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Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle (1,2) , and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming c...
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National post-2020 greenhouse gas targets and diversity-aware leadership
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Achieving the collective goal of limiting warming to below 2 ◦ C or 1.5 ◦ C compared to pre-industrial levels requires a transition towards a fully decarbon...
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Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities
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Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes. These organisms face multiple environmental changes1, includ...
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Megaproject reclamation and climate change
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Megaprojects such as oil sands mining require large-scale and long-term closure and reclamation plans. Yet these plans are created and approved without consider...
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Australia is ‘free to choose’ economic growth and falling environmental pressures
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Over two centuries of economic growth have put undeniable pressure on the ecological systems that underpin human well-being. While it is agreed that these press...
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METABOLISM AS A CURRENCY AND CONSTRAINT IN ECOLOGY Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy
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We test for the existence of asymmetries in consumer–resource thermal responses by analy- sing an extensive database on thermal response curves of ecological ...
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Sensitivity of a Riparian Large Woody Debris Recruitment Model to the Number of Contributing Banks and Tree Fall Pattern
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Riparian large woody debris (LWD) recruitment simulations have traditionally applied a random angle of tree fall from two well-forested stream banks. We used a ...
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Indian-Set Fires in the Forests of the Northeastern United States
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The historical evidence for the Indians' burning the forests of the northeastern United
Abstract. States is reevaluated. Of 35 documents that describe vegetati...
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Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States
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Climate change predictions include warming and drying trends, which are expected to be particularly pronounced in the southwestern United States. In this region...
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Preemptive and Salvage Harvesting of New England Forests: When Doing Nothing Is a Viable Alternative
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Oneunexpectedconsequenceofnaturaldisturbancesinforestedareasisthatmanagersofteniniti- ate activities that may impose greater ecosystem impacts than the disturba...
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Seasonal and diel patterns in the migrations of fishes between a river and a floodplain tributary
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The population behaviours associated with the migrations of fishes in lowland river ecosystems are amongst the most poorly-understood dispersal mechanisms of te...
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Hydrological connectivity in coastal inland systems: lessons from a Neotropical fish metacommunity
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We assessed the influence of hydrological connectivity in structuring fish communities through seasonal samplings of environmental variables and fishes in a coa...
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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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Agriculture constitutes a dominant land cover worldwide, and rural landscapes under extensive farming practices acknowledged due to high biodiversity levels. Th...
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Regional growth decline of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and its potential causes
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Sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh) has experienced poor vigor, regeneration failure, and elevated mortality across much of its range, but there has been relativ...
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Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges
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National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) in the United States play an important role in the adaptation of social-ecological systems to climate change, land-use change,...
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The Montérégie Connection: linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision making
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To maximize specific ecosystem services (ES) such as food production, people alter landscape structure, i.e., the types of ecosystems present, their relative pr...
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Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Although boreal fire regimes are heterogeneous, recent trends6 and future projections7 point to increasing fire activity in response to climate warming througho...
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Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration
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Renewable fresh water over continents has input from precipitation and losses to the atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration .... The dominance of tran...
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Land use efficiency: anticipating future demand for land-sector greenhouse gas emissions abatement and managing trade-offs with agriculture, water, and biodiversity
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Competition for land is increasing, and policy needs to ensure the efficient supply of multiple ecosystem services from land systems. We modelled the spatially ...
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Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption
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Consumption, although often considered an individual choice, is deeply ingrained in behaviors, cultures, and institutions, and is driven and supported by corpor...
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