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Delayed detection of climate mitigation benefits due to climate inertia and variability
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Climate change mitigation acts by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thus curbing, or even reversing, the increase in their atmospheric concentration. This ...
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Climate variability, Climate Impacts, Detection of mitigation benefits, Climate Change, Regional change, Greenhouse gases, Mitigation, Atmospheric CO2, Emission...
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The material footprint of nations
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Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rat...
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Green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011
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As the Earth’s third pole, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced a pronounced warming in the past decades. Recent studies reported that the start of the vegetat...
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Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States
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Livestock production impacts air and water quality, ocean health, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on regional to global scales and it is the largest use of l...
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Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change
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Humans directly change the dynamics of the water cycle through dams constructed for water storage, and through water withdrawals for industrial, agricultural, o...
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Satellite methods underestimate indirect climate forcing by aerosols
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Satellite-based estimates of the aerosol indirect effect (AIE) are consistently smaller than the estimates from global aerosol models, and, partly as a result o...
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Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems
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Biodiversity in rangelands is decreasing, due to intense utilization for livestock production and conversion of rangeland into cropland; yet the outlook of rang...
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Disturbance, Temperature, Consumption, Land cover, Livestock production, Food suppy, Land surface, Management, Environmental Policy, Habitat degradation, Federa...
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Carbon debt of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands converted to bioenergy production
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Over 13 million ha of former cropland are enrolled in the US Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), providing well-recognized biodiversity, water quality, and carb...
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Predicted change, Biofuel, Conservation priority, Bioenergy, Tillage, Environmental Policy, Biomass burning, Carbon storage, Carbon policy, Cellulosic biofuel, ...
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Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought
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Climate change is progressively increasing severe drought events in the Northern Hemisphere, causing regional tree die-off events and contributing to the global...
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Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization
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The collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan, one of the earliest urban civilizations, remains an enigma. Urbanism flourished in the western region of the Indo-Gange...
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Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude
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he impact of anthropogenic climate change on terrestrial organ- isms is often predicted to increase with latitude, in parallel with the rate of warming. Yet the...
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Improved probability of detection of ecological “surprises”
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Ecological “surprises” are defined as unexpected findings about the natural environment. They are critically important in ecology because they are catalysts...
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Dispersal will limit ability of mammals to track climate change in the Western Hemisphere
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As they have in response to past climatic changes, many species will shift their distributions in response to modern climate change. However, due to the unprece...
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Rapid, Human–wildlife interactions, Extinction risk, Environmental stress, Megafauna, Disturbance, Limit to adaptation, Defaunation, Predicted change, Climate...
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Clone history shapes Populus drought responses
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Just as animal monozygotic twins can experience different environmental conditions by being reared apart, individual genetically identical trees of the genus Po...
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Climate Impacts, Populus, Climate Change, Deciduous forest, Epigenetics, Poplar, Drought effects, Drought, Genotypes
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Molecular study of worldwide distribution and diversity of soil animals
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The global distribution of soil animals and the relationship of below-ground biodiversity to above-ground biodiversity are not well understood. We examined 17,5...
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Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value
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Protected areas are crucial for biodiversity conservation because they provide safe havens for species threatened by land-use change and resulting habitat loss....
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Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change
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Broad-scale studies of climate change effects on freshwater species have focused mainly on temperature, ignoring critical drivers such as flow regime and biotic...
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Wilderness and biodiversity conservation
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Human pressure threatens many species and ecosystems, so con- servation efforts necessarily prioritize saving them. However, conservation should clearly be proa...
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Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau
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Projected increases in aridity throughout the southwestern United States due to anthropogenic climate change will likely cause reduc- tions in perennial vegetat...
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Point of No Return :The massive climate threats we must avoid
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The world is quickly reaching a Point of No Return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult, ...
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