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Historical Evaluation and Future Prediction of Eastern North American and Western Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones in the CMIP5 Models during the Cool Season
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Extratropical cyclone track density, genesis frequency, deepening rate, and maximum intensity distributions over eastern North America and the western North Atl...
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Carbon Sequestration in Two Created Riverine Wetlands in the Midwestern United States
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Wetlands have the ability to accumulate significant amounts of carbon (C) and thus could provide an effective approach to mitigate greenhouse gas accumulation i...
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Carbon sink, Hydrology, Aquatic ecosystems, Climate Adaptation, Riparian Habitat Restoration, Climate Change, Greenhouse gas accounting, Wetland biogeochemistry...
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Synthesis of Knowledge of Extreme Fire Behavior: Volume I for Fire Managers
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The National Wildfire Coordinating Group definition of extreme fire behavior (EFB) indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes ...
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Fire and Fish Dynamics in a Changing Climate: Broad- and Local-Scale Effects of Fire-Induced Water Temperature Changes on Native and Nonnative Fish Communities
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Fire is a key natural disturbance that affects the distribution and abundance of native fishes in the Rocky Mountain West. In the absence of migratory individua...
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Ecological Effects of Prescribed Fire Season: A Literature Review and Synthesis for Managers
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Prescribed burning may be conducted at times of the year when fires were infrequent historically, leading to concerns about potential adverse effects on vegetat...
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Fire frequency, Fire intensity, Burn intensity, Disturbance, Seasonality, Fire, Climate Change, Prescribed fire, Fire-on-fire, Fire season, Burn re-reburn, Biod...
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Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States
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We investigate the impact of climate change on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States. We regress observed area ...
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Density stratification in an estuary with complex geometry: Driving processes and relationship to hypoxia on monthly to inter-annual timescales
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The density field in Narragansett Bay (NB), a northeast U.S. estuary with complex geometry that suffers hypoxia, is described and related to driving factors usi...
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Streamflow, Temperature, Seasonality, Climate Change, Watersheds, Rivers, Heat, Hypoxia, Streams, Estuaries, Stratification, Water temperature
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Effects of irrigation on global climate during the 20th century
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Various studies have documented the effects of modern‐day irrigation on regional and global climate, but none, to date, have considered the time‐varying imp...
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Sea temperature, Irrigation, Hydrology, Temperature, Seasonality, Climate Change, Regional change, Hydrologic cycle, Sustainability, Farming, Agriculture
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The 2010 Pakistan Flood and Russian Heat Wave: Teleconnection of Hydrometeorologic Extremes
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In this paper, we present preliminary results showing that the two record setting extreme events during 2010 summer, i.e., the Russian heat wave/wild fires and ...
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BOTANY AND A CHANGING WORLD: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL CHANGE
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The impacts of global change have heightened the need to understand how organisms respond to and influence these changes. Can we forecast how change at the glob...
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Community dynamics, Conservation Planning, Plant–microbial interactions, Plant growth, Vegetation, Movement, Climate Impacts, Plant migration, Species richnes...
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Identifying the World’s Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals
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Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on biodiversity, including increasing extinction rates. Current approaches to quantifying such impacts focus on me...
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Drought, disease, defoliation and death: forest pathogens as agents of past vegetation change
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The temperate and boreal forests of Europe and North America have been subject to repeated pathogen (fungal disease and phytophagus insect) outbreaks over the l...
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Forest dieoff, Insects, Climate Change, Forests, Temperate forests, Forest Management, Forest dieback, Forest fungal disease, Terrestrial ecosystems, Boreal for...
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Plant species richness: the world records
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Questions: The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for plant...
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Trade-in to trade-up
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Nature reserves and protected areas enjoy sacred status in conservation — which translates into a ‘do not touch’ attitude. But selling off some of the les...
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Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise
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Terrestrial plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere through photo- synthesis, a process that is accompanied by the loss of water vapour from leaves1. The ratio of...
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Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America
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Widespread synchronous wildfires driven by climatic variation, such as those that swept western North America during 1996, 2000, and 2002, can result in major e...
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Fire frequency, Sea temperature, Forest fire, Fire, Climate Change, El Nino, El Nino Southern Oscillation, Atmosphere-ocean coupled system, Wildland Fire, Wildf...
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Stream biodiversity: The ghost of land use past
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The influence of past land use on the present- day diversity of stream invertebrates and fish was investigated by comparing watersheds with different land-us...
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Climatic Impact of Tropical Lowland Deforestation on Nearby Montane Cloud Forests
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Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) depend on predictable, frequent, and prolonged immersion in cloud. Clearing upwind lowland forest alters surface energy b...
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Cloud base, Protected Areas, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Land Use, Watersheds, Water supply, Height, Deforestation, Deforestation at low elevation, ...
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Long-Distance Dispersal of Plants
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Long-distance dispersal (LDD) of plants poses challenges to research because it involves rare events driven by complex and highly stochastic processes. The curr...
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Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change
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Based on observed atmospheric CO2 concentration and an inverse method, we estimate that the Southern Ocean sink of CO2 has weakened between 1981 and 2004 by 0.0...
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