Cross-scale impact of climate temporal variability on ecosystem water and carbon fluxes
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While the importance of ecosystem functioning is undisputed in the context of climate change and Earth system modeling, the role of short-scale temporal variabi... |
Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios
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The ocean moderates anthropogenic climate change at the cost of profound alterations of its physics, chemistry, ecology, and services. Here, we evaluate and com... |
Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak
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Network analysis offers insight into the structure and function of ecological
communities, but little is known about how empirical networks change over time du... |
Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs
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In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean
sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be dri... |
Mountain landscapes offer few opportunities for high-elevation tree species migration
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Climate change is anticipated to alter plant species distributions. Regional context, notably the spatial complexity of climatic gradients, may influence specie... |
Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes
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Many climatic extremes are changing1–5, and decision-makers express a strong need for reliable information on further changes over the coming decades as a bas... |
Landscape-scale carbon storage associated with beaver dams
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Beaver meadows form when beaver dams promote
prolonged overbank flooding and floodplain retention of
sediment and organic matter. Extensive beaver meadows fo... |
Limits to adaptation
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An actor-centered, risk-based approach to defining limits to social adaptation provides a useful analytic framing for identifying and anticipating these limits ... |
Global change and the groundwater management challenge
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With rivers in critical regions already exploited to capacity throughout the world and ground- water overdraft as well as large-scale contamination occurring in... |
Planetary boundaries- Guidi.pdf
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Eocene atmospheric CO2 from the nahcolite proxy
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Paleotemperature estimates from leaf fossils and fluid inclusions in halite suggest an upper limit for [CO2]atm in the EECO from the nahcolite proxy of ~1260 pp... |
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
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The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the E... |
A reality check on the shale revolution
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The production of shale gas and oil in the United States is overhyped and the costs are underestimated, says J. David Hughes. |
Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics
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Theory predicts a positive relationship between biodiversity and stability in ecosystem properties, while diversity is expected to have a negative impact on sta... |
A holistic approach to climate targets
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An assessment of allowable carbon emissions that factors in multiple climate targets finds smaller permissible emission budgets than those inferred from studies... |
Inhomogeneous forcing and transient climate sensitivity
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Understanding climate sensitivity is critical to projecting climate change in response to a given forcing scenario. Recent analyses1–3 have suggested that tra... |
Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health
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Editorial: Journal of the American Medical Association. Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this rela... |
OCEAN–ATMOSPHERE COUPLING Mesoscale eddy effects
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1st paragraph: Because of its enormous heat capacity, the ocean plays a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate. Up to about a decade ago, it was gene... |
Using and improving the social cost of carbon: Regular, institutionalized updating and review are essential
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The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial tool for economic analysis of climate policies. The SCC estimates the dollar value of reduced climate change damage... |
Growing feedback from ocean carbon to climate
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The finding that feedbacks between the ocean’s carbon cycle and climate may
become larger than terrestrial carbon–climate feedbacks has implications for th... |