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Comment: Don’t judge species on their origins
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SUMMARY: Conservationists should assess organisms on environmental impact rather than on whether they are natives, argue Mark Davis and 18 other ecologists. FRO...
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Conservation organizations, Exotic Species Removal, Management, Managers, Temperature, Climate Adaptation, Range expansion, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Chan...
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Shifts in Season
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Is the rising heat forcing change on the seasons? To find out, observed data may be superior to model projections.
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Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally
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It is possible that anthropogenic climate change will drive the Earth system into a qualitatively different state1. Although different types of uncertainty limi...
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Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Movement, Climate Impacts, Range shift, Abrupt change, Global vegetation trends, Regime shift, Land atmosphere coupli...
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Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2
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Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) can affect biotic and abiotic conditions in soil, such as microbial activity and water content 1,2...
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Asymmetric effects of economic growth and decline on CO2 emissions
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Letter to Editor: Excerpt: "Why does economic decline not have an effect on CO2 emissions that is symmetrical with the effect of economic growth? There are vari...
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Growth, CO2, Human civilization, Carbon stocks, Consumption, Climate Change, Consumer demand, Carbon flux, Greenhouse gases, Carbon cycle, global change, Carbon...
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Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience
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Drought reduces plant productivity, induces widespread plant mortality and limits the geographic distribution of plant species1–7. As climates warm and precip...
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The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate
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Soils are the largest repository of organic carbon (C) in the terrestrial biosphere and represent an important source of carbon dioxide (CO2)totheatmosphere,rel...
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Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change
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Determining how climate change will affect global ecology and ecosystem services is one of the next important frontiers in environmental science. Many species a...
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Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production
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Strategies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions include substitution of fossil fuel with bioenergy from forests1, where carbon emitted is expected to be recapt...
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Analysing fossil-fuel displacement
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It is commonly assumed that fossil fuels can be replaced by alternative forms of energy. Now research challenges this assumption, and highlights the role of non...
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Climate Impacts, Human civilization, Temperature, Consumption, Fossil fuel, Climate Change, Alternative energy, Heat, Human health, Conservation, Environmental ...
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Enhanced poleward moisture transport and amplified northern high-latitude wetting trend
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Observations and climate change projections forced by greenhouse gas emissions have indicated a wetting trend in northern high latitudes, evidenced by increasin...
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Arctic sea ice cover, Poleward shift, Novel ecosystem, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Soil water, Warmer and wetter, Global warming, Rivers, High latit...
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Anthropogenic influence on multidecadal changes in reconstructed global evapotranspiration
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Global warming is expected to intensify the global hydrological cycle1, with an increase of both evapotranspiration (EVT) and precipitation. Yet, the magnitude ...
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Food Security, Climate Change, Sulfur particles, Food suppy, Mid-latitudes, Multidecadal changes, Aerosol particles, Ecosystems, Evapotranspiration, Plant growt...
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Focus on poleward shifts in species’ distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change
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Species are largely predicted to shift poleward as global temperatures increase, with this fingerprint of climate change being already observed across a range o...
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Response of snow-dependent hydrologic extremes to continued global warming
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Snow accumulation is critical for water availability in the Northern Hemisphere 1,2, raising concern that global warming could have important impacts on natural...
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The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C
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The latest carbon dioxide emissions continue to track the high end of emission scenarios, making it even less likely global warming will stay below 2 °C. A shi...
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Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States
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Global warming driven by rising greenhouse-gas concentrations is expected to cause wet regions of the tropics and mid to high latitudes to get wetter and subtro...
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Impacts of biofuel cultivation on mortality and crop yields
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Ground-level ozone is a priority air pollutant, causing ∼22,000 excess deaths per year in Europe1, significant reductions in crop yields2 and loss of biodiver...
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Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America
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The worldwide energy consumption in 2006 was close to 498 exajoules. This is equivalent to an energy convergence of 15.8 TW into the populated regions, where en...
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Environmental economics, Winter storms, Fossil fuel combustion, Temperature, Consumption, Climate Change, Consumer demand, General circulation models, global ch...
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Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change
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Climate warming has led to changes in the composition, density and distribution of Arctic vegetation in recent decades1–4. These changes cause multiple opposi...
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Observed and predicted effects of climate change on species abundance in protected areas
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The dynamic nature and diversity of species’ responses to climate change poses significant difficulties for developing robust, long-term conservation strategi...
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