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Tangled Trends for Temperate Rain Forests as Temperatures Tick Up
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Climate change is altering growing
conditions in the temperate rain forest
region that extends from northern California
to the Gulf of Alaska. Longer,
warme...
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The Role of Local Governance and Institutions in Livelihoods Adaptation to Climate Change
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The most important implications of climate change from the perspective of the
World Bank concern its potentially disastrous impacts on the prospects for develo...
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Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservation
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Temperature controls the rate of fundamental biochemical processes
and thereby regulates organismal attributes including development
rate and survival. The in...
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Politics for the day after tomorrow: The logic of apocalypse in global climate politics
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The recent global climate change discourse is a prominent example of a securitization of environmental
issues. While the problem is often framed in the languag...
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Prolonged suppression of ecosystem carbon dioxide uptake after an anomalously warm year
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Terrestrial ecosystems control carbon dioxide fluxes to and from
the atmosphere1,2 through photosynthesis and respiration, a balance
between net primary produ...
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Aeolian process effects on vegetation communities in an arid grassland ecosystem
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Many arid grassland communities are changing from grass dominance to shrub
dominance, but the mechanisms involved in this conversion process are not completely...
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Land cover, Temperature, Habitat, Shrub expansion, Climate Change, Land Use, Aeolian sediment transport, Watersheds, Sustainability, Heat, Grasslands to shrubla...
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Coupling of Vegetation Growing Season Anomalies and Fire Activity with Hemispheric and Regional-Scale Climate Patterns in Central and East Siberia
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An 18-yr time series of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) taken in by
the green parts of vegetation data from the NOAA Advan...
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Fire frequency, Coupling, Forest fire, High latitude, Fire, Climate Change, Arctic oscillation, El Nino, Growing season, Terrestrial ecosystems, Vegetation, Gre...
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Illuminating the Modern Dance of Climate and CO2
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Records of Earth’s past climate imply higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in the future
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Soil Temperature following Logging-Debris Manipulation and Aspen Regrowth in Minnesota: Implications for Sampling Depth and Alteration of Soil Processes
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Soil temperature is a fundamental controller of processes influencing the
transformation and flux of soil C and nutrients following forest harvest. Soil
tempe...
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Climate-induced changes in the small mammal communities of the Northern Great Lakes Region
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We use museum and other collection records to document large and extraordinarily rapid
changes in the ranges and relative abundance of nine species of mammals ...
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Movement ecology, Niche tracking, Climate Change, Landscape scale, Range shift, Dispersal, Terrestrial ecosystems, Heat, Thermal range, Small mammals, Mammals, ...
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Linking climate change to lemming cycles
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The population cycles of rodents at northern latitudes have puzzled
people for centuries1,2
, and their impact is manifest throughout the
alpine ecosystem2,3...
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Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover
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Snow cover duration in a seasonally snow covered
mountain range (San Juan Mountains, USA) was found to
be shortened by 18 to 35 days during ablation through
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The Historical Dynamics of Socio-ecological Traps
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Environmental degradation is a typical unintended
outcome of collective human behavior. Hardin’s
metaphor of the ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ has beco...
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The influence of conversion of forest types on carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services in the South Central United States
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This paper develops a forestland management model for the three states in the South Central United States (Arkansas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi). Forest type a...
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Understanding Soil Time
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Efforts to maintain soils in a sustainable
manner are complicated by interactions among
soil components that respond to perturbation
at vastly different rate...
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An Uncertain Future for Soil Carbon
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Predictions of how rapidly the large amounts of carbon stored as soil organic matter will respond to warming
are highly uncertain (1). Organic matter plays a k...
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Carbon stocks, Decay, Land cover, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Land surface, Decomposition, Soil organic matter,...
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Impact of terrestrial biosphere carbon exchanges on the anomalous CO2 increase in 2002–2003
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Understanding the carbon dynamics of the terrestrial
biosphere during climate fluctuations is a prerequisite for
any reliable modeling of the climate-carbon c...
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Emerging Techniques for Soil Carbon measurements
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Soil carbon sequestration is one approach to mitigate greenhouse gases. However, to reliably
assess the quantities sequestered as well as the chemical structur...
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Carbon stocks, Soil carbon, Land cover, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Atmospheric CO2, Soil organic matter, Carbon storage, Climate Impacts, Carbon Capture ...
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Protected Areas as Frontiers for Human Migration
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Causes of human population growth near protected areas have been much debated. We conducted
821 interviews in 16 villages around Budongo Forest Reserve, Masind...
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Barking up the Wrong Tree? Forest Sustainability in the wake of Emerging Bioenergy Policies
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The spotted owl controversy revealed that federal forest management policies alone could not guarantee functioning forest ecosystems. At the same time as the ow...
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Carbon sink, Carbon stocks, Sustainability, Federal, Climate Change, Energy, Carbon flux, Forests, Land use change, Carbon cycle, Bioenergy, Federal lands, Land...
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