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From Individual Dispersal to Species Ranges: Perspectives for a Changing World
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Dispersal is often risky to the individual, yet the long-term survival of populations depends on having a sufficient number of individuals that move, find each ...
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How Does It Feel to Be Like a Rolling Stone? Ten Questions About Dispersal Evolution
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This review proposes ten tentative answers to frequently asked ques- tions about dispersal evolution. I examine methodological issues, model assumptions and pre...
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The effect of changing climate on the frequency of absolute extreme events
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n some areas of climate impact analysis, the possible impact of a changing mean
climate has been dismissed by some writers either because of a belief that soci...
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Vegetation Responses to Extreme Hydrological Events: Sequence Matters
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Extreme hydrological events such as flood and drought drive vegetation dynamics and are projected to increase in frequency in association with climate change, w...
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Climatic extremes improve predictions of spatial patterns of tree species
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Understanding niche evolution, dynamics, and the response of species to climate change requires knowledge of the determinants of the environmental niche and spe...
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Niche, Climate Impacts, Range limits, Limits, Niche tracking, Climate Change, Range shift, Forests, Trees, Extreme scenarios, Terrestrial ecosystems, Extremes, ...
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Tree spatial patterns in fire-frequent forests of western North America, including mechanisms of pattern formation and implications for designing fuel reduction and restoration treatments
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Restoring characteristic fire regimes and forest structures are central objectives of many restoration and fuel reduction projects. Within-stand spatial pattern...
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Are there basic physical constraints on future anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide?
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Here, it is shown both theoretically and observationally how the evolution of the human system can be considered from a surprisingly simple thermodynamic perspe...
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Human population, Limits, Consumption, Fossil fuel, Climate Change, Energy, Standard of living, Growth, Energy Forecast, Emissions, Demand, Consumer demand, Car...
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Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems
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Understanding the relationship between diversity and stability requires a knowledge of how species interact with each other and how each is affected by the envi...
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Projected climate-induced faunal change in the Western Hemisphere
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Climate change is predicted to be one of the greatest drivers of ecological change in the coming century. Increases in temperature over the last century have cl...
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Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments
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During the decline to extinction, animal populations may present dynamical phenomena not exhibited by robust populations (1,2). Some of these phenomena, such as...
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Environmental change, Habitat quality, Critical slowing down, Early warning signs, Extinction risk, Imminent extinction, Critical threshold, Climate Change, Thr...
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Space observations of inland water bodies show rapid surface warming since 1985
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Surface temperatures were extracted from nighttime thermal infrared imagery of 167 large inland water bodies distributed worldwide beginning in 1985 for the mon...
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Non-equilibrium succession dynamics indicate continued northern migration of lodgepole pine
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This study provides evidence of range expansion under current climatic conditions of an indigenous species with strong ecosystem effects. Surveys of stands alon...
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Poleward expansion, Lag time, Range limits, Range expansion, Fire, Climate Change, Range shift, Dispersal, High latitude, Migration, Succession, Pine
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Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change
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A change in climate would be expected to shift plant distribution as species expand in newly favorable areas and decline in increas- ingly hostile locations. We...
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Impact of terrestrial biosphere carbon exchanges on the anomalous CO2 increase in 2002–2003
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In general, we find that the remarkable feature of the 2002– 2003 anomaly seems to be that climate fluctuations, not only related to ...
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Another reason for concern: regional and global impacts on ecosystems for different levels of climate change
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Between 1C and 2C increases in global mean temperatures most species, ecosystems and landscapes will be impacted and adaptive capacity will become limit...
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Acceleration, Decline, Biodiversity, Temperature, Models, Climate Change, Heat, CO2, Limit to adaptation, Ecosystems, Landscapes, Species
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A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record
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We analysed the fossil record for the last 520 Myr against estimates of low latitude sea surface temperature for the same period. We found that global biodivers...
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Biodiversity, Temperature, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Fossil record, Low latitude sea surface temperature, Marine ecosystems, Sustainability, Heat,...
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Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change
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The pivotal question in the debate on the ecological effects of climate change is whether species will be able to adapt fast enough to keep up with their changi...
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Quantifying the Extent of North American Mammal Extinction Relative to the Pre-Anthropogenic Baseline
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Earth has experienced five major extinction events in the past 450 million years. Many scientists suggest we are now witnessing a sixth, driven by human impacts...
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Changes in climate and land use have a larger direct impact than rising CO2 on global river runoff trends
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The significant worldwide increase in observed river runoff has been tentatively attributed to the stomatal ‘‘antitranspirant’’ response of plants to ri...
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Streamflow, CO2 fertilization, Regional runoff, Transpiration, Climate Change, Land Use, Terrestrial precipitation, Runoff, Land surface, Land management, Atmos...
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The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge
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Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conserva...
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