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Mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments
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Forest carbon cycles play an important role in efforts to understand and mitigate climate change. Large amounts of carbon (C) are stored in deep mineral forest ... |
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Genetic signatures of a demographic collapse in a large-bodied forest dwelling primate
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It is difficult to predict how current climate change will affect wildlife species adapted to a tropical rainforest environment. Understanding how population dy... |
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What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States?
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Scientific interest in carbon sequestration on rangelands is largely driven by their extent, while the interest of ranchers in the United States centers on oppo... |
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Anthropogenic influence on multidecadal changes in reconstructed global evapotranspiration
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Global warming is expected to intensify the global hydrological cycle1, with an increase of both evapotranspiration (EVT) and precipitation. Yet, the magnitude ... |
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Methane emissions from sheep pasture, measured with an open-path eddy covariance system
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Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas, contributing 0.4–0.5 W m␣2 to global warming. Methane emissions originate from several sources, including wetl... |
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Extent and scale of local adaptation in salmonid fishes: review and meta-analysis
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What is the extent and scale of local adaptation (LA)? How quickly does LA arise? And what is its underlying molecular basis? Our review and meta-analysis on sa... |
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An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot
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Extreme climatic events, such as heat waves, are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude as a consequence of global warming but their ecological effect... |
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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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A SOCIAL TRAP ANALYSIS OF THE LOS ANGELES STORM DRAIN SYSTEM: A RATIONALE FOR INTERVENTIONS
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The principles of analyzing social traps can be used to devise intervention strategies for the problems of toxic and solid waste dumping into the Los Angeles st... |
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Autopsy of two mega-heatwaves
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Record-breaking heatwaves in 2003 and 2010 surprised both the public and experts. Observations provide new insights into how temperatures escalated to unprecede... |
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Conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire varies along an elevation gradient in a ponderosa pine forest, Oregon, USA
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Climate change is expected to increase disturbances such as stand-replacing wildfire in many ecosystems, which have the potential to drive rapid turnover in eco... |
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Identifying refugia from climate change
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This article highlights how the loose definition of the term ‘refugia’ has led to discrepancies in methods used to assess the vulnerability of species to th... |
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Future climate change driven sea-level rise: secondary consequences from human displacement for island biodiversity
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Sea-level rise (SLR) due to global warming will result in the loss of many coastal areas. The direct or primary effects due to inundation and erosion from SLR a... |
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Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context of biodiversity offset policies
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The science and practice of ecological restoration are increasingly being called upon to compensate for the loss of biodiversity values caused by development pr... |
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Perception of climate change
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“Climate dice,” describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons, have become more and more “loaded” in the past 30 y, coincident with rapid glob... |
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Rethinking wedges
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Stabilizing CO2 emissions at current levels for fifty years is not consistent with either an atmospheric CO2 concentration below 500 ppm or global temperature i... |
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Refugia: identifying and understanding safe havens for biodiversity under climate change
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Identifying and protecting refugia is a priority for conservation under pro- jected anthropogenic climate change, because of their demonstrated ability to facil... |
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Comment: The end of cheap coal
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New forecasts suggest that coal reserves will run out faster than many believe. Energy policies relying on cheap coal have no future, say Richard Heinberg and D... |
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Trade-in to trade-up
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Nature reserves and protected areas enjoy sacred status in conservation — which translates into a ‘do not touch’ attitude. But selling off some of the les... |
