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Global imprint of climate change on marine life
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Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined a limited range of locations1,2, taxonomic groups2–4 and/or biological ...
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Biotic Drivers of Stream Planform: Implications for Understanding the Past and Restoring the Future
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Traditionally, stream channel planform has been viewed as a function of larger watershed and valley-scale physical variables, including valley slope, the amount...
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Old-growth forest, Management, Aquatic ecosystems, Stream-bank stability, Streamflow, Riparian Habitat Restoration, Fisheries, Restoration, Headwater streams, D...
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The beaver meadow complex revisited – the role of beavers in post-glacial floodplain development
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We evaluate the validity of the beaver-meadow complex hypothesis, used to explain the deposition of extensive fine sediment in broad, low-gradient valleys. Prev...
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Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic Shift
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The size of the basin of attraction in ecosystems with alternative stable states is often referred to as “ecological resilience.” Ecosystems with a low ecol...
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Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the future of C 4 crops for food and fuel
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Crops with the C4 photosynthetic pathway are vital to global food supply, particularly in the tropical regions where human well-being and agricultural productiv...
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Diverse pollinator communities enhance plant reproductive success
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Understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is a major goal of ecology. Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem function and se...
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Ecosystem Services, Positive feedback, Pollination, Terrestrial ecosystems, Biodiversity loss, Pollinator diversity, Selection effect, Bees, Climate Change, Nic...
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Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants
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Climate change will lead to loss of range for many species, and thus to loss of genetic diversity crucial for their long-term persistence. We analysed range-wid...
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How does climate change cause extinction?
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Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be a major cause of species extinctions in the next 100 years. But what will actually cause these extinctions? For ...
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How the type of anthropogenic change alters the consequences of ecological traps
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Understanding altered ecological and evolutionary dynamics in novel environments is vital for predicting species responses to rapid environmental change. One fu...
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Genetic change for earlier migration timing in a pink salmon population
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To predict how climate change will influence populations, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms, particularly microevolution and phenotypic plasticity, t...
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Disturbance−diversity models: what do they really predict and how are they tested?
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and the dynamic equilibrium model (DEM) are influential theories in ecology. The IDH predicts large species number...
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Disturbance, Productivity, National Parks, Models, Climate Change, Intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), Predicted change, Species richness, Biodiversity, ...
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On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change
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Most climate change predictions omit species interactions and interspecific variation in dispersal. Here, we develop a model of multiple competing species along...
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Life history predicts risk of species decline in a stochastic world
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Understanding what traits determine the extinction risk of species has been a long-standing challenge. Natural populations increasingly experience reductions in...
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Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?
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1st paragraph: Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have ...
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Why a collapse of global civilization will be avoided: a comment on Ehrlich & Ehrlich
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1st paragraph: Ehrlich FRS & Ehrlich [1] claim that over-population, over-consumption and the future climate mean that ‘preventing a global collapse of civili...
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Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals
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It is thought that behaviourally flexible species will be able to cope with novel and rapidly changing environments associated with human activity. However, it ...
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Selection, Brain size, Plasticity, Climate Change, Colonization, Cranial capacity, Urban environments, Small mammals, Rural environments
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Competitive and demographic leverage points of community shifts under climate warming
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Accelerating rates of climate change and a paucity of whole-community studies of climate impacts limit our ability to forecast shifts in ecosystem structure and...
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Acceleration, Key Species, Climate Impacts, Community dynamics, Interactions, Community composition, Climate Change, Global warming, Recuitment, Community assem...
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The impact of climate change on the structure of Pleistocene food webs across the mammoth steppe
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Species interactions form food webs, impacting community structure and, potentially, ecological dynamics. It is likely that global climatic perturbations that o...
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Extreme contagion in global habitat clearance
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Habitat clearance remains the major cause of biodiversity loss, with consequences for ecosystem services and for people. In response to this, many global conser...
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Protected Areas, Global patterns, Habitat loss, Climate Change, Grasslands, Forests, Habitat destruction, Wilderness, Habitat clearance, Land use change
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Adapting to flood risk under climate change
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Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase f...
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Rapid, Predicted change, Temperature, Retreat from hazardous areas, Seawater intrusion, Extreme scenarios, Frequency of floods, Rivers, Erosion, Economy, Adapti...
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