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UrbanBatsgcb12884.pdf
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Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs
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In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean
sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be dri...
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Habitat quality, Non-linear, Human population, Climate and society, Land cover, Climate Change, Land Use, Human-occupied landscapes, Greenhouse gases, Land use ...
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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene
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Despite recent observational, experimental, and modeling studies suggesting increased vulnerability of trees to hotter drought and associated pests and pathogen...
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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene
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Despite recent observational, experimental, and modeling studies suggesting increased vulnerability of trees to hotter drought and associated pests and pathogen...
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tree mortality, insect pests, Temperature, Climate Change, Forests, Heat, Carbon starvation, woodlands, Pathogens, Drought, CO2 fertilization, Hydraulic failure...
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Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing water availability
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Here, we reveal temporally increasing tree mortality across all study species over the last three decades in the central boreal forests of Canada, where long-te...
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Forest mortality, tree mortality, Ecosystem Services, Forest dieoff, Climate Change, Forests, Global warming, Sustainability, Heat, Water deficit, Drought effec...
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Bird Richness and Abundance in Response to Urban Form in a Latin American City
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There is mounting evidence that urban areas influence biodiversity. Generalizations how- ever require that multiple urban areas on multiple continents be examin...
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Habitat quality, Wetlands, Birds, Habitat, urban rural edge, building density, Land Use, domestic garden space, Connectivity improvement, impermeable surface, g...
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Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth
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Here, we show that in contrast to arctic regions, increased growing season vegetation activity over the TP may have attenuated surface warming. This negative fe...
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Land atmosphere coupling, Hydrology, Temperature, Evaporative cooling, Coupled, Climate Change, Albedo, Sustainability, Land surface, Systems, High elevation, N...
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Global change and the groundwater management challenge
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With rivers in critical regions already exploited to capacity throughout the world and ground- water overdraft as well as large-scale contamination occurring in...
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Seawater intrusion, Depletion, Environmental Policy, Food Security, Water, Sustainability, Water quality, Ecosystem Services, Hydrology, Subsidence, Land atmosp...
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THE COST OF INACTION: RECOGNISING THE VALUE AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
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The asset management industry—and thus the wider community of investors of all sizes— is facing the prospect of significant losses from the effects of clima...
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Asset prices, Climate Impacts, Extreme risk, Models, Climate Change, Extreme scenarios, Economic loss, global change, Extremes, Infrastructure damage, Property,...
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Human mining activity across the ages determines the genetic structure of modern brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations
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Humans have exploited the earth’s metal resources for thousands of years leaving behind a legacy of toxic metal contamination and poor water quality. The sout...
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Habitat quality, Mining, Genetics, Habitat, Genetic bottleneck, Climate Change, Fish, Watersheds, Recreational Fishing, Rivers, Land surface, Streams, Water qua...
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Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains
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Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme ...
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Wildfire, Charcoal, Lake sediment, Temperature, Forest fire, Climate Change, Watersheds, Forests, Global warming, Sustainability, global change, Extremes, woodl...
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Duality in climate science
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Delivery of palatable 2 °C mitigation scenarios depends on speculative negative emissions or changing the past. Scientists must make their assumptions transpar...
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Climate Impacts, Extreme risk, Models, Climate Change, CCS, Research, Extreme scenarios, Environmental Policy, Speculation, Carbon Capture and Storage, Technolo...
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How life shaped Earth
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Earth is much more complex than all the other solar system objects that we know. Thanks to its rich and diverse geology, our planet can offer habitats to a wide...
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Biodiversity, Temperature, Geology, Climate Change, Species richness, global change, Biological Assessment, coupled systems, Geological diversity
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Integration and scaling of UV-B radiation effects on plants: from DNA to leaf
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A process-based model integrating the effects of UV-B radiation through epidermis, cellular DNA, and its consequences to the leaf expansion was developed from k...
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DNA damage, Food Security, DNA, Cell division, Climate Change, UV-B radiation, Stratosphere, Ozone, global change, Vegetation, Genetics, Agriculture, Leaf growt...
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Uncertainty in the response of transpiration to CO2 and implications for climate change
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While terrestrial precipitation is a societally highly relevant climate variable, there is little consensus among climate models about its projected 21st centur...
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Ecosystem Services, CO2, Hydrology, Land atmosphere coupling, Transpiration, Models, Climate Change, Streamflow, Precipitation, Rivers, Aquifer, Groundwater, Ru...
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Multi-year drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in Southeastern US forests
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Recent forest diebacks combined with threats of future drought focus attention on the extent to which tree death is caused by catastrophic events as opposed to ...
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Adaptive management, tree mortality, Forest dieoff, Climate Change, Cumulative, Forests, Water supply, Carbon Capture and Storage, Growth, Sequestration, Water ...
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The influence of contextual cues on the perceived status of consumption-reducing behavior
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The question of whether and when behaviors that reduce overall consumption are associated with low status has not been adequately explored. Previous research su...
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Status, Ecosystem Services, Consumption, Public opinion, Attitude, Conservation, Behavior, Status seeking, Human Dimensions
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Reform forest fire management: Agency incentives undermine policy effectiveness
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Globally, wildfire size, severity, and frequency have been increasing, as have related fatalities and taxpayer- funded firefighting costs (1). In most accessibl...
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Wildfire, Climate Impacts, Temperature, Forest fire, urban rural edge, Climate Change, Reform, Extreme scenarios, Policy, Heat, Management, Wildland Fire, Econo...
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Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States
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Federal lands across the conterminous United States (CONUS) account for 23.5% of the CONUS terrestrial area but have received no systematic studies on their eco...
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Wildfire, Ecosystem Services, Climate Impacts, Temperature, Land atmosphere coupling, Federal, Climate Change, Forests, Sequestration, Carbon Capture and Storag...
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Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios
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The ocean moderates anthropogenic climate change at the cost of profound alterations of its physics, chemistry, ecology, and services. Here, we evaluate and com...
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Key Species, Temperature, Recreational Fishing, Seagrass Beds, Conservation, Acidification, Climate Impacts, Oceans, Global warming, Carbon Capture and Storage,...
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