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A phantom road experiment reveals traffic noise is an invisible source of habitat degradation
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Decades of research demonstrate that roads impact wildlife and suggest traffic noise as a primary cause of population declines near roads. We created a “phant...
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Sprawl, Habitat quality, Foraging-vigilance trade-off, Biodiversity, Subdivision, urban rural edge, Perceived predation risk, Wildlands Urban Interface, Density...
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Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
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Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were st...
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Temperature, Consumption, Extreme scenarios, Thermodynamics, Environmental Policy, Coal Mining, Economy, Earth-space battery, Carbon Capture and Storage, Sustai...
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Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets
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Governments should not meet existing conservation targets using the compensation that developers pay for damaging biodiversity, say Martine Maron and colleagues...
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Adaptive management, Biodiversity, Socio-economic Tools, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Species richness, Land surface, Mitigation, Conservation, Enviro...
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On the difference in the net ecosystem exchange of CO2 between deciduous and evergreen forests in the southeastern United States
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The southeastern United States is experiencing a rapid regional increase in the ratio of pine to deciduous forest ecosystems at the same time it is experiencing...
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Rapid, Carbon stocks, Storms, Forests, Pine, Temperature, Leaf senescence, Carbon Capture and Storage, Sustainability, Deciduous, Drought, Leaf growth, Streamfl...
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Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises
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No-analog communities (communities that are compositionally unlike any found today) occurred frequently in the past and will develop in the greenhouse world of ...
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Habitat quality, Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, Temperature, Climate Adaptation, Models, Climate Change, Land Use, CO2, Forests, Extreme scenarios, Sustainab...
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Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss
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Soil organic matter is the largest terrestrial carbon pool (1). The pool size depends on the balance between formation of soil organic matter from decomposition...
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Habitat quality, Ecosystem Services, CO2, Carbon stocks, Land atmosphere coupling, Climate Change, Land Use, Forests, Carbon Capture and Storage, Sustainability...
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Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage
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The projected responses of forest ecosystems to warming and drying associated with twenty-first-century climate change vary widely from resiliency to widespread...
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tree mortality, Carbon sink, Forest dieoff, Morbidity, Climate Change, Cumulative, Forests, Water, Sustainability, Heat, Climate Impacts, Long-term, Ecosystems,...
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Comparative Drought Responses of Quercus ilex L. and Pinus sylvestris L. in a Montane Forest Undergoing a Vegetation Shift
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Different functional and structural strategies to cope with water shortage exist both within and across plant communities. The current trend towards increasing ...
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Carbon stocks, Forests, Hydraulic failure, Mortality, Temperature, water shortage, Carbon starvation, Leaf conductance, Sustainability, Heat, Shift, Drought, st...
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The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate
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Plant biodiversity is often correlated with ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about the relative and combined effects of ...
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Biodiversity, Carbon stocks, Terrestrial ecosystems, Climate Change, Land Use, Litter, Terrestrial precipitation, Sustainability, Land surface, Ecological Flows...
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Mapping tree density at a global scale
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The global extent and distribution of forest trees is central to our understanding of the terrestrial biosphere. We provide the first spatially continuous map o...
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Carbon sink, Human civilization, Temperature, Density, Climate Change, Watersheds, Forests, Carbon Capture and Storage, Sustainability, global change, Agricultu...
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Increasing Northern Hemisphere water deficit
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A monthly water-balance model is used with CRUTS3.1 gridded monthly precip- itation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data to examine changes in global wat...
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Consumption, Storms, Recreational Fishing, Potential evapotranspiration, Water, Drought, Precipitation, Ecosystem Services, Hydrology, Climate Change, Terrestri...
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Seeing the landscape for the trees: Metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments
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Rising water temperature (Tw) due to anthropogenic climate change may have serious conse- quences for river ecosystems. Conservation and/or expansion of riparia...
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Streamflow, Climate Impacts, Hydrology, Riparian Habitat Restoration, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Fish, Conservation Planning, Riparian Restoration, Wat...
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Solar energy development impacts on land cover change and protected areas
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Decisions determining the use of land for energy are of exigent concern as land scarcity, the need for ecosystem services, and demands for energy generation hav...
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Biodiversity, Climate Adaptation, Consumption, Land cover, Renewable Energy, Land Use, Utility-scale solar energy, Land surface, Protected Areas, Federal lands,...
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Downstream Warming and Headwater Acidity May Diminish Coldwater Habitat in Southern Appalachian Mountain Streams
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Stream-dwelling species in the U.S. southern Appalachian Mountains region are particularly vulnerable to climate change and acidification. The objectives of thi...
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Temperature sensitivity, Temperature, Acidification, Habitat degradation, Aquatic ecosystems, Mining, Climate Impacts, Minelands, Fisheries, Heat, Headwater str...
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Accounting for groundwater in stream fish thermal habitat responses to climate change
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Forecasting climate change effects on aquatic fauna and their habitat requires an understanding of how water temperature responds to changing air temperature (i...
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Habitat quality, Streamflow, Aquatic, Hydrology, Temperature, Thermal limits, Brook Trout, Climate Change, Headwater streams, thermal habitat, Watersheds, Recre...
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Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate
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Climate change is expected to drive increased tree mortality through drought, heat stress, and insect attacks, with manifold impacts on forest ecosystems. Yet, ...
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Disturbance, Warmer and wetter, Dynamic global vegetation model, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Trophic interactions, Carbon cycle, Slowing growth, Maple
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Effect of fine wood on juvenile brown trout behaviour in experimental stream channels
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In-stream wood can increase shelter availability and prey abundance for stream-living fish such as brown trout, Salmo trutta, but the input of wood to streams h...
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Biofuel, Recreational Fishing, Habitat degradation, Trout, Riparian vegetation, Habitat Improvement, Riparian Restoration, Headwater streams, Biodiversity, Wood...
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Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge
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The importance of dead wood for biodiversity is widely recognized but strategies for conservation exist only in some regions worldwide. Most strategies combine ...
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Climate Adaptation, Decay, Recreational Fishing, Conservation, Decomposition, Habitat degradation, Trout, Climate Impacts, Habitat Improvement, Restoration, Eco...
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Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness
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The search for predictions of species diversity across environmental gradients has challenged ecologists for decades. The humped-back model (HBM) suggests that ...
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Biodiversity, Land atmosphere coupling, Habitat, Richness, Land cover, Climate Change, Grasslands, Mowing, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Net primary product...
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Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
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Growing evidence demonstrates that climatic conditions can have a profound impact on the functioning of modern human societies (1,2), but effects on economic ac...
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Temperature, Extreme scenarios, Jobs and work, Climate Impacts, Human civilization, Models, Sustainability, Heat, Nature and Society, Economy, Human Dimensions,...
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