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Correlations among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa
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This paper explores whether spatial variation in the biodiversity values of vertebrates and plants (species richness, range-size rarity and number or proportion...
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Habitat quality, Biodiversity, Human population, Habitat, Habitat loss, Human-occupied landscapes, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Species richness, Hum...
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Buried by bad decisions
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From the text: Alas, research shows that when human beings make decisions, they tend to focus on what they are getting and forget about what we are forgoing.
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Biodiversity, Human civilization, Biosphere, Climate Change, Cost benefit analysis, Human decision making, Conservation, Managers, Management, Climate Impacts, ...
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function
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Using historic data sets, we quantified the degree to which global change over 120 years disrupted plant-pollinator interactions in a temperate forest understor...
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Global Warming: Why Business is Taking it So Seriously.
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Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO[...
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Biodiversity Risks from Fossil Fuel Extraction
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The overlapping of biodiverse areas and fossil fuel reserves indicates high-risk regions.
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Diversity loss, Fragmentation, Climate Impacts, Extinction risk, Consumption, Fossil fuel, Climate Change, Cumulative, Fracking, CO2, Disturbance, Biodiversity,...
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What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States?
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Scientific interest in carbon sequestration on rangelands is largely driven by their extent, while the interest of ranchers in the United States centers on oppo...
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Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks
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Old-growth forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere1,2 at rates that vary with climate and nitrogen deposition3. The seques- tered carbon dioxide is st...
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Public land, timber harvests, and climate mitigation: Quantifying carbon sequestration potential on U.S. public timberlands
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Scientists and policy makers have long recognized the role that forests can play in countering the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas...
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C4 Photosynthesis: Differentiating Causation and Coincidence
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Determination of the historical causes of organismal adaptations is difficult, but a recent study has suggested that at least one of the transitions to C4 photo...
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Climate Change, C4 photosynthesis, Climate Adaptation
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Changes in Avian and Plant Communities of Aspen Woodlands over 12 Years after Livestock Removal in the Northwestern Great Basin
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Riparian and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) woodlands are centers of avian abundance and diversity in the western United States, but they have been affecte...
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Riparian Habitat Restoration, Livestock production, Riparian woodlands, Livestock grazing, Riparian shrubs, Avian abundance, Habitat recovery, Nests overstory, ...
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Understanding Interaction Effects of Climate Change and Fire Management on Bird Distributions through Combined Process and Habitat Models
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Avian conservation efforts must account for changes in vegetation composition and structure associated with climate change. We modeled vegetation change and the...
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A megacity in a changing climate: the case of Kolkata
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Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest that there will be an increase in the frequency and intensity of climate extremes in the 21...
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Megacity, Human civilization, Temperature, Urban flooding, Precipitation, Climate Change, Watersheds, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Terrestrial pre...
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Investment, transformation and leadership CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2013 On behalf of 722 investors representing US$87 trillion in assets
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Sample text : Fears are increasing over future climate change impacts as we see more extreme weather events, Hurricane Sandy the most noted with damages totall...
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Thinking Long Term
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Thousand-year records of animal population patterns and climate yield insights into the impacts of environmental change.
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OCEAN–ATMOSPHERE COUPLING Mesoscale eddy effects
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1st paragraph: Because of its enormous heat capacity, the ocean plays a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate. Up to about a decade ago, it was gene...
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Suppressing Impacts of the Amazonian Deforestation by the Global Circulation Change
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Analyzing the Global Historical Climatology Network, outgoing longwave radiation, and NCEP–NCAR reanalysis data over the Amazon Basin, the authors find a clea...
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WWF: China Ecological Footprint Report 2012 Consumption, Production and Sustainable Development
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From the Executive Summary p. 3 : "We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to halt th...
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Environmental economics, Ecological footprint, Human population, Consumption, Human-occupied landscapes, Climate Change, Greenhouse gas accounting, Lifestyle, G...
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Genetic signatures of a demographic collapse in a large-bodied forest dwelling primate
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It is difficult to predict how current climate change will affect wildlife species adapted to a tropical rainforest environment. Understanding how population dy...
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A statistical procedure to determine recent climate change of extreme daily meteorological data as applied at two locations in Northwestern North America
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An iterative chi-square method is applied to determine recent climate change of extremes of daily minimum temperature at two locations between an 18- year recen...
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Extreme scenarios, Climate Change, Heat, Extremes, Temperature
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A century of climate and ecosystem change in Western Montana: what do temperature trends portend?
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Abstract The physical science linking human-induced increases ingreenhouse gasses to the warming of the global climate system is well established, but the impl...
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Freeze thaw, CO2, Temperature, Habitat, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Watersheds, Forests, Snow cover, Greenhouse gases, Heat, Climate Impacts, Federa...
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