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NatureAmznDrgtDieoff.pdf
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TRY – a global database of plant traits
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Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and
their organs – determine how primar... |
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Gus Speth: Communicating environmental risks in an age of disinformation
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Once described as "the consummate environmental insider," Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says that green organizations, politic... |
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A LIDAR‐DERIVED EVALUATION OF WATERSHED‐SCALE LARGE WOODY DEBRIS SOURCES AND RECRUITMENT MECHANISMS: COASTAL MAINE, USA
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In‐channel large woody debris (LWD) promotes quality aquatic habitat through sediment sorting, pool scouring and in‐stream nutrient retention and transport.... |
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Physical Laws Shape Biology
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IN THE PERSPECTIVE “A DYNAMICAL-SYSTEMS VIEW OF STEM CELL
biology” (12 October 2012, p. 215), C. Furusawa and K. Kaneko discuss
the relevance of dynamic s... |
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Historical legacies accumulate to shape future biodiversity in an era of rapid global change
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Main conclusions : The failure to give adequate consideration to widespread cumulative time-lags often masks the full extent of biodiversity changes that have a... |
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A long-term perspective on a modern drought in the American Southeast
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The depth of the 2006–9 drought in the humid, southeastern US left several metropolitan areas
with only a 60–120 day water supply. To put the region’s re... |
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Climate Outlook Looking Much The Same, or Even Worse
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Climate scientists have been feverishly preparing analyses for inclusion in the fifth climate assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ... |
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Reconciling nature conservation and traditional farming practices: a spatially explicit framework to assess the extent of High Nature Value farmlands in the European countryside
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Over past centuries, European landscapes have been shaped by human management. Traditional, low intensity agricultural practices, adapted to local climatic, geo... |
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Adaptive management of biological systems: A review
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Adaptive Management (AM) is widely considered to be the best available approach for managing biolog- ical systems in the presence of uncertainty. But AM has arg... |
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Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages
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Mining impacts on stream systems have historically been studied over small spatial scales, yet investigations over large areas may be useful for characterizing ... |
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Teitelbaum_et_al-2015-Ecology_Letters.pdf
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Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the western United States
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Sequestration of carbon (C) in forests has the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change by offsetting
future emissions of greenhouse gases. However,... |
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Distribution and characterization of in‐channel large wood in relation to geomorphic patterns on a low‐gradient river
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A 177 river km georeferenced aerial survey of in‐channel large wood (LW) on the lower Roanoke River, NC was conducted to determine LW dynamics and distributio... |
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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... |
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UrbanEcosysBird.pdf
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Thermal legacies: transgenerational effects of temperature on growth in a vertebrate
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Transgenerational plasticity (TGP), a generalisation of more widely studied maternal effects, occurs whenever environmental cues experienced by either parent pr... |
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Wildfire, Wildlands, and People: Understanding and Preparing for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-299. Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 36 p.
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Fire has historically played a fundamental ecological role in many of America’s wildland areas. However, the rising number of homes in the wildland-urban inte... |
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Human Evolution Out of Africa: The Role of Refugia and Climate Change
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Although an African origin of the modern human species is generally accepted, the evolutionary
processes involved in the speciation, geographical spread, and e... |
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Drought in the United States: Causes and Issues for Congress
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Drought is a natural hazard with often significant societal, economic, and environmental consequences. Public policy issues related to drought range from how to... |
