
inf... |
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Citizen Involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act
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Data on listed species refute critiques of citizen involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act. |
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Too much of a bad thing
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There are various — and confusing — targets to limit global warming due to emissions of greenhouse gases. Estimates based on the total slug of carbon emitte... |
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Mapping tree density at a global scale
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The global extent and distribution of forest trees is central to our understanding of the terrestrial biosphere. We provide the first spatially continuous map o... |
