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Biodiversity Under Global Change
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Many common plant species, such as prairie grasses, have evolved traits for the efficient capture and use of two key resources that limit terrestrial productivi...
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Diversity loss, Biodiversity, Aquatic ecosystems, Nitrogen yield, Community composition, Climate Change, Nitrogen fertilization, Plant community, CO2 fertilizat...
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Peatland Response to Global Change
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Peatlands can buffer the impact of external
perturbations, but can also rapidly shift to a
new ecosystem type, with large gains or losses
of stored carbon.
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Amid Worrisome Signs of Warming, ‘Climate Fatigue’ Sets In
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As scientists debate whether climate is changing faster than anticipated, some worry that a
drumbeat of dire warnings may be helping to erode U.S. public conce...
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Dire warnings, Environmental asset loss, Climate Change, CO2, Extreme risk, Public opinion, Dangerous, Attitude, Climate Impacts, Energy Forecast, Extremes, Env...
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Biodiversity and Climate Change
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Efforts to elucidate the effect of climate change on biodiversity with detailed data sets and refined models reach novel conclusions.
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Habitat quality, Biodiversity, Models, Climate Change, Land Use, Climate Impacts, CO2 fertilization
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Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest
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Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as
anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate c...
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Ecosystem Services, Climate Impacts, Feedback, Land atmosphere coupling, Climate and society, Climate Change, Economics, Watersheds, Biomass, Global warming, Fo...
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The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time
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Flowering time is a complex trait that controls adaptation of plants to their local environment in
the outcrossing species Zea mays (maize). We dissected varia...
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A-maize-ing Diversity
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Analysis of a new maize resource reveals that a large number of genetic loci with small effects may underlie the wide variation seen in traits such as flowering...
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Genetic loci, Food Security, Diversity, Climate Change, Land Use, Food suppy, Corn crop diversity, Flowering time, Agriculture
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Phenology Feedbacks on Climate Change
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A longer growing season as a result of climate
change will in turn affect climate through
biogeochemical and biophysical effects.
SCIENCE VOL 324
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Risks of Climate Engineering
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Observations indicate that attempts to limit climate
warming by reducing incoming shortwave radiation risk
major precipitation changes.
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Seasons and Life Cycles
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A conceptual framework. This table is a guide to determining how individual species are responding to an extended growing
season by observing the duration of p...
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The Last Glacial Maximum
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We used 5704 14C, 10Be, and 3
He ages that span the interval from 10,000 to 50,000 years ago
(10 to 50 ka) to constrain the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum...
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Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America
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Although the North American megafaunal extinctions and the formation of novel plant communities are
well-known features of the last deglaciation, the causal re...
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Megafaunal Decline and Fall
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Declines in North American megafauna
populations began before the Clovis period
and were the cause, not the result, of
vegetation changes and increased fires...
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Warming Up Food Webs
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How do predator-prey interactions influence Warming Up Food Webs ecosystem responses to climate change?
VOL 323 SCIENCE
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and ForestDegradation: Global Land-Use Implications
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Recent climate talks in Bali have made progress toward action on deforestation and forest degradation
in developing countries, within the anticipated post-Kyot...
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Ecological Restoration in the Light of Ecological History
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Ecological history plays many roles in ecological restoration, most notably as a tool to identify and
characterize appropriate targets for restoration efforts....
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Novel ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, Restoration, No-analog communities, Ecosystems
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Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?
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Climate change undermines a basic assumption
that historically has facilitated management of
water supplies, demands, and risks.
SCIENCE VOL 319
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A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade
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Estimates of Earth's climate sensitivity are uncertain, largely because of uncertainty in the
long-term cloud feedback. I estimated the magnitude of the cloud ...
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Climate Impacts, Land atmosphere coupling, Climate Change, Radiation, Heat, Positive feedback, Cloud feedback
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Modeling Effects of Environmental Change on Wolf Population Dynamics, Trait Evolution, and Life History
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Environmental change has been observed to generate simultaneous responses in population dynamics,
life history, gene frequencies, and morphology in a number of...
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Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate
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Climate change is predicted to become a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st century,
but accurate predictions and effective solutions have proved difficul...
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Habitat quality, Biodiversity, Aquatic ecosystems, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Marine ecosystems
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