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NatureAmznDrgtDieoff.pdf
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Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
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KEY FINDINGS
Biodiversity and ecosystems are already more stressed than at any comparable period of human history. Climate change almost always exacerbates the... |
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Genealogy of nature conservation: a political perspective
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Modern nature conservation is a product of post-Enlightenment modernity; I explore the heterogeneity of its conceptual and ideological background. The 19th cent... |
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Invited Review: Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities
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By altering fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture exchanges between the land surface and atmosphere, forestry and other land-use activities affect climate. Alt... |
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Annual plants change in size over a century of observations
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Abstract
Studies have documented changes in animal body size over the last century, but very little is known about changes in plant sizes, even though reduced ... |
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When It Rains, It Pours Global Warming and the Increase in Extreme Precipitation from 1948 to 2011
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Global warming is happening now and
its effects are being felt in the United
States and around the world. Among
the expected consequences of global warming
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Three perspectives on U.S. fire policy
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Following a 2015 paper on US wildfire policy and practices, published by Science, Science published two letters challenging the paper, and authors of the paper ... |
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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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Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance
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Mechanisms to mitigate global climate change by sequestering carbon (C) in different ‘sinks’ have been proposed as at least temporary measures. Of the major... |
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The declining uptake rate of atmospheric CO2 by land and ocean sinks
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Through 1959–2012, an airborne fraction (AF) of 0.44 of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions remained in the atmosphere, with the rest being taken up by land and... |
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Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia
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The future trajectory of greenhouse gas concentrations depends on interactions between climate and the biogeosphere1,2. Thawing of Arctic permafrost could relea... |
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Global and regional trends in greenhouse gas emissions from livestock
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Following IPCC guidelines (IPCC 2006), we estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to livestock in 237 countries and 11 livestock categories during the period ... |
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US lakes and reservoirs.pdf
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Post-clearcut dynamics of carbon, water and energy exchanges in a midlatitude temperate, deciduous broadleaf forest environment
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Clearcutting and other forest disturbances perturb carbon, water, and energy balances in significant ways, with corre- sponding influences on Earth’s climate ... |
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Negative density-dependent dispersal in the American black bear (Ursus americanus) revealed by noninvasive sampling and genotyping
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Although the dispersal of animals is influenced by a variety of factors, few studies have used a condition-dependent approach to assess it. The mechanisms under... |
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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
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Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we rev... |
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Multi-year drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in Southeastern US forests
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Recent forest diebacks combined with threats of future drought focus attention on the extent to which tree death is caused by catastrophic events as opposed to ... |
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PNAS-2015-Jokinen-1423977112.pdf
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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... |
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Climate change and tropical biodiversity: a new focus
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Considerable efforts are focused on the consequences of climate change for tropical rainforests. However, potentially the greatest threats to tropical biodivers... |
