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Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic Shift
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The size of the basin of attraction in ecosystems with alternative stable states is often referred to as “ecological resilience.” Ecosystems with a low ecol...
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Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians
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Many scientists argue that we are either entering or in the midst of the sixth great mass extinction. Intense human pressure, both direct and indirect, is havin...
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Decline, Disturbance, Temperature, Limit to adaptation, Habitat destruction, Environmental Policy, Infectious disease, Habitat degradation, Aquatic ecosystems, ...
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Drought’s legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk
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Forest mortality constitutes a major uncertainty in projections of climate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and car- bon-cycle feedbacks. Recent drought-induce...
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tree mortality, Hydrology, Forest dieoff, Land atmosphere coupling, Climate Change, Cumulative, Forests, Water supply, Global warming, Water deficit, Long-term,...
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Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead
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Keywords
resilience, ecosystem restoration, restoration ecology, recovery, degradation, ecosystem services, environmental change, novel ecosystems
Abstract
A...
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Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems
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The evolution and subsequent ecological expansion of grasses (Poaceae) since the Late Cretaceous have resulted in the establishment of one of Earth’s dominant...
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Poaceae, Evolution, CO2, C4 photosynthesis, Herbivorous insects, Climate Adaptation, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Grasslands, Paleoecology, C3 grasse...
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Global Cooling by Grassland Soils of the Geological Past and Near Future
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grass, mammal, coevolution, paleosol, paleoclimate, carbon sequestration, albedo
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Major innovations in the evolution of vegetation such as t...
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Climate Change, Aboveground-Belowground Interactions, and Species’ Range Shifts
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Changes in climate, land use, fire incidence, and ecological connections all may contribute to current species’ range shifts. Species shift range individually...
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Novel ecosystem, Temperature, Multitrophic interactions, Climate Impacts, Assisted migration, Interactions, Fire, Regional change, Random walk, Range shift, Hig...
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Insect Responses to Major Landscape-Level Disturbance
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tolerance, dispersal, succession, local extinction, outbreak, population dynamics
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Disturbances are abrupt events that dramatically alter ha...
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The Rescaling of Global Environmental Politics
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Key Words
governance, international, linked issues, networks, scale
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In the past half-century, the practice and study of global environmental politic...
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20th-Century doubling in dust archived in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core parallels climate change and desertification in South America
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Crustal dust in the atmosphere impacts Earth’s radiative forcing directly by modifying the radiation budget and affecting cloud nucleation and optical propert...
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Climate Impacts, Climate Change, Desertification, Cloud nucleation, Ice core, Interglacial, Dust, Rapidly warming, Antarctic, Glacial
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HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA?
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Editorial- 1st paragraph: With great interest we have read Ruddiman’s intriguing article which is in favor of placing the start of the Anthropocene at 5–8 m...
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Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it
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Ecological regime shifts are large, abrupt, long-lasting changes in ecosystems that often have considerable impacts on human econ- omies and societies. Avoiding...
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The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2
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The notion is pervasive in the climate science community and in the public at large that the climate impacts of fossil fuel CO2 release will only persist for a ...
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TUNDRA’S BURNING
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More than 20,000 lightning strikes were recorded on the North Slope of Alaska in 2007. Some struck the vast stretches of lakes; some hit the
treeless tundra. A...
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Environment, vegetation and greenness (NDVI) along the North America and Eurasia Arctic transects
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Satellite-based measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI; an index of vegetation greenness and photosynthetic capacity) indicate that tu...
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Novel ecosystem, Oceans, Productivity, Greenup, Poleward shift, Poleward expansion, Climate Change, Warmer and wetter, Biomass, Tundra, Leaf area index (LAI), A...
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Late Pleistocene California droughts during deglaciation and Arctic warming
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Recent studies document the synchronous nature of shifts in North Atlantic regional climate, the intensity of the East Asian monsoon, and productivity and preci...
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Disappearing Arctic sea ice reduces available water in the American west
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Recent decreases in Arctic sea ice cover and the probability of continued decreases have raised the question of how reduced Arctic sea ice cover will influence ...
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Sea temperature, Arctic sea ice cover, Warmer and drier, Climate Change, Regional change, Water supply, Drought
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Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America
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How anthropogenic climate change will impact hydroclimate in the arid regions of Southwestern North America has implications for the allocation of water resourc...
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Modeling sediment accumulation in North American playa wetlands in response to climate change, 1940–2100
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Playa wetlands on the west-central Great Plains of North America are vulnerable to sediment infilling from upland agriculture, putting at risk several important...
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Natural and Beneficial Floodplain Functions: Floodplain Management— More than Flood Loss Reduction
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This is a position paper prepared by the Association of State Floodplain Managers, (ASFPM), a non-profit professional organization dedicated to reducing flood l...
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