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Carbon sequestration in the U.S. forest sector from 1990 to 2010
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From 1990 through 2005, the forest sector (including forests and wood products) sequestered an average 162 Tg C year1 . In 2005, 49% of the total forest sector ...
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Carbon stocks, Federal, Forests, Conservation priority, Carbon sequestration, Carbon storage, Forest biomass, Sustainability, Carbon Capture and Storage, Forest...
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A new, global, multi-annual (2000–2007) burnt area product at 1 km resolution Vol. 35
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This paper reports on the development and validation
of a new, global, burnt area product. Burnt areas are
reported at a resolution of 1 km for seven fire yea...
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Wildfire, Carbon sink, Carbon stocks, Forest fire, Climate Change, Land Use, Greenhouse gases, Forests, Carbon cycle, Heat, Climate Impacts, Land atmosphere cou...
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Animal migration amid shifting patterns of phenology and predation: lessons from a Yellowstone elk herd
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Migration is a striking behavioral strategy by which many animals enhance resource acquisition while reducing predation risk. Historically, the demographic bene...
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Elk, Foraging, Movement, Foraging-vigilance trade-off, Climate Impacts, Heat, Drought effects, Ecosystems, Drought, Land use change, Habitat quality, Perceived ...
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The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations
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This paper simulates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on future living
standards in South Africa. I emphasize two competing effects. On the one hand,
the epide...
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Don't Blame the Beetles
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Bark beetles have devastated western forests, but that may not mean more severe fires.
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Forest mortality, Disturbance, Forest dieoff, Forest fire, Climate Change, Conifers, Forests, Forest Management, Forest dieback, Beetle, Drought effects, Diebac...
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Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages
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Mining impacts on stream systems have historically been studied over small spatial scales, yet investigations over large areas may be useful for characterizing ...
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Mining, Aquatic ecosystems, Climate Change, Fish, Streamflow, Land use change, Fisheries, Land surface, Streams, Coal Mining, Landscape scale, Minelands, Land U...
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Nonrandom, diversifying processes are disproportionately strong in the smallest size classes of a tropical forest
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Here, we use one of the world’s longest-running, plot-based forest dynamics projects to compare nonrandom outcomes across stage classes. We considered a cohor...
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Saturation-state sensitivity of marine bivalve larvae to ocean acidification
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Ocean acidification results in co-varying inorganic carbon system variables. Of these, an explicit focus on pH and organismal acid–base regulation has failed ...
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Microhabitats in the tropics buffer temperature in a globally coherent manner
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Vegetated habitats contain a variety of fine-scale features that can ameliorate temperate extremes. These buffered microhabitats may be used by species to evade...
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Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems
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The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and ...
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Challenges of ecological restoration: Lessons from forests in northern Europe
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The alarming rate of ecosystem degradation has raised the need for ecological restoration throughout different biomes and continents. North European forests may...
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Forest restoration, Climate Change, Forest Management, Biodiversity loss, Biomes, Ecological degradation, Habitat degradation
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Rising air and stream-water temperatures in Chesapeake Bay region, USA
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Monthly mean air temperature (AT) at 85 sites and instantaneous stream-water temperature (WT) at 129 sites for 1960–2010 are examined for the mid-Atlantic reg...
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Effect of Risk Aversion on Prioritizing Conservation Projects
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Agencies making decisions about what threat mitigation actions to take to save which species frequently face the dilemma of whether to invest in actions with hi...
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Conservation organizations, Risk tolerance, Human decision making, Managers, Federal, Climate Change, Conservation groups, Conservation priority, Risk aversion,...
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Using and improving the social cost of carbon: Regular, institutionalized updating and review are essential
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The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial tool for economic analysis of climate policies. The SCC estimates the dollar value of reduced climate change damage...
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Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire
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Altered fuels and climate change are transforming fire regimes in many of Earth’s biomes. Postfire reassembly of vegetation – paramount to C storage and bio...
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Untangling human and environmental effects on geographical gradients of mammal species richness: a global and regional evaluation
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1. Different hypotheses (geographical, ecological, evolutionary or a combination of them) have been suggested to account for the spatial variation in species ri...
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Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change
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Understanding how climate change affects natural populations remains one of the greatest challenges for ecology and management of natural resources. Animals can...
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Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave
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Socio-economic stress from the unequivocal warming of the global climate system(1)could be mostly felt by societies through weather and climate extremes (2). Th...
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Dire warnings, Human civilization, Extreme risk, Climate Change, Economics, Heat wave, Extreme scenarios, Heat, Extremes, Atmospheric CO2, Human health, Return ...
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Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change
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The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the ...
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Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism
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Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity crisis1–4 caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogen...
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