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Beaver (Castor canadensis) mitigate the effects of climate on the area of open water in boreal wetlands in western Canada
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Shallow open water wetlands provide critical habitat for numerous species, yet they have become increasingly vulnerable to drought and warming temperatures and ...
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Disturbance, Aquatic ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, Conservation priority, Conservation, Environmental Policy, Riparian Habitat Restoration, Riparian Restorati...
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The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe
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How did Europe escape the “Iron Law of Wages?” We construct a simple Malthusian model with two sectors and multiple steady states, and use it to explain why...
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How wide is a stream? Spatial extent of the potential ‘‘stream signature’’ in terrestrial food webs using meta-analysis
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The magnitude of cross-ecosystem resource subsidies is increasingly well recognized; however, less is known about the distance these subsidies travel into the r...
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How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?
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New roads, agricultural projects, logging, and mining are claiming an ever greater area of once-pristine Amazonian forest. The Millennium Ecosystems Assessment ...
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How complex do models need to be to predict dispersal of threatened species through matrix habitats?
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Persistence of species in fragmented landscapes depends on dispersal among suitable breeding sites, and dispersal is often influenced by the ‘‘matrix’’ ...
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Reframing Environmental Messages to be Congruent with American Values
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Prior research has explored the relationship between values, attitudes about environmental issues, and pro-environmental behavior. These studies have shown a co...
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Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change
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Storm surges are responsible for much of the damage and loss of life associated with landfalling hurricanes. Understanding how global warming will affect hurric...
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The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones
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Atlantic tropical cyclones are getting stronger on average, with a 30-year trend that has been related to an increase in ocean temperatures over the Atlantic Oc...
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Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years
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Atlantic tropical cyclone activity, as measured by annual storm counts, reached anomalous levels over the past decade1. The short nature of the historical recor...
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Climate Impacts, Climate Change, Atlantic hurricanes, La Nina, Infrastructure damage, Medieval peak, Economic risk(s)
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Coupling snowpack and groundwater dynamics to interpret historical streamflow trends in the western United States
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A key challenge for resource and land managers is predicting the consequences of climate warming on streamflow and water resources. During the last century in t...
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Streamflow, Climate Impacts, Coupling, Geology, Climate Change, Mid-latitudes, Snow, Snow cover, Seasonality, Streams, Groundwater, Discharge, Recharge, Geologi...
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Land cover effects on runoff patterns in eastern Piedmont (USA) watersheds
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Physiography and land cover determine the hydrologic response of watersheds to climatic events. However, vast differences in climate regimes and variation of la...
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How and Why Do Insects Migrate?
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Countless numbers of insects migrate within and between continents every year, and yet we know very little about the ultimate reasons and proximate mechanisms t...
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THE INSURANCE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
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From the text: In the face of uncertainty, diversity provides insurance for risk-averse economic agents. For example, investors in financial markets diversify t...
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TRUST, CULTURE, AND COOPERATION: A Social Dilemma Analysis of Pro-Environmental Behaviors
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Social dilemmas require a choice between cooperation, or sacrificing for the greater good, and self-interest. One commonly studied social dilemma is environment...
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Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change
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Summary. 1. Shifts in the spatial and temporal patterns of flowering could affect the resources available to pollinators, and such shifts might become more comm...
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Mountains, Flowers, Meadow, Pollination, Warmer and drier, Climate Change, Pollinators, Forbs, Spring phenology, Summer temperature, Phenology
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Thermal legacies: transgenerational effects of temperature on growth in a vertebrate
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Transgenerational plasticity (TGP), a generalisation of more widely studied maternal effects, occurs whenever environmental cues experienced by either parent pr...
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Can forest management be used to sustain water-based ecosystem services in the face of climate change?
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Forested watersheds, an important provider of ecosystems services related to water supply, can have their structure, function, and resulting streamflow substant...
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Coweeta basin, Aquatic ecosystems, Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Extreme scenarios, Land surface, Frequency of floods, Predicted change, Temperatur...
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Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean
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The great mass extinctions of the fossil record were a major creative force that provided entirely new kinds of opportunities for the subsequent explosive evolu...
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Novel ecosystem, Ocean stratification, Community dynamics, Acidification, Extinction risk, Diversity loss, Climate Impacts, Biodiversity loss, Oceans, Global wa...
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Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health
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Editorial: Journal of the American Medical Association. Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this rela...
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Temperature sensitivity, Human priorities, Thermal range, Predicted change, Temperature, Stress intensity, Greenhouse gases, Public Health, Heat wave, Human hea...
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Climate Change Puts Children in Jeopardy
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From the text: Experts several years ago sounded the alarm on climate change’s potential harm to human health in the years to come. But the impact on a partic...
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Temperature sensitivity, Human priorities, Climate Impacts, Human civilization, Temperature, Climate and society, Climate Change, Heat, Human health, Human popu...
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