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Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960
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Seasonal variations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Northern Hemisphere have increased since the 1950s, but sparse observations have prevented a clea...
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CO2, Carbon stocks, Gas exchange, High latitude, Climate Change, Altitude, Carbon flux, Greenhouse gases, Forests, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon cycle, Mid...
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Pathways for Conservation
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NEXT WEEK, CONSERVATION SCIENTISTS WILL GATHER AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR
Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Baltimore, Maryland, to grapple with the challe...
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A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
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Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is
unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by ...
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Climate Change, Heat, Temperature, Holocene
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Is Embracing Change Our Best Bet?
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Restoration ecology and conservation
biology are both under pressure to
adapt to accelerated anthropogenic
global change. Pristine areas free from human
inf...
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Hell and High Water: PracticeRelevant Adaptation Science
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Adaptation requires science that analyzes decisions, identifies vulnerabilities, improves foresight, and develops options
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Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities
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Organisms are expected to adapt or move in response to climate change, but observed
distribution shifts span a wide range of directions and rates. Explanations...
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Monsoon Melee
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The rhythms of life across South Asia depend on the Indian monsoon. Climate scientists
are locking horns over the cause of the summer deluges
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Climate Change Conversations
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THE THOUSANDS OF PRESENTATIONS AT NEXT WEEK’S MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) in New Orleans exemplify one of the many ways scientists converse...
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Human decision making, Human civilization, Climate and society, Climate Change, Scientific responsibility, Science and society, Human Dimensions
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The Global Plight of Pollinators
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Wild pollinators are in decline, and managed
honeybees cannot compensate for their loss.
29 MARCH 2013 VOL 339 SCIENCE
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Wildlife decline and social conflict
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Policies aimed at reducing
wildlife-related conflict
must address the
underlying causes
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Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss
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The extent to which biodiversity change in local assemblages contributes to global biodiversity
loss is poorly understood. We analyzed 100 time series from bio...
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Diversity loss, Biodiversity, Diversity, Habitat, Homogenization, Community composition, Climate Change, Range shift, Conservation priority, Models, Conservatio...
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From Past to Future Warming
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Analyses of past observations help to
predict the human contribution to future
climate change.
21 FEBRUARY 2014 VOL 343 SCIENCE
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Carbon Market Lessons and Global Policy Outlook
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Summary: Ongoing work on linking markets and mixing policies builds on successes and failures in pricing and trading carbon. Closing sentence, 1st paragraph: Ar...
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Cap and trade, Environmental economics, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Carbon market, Cost benefit analysis, Carbon trading, Economic risk(s), Carbon polic...
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Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores
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The largest terrestrial species in the order Carnivora are wide-ranging and rare
because of their positions at the top of food webs. They are some of the world...
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Coupling of CO2 and Ice Sheet Stability Over Major Climate Transitions of the Last 20 Million Years
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During the Middle Miocene, when temperatures were ~3° to 6°C warmer and sea level 25 to 40 meters higher than present, pCO2 was similar to modern levels.
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CO2, Coupling, Climate Change, Sea level, Climate sensitivity, Ice, Middle Miocene, Temperature
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Changes in Wind Pattern Alter Albatross Distribution and Life-History Traits
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Westerly winds in the Southern Ocean have increased in intensity and moved poleward. Using
long-term demographic and foraging records, we show that foraging ra...
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Foraging, Food suppy, Foraging performance, Southern Ocean, Movement, Climate Impacts, Range shift, Body mass, Westerly winds, Habitat quality, Albatross, Forag...
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Freshwater Methane Emissions Offset the Continental Carbon Sink
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Acornerstone of our understanding of the
contemporary global carbon cycle is that
the terrestrial land surface is an important
greenhouse gas (GHG) sink (1, ...
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Not All About Consumption
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Resource exploitation can lead to increased
ecological impacts even when overall
consumption levels stay the same
15 March 2013 VOL 339 SCIENCE
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Defaunation in the Anthropocene
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We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species
and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abunda...
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Habitat quality, Human population, Global patterns, Habitat loss, Human-occupied landscapes, Biodiversity loss, Habitat destruction, Sixth Mass Extinction, glob...
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How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?
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The most recent and complex bioclimate
models excel at describing species’ current
distributions. Yet, it is unclear which models
will best predict how cli...
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