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... |
Point of No Return :The massive climate threats we must avoid
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The world is quickly reaching a Point of No Return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult, ... |
EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed Rule to Define “Waters of the United States”
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Excerpt from summary : According to the agencies, the proposed rule would revise the existing regulatory definition of “waters of the United States” consist... |
Wildfire, Wildlands, and People: Understanding and Preparing for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-299. Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 36 p.
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Fire has historically played a fundamental ecological role in many of America’s wildland areas. However, the rising number of homes in the wildland-urban inte... |
Genetic signatures of a demographic collapse in a large-bodied forest dwelling primate
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It is difficult to predict how current climate change will affect wildlife species adapted to a tropical rainforest environment. Understanding how population dy... |
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... |
Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America
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Ecosystems in biogeographical transition zones, or ecotones, tend to be highly sensitive to climate and can provide early indications of future change. To evalu... |
Social Science at the Wildland-Urban Interface: a Compendium of Research Results to Create Fire-Adapted Communities
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Over the past decade, a growing body of research has been conducted on the human dimensions of wildland fire. Building on a relatively small number of foundatio... |
Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
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Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of clima... |
Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
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Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of clima... |
Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management
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Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a l... |
Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Forest Ecosystems: General Technical Report PNW-GTR-870 December 2012
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This report is a scientific assessment of the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the United States relative to climatic variab... |
SOME REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH ILLUSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE
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Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced... |
TRY – a global database of plant traits
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Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and
their organs – determine how primar... |
The Wheel of Life Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy
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The links between climate change and industrial agriculture create a nexus of crises—food
insecurity, natural resource depletion and degradation, as well as ... |