nclimate2512 1.pdf
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The challenge of hot drought
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1st paragraph: rought is heating up around the warm- ing world. Particularly hot drought has cost more than US$40 billion and claimed 218 human lives since 2010... |
Evolution of natural and social science interactions in global change research programs
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Efforts to develop a global understanding of the functioning of the Earth as a system began in the mid-1980s. This effort necessitated linking knowledge from bo... |
The Global Plight of Pollinators
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Wild pollinators are in decline, and managed
honeybees cannot compensate for their loss.
29 MARCH 2013 VOL 339 SCIENCE |
Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling
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Although temperature is an important driver of seasonal changes in photosynthetic physiology, photoperiod also regulates leaf activity. Climate change will exte... |
Life history and spatial traits predict extinction risk due to climate change
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There is an urgent need to develop effective vulnerability assessments for evaluating the conservation status of species in a changing climate1. Several new ass... |
Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
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This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate... |
Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores
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The largest terrestrial species in the order Carnivora are wide-ranging and rare
because of their positions at the top of food webs. They are some of the world... |
SE US megalopolis.pdf
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Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios
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The ocean moderates anthropogenic climate change at the cost of profound alterations of its physics, chemistry, ecology, and services. Here, we evaluate and com... |
Newly discovered landscape traps produce regime shifts in wet forests
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We describe the “landscape trap” concept, whereby entire landscapes are shifted into, and then maintained (trapped) in, a highly compromised structural and ... |
How does crop residue removal affect soil organic carbon and yield? A hierarchical analysis of management and environmental factors
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Our results suggest that crop residue removal is not recommended in tropical soils, particularly in coarse-textured ones, and in SOC-depleted soils in temperate... |
Analysing fossil-fuel displacement
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It is commonly assumed that fossil fuels can be replaced by alternative forms of energy. Now research challenges this assumption, and highlights the role of non... |
Heat stress related dairy cow mortality during heat waves and control periods in rural Southern Ontario from 2010–2012
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Background: Heat stress is a physiological response to extreme environmental heat such as heat waves. Heat stress can result in mortality in dairy cows when ext... |
Model projections of atmospheric steering of Sandy-like superstorms
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Superstorm Sandy ravaged the eastern seaboard of the United States, costing a great number of lives and billions of dollars in damage. Whether events like Sandy... |
Don't Blame the Beetles
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Bark beetles have devastated western forests, but that may not mean more severe fires. |
Emerging Techniques for Soil Carbon measurements
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Soil carbon sequestration is one approach to mitigate greenhouse gases. However, to reliably
assess the quantities sequestered as well as the chemical structur... |
The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate
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Soils are the largest repository of organic carbon (C) in the terrestrial biosphere and represent an important source of carbon dioxide (CO2)totheatmosphere,rel... |
Aeolian process effects on vegetation communities in an arid grassland ecosystem
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Many arid grassland communities are changing from grass dominance to shrub
dominance, but the mechanisms involved in this conversion process are not completely... |
Statistically derived contributions of diverse human influences to twentieth-century temperature changes
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The warming of the climate system is unequivocal as evidenced by an increase in global temperatures by 0.8 ◦ C over the past century. However, the attribution... |