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Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset of collapse in mutualistic communities
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Tipping points are crossed when small changes in external conditions cause abrupt unexpected responses in the current state of a system. In the case of ecologic...
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Critical slowing down, Early warning signs, Regime shift, Critical threshold, Climate Change, Community collapse, Abrupt change, Terrestrial ecosystems, Caecili...
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Rapid deposition of oxidized biogenic compounds to a temperate forest
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We report fluxes and dry deposition velocities for 16 atmospheric compounds above a southeastern United States forest, including: hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitr...
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Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
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The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation. Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ur...
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Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics
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Theory predicts a positive relationship between biodiversity and stability in ecosystem properties, while diversity is expected to have a negative impact on sta...
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Controls on Annual Forest Carbon Storage: Lessons from the Past and Predictions for the Future
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The temperate forests of North America may play an important role in future carbon (C) sequestration strategies. New, multiyear, ecosystem-scale C cycling studi...
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Disturbance, Carbon stocks, Forest Management, Climate Change, Forests, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon cycle, Forest biomass, Carbon sequestration, Successi...
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Conservation threats: biofuel
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Biofuels: Europe’s largest conservation charity has launched a campaign to heighten the threat to wildlife habitats and biodiversity from plantations of fuel ...
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Biofuel, Limits, Climate Change, Land Use, Greenhouse gases, Landscapes, Land use change
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Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity
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We summarize the results of 44 experiments that have manipulated the richness of plants to examine how plant diversity affects the production of biomass. We sho...
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Forest fuel reduction alters fire severity and long-term carbon storage in three Pacific Northwest ecosystems
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Abstract. Two forest management objectives being debated in the context of federally managed landscapes in the U.S. Pacific Northwest involve a perceived trade-...
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Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production
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The capacity for forests to aid in climate change mitigation efforts is substantial but will ultimately depend on their management. If forests remain unharveste...
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Temperature, Land cover, Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Carbon stocks, Bioenergy, Biomass burning, Carbon storage, Carbon policy, Biofuel, Climate I...
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Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production
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Strategies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions include substitution of fossil fuel with bioenergy from forests1, where carbon emitted is expected to be recapt...
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From plant to power
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Petrol might yet survive the green revolution. Some investors are taking seriously the con- cept of ‘green gasoline’ — transforming the woody remains of p...
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Do alternative energy sources displace fossil fuels?
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A fundamental, generally implicit, assumption of the Intergov- ernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and many energy analysts is that each unit of energy su...
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Human priorities, Human decision making, Consumption, Climate Change, Economics, Alternative energy, Fossil fuel combustion
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The Biofuels Landscape Through the Lens of Industrial Chemistry
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Replacing petroleum feedstock with biomass in the production of fuels and value-added chemicals carries considerable appeal. As in industrial chemistry more bro...
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Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma
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Exploiting multiple feedstocks, under new policies and accounting rules, to balance biofuel production, food security, and greenhouse-gas reduction.
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Food Security, Biofuel, Climate Change, Carbon flux, Forests, CO2, Carbon cycle, Bioenergy, Ecosystems, Food suppy, Agriculture
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Implications of Limiting CO2 Concentrations for Land Use and Energy
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Limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations to low levels requires strategies to manage anthropogenic carbon emissions from terrestrial systems as ...
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Virtual Hot Spots
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Physiological ecologists who design computer models to predict how animals handle heat are forecasting the effects of climate change
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Roles and Effects of Environmental Carbon Dioxide in Insect Life
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Key Words
behavior, olfaction, antennal lobe, herbivory, oviposition
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a ubiquitous sensory cue that plays mul- tiple roles in...
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Can Plants Adapt? New Questions in Climate Change Research
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As it becomes increasingly apparent that human activities are partly responsible for global warming, the focus of climate change research is shifting from the c...
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Acceleration, Greenup browndown, Biodiversity, Climate Adaptation, Interactions, Climate Change, Thresholds, Carbon flux, Abrupt change, Biophysical processes, ...
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Montane meadow change during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group
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Key words:drought; forbs; hydrological gradient; plant community; woody plants.
Abstract. Climate change models for many ecosystems predict more extreme climat...
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A Large-Scale Deforestation Experiment: Effects of Patch Area and Isolation on Amazon Birds
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As compared with extensive contiguous areas, small isolated habitat patches lack many species. Some species disappear after isolation; others are rarely found i...
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Fragmentation, Disturbance, Metapopulation, Climate Change, Patch size, Forests, Dispersal, Colonization, Deforestation, Distribution, Extinction, Birds, Island...
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