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Ramification of stream networks
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The geometric complexity of stream networks has been a source of fascination for centuries. However, a comprehensive understanding of ramification—the mechani...
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Perception of climate change
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“Climate dice,” describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons, have become more and more “loaded” in the past 30 y, coincident with rapid glob...
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Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging
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Given widespread declines in pollinator communities and increas- ing global reliance on pollinator-dependent crops, there is an acute need to develop a mechanis...
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Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient
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All human–environment systems adapt to climate and its natural variation. Adaptation to human-induced change in climate has largely been envisioned as increme...
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Economic growth and the human lot
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1st paragraph: In 1974, Richard A. Easterlin, a coauthor of the work by Easterlin et al. (1) in PNAS, published a seminal article (2) that has generated a huge...
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Human priorities, Hedonic treadmill, Human population, Consumption, Climate and society, Climate Change, Consumer demand, Economics, Human decision making, Inco...
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Developing a broader scientific foundation for river restoration: Columbia River food webs
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Well-functioning food webs are fundamental for sustaining rivers as ecosystems and maintaining associated aquatic and terrestrial communities. The current empha...
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Native species, River Classification, Aquatic ecosystems, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Food web restoration, Connectivity improvement, Rivers, Non na...
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Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions
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The late Quaternary period saw the rapid extinction of the majority of the world’s terrestrial megafauna. The cause of these dramatic losses, especially the r...
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Identifying human influences on atmospheric temperature
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We perform a multimodel detection and attribution study with climate model simulation output and satellite-based measurements of tropospheric and stratospheric ...
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Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley
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Aquifer overexploitation could significantly impact crop production in the United States because 60% of irrigation relies on groundwater. Groundwater depletion ...
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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
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This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate...
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Multidecadal to multicentury scale collapses of Northern Hemisphere monsoons over the past millennium
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Late Holocene climate in western North America was punctuated by periods of extended aridity called megadroughts. These droughts have been linked to cool easter...
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Model projections of atmospheric steering of Sandy-like superstorms
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Superstorm Sandy ravaged the eastern seaboard of the United States, costing a great number of lives and billions of dollars in damage. Whether events like Sandy...
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Sagebrush carrying out hydraulic lift enhances surface soil nitrogen cycling and nitrogen uptake into inflorescences
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Plant roots serve as conduits for water flow not only from soil to leaves but also from wetter to drier soil. This hydraulic redistribution through root systems...
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Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming
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Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to favor species adapted to warmer conditions and/or reduce the abundance ...
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Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems
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Intensive land use reduces the diversity and abundance of many soil biota, with consequences for the processes that they govern and the ecosystem services that ...
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Evolution of natural and social science interactions in global change research programs
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Efforts to develop a global understanding of the functioning of the Earth as a system began in the mid-1980s. This effort necessitated linking knowledge from bo...
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Human priorities, Human–wildlife interactions, Temperature, Biodiversity, Human population, Climate and society, Socio-economic Tools, Biodiversity loss, Sust...
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Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory
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Natural gas from tight shale formations will provide the United States with a major source of energy over the next several decades. Estimates of gas production ...
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Hot climates, high sensitivity
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Concluding paragraph: One sure solution to the problem posed by uncertainty of climate sensitivity in hot climates is simply not to go there. Unfortunately, it ...
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The elephant, the blind, and the intersectoral intercomparison of climate impacts
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1st paragraph: When decision makers discuss anthropogenic climate change, they often ignore the mighty elephant in the room, namely the question of what global ...
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Water-controlled wealth of nations
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Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the access to water resources. At a country level, some populations use...
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