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Livestock and the Environment: What Have We Learned in the Past Decade?
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The livestock and environment nexus has been the subject of considerable research in the past decade. With a more prosperous and urbanized population projected ...
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Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management
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Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a l...
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Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification
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Ecological intensification has been promoted as a means to achieve environmentally sustainable increases in crop yields by enhancing ecosystem functions that re...
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Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl
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Relative abundances of elk, roe deer, red deer and wild boar within the Chernobyl exclusion zone are similar to those in four (uncontaminated) nature reserves ...
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Life history influences rates of climatic niche evolution in flowering plants
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Across angiosperms, variable rates of molecular substitution are linked with life-history attributes associ- ated with woody and herbaceous growth forms. As the...
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
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The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated...
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Forests of the Past: A Window to Future Changes
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he study of past forest change provides a necessary historical context for evaluating the outcome of human-induced climate change and biological invasions. Retr...
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When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans
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Humans, like other animals, alter their behavior depending on whether a threat is close or distant. We investigated spatial imminence of threat by developing an...
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How novel is too novel? Stream community thresholds at exceptionally low levels of catchment urbanization
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Novel physical and chemical conditions of many modern ecosystems increasingly diverge from the environments known to have existed at any time in the history of ...
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How does crop residue removal affect soil organic carbon and yield? A hierarchical analysis of management and environmental factors
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Our results suggest that crop residue removal is not recommended in tropical soils, particularly in coarse-textured ones, and in SOC-depleted soils in temperate...
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Open or closed? A discussion of the mistaken assumptions in the Economides pressure analysis of carbon sequestration
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The proposition by Economides and Ehlig–Economides (E&E) in 2009 and 2010 that geological storage of CO2 is ‘not feasible at any cost’ deserves to be exam...
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Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management
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We contend that traditional approaches to forest conservation and management will be inadequate given the predicted scale of social-economic and biophysical cha...
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Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985–2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline
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Evidence of shifting dominance among major forest disturbance agent classes regionally to globally has been emerging in the literature. For example, climate-rel...
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Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2C global warming is highly dangerous
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There is evidence of ice melt, sea level rise to +5–9 m, and extreme storms in the prior interglacial period that was less than 1◦C warmer than today. Human...
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Drought impact on forest growth and mortality in the southeast USA: an analysis using Forest Health and Monitoring data
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Drought frequency and intensity has been predicted to increase under many climate change scenarios. It is therefore critical to understand the response of fores...
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Wilderness and biodiversity conservation
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Human pressure threatens many species and ecosystems, so conservation efforts necessarily prioritize saving them. However, conservation should clearly be proact...
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Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
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Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overl...
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Systemic trade risk of critical resources
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Complex Systems: In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the role of strongly interconnected markets in causing systemic instability has been increasingly ack...
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Biotic and Human Vulnerability to Projected Changes in Ocean Biogeochemistry over the 21st Century
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Ongoing greenhouse gas emissions can modify climate processes and induce shifts in ocean temperature, pH, oxygen concentration, and productivity, which in turn ...
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Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
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We conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is within 1 km of the forest’s edge, subject to the degrading effects o...
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