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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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Heat stress related dairy cow mortality during heat waves and control periods in rural Southern Ontario from 2010–2012
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Background: Heat stress is a physiological response to extreme environmental heat such as heat waves. Heat stress can result in mortality in dairy cows when ext...
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DATA MINING TO ESTIMATE BROILER MORTALITY WHEN EXPOSED TO HEAT WAVE
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Heat waves usually result in losses of animal production since they are exposed to thermal stress inducing an increase in mortality and consequent economical lo...
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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...
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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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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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The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century
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The distribution and future fate of ectothermic organisms in a warming world will be dictated by thermal-scapes across landscapes. That is particularly true for...
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Sustainable Development under Population Pressure: Lessons from Developed Land Consumption in the Conterminous U.S.
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Population growth will result in a significant anthropogenic environmental change worldwide through increases in developed land (DL) consumption. DL consumption...
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The future of farming: return to roots?
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Large scale farming would be more sustainable if major crop plants lived for years and built deep root systems.
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Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming
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Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires, but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly con...
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Seasonal weather patterns drive population vital rates and persistence in a stream fish
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Here, we investigated effects of seasonal air temperature and precipitation (fall, winter, and spring) on survival and recruitment of brook trout (Salvelinus fo...
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Diffusion into new markets: evolving customer segments in the solar photovoltaics market
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The US residential solar market is growing quickly, and as solar adoption diffuses into new populations, later adopters may differ significantly from earlier on...
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Ecosystems Vulnerability Datasets
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Table displaying name, dataset link, topic name, topic categories, comments/links, and list of tags.
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National Conservation Training Center Training Announcement: Decision Analysis for Climate Change - ALC3196
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Natural resource managers are increasingly tasked with understanding climate
change impacts and using this knowledge in making decisions. Yet the
uncertainty ...
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Decision Analysis for Climate Change (Online) – ALC3196 Class Agenda
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January 15 ‐ March 17th, 2015. Total Contact Time: 28‐34 hours
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