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Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity
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Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well-being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and ...
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Fire frequency, Forest mortality, Ecosystem Services, Climate Impacts, Temperature, Forest fire, Climate and society, Climate Change, Land Use, Habitat quality,...
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Managing Wildfire Risk in Fire-Prone Landscapes: How Are Private Landowners Contributing?
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The fire-prone landscapes include both public and private lands. Wildfire burns indiscriminately across property boundaries, which means that the way potential ...
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Characterizing Fire-on-Fire interactions in three Large Wilderness areas
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The interaction of fires, where one fire burns into another recently burned area, is receiving increased attention from scientists and land managers wishing to ...
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Burn intensity, Forest fire, Climate Change, Fire-on-fire, Evergreen forests, Biomass burning, Burn re-reburn
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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...
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Five Stages of Climate Grief
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University of Montana Professor, climate scientist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Steve W. Running has written about "The 5 Stages of Climate Grief." Modeled aft...
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Does global warming favour the occurrence of extreme floods in European Alps? First evidences from a NW Alps proglacial lake sediment record
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Our record suggests climate warming is favouring the occurrence of high magnitude torrential flood events in high-altitude catchments.
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Mountains, Floods, High elevation, Global warming, Extreme scenarios, Tributaries, Extremes, Headwaters, Hydrologic cycle, Climate Change
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Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States
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Despite significant recent public concern and media attention to the environmental impacts of food, few studies in the United States have systematically compare...
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The Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate Warming
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We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice,...
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Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland
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It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10% of Earth’s terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of th...
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Climate Impacts, DNA, Temperature, Greenland ice, Heat, Insects, Climate Change, Fossil record, Conifers, Forests, Ice cores basal area, High latitude, Land sur...
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The potential transient dynamics of forests in New England under historical and projected future climate change
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Projections of vegetation distribution that incorporate the transient responses of vegetation to climate change are likely to be more efficacious than those tha...
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The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation
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Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity...
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Conservation Biology: Predicting Birds’ Responses to Forest Fragmentation
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Understanding species’ ecological responses to habitat fragmentation is critical for biodiversity conservation, especially in tropical forests. A detailed rec...
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Environmental change, Habitat quality, Fragmentation, Human–wildlife interactions, Extinction risk, Habitat loss, Human-occupied landscapes, Climate Change, L...
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The subnivium: a deteriorating seasonal refugium
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For many terrestrial organisms in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is a period of resource scarcity and energy deficits, survivable only because a seasonal refug...
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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...
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Human priorities, Disturbance, Carbon stocks, Carbon sequestration, Early succession, Temperature, Forest biomass, Fire, Risk-based framework, Forest Management...
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Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial carbon cycle during the 20th century
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We evaluated how climate change, rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, and land use change influenced the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle for the last century usin...
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Incorporating climate change adaptation into national conservation assessments
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The Convention on Biological Diversity requires that member nations establish protected area networks that are representative of the country’s biodiversity. T...
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Effects of drought on avian community structure
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Droughts are expected to become more frequent under global climate change. Avifauna depend on precipitation for hydration, cover, and food. While there are indi...
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Mountains, Community dynamics, Bird monitoring, Seasonality, Community composition, Climate Change, Regional change, Species richness, Conservation Planning, Dr...
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Climate change and the invasion of California by grasses
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Over the next century, changes in the global climate are expected to have major consequences for plant communities, possibly including the exacerbation of speci...
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Climate Impacts, Land atmosphere coupling, Functional traits, Seed mass, Climate Change, Grasslands, Height, Leaf size, Leaf nitrogen, Invasive Species, Landsca...
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On the forest cover–water yield debate: from demand- to supply-side thinking
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Several major articles from the past decade and beyond conclude the impact of reforestation or afforestation on water yield is negative: additional forest cover...
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Temperature and precipitation controls over leaf- and ecosystem-level CO2 flux along a woody plant encroachment gradient
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Conversion of grasslands to woodlands may alter the sensitivity of CO2 exchange of individual plants and entire ecosystems to air temperature and precipitation....
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