Temperature-growth divergence in white spruce forests of Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, and adjacent regions of northwestern North America
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We present a new 23-site network of white spruce ring-width chronologies near boreal treeline in Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, Canada. Most chronologies span... |
Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value
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Protected areas are crucial for biodiversity conservation because they provide safe havens for species threatened by land-use change and resulting habitat loss.... |
The challenge of hot drought
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1st paragraph: rought is heating up around the warm- ing world. Particularly hot drought has cost more than US$40 billion and claimed 218 human lives since 2010... |
Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems
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Biodiversity in rangelands is decreasing, due to intense utilization for livestock production and conversion of rangeland into cropland; yet the outlook of rang... |
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... |
Montane meadow change during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group
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Key words:drought; forbs; hydrological gradient; plant community; woody plants.
Abstract. Climate change models for many ecosystems predict more extreme climat... |
The Global Plight of Pollinators
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Wild pollinators are in decline, and managed
honeybees cannot compensate for their loss.
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Hell and High Water: PracticeRelevant Adaptation Science
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Adaptation requires science that analyzes decisions, identifies vulnerabilities, improves foresight, and develops options
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Hydrology, forests and precipitation recycling: a reply to van der Ent et al
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We warmly welcome the debate our article on the relationship between forest cover and water yield has inspired.....We read with general satisfaction their view ... |
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... |
Historical Evaluation and Future Prediction of Eastern North American and Western Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones in the CMIP5 Models during the Cool Season
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Extratropical cyclone track density, genesis frequency, deepening rate, and maximum intensity distributions over eastern North America and the western North Atl... |
A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere
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Terrestrial net primary (plant) production provides a measurable boundary for human consumption of Earth’s biological resources. |
US lakes and reservoirs.pdf
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Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States
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Livestock production impacts air and water quality, ocean health, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on regional to global scales and it is the largest use of l... |
TRUST, CULTURE, AND COOPERATION: A Social Dilemma Analysis of Pro-Environmental Behaviors
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Social dilemmas require a choice between cooperation, or sacrificing for the greater good, and self-interest. One commonly studied social dilemma is environment... |
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 ... |
Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
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Efforts to control climate change require the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This can only be achieved through a drastic reduction of global C... |
Model projections of atmospheric steering of Sandy-like superstorms
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Superstorm Sandy ravaged the eastern seaboard of the United States, costing a great number of lives and billions of dollars in damage. Whether events like Sandy... |
Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions
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The late Quaternary period saw the rapid extinction of the majority of the world’s terrestrial megafauna. The cause of these dramatic losses, especially the r... |
Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia
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The future trajectory of greenhouse gas concentrations depends on interactions between climate and the biogeosphere1,2. Thawing of Arctic permafrost could relea... |