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Not All About Consumption
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Resource exploitation can lead to increased
ecological impacts even when overall
consumption levels stay the same
15 March 2013 VOL 339 SCIENCE |
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Plant species richness: the world records
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Questions: The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for plant... |
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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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Future climate change driven sea-level rise: secondary consequences from human displacement for island biodiversity
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Sea-level rise (SLR) due to global warming will result in the loss of many coastal areas. The direct or primary effects due to inundation and erosion from SLR a... |
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Hell and High Water: PracticeRelevant Adaptation Science
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Adaptation requires science that analyzes decisions, identifies vulnerabilities, improves foresight, and develops options
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Wood and river landscapes
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The influence of trees and dead wood on river dynamics has long been overlooked. Recent work suggests that large wood pieces can stabilize the land surface, con... |
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Are conservation organizations configured for effective adaptation to global change?
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Conservation organizations must adapt to respond to the ecological impacts of global change. Numerous
changes to conservation actions (eg facilitated ecologica... |
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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene
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Despite recent observational, experimental, and modeling studies suggesting increased vulnerability of trees to hotter drought and associated pests and pathogen... |
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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene
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Despite recent observational, experimental, and modeling studies suggesting increased vulnerability of trees to hotter drought and associated pests and pathogen... |
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The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss
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The cryosphere—the portion of the Earth’s surface where water is in solid form for at least one month of the year—has been shrinking in response to climat... |
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Accounting for groundwater in stream fish thermal habitat responses to climate change
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Forecasting climate change effects on aquatic fauna and their habitat requires an understanding of how water temperature responds to changing air temperature (i... |
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Carbon Sequestration in Two Created Riverine Wetlands in the Midwestern United States
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Wetlands have the ability to accumulate significant amounts of carbon (C) and thus could provide an effective approach to mitigate greenhouse gas accumulation i... |
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Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients
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Positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been observed in many studies, but how this relationship is affected by environmental s... |
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Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity
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Ecosystems are simultaneously affected by biodiversity loss and climate change, but we know little about how these factors interact. We predicted that climate w... |
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Teitelbaum_et_al-2015-Ecology_Letters.pdf
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Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States
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Global warming driven by rising greenhouse-gas concentrations is expected to cause wet regions of the tropics and mid to high latitudes to get wetter and subtro... |
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Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge
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The importance of dead wood for biodiversity is widely recognized but strategies for conservation exist only in some regions worldwide. Most strategies combine ... |
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Do alternative energy sources displace fossil fuels?
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A fundamental, generally implicit, assumption of the Intergov- ernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and many energy analysts is that each unit of energy su... |
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Relationships of Fire and Precipitation Regimes in Temperate Forests of the Eastern United States
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Fire affects virtually all terrestrial ecosystems but occurs more commonly in some than in others. This paper investigates how climate, specifically the moistur... |
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Disturbance−diversity models: what do they really predict and how are they tested?
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and the dynamic equilibrium model (DEM) are influential theories in ecology. The IDH predicts large species number... |
