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Changes in winter precipitation extremes for the western United States under a warmer climate as simulated by regional climate models
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We find a consistent and statistically significant increase in the intensity of future extreme winter precipitation events over the western United States, as si...
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Management, Regional runoff, Aquatic ecosystems, Retreat from hazardous areas, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Extreme scenarios, Biophysical processes, Clima...
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Quantifying the negative feedback of vegetation to greenhouse warming: A modeling approach
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Several climate models indicate that in a 2 × CO2 environment, temperature and precipitation would increase and runoff would increase faster than precipitation...
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Space observations of inland water bodies show rapid surface warming since 1985
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Surface temperatures were extracted from nighttime thermal infrared imagery of 167 large inland water bodies distributed worldwide beginning in 1985 for the mon...
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Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change
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Climate change will have a significant impact on the hydrologic cycle, creating changes in freshwater resources, land cover and land–atmosphere feedbacks. Rec...
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The Myth of Smart Growth
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“Smart growth” is an urban growth management strategy that applies planning and design principles intended to mitigate the impacts of continued growth. If p...
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Wildfire, Wildlands, and People: Understanding and Preparing for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-299. Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 36 p.
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Fire has historically played a fundamental ecological role in many of America’s wildland areas. However, the rising number of homes in the wildland-urban inte...
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WATER, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND FORESTS Watershed Stewardship for a Changing Climate
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Water from forested watersheds provides irreplaceable habitat for aquatic and riparian species and supports our homes, farms, industries, and energy production....
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Assessing potential climate change effects on vegetation using a linked model approach
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We developed a process that links the mechanistic power of dynamic global vegetation models with the detailed vegetation dynamics of state-and-transition models...
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Habitat quality, Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Managers, Habitat, Shrub expansion, Climate Change, Dynamic global vegetation model, Pine, Colonization, Dist...
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Global temperature change
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We conclude that global warming of more than 1°C, relative to 2000, will constitute ‘‘dangerous’’ climate change as judged from likely effects on s...
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State of the Wild: PERSPECTIVE OF A CLIMATOLOGIST
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“Animals are on the run. Plants are migrating too.”1 I wrote those words in 2006 to draw attention to the fact that climate change was already under way. Pe...
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Sea-level and salinity fluctuations during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum in Arctic Spitsbergen
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Palaeoenvironmental manifestations of the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM; ~ 56 Ma) are relatively well documented in low- to mid-latitude settings and...
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Carbon Dynamics of the Forest Sector
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Main points: The basic ecosystem science behind carbon dynamics in forests is relatively straightforward (really!).This science doesn’t seem to be applied ver...
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Ecosystem Services, Forest biomass, Carbon stocks, Forest Management, Climate Change, Land Use, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Hazards, Forests, Lan...
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Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals
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Tropical animals may be particularly vulnerable to climate warming.
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Impacts of climate warming in the tropics— the cradle of biodiversity�...
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Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations
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Climate change creates new challenges for biodiversity conservation. Species ranges and ecological dynamics are already responding to recent climate shifts, and...
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Corridors, Biodiversity, Temperature, Human-occupied landscapes, Climate Change, Connectivity improvement, Colonization, Heat, Climate Impacts, Adaptation, Envi...
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Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores
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If controls over primary productivity and plant community composition are mainly environmental, as opposed to biological, then global change may result in large...
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Extent and scale of local adaptation in salmonid fishes: review and meta-analysis
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What is the extent and scale of local adaptation (LA)? How quickly does LA arise? And what is its underlying molecular basis? Our review and meta-analysis on sa...
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Selection, Climate Change, Phenotype, Salmonid, Phenotypic plasticity, Adaptation
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ECONOMICS IN A FULL WORLD
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The global economy is now so large that society can no longer safely pretend it operates within a limitless ecosystem. Developing an economy that can be sustain...
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Environmental economics, Human civilization, Limits, Human priorities, Biosphere, Climate Change, Cost benefit analysis, Limiting factor, Economic growth, Limit...
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Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States
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This article applies formal detection and attribution techniques to investigate the nature of observed shifts in the timing of streamflow in the western United ...
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Aerosols, Hydrology, Seasonality, Climate Change, Land Use, Detection and attribution, Streamflow, Snow cover, Greenhouse gases, Ozone, Land management, Streams...
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Biophysical and Biogeochemical Responses to Climate Change Depend on Dispersal and Migration
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Different species, populations, and individuals disperse and migrate at different rates. The rate of movement that occurs in response to changes in climate, whe...
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Ecosystem Services, Climate Impacts, Plant migration, Evapotranspiration, Climate Change, Vegetation–climate feedback, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon cycl...
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Effective Enforcement in a Conservation Area
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There are two primary approaches to wildlife conservation, the generation of economic benefits from wildlife to local communities, so that protecting wildlife i...
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Management, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Protected Areas, Land management, Conservation value, Conservation Planning, Mammals, Land-use patterns
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