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Functional response of U.S. grasslands to the early 21st-century drought
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Grasslands across the United States play a key role in regional livelihood and national food security. Yet, it is still unclear how this important resource will...
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A dispersal-induced paradox: synchrony and stability in stochastic metapopulations
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Understanding how dispersal influences the dynamics of spatially distributed populations is a major priority of both basic and applied ecologists. Two well-know...
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Habitat quality, Climate Impacts, Elevation, Temperature, Habitat, Models, Climate Change, Heat, Dispersal, global change, Predicted change, Conservation Planni...
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Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift
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Global vegetation models predict that boreal forests are particularly sensitive to a biome shift during the 21st century. This shift would manifest itself first...
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Biome shift, Productivity, Remote sensing, Climate Change, Grasslands, Range shift, Evergreen forests, Global vegetation trends, High latitude, global change, G...
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The cost of policy simplification in conservation incentive programs
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Incentive payments to private landowners provide a common strategy to conserve biodiversity and enhance the supply of goods and services from ecosystems. To del...
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Economic growth as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation
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The concept of limiting factor includes the lack of welfare factors and the presence of decimating factors. Originally applied to populations and species, the c...
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Human priorities, Hedonic treadmill, Human civilization, Human population, Consumption, Climate and society, Climate Change, Consumer demand, Economics, Limitin...
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Interactions and Linkages among Ecosystems during Landscape Evolution
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We synthesize our findings of studies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, southeastern Alaska, to elucidate interactions and linkages among terrestrial, ...
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Effects of tree mortality caused by a bark beetle outbreak on the ant community in the San Bernardino National Forest
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Ants are used as bioindicators of the effects of disturbance on ecosystems for several reasons. First, ants are generally responsive to alteration of the biomas...
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Forest mortality, tree mortality, Biodiversity, Diversity, Habitat, Community composition, Climate Change, Biomass, Ants, Disturbance, Species richness, Extreme...
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Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity
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Many studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possi...
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Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance
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Animal migration is one of the great wonders of nature, but the factors that determine how far migrants travel remain poorly understood. We present a new quanti...
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Movement ecology, Climate Change, Fish, Invertebrates, Body mass, Dispersal, Migration, Body size, Mammals, Allometry, Distribution, Birds
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Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients
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Positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been observed in many studies, but how this relationship is affected by environmental s...
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Biodiversity, Temperature, Stress intensity, Complementarity effect, Climate Change, Environmental stress, Selection effect, Salinity, Species richness, Heat, C...
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Maximizing return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA
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Efficient conservation planning requires knowledge about conservation targets, threats to those targets, costs of conservation and the marginal return to additi...
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Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities
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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) aims at the conservation of all three levels of biodiversity, that is, ecosystems, species and genes. Genetic diver...
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How does climate change influence demographic processes of widespread species? Lessons from the comparative analysis of contrasted populations of roe deer
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How populations respond to climate change depends on the interplay between life history, resource avail- ability, and the intensity of the change. Roe deer are ...
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Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress
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The study of positive species interactions is a rapidly evolving field in ecology. Despite decades of research, controversy has emerged as to whether positive a...
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Persistent reduced ecosystem respiration after insect disturbance in high elevation forests
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Amid a worldwide increase in tree mortality, mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) have led to the death of billions of trees from Mexico to A...
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Alleles underlying larval foraging behaviour influence adult dispersal in nature
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The dispersal and migration of organisms have resulted in the colonisation of nearly every possible habitat and ultimately the extraordinary diversity of life. ...
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Foraging, Protein Kinase, Insects, Alleles, Transgenic, Animal personalities, Candidate gene approach, Dispersal, Movement ecology, Climate Change, Rover flies,...
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Rapid growth in CO2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis.pdf
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1st paragraph: Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and cement production grew 5.9% in 2010, surpassed 9 Pg of carbon (Pg C) for the firs...
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Citizen Involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act
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Data on listed species refute critiques of citizen involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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Management, Human–wildlife interactions, Extinction risk, Endangered Species Act, Conservation priority, Habitat recovery, Climate Impacts, Human-occupied lan...
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Elevated Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Its Subsequent Decline
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Closing paragraph: Estimates of early Eocene atmospheric CO2 from Green River sodium carbonates are in the same range as those predicted by geochemical models (...
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Temperature, Climate Change, Carbon flux, Climate sensitivity, Carbon cycle, Atmospheric CO2
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The False Spring of 2012, Earliest in North American Record
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2nd paragraph: As global climate warms, increasingly warmer springs may combine with the random climatological occurrence of advective freezes, which result fro...
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