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Conservation value of forests attacked by bark beetles: Highest number of indicator species is found in early successional stages
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Heavy natural disturbance in large protected areas of former commercial forests increasingly evokes European parliaments to call for management intervention bec...
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Forest mortality, Habitat quality, Niche, Biodiversity, Indicator species, Forest Management, Climate Change, Habitat Improvement, Forests, Closed forest, Speci...
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Effects of Management on Carbon Sequestration in Forest Biomass in Southeast Alaska
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The Tongass National Forest (Tongass) is the largest national forest and largest area of old-growth forest in the United States. Spatial geographic informa- tio...
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Old-growth forest, Management, Predicted change, Carbon stocks, Federal, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, C...
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Impacts of climate change on August stream discharge in the Central-Rocky Mountains
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In the snowmelt dominated hydrology of arid western US landscapes, late summer low streamflow is the most vulnerable period for aquatic ecosystem habitats and t...
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Divergent global precipitation changes induced by natural versus anthropogenic forcing
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As a result of global warming, precipitation is likely to increase in high latitudes and the tropics and to decrease in already dry sub-tropical regions (1). Th...
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Heat exchange, Sea temperature, Climate Change, Oceans, Greenhouse gases, Anthropogenic forcing, Heat, Atmosphere-ocean coupled system, Atmospheric CO2, Natural...
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The Role of Livestock Production in Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
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This review looks at the role of the livestock sector in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles from a global perspective and considers impacts at the various stage...
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A paradigm shift in understanding and quantifying the effects of forest harvesting on floods in snow environments
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A well-established precept in forest hydrology is that any reduction of forest cover will always have a progressively smaller effect on floods with increasing r...
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Streamflow, Hydrology, Models, Climate Change, Land Use, Storms, Forests, Rivers, Flood frequency, Streams, Snow, Frequency of floods, Runoff, Logging, Distribu...
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Frequent Long-Distance Plant Colonization
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The ability of species to track their ecological niche after climate change is a major source of uncertainty in predicting their future distribution. By analyzi...
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Long term climate implications of 2050 emission reduction targets
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A coupled atmosphere-ocean-carbon cycle model is used to examine the long term climate implications of various 2050 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. A...
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Wildfire and forest harvest disturbances in the boreal forest leave different long-lasting spatial signatures
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Natural disturbances leave long-term legacies that vary among landscapes and ecosystem types, and which become integral parts of successional pro- cesses at a g...
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Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy
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Depletion of ecosystem carbon stocks is a significant source of atmospheric CO2 and reducing land-based emissions and maintaining land carbon stocks contributes...
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Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Climate change and habitat loss are both key threatening processes driving the global loss in biodiversity. Yet little is known about their synergistic effects ...
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Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review
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Soils of grasslands represent a large potential reservoir for storing CO2, but this potential likely depends on how grasslands are managed for large mammal graz...
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Grazing, Carbon sink, Carbon stocks, Precipitation, Land cover, Livestock production, Grasslands, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Greenhouse gases, C...
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research Needs
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The research community needs to develop analytical tools for projecting future trends and evaluating the success of interventions as well as indicators to monit...
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Migration and Dispersal: Science Special Section
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INTRODUCTION: When to Go, Where to Stop
THE ABILITY TO MOVE, AT SOME STAGE IN THE LIFE CYCLE, IS FUNDAMENTAL TO SUCCESS in life. Passive drift in water columns...
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On the Hydrologic Adjustment of Climate-Model Projections: The Potential Pitfall of Potential Evapotranspiration
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Hydrologic models often are applied to adjust projections of hydroclimatic change that come from climate models. Such adjustment includes climate-bias correctio...
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Temperature Mediated Moose Survival in Northeastern Minnesota
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The earth is in the midst of a pronounced warming trend and temperatures in Minnesota, USA, as elsewhere, are projected to increase. Northern Minnesota represen...
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CARBON CYCLE : Fertilizing change
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Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to diminish the size of the terrestrial carbon sink over the next century. Model simulations suggest that nitrogen...
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Climate, CO2, Carbon stocks, Nitrogen yield, Models, Climate Change, Nitrogen fertilization, Nitrogen availability, Carbon cycle, Carbon sink, Ecosystems, Terre...
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First signs of carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass
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European forests are seen as a clear example of vegetation rebound in the Northern Hemisphere; recovering in area and growing stock since the 1950s, after centu...
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Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data
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Here we use a coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model to simulate the climate of the mid-Pliocene warm period (about three million years ago), and ...
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Climate Change, Climate sensitivity, Greenhouse gases, Dangerous
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A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra
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Linking functional traits to plant growth is critical for scaling attributes of organisms to the dynamics of ecosystems (1,2) and for understanding how selectio...
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Leaf-level trait scaling, Carbon sink, Carbon stocks, Functional traits, Models, Climate Change, Carbon flux, Allometric phenotype, Growth, Vegetation, Plant gr...
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