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Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change
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Ecological changes in the phenology and distribution of plants and animals are occurring in all well-studied marine, freshwater, and terrestrial groups. These o...
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Thermal range, Genetics, Aquatic ecosystems, Range shift, Rates of change, Atmospheric CO2, Amphibians, Small mammals, Predicted change, Species abundance, Spec...
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A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems
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Causal attribution of recent biological trends to climate change is complicated because non-climatic influences dominate local, short-term biological changes. A...
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Temperature, Forests, Movement, Climate Impacts, Oceans, Range shift, Water, Heat, Shift, Ecosystems, Precipitation, Biodiversity, Terrestrial ecosystems, Clima...
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The Perfect Ocean for Drought
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The 1998 –2002 droughts spanning the United States, southern Europe, and South- west Asia were linked through a common oceanic influence. Cold sea surface tem...
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Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean
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Synthesis of river-monitoring data reveals that the average annual discharge of fresh water from the six largest Eurasian rivers to the Arctic Ocean increased b...
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Traversing the mountaintop: world fossil fuel production to 2050
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During the past century, fossil fuels—petroleum liquids, natural gas and coal—were the dominant source of world energy production. From 1950 to 2005, fossil...
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Future hotspots of terrestrial mammal loss
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Current levels of endangerment and historical trends of species and habitats are the main criteria used to direct conservation efforts globally. Estimates of fu...
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Physiology and Climate Change
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Studies of physiological mechanisms are needed to predict climate effects on ecosystems at species and community levels.
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Decline of Leaf Hydraulic Conductance with Dehydration: Relationship to Leaf Size and Venation Architecture
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Across plant species, leaves vary enormously in their size and their venation architecture, of which one major function is to replace water lost to transpiratio...
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Forest mortality, Hydrology, Photosynthesis, Transpiration, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Watersheds, Forests, Hydrologic cycle, Terrestrial precipita...
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The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems
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The Miocene is characterized by a series of key climatic events that led to the founding of the late Cenozoic icehouse mode and the dawn of modern biota. The pr...
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Higher effect of plant species diversity on productivity in natural than artificial ecosystems
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Current and expected changes in biodiversity have motivated major experiments, which reported a positive relationship be- tween plant species diversity and prim...
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Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals
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Do large mammals evolve faster than small mammals or vice versa? Because the answer to this question contributes to our understanding of how life-history affect...
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Insects take a bigger bite out of plants in a warmer, higher carbon dioxide world
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Excerpt from text : Because of the direct effect of CO2 and temperature on global food supplies, the influence of these changes on plant physiology and ecology ...
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Global declines in oceanic nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification
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Ocean acidification produced by dissolution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in seawater has profound conse- quences for marine ecology and bioge...
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Sharply increased insect herbivory during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
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The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 55.8 Ma), an abrupt global warming event linked to a transient increase in pCO2, was comparable in rate and magnit...
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Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation
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The prevention of deforestation and promotion of afforestation have often been cited as strategies to slow global warming. Deforestation releases CO2 to the atm...
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Carbon stocks, Land cover, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Mitigation, Atmospheric CO2, Cloud cover, Carbo...
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Populations of migratory bird species that did not show a phenological response to climate change are declining
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Recent rapid climatic changes are associated with dramatic changes in phenology of plants and animals, with optimal timing of reproduction advancing considerabl...
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Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park
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Amphibians are a bellwether for environmental degradation, even in natural ecosystems such as Yellowstone National Park in the western United States, where spec...
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Ponds, Wetlands, Climate Impacts, Dessication, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Watersheds, Amphibians, Terrestrial precipitation, Heat, Drought effects,...
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An emerging movement ecology paradigm
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1st 2 paragraphs: Movement of individual organisms, one of the most fundamental features of life on Earth, is a crucial component of almost any ecological and ...
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Movement ecology, Models, Climate Change, Dispersal, Migration, Movement
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Individual movement behavior, matrix heterogeneity, and the dynamics of spatially structured populations
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The dynamics of spatially structured populations is characterized by within- and between-patch processes. The available theory describes the latter with simple ...
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A framework for generating and analyzing movement paths on ecological landscapes
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The movement paths of individuals over landscapes are basically represented by sequences of points (xi, yi) occurring at times ti. Theoretically, these points c...
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Movement ecology, Climate Change, Random walk, Range shift, Fat-tailed, Migration, Security, Heterogeneous environments, Levy walk, Movement
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