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Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea-level rise and storms
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Extreme weather, sea-level rise and degraded coastal ecosystems are placing people and property at greater risk of damage from coastal hazards 1–5. The likeli... |
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Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs
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In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean
sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be dri... |
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Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health
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Editorial: Journal of the American Medical Association. Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this rela... |
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The material footprint of nations
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Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rat... |
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The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century
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The distribution and future fate of ectothermic organisms in a warming world will be dictated by thermal-scapes across landscapes. That is particularly true for... |
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Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress
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Forests provide innumerable ecological, societal and climatological benefits, yet they are vulnerable to drought and temperature extremes. Climate-driven forest... |
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CO2 emissions from land-use change affected more by nitrogen cycle, than by the choice of land-cover data
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The high uncertainty in land-based CO2 fluxes estimates is thought to be mainly due to uncertainty in not only quantifying historical changes among forests, cro... |
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Increasing soil methane sink along a 120-year afforestation chronosequence is driven by soil moisture
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Upland soils are important sinks for atmospheric methane (CH4), a process essentially driven by methanotrophic bacteria. Soil CH4 uptake often depends on land u... |
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Fear of failure in conservation: The problem and potential solutions to aid conservation of extremely small populations
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The potential for extirpation of extremely small populations (ESPs) is high due to their vulnerability to
demographic and environmental stochasticity and negat... |
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Challenges of ecological restoration: Lessons from forests in northern Europe
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The alarming rate of ecosystem degradation has raised the need for ecological restoration throughout different biomes and continents. North European forests may... |
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Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future
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Summary: This report surveys existing law for legal issues that have arisen, or may arise in the future, on account of climate change and government responses t... |
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Rebuilding Soils on Mined Land for Native Forests in Appalachia
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The eastern U.S. Appalachian region supports the world’s most extensive
temperate forests, but surface mining for coal has caused forest loss. New
reclamati... |
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Creating Wetlands: Primary Succession, Water Quality Changes, and Self-Design over 15 Years
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The succession of vegetation, soil development, water quality changes, and carbon and nitrogen dynamics are summarized in this article for a pair of 1-hectare f... |
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Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire
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Altered fuels and climate change are transforming fire regimes in many of Earth’s biomes. Postfire reassembly of vegetation – paramount to C storage and bio... |
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Modelling the long-term response to positive and negative priming of soil organic carbon by black carbon
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bserved increases in the mineralization rate of labile organic carbon (LOC) in the presence of black carbon (BC) have led to speculation that corresponding decr... |
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Interactive influences of ozone and climate on streamflow of forested watersheds
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The capacity of forests to mitigate global climate change can be negatively influenced by tropospheric ozone that impairs both photosynthesis and stomatal contr... |
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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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Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America
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Fossil fuel emissions aside, temperate North America is a net sink of carbon dioxide at present1–3. Year-to-year variations in this carbon sink are linked to ... |
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Impact of reduced Arctic sea ice on Greenland ice sheet variability in a warmer than present climate
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A global climate model with interactive vegetation and a coupled ice sheet-shelf component is used to test the response of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) to incr... |
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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
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With projected climate change, we
expect to face much more forest
fi re in the coming decades. Policymakers
are challenged not to categorize all
fires as de... |
