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Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
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The United States produces 41% of the world’s corn and 38% of the world’s soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy p...
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Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems
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Understanding the ecological impacts of climate change is a crucial challenge of the twenty-first century. There is a clear lack of general rules regarding the ...
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Latitudinal variation in lifespan within species is explained by the metabolic theory of ecology
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Many ectotherms exhibit striking latitudinal gradients in lifespan. However, it is unclear whether lifespan gradients in distantly related taxa share a common m...
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Soil warming, carbon–nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgets
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Soil warming has the potential to alter both soil and plant processes that affect carbon storage in forest ecosystems. We have quantified these effects in a lar...
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Climate negotiations under scientific uncertainty
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How does uncertainty about “dangerous” climate change affect the prospects for international cooperation? Climate negotiations usually are depicted as a pri...
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Temperature sensitivity, Thermal limits, Climate Impacts, Human civilization, Climate and society, Critical threshold, Climate Change, Fossil fuel combustion, T...
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Protected areas facilitate species’ range expansions
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The benefits of protected areas (PAs) for biodiversity have been questioned in the context of climate change because PAs are static, whereas the distributions o...
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Impacts of climate change on the world’s most exceptional ecoregions
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The current rate of warming due to increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is very likely unprecedented over the last 10,000 y. Although the majority of cou...
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Temperature increase of 21st century mitigation scenarios
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Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature in- crease have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly develope...
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Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity
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Loss of biological diversity because of extinction is one of the most pronounced changes to the global environment. For several decades, researchers have tried ...
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Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Community dynamics, Community composition, Biodiversity loss, Phylogenetic analyses, Biomass, Species interactions, Grasslands...
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Ecosystem services: From theory to implementation
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Around the world, leaders are increasingly recognizing ecosystems as natural capital assets that supply life-support services of tremendous value. The challenge...
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Environmental asset loss, Ecosystem Services, Human decision making, Productivity, Environmental economics, Climate Change, Economics, Net primary productivity,...
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Satellite-based global-ocean mass balance estimates of interannual variability and emerging trends in continental freshwater discharge
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Freshwater discharge from the continents is a key component of Earth’s water cycle that sustains human life and ecosystem health. Surprisingly, owing to a num...
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Genome diversity in wild grasses under environmental stress
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Patterns of diversity distribution in the Isa defense locus in wild- barley populations suggest adaptive selection at this locus. The extent to which environmen...
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Societal challenges in understanding and responding to regime shifts in forest landscapes
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2 excerpts: "The degradation of seminatural landscapes at regional scales, whereby essential functional capabilities and biotic elements are permanently lost as...
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Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
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A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challeng...
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The search for unknown biodiversity
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1st paragraph: in a world being rapidly transformed by human activities, an alarming possibility is that many species might disappear before we have a chance to...
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Newly discovered landscape traps produce regime shifts in wet forests
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We describe the “landscape trap” concept, whereby entire landscapes are shifted into, and then maintained (trapped) in, a highly compromised structural and ...
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Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda
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We use field data linked to satellite image analysis to examine the relationship between biodiversity loss, deforestation, and poverty around Kibale National Pa...
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Joint analysis of stressors and ecosystem services to enhance restoration effectiveness
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With increasing pressure placed on natural systems by growing human populations, both scientists and resource managers need a better understanding of the relati...
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Area–heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities
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For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche par...
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Stochastic model of community dynamics, Temperature, Climate Change, Habitat heterogeneity, Conservation Planning, Spatial requirements, Competition, Tradeoff, ...
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Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling
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Although temperature is an important driver of seasonal changes in photosynthetic physiology, photoperiod also regulates leaf activity. Climate change will exte...
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