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Predator-induced reduction of freshwater carbon dioxide emissions
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Predators can influence the exchange of carbon dioxide between ecosystems and the atmosphere by altering ecosys- tem processes such as decomposition and primary...
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Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents
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One of the great debates about extinction is whether humans or climatic change caused the demise of the Pleistocene megafauna. Evidence from paleontology, clima...
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Climate Impacts, Human population, Global patterns, Climate Change, Pleistocene, Megafauna, global change, Extinction, Dieoff
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Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession
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Forests contribute a significant portion of the land carbon sink, but their ability to sequester CO2 may be constrained by nitrogen 1–6, a major plant-limitin...
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Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks.pdf
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Metabolism of terrestrial organic carbon in freshwater ecosystems is responsible for a large amount of carbon dioxide outgassing to the atmosphere, in contradic...
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Carbon flux, Aquatic ecosystems, Land cover, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Estuaries, Metabolism, Carbon stocks, Forest biomass, Downstream transport, Fresh...
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Migrating Like a Herd of Cats: Climate Change and Emerging Forests in British Columbia
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We combine climate tolerances of tree species with probable changes in insect, disease, fire, and other abiotic factors to describe probable changes in distribu...
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The River Discontinuum: Applying Beaver Modifications to Baseline Conditions for Restoration of Forested Headwaters
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Billions of dollars are being spent in the United States to restore rivers to a desired, yet often unknown, reference condition. In lieu of a known reference, p...
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Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions
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Biome-scale disturbances by eruptive herbivores provide valuable insights into species interactions, ecosystem function, and impacts of global change. We presen...
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Forest mortality, Disturbance, Forest dieoff, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Thresholds, Watersheds, Forests, Forest dieback, Climate Impacts, Beetle, ...
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Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America
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Ecosystems in biogeographical transition zones, or ecotones, tend to be highly sensitive to climate and can provide early indications of future change. To evalu...
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Spatially and temporally consistent prediction of heavy precipitation from mean values
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Extreme precipitation can cause flooding, result in substantial damages and have detrimental effects on ecosystems1,2. Climate adaptation must therefore account...
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Beyond Reserves and Corridors: Policy Solutions to Facilitate the Movement of Plants and Animals in a Changing Climate
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As the Earth’s climate changes, many species will have to move across human-dominated landscapes to track suitable climates and changing ecosystems. Given the...
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Corridors, Sprawl, Fragmentation, Climate Impacts, Subdivision, Temperature, Extinction, Land cover, Range shift, Land Use, Protected Areas, Spatial requirement...
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Ecosystem Processes and Human Influences Regulate Streamflow Response to Climate Change at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites
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Analyses of long-term records at 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada indicate that climate change effects on streamflow are not as clear as migh...
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Budyko curve, Streamflow, Hydrology, Hydrologic cycle, Consumption, Land cover, Climate Change, Consumer demand, Watersheds, Water supply, El Nino Southern Osci...
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The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss
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The cryosphere—the portion of the Earth’s surface where water is in solid form for at least one month of the year—has been shrinking in response to climat...
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Management practices increase the impact of roads on plant communities in forests
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The question of the interaction between management practices and road effects on forest biodiversity is of critical interest for sustainable practices and the c...
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Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System
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Tracking biodiversity change is increasingly important in sustaining ecosystems and ultimately human well-being.
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Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
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KEY FINDINGS
Biodiversity and ecosystems are already more stressed than at any comparable period of human history. Climate change almost always exacerbates the...
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Water and bioenergy
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Water management expert Arjen Hoekstra, together with environmental science and energy specialists, has analysed the impact of increasing the use of biofuels in...
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Modelling the long-term response to positive and negative priming of soil organic carbon by black carbon
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bserved increases in the mineralization rate of labile organic carbon (LOC) in the presence of black carbon (BC) have led to speculation that corresponding decr...
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Carbon-nitrogen interactions regulate climate-carbon cycle feedbacks: results from an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model.pdf
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Inclusion of fundamental ecological interactions between carbon and nitrogen cycles in the land component of an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGC...
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CO2, CO2 and nitrogen, Carbon stocks, Carbon cycle, Climate Change, Nitrogen fertilization, Carbon flux, Greenhouse gases, Nitrogen availability, Forest Managem...
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The evolution of growth rates on an expanding range edge
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Individuals in the vanguard of a species invasion face altered selective conditions when compared with conspecifics behind the invasion front. Assortment by dis...
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On the vapour trail of an atmospheric imprint in insects
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Terrestrial arthropods, at constant risk from desiccation, are highly sensitive to atmospheric temperature and humidity. A physiological marker of these abiotic...
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