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Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires?
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Higher spring and summer temperatures and earlier snowmelt are extending the wildfire season and increasing the intensity of wildfires in the western United Sta...
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Approaching the Limits: A book review in Science
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Excerpts: "In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil traces the historical development of human consumption of biological resources and evaluates whether we coul...
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Habitat quality, Food Security, Human civilization, Global patterns, Consumption, Land cover, Climate Change, Plant growth, Food suppy, Net primary productivity...
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A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere
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Terrestrial net primary (plant) production provides a measurable boundary for human consumption of Earth’s biological resources.
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Agriculture, Ecosystem Services, Climate Impacts, Human civilization, Temperature, Consumption, Carbon cycle, Climate Change, Land Use, Food suppy, Net primary ...
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Southward movement of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone AD 1400–1850
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Closing sentence of the abstract : We conclude that small changes in Earth’s radiation budget may profoundly affect tropical rainfall.
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Population Dynamical Consequences of Climate Change for a Small Temperate Songbird
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Predicting the effects of an expected climatic change requires estimates and modeling of stochastic factors as well as density-dependent effects in the populati...
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Contemporary ocean warming and freshwater conditions are related to later sea age at maturity in Atlantic salmon spawning in Norwegian rivers
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Atlantic salmon populations are reported to be declining throughout its range, raising major management concerns. Variation in adult fish abundance may be due t...
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Sea temperature, Habitat quality, Seasonality, Climate Change, Marine fisheries, Marine ecosystems, Rivers, Streams, Migration, Salmonid, Freshwater conditions,...
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Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands
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Predation by exotic species has caused the extinction of many native animal species on islands, whereas competition from exotic plants has caused few native pla...
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Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment
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Catastrophic ecological regime shifts may be announced in advance by statistical early warning signals such as slowing return rates from perturbation and rising...
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Critical slowing down, Early warning signs, Aquatic ecosystems, Climate Change, Lakes, Climate Impacts, Catastrophic shift, Regime shift
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Education for a Sustainable Future
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Sustainability is being integrated into higher-education institutions’ mission and planning, curricula, research, student life, and operations.
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Climate Change, Sustainability
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Biodiversity in a Warmer World
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A new framework helps to understand how species ranges change under global warming.
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Forest mortality, Biodiversity, Extinction risk, Climate Change, Range shift, Forests, Dispersal, Drought effects, Extremes, Climate Impacts, Migration, Dieback...
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Impacts of Climatic Change and Fishing on Pacific Salmon Abundance Over the Past 300 Years
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The effects of climate variability on Pacific salmon abundance are uncertain because historical records are short and are complicated by commercial har- vesting...
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
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Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, bio...
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Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
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Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists s...
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Habitat quality, Fuelwood collection, Climate Impacts, Feedback, Human priorities, Climate Change, Coupled, Forests, Global warming, Trophic interactions, Compl...
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The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity
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Several states and countries have adopted targets for deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but there has been little physically realistic modeli...
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Homo economicus Evolves
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Economic models can benefit from incorporating insights from psychology, but behavior in the lab might be a poor guide to real-world behavior.
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More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century
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A global coupled climate model shows that there is a distinct geographic pattern to future changes in heat waves. Model results for areas of Europe and North Am...
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From Death Comes Life: Recovery and Revolution in the Wake of Epidemic Outbreaks of Mountain Pine Beetle
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Excerpt : “Part of the initial increase in nutrients and moisture under dead and dying trees is due to reduced uptake,” Rhoades says. “But the sick and d...
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Impacts Research Seen As Next Climate Frontier
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Scientists hope the next U.S. president will devote more of the billion-dollar
climate change research program to impacts
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Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics
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Many studies suggest that global warming is driving species ranges poleward and toward higher
elevations at temperate latitudes, but evidence for range shifts ...
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Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA
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We provide a century-scale view of small-mammal responses to global warming, without
confounding effects of land-use change, by repeating Grinnell’s early–...
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