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Biodiversity gains from efficient use of private sponsorship for flagship species conservation
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To address the global extinction crisis, both efficient use of existing conservation funding and new sources of funding are vital. Private sponsorship of charis...
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Biodiversity, Private Sponsorship, Climate Change, flagship species, Threatened species, Extinction
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Climate: Sawyer predicted rate of warming in 1972
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Excerpt: "In four pages Sawyer summarized what was known about the role of carbon dioxide in enhancing the natural greenhouse effect, and made a remarkable pred...
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CO2, Predicted change, Temperature, Climate Change, Energy, Fossil fuel combustion, Greenhouse gases, Sawyer, Heat, Rates of change, Emissions
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Growing feedback from ocean carbon to climate
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The finding that feedbacks between the ocean’s carbon cycle and climate may
become larger than terrestrial carbon–climate feedbacks has implications for th...
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Carbon sink, Temperature, Coupled, Climate Change, Feedback, Oceans, Sequestration, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon stocks, Carbon cycle, Atmosphere-ocean co...
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Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak
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Network analysis offers insight into the structure and function of ecological
communities, but little is known about how empirical networks change over time du...
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Disturbance, Forest dieoff, Cavity, Forests, Snag, Mortality, Models, Nesting, Scientific Publications, Legacy effect, Squirrels, Habitat quality, Biodiversity,...
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Impacts of mountaintop mining on terrestrial ecosystem integrity: identifying landscape thresholds for avian species in the central Appalachians, United States
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Reclaimed mine-dominated landscapes (less forest and more grassland/shrubland cover) elicited more negative (57 %) than positive (39 %) species responses. Negat...
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Habitat quality, Mining, Minelands, Habitat loss, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Land Use, Forests, Appalachia, Land use change, Deforestation, Coal Mi...
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Are conservation organizations configured for effective adaptation to global change?
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Conservation organizations must adapt to respond to the ecological impacts of global change. Numerous
changes to conservation actions (eg facilitated ecologica...
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Conservation organizations, Management, Predicted change, Temperature, Climate Adaptation, Federal, NGO, Connectivity improvement, Carbon policy, Adaptive manag...
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A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
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Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do so in the
future. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or seve...
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Predicted change, Temperature, Land cover, Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, GHG, Plant growth, Mortality, water shortage, Climate Impacts, Carbon star...
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Resampling Methods for Evaluating Classification Accuracy of Wildlife Habitat Models
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Predictive models of wildlife-habitat relationships often have been developed without being tested The
apparent classification accuracy of such models can be o...
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Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments
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As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly fragmented, the
importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservat...
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Corridors, Diversity loss, Biodiversity, Human civilization, Land cover, Climate Change, Habitat Improvement, Connectivity improvement, Individual gardens, Urba...
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Scenarios of future land use change around United States’ protected areas
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Land use change around protected areas can diminish their conservation value, making it important to
predict future land use changes nearby. Our goal was to ev...
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Environmental asset loss, Disturbance, Aquatic ecosystems, Sprawl, Fragmentation, Management, Land Use, Environmental Policy, Habitat degradation, Human civiliz...
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A long-term perspective on a modern drought in the American Southeast
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The depth of the 2006–9 drought in the humid, southeastern US left several metropolitan areas
with only a 60–120 day water supply. To put the region’s re...
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Ecosystem Services, Water conflict, Climate Change, Water supply, Extreme scenarios, Southeastern US, Extremes, Drought effects, Drought, Economic risk(s), Wate...
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Invited Review: Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities
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By altering fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture exchanges between the land surface and atmosphere, forestry and other land-use activities affect climate. Alt...
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Heat exchange, Biodiversity, Managers, Interactions, Climate Change, Land Use, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Forests, Biosphere–atmosphere feedba...
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Reconciling nature conservation and traditional farming practices: a spatially explicit framework to assess the extent of High Nature Value farmlands in the European countryside
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Over past centuries, European landscapes have been shaped by human management. Traditional, low intensity agricultural practices, adapted to local climatic, geo...
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Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Landscape scale, Conservation priority, Landscapes, Conservation value, Conservation Planning, Rural environme...
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Fear of failure in conservation: The problem and potential solutions to aid conservation of extremely small populations
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The potential for extirpation of extremely small populations (ESPs) is high due to their vulnerability to
demographic and environmental stochasticity and negat...
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Conservation organizations, Biodiversity, Human–wildlife interactions, Extinction risk, Human-occupied landscapes, Climate Change, Stakeholder, Fear of failur...
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NatureAmznDrgtDieoff.pdf
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nclimate2512 1.pdf
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nclimate2641.pdf
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ncomms7682 1.pdf
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An Early Energy Crisis and Its Consequences
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In the 16th century Britain ran out o f wood and resorted to coal. The adoption ofthe new fuel set in motion a chain ofevents that culminated some two centuries...
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OxygenExtinction.pdf
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