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Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate
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The start of the Ediacaran period is defined by one of the most severe climate change events recorded in Earth history—the recov- ery from the Marinoan ‘sno...
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Strong effect of dispersal network structure on ecological dynamics
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A central question in ecology with great importance for management, conservation and biological control is how changing connectivity affects the persistence and...
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Using (brain)temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway
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Here we address these issues by using temperature to manipulate the biophysical dynamics in different regions of the songbird forebrain involved in song produc...
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vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period
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The dominant forcing factors for past large-scale changes in vegetation are widely debated. Changes in the distribution of C4 plants—adapted to warm, dry cond...
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Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
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The continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide due to anthropogenic emissions is predicted to lead to significant changes in climate1...
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Acceleration, CO2, Feedback, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Carbon flux, global change, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Terrestrial precipitation, Ca...
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CO2 emissions from forest loss
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Deforestation is the second largest anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, after fossil fuel combustion. Following a budget reanalysis, the c...
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CO2, Carbon stocks, Carbon cycle, Climate Change, Greenhouse gases, Forests, Carbon Capture and Storage, Deforestation, Forest Management, Carbon sink, Carbon s...
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Global warmth with little extra co2
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Most climate models consider only short-term processes such as cloud and sea-ice formation when assessing Earth’s sensitivity to greenhouse-gas forcing. Mount...
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Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe’s terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance
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Concluding sentence of the abstract: The trend towards more intensive agriculture and logging is likely to make Europe’s land surface a significant source of ...
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Statistically derived contributions of diverse human influences to twentieth-century temperature changes
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The warming of the climate system is unequivocal as evidenced by an increase in global temperatures by 0.8 ◦ C over the past century. However, the attribution...
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Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality
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Biodiversity loss can affect ecosystem functions and services1–4. Individual ecosystem functions generally show a positive asymptotic relationship with increa...
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Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Managers, Land cover, Climate Change, Grasslands, Reduntant species, Climate Impacts, Management, Landowner Information, Land ...
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Subtropical to boreal convergence of tree-leaf temperatures
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The oxygen isotope ratio (d18O) of cellulose is thought to provide a record of ambient temperature and relative humidity during per- iods of carbon assimilation...
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The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release and net carbon exchange from tundra
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Permafrost soils in boreal and Arctic ecosystems store almost twice as much carbon1,2 as is currently present in the atmosphere3. Permafrost thaw and the microb...
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The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change
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Stomata, the small pores on the surfaces of leaves and stalks, regulate the flow of gases in and out of leaves and thus plants as a whole. They adapt to local a...
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rainfall preceded by air passage over forests
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Vegetation affects precipitation patterns by mediating moisture, energy and trace-gas fluxes between the surface and atmosphere1. When forests are replaced by p...
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New particle formation in forests inhibited by isoprene emissions
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It has been suggested that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are involved in organic aerosol formation, which in turn affects radiative forcing and climate1. Th...
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Successful range-expanding plants experience less above-ground and below-ground enemy impact
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Many species are currently moving to higher latitudes and altitudes1–3. However, little is known about the factors that influence the future performance of ra...
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Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change
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Significant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans, with a concentration of available data in Europe and ...
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Habitat quality, Biodiversity, Aquatic ecosystems, Habitat, Land cover, Climate Change, Landscape scale, Forests, Global vegetation trends, Disturbance, Terrest...
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Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
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Global efforts to mitigate climate change are guided by projections of future temperatures1. But the eventual equilibrium global mean temperature associated wit...
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Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 C
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More than 100 countries have adopted a global warming limit of 2 6C or below (relative to pre-industrial levels) as a guiding principle for mitigation efforts t...
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Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests
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The response of terrestrial vegetation to a globally changing environment is central to predictions of future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide1,2. The role ...
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