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Management practices increase the impact of roads on plant communities in forests
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The question of the interaction between management practices and road effects on forest biodiversity is of critical interest for sustainable practices and the c... |
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Divergent global precipitation changes induced by natural versus anthropogenic forcing
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As a result of global warming, precipitation is likely to increase in high latitudes and the tropics and to decrease in already dry sub-tropical regions (1). Th... |
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Spatial aspects of tree mortality strongly differ between young and old-growth forests
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In young forests, mortality should be primarily density dependent due to competition for light, leading to an increasingly spatially uniform pattern of survivi... |
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Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
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Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were st... |
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Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession
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Forests contribute a significant portion of the land carbon sink, but their ability to sequester CO2 may be constrained by nitrogen 1–6, a major plant-limitin... |
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Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation
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For more than a decade, the target of keeping global warming below 2 6C has been a key focus of the international climate debate1. In response, the scientific c... |
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nclimate2512 1.pdf
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Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming
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Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to favor species adapted to warmer conditions and/or reduce the abundance ... |
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Soil Temperature following Logging-Debris Manipulation and Aspen Regrowth in Minnesota: Implications for Sampling Depth and Alteration of Soil Processes
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Soil temperature is a fundamental controller of processes influencing the
transformation and flux of soil C and nutrients following forest harvest. Soil
tempe... |
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pollinatorsInCities.pdf
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Delayed detection of climate mitigation benefits due to climate inertia and variability
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Climate change mitigation acts by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thus curbing, or even reversing, the increase in their atmospheric concentration. This ... |
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The subnivium: a deteriorating seasonal refugium
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For many terrestrial organisms in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is a period of resource scarcity and energy deficits, survivable only because a seasonal refug... |
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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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Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
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The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation. Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ur... |
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Coupled catastrophes: sudden shifts cascade and hop among interdependent systems
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From the Introduction: Sudden changes propagating among coupled systems pose a significant scientific challenge in many disciplines, yet we lack an adequate mat... |
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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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ScienceExtinction.pdf
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After the talks
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The real business of decarbonization begins after an agreement is signed at the Paris climate conference, argue David G. Victor and James P. Leape. |
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Integrating multiple lines of evidence into historical biogeography hypothesis testing: a Bison bison case study
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One of the grand goals of historical biogeography is to understand how and why species’ population sizes and distributions change over time. Multiple types of... |
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Megaproject reclamation and climate change
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Megaprojects such as oil sands mining require large-scale and long-term closure and reclamation plans. Yet these plans are created and approved without consider... |
