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Drought in the United States: Causes and Issues for Congress
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Drought is a natural hazard with often significant societal, economic, and environmental consequences. Public policy issues related to drought range from how to...
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Ecosystem Services, Food Security, Climate and society, Growing season, Climate Change, Economics, Forests, Hydrologic cycle, Extreme scenarios, Federal, Heat, ...
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Climatic variability and episodic Pinus ponderosa establishment along the forest-grassland ecotones of Colorado
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The primary objective of this study was the detection of possible climatic influences on the recent (i.e., past c. 40 years) establishment of ponderosa pine (Pi...
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ENSO, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Grasslands, El Nino, Pine, Terrestrial precipitation, Recuitment, Temperate forests, Ecotone, Evergreen forests
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Variability, contingency and rapid change in recent subarctic alpine tree line dynamics
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1 Boundaries between forest and tundra ecosystems, tree lines, are expected to advance in altitude and latitude in response to climate warming. However...
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Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity
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Phylogenies describe the origins and history of species. However, they can also help to predict species’ fates and so can be useful tools for managing the fut...
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DOES WOOD SLOW DOWN “SLUDGE DRAGONS?” THE INTERACTION BETWEEN RIPARIAN ZONES AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES
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Conservation measures for aquatic species throughout the Pacific Northwest rely heavily on maintaining forested riparian zones. A key rationale for this strateg...
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Large woody debris, Mountains, Debris flows, Riparian systems, Aquatic ecosystems, Logjams, Downstream transport, Dead wood, Climate Change, Sediment dams, Ecos...
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Exponential Decline of Deep-Sea Ecosystem Functioning Linked to Benthic Biodiversity Loss
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Here, we present a global-scale study based on 116 deep-sea sites that relates benthic biodiversity to several independent indicators of ecosystem functioning a...
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Biodiversity loss, Oceans, Ocean ecosystems, Conservation priority, Sustainability, Deep sea, Conservation value, Climate Change, Benthic community
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Spatial relationship between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity
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Vegetation forms a main component of the terrestrial biosphere and plays a crucial role in land-cover and climate- related studies. Activity of vegetation syste...
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WHY FORESTS ARE PIVOTAL IN PLANNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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17 slides show carbon-forest relationships including logging and carbon in US forests
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Public land, timber harvests, and climate mitigation: Quantifying carbon sequestration potential on U.S. public timberlands
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Scientists and policy makers have long recognized the role that forests can play in countering the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas...
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Climate change hotspots in the United States
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We use a multi-model, multi-scenario climate model ensemble to identify climate change hotspots in the continental United States. Our ensemble consists of the C...
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CO2, Temperature, Climate and society, Models, Climate Change, Hot spots, Heat, Climate Impacts
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Negative density-dependent dispersal in the American black bear (Ursus americanus) revealed by noninvasive sampling and genotyping
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Although the dispersal of animals is influenced by a variety of factors, few studies have used a condition-dependent approach to assess it. The mechanisms under...
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TOP PREDATORS AS CONSERVATION TOOLS
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We review the ecological rationale behind the potential compatibility between top predators and biodiversity conservation, and examine their effectiveness as su...
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Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity
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Ecosystems are simultaneously affected by biodiversity loss and climate change, but we know little about how these factors interact. We predicted that climate w...
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Algal growth, Temperature, Biodiversity loss, Herbivores, Marine ecosystems, Seagrass Beds, Metabolism, Metabolic ecology, Adaptation, Food web, Climate Change,...
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What is the future of conservation?
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In recent years, some conservation biologists and con- servation organizations have sought to refocus the field of conservation biology by de-emphasizing the go...
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Conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire varies along an elevation gradient in a ponderosa pine forest, Oregon, USA
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Climate change is expected to increase disturbances such as stand-replacing wildfire in many ecosystems, which have the potential to drive rapid turnover in eco...
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Wildfire, Elevation, Dessication, Forest fire, Terrestrial ecosystems, Grasses, Temperature, Conifers, Forests, Global warming, Temperate forests, Moisture, Cli...
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Evolution of climate niches in European mammals?
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Our ability to predict consequences of climate change is severely impaired by the lack of knowledge on the ability of species to adapt to changing environmental...
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Mountains, Evolution, Biodiversity, Predicted change, Species richness, Niche tracking, Climate Change, Phylogenetic analyses, Phylogenetic, Competition, Land c...
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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 ...
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Rapid evolution of flowering time by an annual plant in response to a climate fluctuation
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Ongoing climate change has affected the ecological dynamics of many species and is expected to impose natural selection on ecologically important traits. Drough...
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Two Modes of North American Drought from Instrumental and Paleoclimatic Data*
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Droughts, which occur as a part of natural climate variability, are expected to increase in frequency and/or severity with global climate change. An improved un...
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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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Environmental economics, Ecosystem Services, Extreme risk, Climate Adaptation, Climate and society, Climate Change, Economics, Cost benefit analysis, Extreme sc...
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