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Four-year response of underplanted American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and three competitors to midstory removal, root trenching, and weeding treatments in an oak-hickory forest
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American chestnut (Castanea dentata) has been killed or reduced to recurrent stump sprouts throughout its range following the importation of multiple pathogens ... |
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Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants
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Climate change will lead to loss of range for many species, and thus to loss of genetic diversity crucial for their long-term persistence. We analysed range-wid... |
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Defaunation in the Anthropocene
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We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species
and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abunda... |
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Changes in Avian and Plant Communities of Aspen Woodlands over 12 Years after Livestock Removal in the Northwestern Great Basin
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Riparian and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) woodlands are centers of avian abundance and diversity in the western United States, but they have been affecte... |
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Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally
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It is possible that anthropogenic climate change will drive the Earth system into a qualitatively different state1. Although different types of uncertainty limi... |
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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... |
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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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Long-term aspen cover change in the western US
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Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is one of the most important tree species in the western United States due to its role in biodiversity, tourism, and ... |
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Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change
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Understanding how climate change affects natural populations remains one of the greatest challenges for ecology and management of natural resources. Animals can... |
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Forests fuel fish growth in freshwater deltas
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Aquatic ecosystems are fuelled by biogeochemical inputs from surrounding lands and within- lake primary production. Disturbances that change these inputs may af... |
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Predictive traits to the rescue
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Climate change poses new challenges to the conservation of species, which at present requires data-hungry models to meaningfully anticipate future threats. Now ... |
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Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous
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There is evidence of ice melt, sea level rise to +5–9 m, and extreme storms in the prior interglacial period that was less than 1◦C warmer than today. Human... |
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Biotic and Human Vulnerability to Projected Changes in Ocean Biogeochemistry over the 21st Century
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Ongoing greenhouse gas emissions can modify climate processes and induce shifts in ocean temperature, pH, oxygen concentration, and productivity, which in turn ... |
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Elevation-dependent influence of snow accumulation on forest greening
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Rising temperatures and declining water availability have influenced the ecological function of mountain forests over the past half-century. For instance, warmi... |
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Economic growth and the human lot
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1st paragraph: In 1974, Richard A. Easterlin, a coauthor of the work by Easterlin et al. (1) in PNAS, published a seminal article (2) that has generated a huge... |
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Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change
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The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the ... |
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Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification
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Ecological intensification has been promoted as a means to achieve environmentally sustainable increases in crop yields by enhancing ecosystem functions that re... |
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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... |
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Changes in winter precipitation extremes for the western United States under a warmer climate as simulated by regional climate models
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We find a consistent and statistically significant increase in the intensity of future extreme winter precipitation events over the western United States, as si... |
