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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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The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C
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The latest carbon dioxide emissions continue to track the high end of emission scenarios, making it even less likely global warming will stay below 2 °C. A shi... |
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Regional variability in extinction thresholds for forest birds in the north-eastern United States: an examination of potential drivers using long-term breeding bird atlas datasets
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Main conclusions: Extinction threshold estimates varied tremendously across species and landscapes. Thus, habitat thresholds are difficult to generalize as they... |
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Influence of different tree-harvesting intensities on forest soil carbon stocks in boreal and northern temperate forest ecosystems
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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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Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory
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Natural gas from tight shale formations will provide the United States with a major source of energy over the next several decades. Estimates of gas production ... |
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Modeling sediment accumulation in North American playa wetlands in response to climate change, 1940–2100
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Playa wetlands on the west-central Great Plains of North America are vulnerable to sediment infilling from upland agriculture, putting at risk several important... |
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Spatial patterns and policy implications for residential water use
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The front yard makes a powerful visual statement about the
occupants of the residence. As visible statements, yards are likely
to induce a behavioral response... |
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Phylogenetic and functional diversity in large carnivore assemblages
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Large terrestrial carnivores are important ecological components and promi- nent flagship species, but are often extinction prone owing to a combination of biol... |
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Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests – Completely paid after 160 years?
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The time-delayed extinction of plant species following habitat fragmentation is a well-known phenomenon in ecology. The length of the relaxation time until this... |
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UrbanBatsgcb12884.pdf
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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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nclimate2695.pdf
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Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985–2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline
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Evidence of shifting dominance among major forest disturbance agent classes regionally to globally has been emerging in the literature. For example, climate-rel... |
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Toro_et_al-2015-Diversity_and_Distributions.pdf
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Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism
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Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity crisis1–4 caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogen... |
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Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptation
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This study arises from the concern that changes in weather patterns will be one of the principal effects of climate change and with these will come extreme weat... |
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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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Conservation value of forests attacked by bark beetles: Highest number of indicator species is found in early successional stages
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Heavy natural disturbance in large protected areas of former commercial forests increasingly evokes European parliaments to call for management intervention bec... |
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Global imprint of climate change on marine life
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Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined a limited range of locations1,2, taxonomic groups2–4 and/or biological ... |
