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Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions
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Traits associated with seed dispersal vary tremendously among sympatric wind-dispersed plants. We used two contrasting tropical tree species, seed traps, microm...
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Movement ecology of migration in turkey vultures
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We develop individual-based movement ecology models (MEM) to explore turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) migration decisions at both hourly and daily scales. Vultur...
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Southern Ocean acidification: A tipping point at 450-ppm atmospheric CO2
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Southern Ocean acidification via anthropogenic CO2 uptake is expected to be detrimental to multiple calcifying plankton species by lowering the concentration of...
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Multiple movement modes by large herbivores at multiple spatiotemporal scales
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Recent theory suggests that animals should switch facultatively among canonical movement modes as a complex function of internal state, landscape characteristic...
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The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes
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A conceptual model of movement ecology has recently been advanced to explain all movement by considering the interaction of four elements: internal state, motio...
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Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation
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Global efforts to reduce tropical deforestation rely heavily on the establishment of protected areas. Measuring the effectiveness of these areas is difficult be...
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Trends and missing parts in the study of movement ecology
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Movement is important to all organisms, and accordingly it is addressed in a huge number of papers in the literature. Of nearly 26,000 papers referring to movem...
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Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change
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There is a pressing need to predict how species will change their geographic ranges under climate change. Projections typically assume that temperature is a pri...
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The future of ice sheets and sea ice: Between reversible retreat and unstoppable loss
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We discuss the existence of cryospheric “tipping points” in the Earth’s climate system. Such critical thresholds have been sug- gested to exist for the di...
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Basic mechanism for abrupt monsoon transitions
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Monsoon systems influence the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people. During the Holocene and last glacial period, rainfall in India and China has undergo...
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Temperate, Ecosystem Services, Climate Impacts, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Moisture-advection feedback, Abrupt change, Heat, Weak external perturba...
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The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer ‘‘cold-blooded’’ animals against climate warming
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Increasing concern about the impacts of global warming on biodi- versity has stimulated extensive discussion, but methods to trans- late broad-scale shifts in c...
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Climate, carbon cycling, and deep-ocean ecosystem
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Climate variation affects surface ocean processes and the production of organic carbon, which ultimately comprises the primary food supply to the deep-sea ecosy...
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Novel ecosystem, Ocean stratification, Community dynamics, Phytoplankton, Food suppy, Atmospheric CO2, Productivity, Carbon storage, Deep sea ecosystems, Commun...
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Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world’s most carbon-dense forests
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From analysis of published global site biomass data (n = 136) from primary forests, we discovered (i) the world’s highest known total biomass carbon density (...
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Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation
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Managed relocation (MR) has rapidly emerged as a potential intervention strategy in the toolbox of biodiversity management under climate change. Previous author...
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Synchronous extinction of North America’s Pleistocene mammals
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The late Pleistocene witnessed the extinction of 35 genera of North American mammals. The last appearance dates of 16 of these genera securely fall between 12,0...
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The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st-century climate change
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Global warming is expected to lead to a large increase in atmospheric water vapor content and to changes in the hydrological cycle, which include an intensifica...
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Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies
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A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio-ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institution...
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Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions
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The severity of damaging human-induced climate change depends not only on the magnitude of the change but also on the potential for irreversibility. This paper ...
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Maximum leaf conductance driven by CO2 effects on stomatal size and density over geologic time
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Stomatal pores are microscopic structures on the epidermis of leaves formed by 2 specialized guard cells that control the exchange of water vapor and CO2 betwee...
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Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global change-type drought
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Large-scale biogeographical shifts in vegetation are predicted in response to the altered precipitation and temperature regimes associated with global climate c...
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