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Importance of matrix habitats in maintaining biological diversity
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Matrix management matters because formal reserve systems will never cover more than a small fraction of the globe.
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Effect of habitat area and isolation on fragmented animal populations
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Habitat destruction has driven many once-contiguous animal populations into remnant patches of varying size and isolation. The underlying framework for the cons...
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Corridors, Conservation Planning, Fragmentation, Protected Areas, Predicted change, Extinction risk, Habitat loss, Terrestrial ecosystems, Mammals, Patch size, ...
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The impact of climate change on mental health
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Climate change will shortly be assuming centre stage when Copenhagen hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference in early December 2009. In Copenhagen, d...
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The New Era Of Climate Risk Disclosure
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In February of this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made clear in no uncertain terms that corporations have a duty to disclose risks faced thr...
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Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change on Stream Health
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Estimation of stream health involves the analysis of changes in aquatic species, riparian vegetation, microinvertebrates, and channel degradation due to hydrolo...
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Urbanization, Streamflow, Water conflict, Warmer and drier, Models, Climate Change, Land Use, Warmer and wetter, Watersheds, Land use change, Water, Land manage...
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Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
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Environmental problems have contributed to numerous collapses of civilizations in the past. ... But today, for the first time, humanity’s global civilization�...
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Human priorities, Consumption, Land cover, Food suppy, Collapse of civilization, Extreme scenarios, Human health, Climate Impacts, Human civilization, Human-occ...
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Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future
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Summary: This report surveys existing law for legal issues that have arisen, or may arise in the future, on account of climate change and government responses t...
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Predicted change, Retreat from hazardous areas, Lawsuits, Storms, Supreme Court, Seawater intrusion, Policy, Legal standing, Urban flooding, Liability, Heat, Fl...
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Are There Rebound Effects from Energy Efficiency? – An Analysis of Empirical Data, Internal Consistency, and Solutions
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Of the rigorously-framed hypotheses claiming that large negative rebounds exist, we measure them against the data, which refute the hypotheses. Rebounds at the ...
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Consumption, Density, Climate Change, Consumer demand, Rebound effect, Jevons, Energy efficiency
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Identifying refugia from climate change
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This article highlights how the loose definition of the term ‘refugia’ has led to discrepancies in methods used to assess the vulnerability of species to th...
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Refugia: identifying and understanding safe havens for biodiversity under climate change
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Identifying and protecting refugia is a priority for conservation under pro- jected anthropogenic climate change, because of their demonstrated ability to facil...
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Habitat Refugia: A Practical Strategy to Conserve Biodiversity Under Climate Change
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As climatic zones shift under climate change, many regions and habitats will slowly become climatically unsuit- able for some of the species that currently inha...
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Climate Change Hot Spots Mapped Across the United States
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Taking some of the fuzziness out of climate models is revealing the uneven U.S. impact of future global warming; the most severely affected region may be emergi...
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Downscaling, Climate Change, Regional change, Climate Impacts, Hot spots
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Accounting for Environmental Assets
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A country can cut down its forests, erode its soils, pollute its aquifers and hunt its wildlife and fisheries to extinction, but its measured income is not affe...
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Environmental asset loss, Erosion, Human civilization, Impoverishment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Fish, Deforestation, Fisheries, Resource Indicators, Cost...
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Carbon Mitigation by Biofuels or by Saving and Restoring Forests?
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The carbon sequestered by restoring forests is greater than the emissions avoided by the use of the liquid biofuels.
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Biofuel, Environmental economics, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Biomass, Conservation priority, Bioenergy, Soil organic matter, Carbon storage, Car...
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Large Woody Debris and Salmonid Habitat in the Anchor River Basin, Alaska
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A widespread and intense spruce beetle outbreak during the 1990s has killed most of the mature white spruce (Picea glauca) trees across many watersheds in south...
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Road network density correlated with increased lightning fire incidence in the Canadian western boreal forest
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This paper quantifies the influence of anthropogenic linear disturbances on fire ignition frequency in the boreal forests of western Canada. Specifically, we te...
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A holistic approach to climate targets
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An assessment of allowable carbon emissions that factors in multiple climate targets finds smaller permissible emission budgets than those inferred from studies...
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Biodiversity, Predicted change, Models, Climate Change, Greenhouse gases, Heat, Emissions, Permissible emissions, Ecosystems, Acidification, coupled systems, Ho...
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Both population size and patch quality affect local extinctions and colonizations
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Currently, the habitat of many species is fragmented, resulting in small local populations with individuals occasionally dispersing between the remaining habita...
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Biodiversity, Large population of pollinator plants, Extinction risk, Metapopulation, Climate Change, Patch size, Solitary bees, Colonization, Bees, Population ...
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Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species
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Species distributions have shifted in response to global warming in all major ecosystems on the Earth. Despite cogent evidence for these changes, the underlying...
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Sea temperature, Temperature sensitivity, Thermal range, Temperature, Thermal limits, Climate Change, Marine fisheries, Heat wave, Range contraction, Marine eco...
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Ecosystem Disturbance, Carbon, and Climate
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Models of climate change effects should incorporate land-use changes and episodic disturbances such as fires and insect epidemics.
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Disturbance, Land atmosphere coupling, Insects, Climate Change, Land Use, Forests, Carbon cycle, Land management, Ecosystems, Carbon storage, Land use change, C...
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