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Both population size and patch quality affect local extinctions and colonizations
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Currently, the habitat of many species is fragmented, resulting in small local populations with individuals occasionally dispersing between the remaining habita... |
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Beyond Reserves and Corridors: Policy Solutions to Facilitate the Movement of Plants and Animals in a Changing Climate
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As the Earth’s climate changes, many species will have to move across human-dominated landscapes to track suitable climates and changing ecosystems. Given the... |
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Predicting satellite-derived patterns of large-scale disturbances in forests of the Pacific Northwest Region in response to recent climatic variation
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Across the Pacific Northwest, the climate between 1950 and 1975 was exceptionally cool and wet compared
with more recent conditions (1995–2005). We reasoned ... |
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Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production
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The capacity for forests to aid in climate change mitigation efforts is substantial but will ultimately depend on their management. If forests remain unharveste... |
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Sediment Trapping by Dams Creates Methane Emission Hot Spots
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Inland waters transport and transform sub- stantial amounts of carbon and account for ∼18% of global methane emissions. Large reservoirs with higher areal met... |
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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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Fire and Fish Dynamics in a Changing Climate: Broad- and Local-Scale Effects of Fire-Induced Water Temperature Changes on Native and Nonnative Fish Communities
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Fire is a key natural disturbance that affects the distribution and abundance of native fishes in the Rocky Mountain West. In the absence of migratory individua... |
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Clone history shapes Populus drought responses
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Just as animal monozygotic twins can experience different environmental conditions by being reared apart, individual genetically identical trees of the genus Po... |
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The potential transient dynamics of forests in New England under historical and projected future climate change
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Projections of vegetation distribution that incorporate the transient responses of vegetation to climate change are likely to be more efficacious than those tha... |
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Impacts of Biodiversity Loss
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How much diversity is needed to maintain
the productivity of ecosystems?
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Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance
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Animal migration is one of the great wonders of nature, but the factors that determine how far migrants travel remain poorly understood. We present a new quanti... |
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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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The beaver meadow complex revisited – the role of beavers in post-glacial floodplain development
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We evaluate the validity of the beaver-meadow complex hypothesis, used to explain the deposition of extensive fine sediment in broad, low-gradient valleys. Prev... |
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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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Nonrandom, diversifying processes are disproportionately strong in the smallest size classes of a tropical forest
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Here, we use one of the world’s longest-running, plot-based forest dynamics projects to compare nonrandom outcomes across stage classes. We considered a cohor... |
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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
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This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate... |
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Asymmetric effects of economic growth and decline on CO2 emissions
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Letter to Editor: Excerpt: "Why does economic decline not have an effect on CO2 emissions that is symmetrical with the effect of economic growth? There are vari... |
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Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics
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Theory predicts a positive relationship between biodiversity and stability in ecosystem properties, while diversity is expected to have a negative impact on sta... |
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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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Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire
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Altered fuels and climate change are transforming fire regimes in many of Earth’s biomes. Postfire reassembly of vegetation – paramount to C storage and bio... |
