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Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change on Stream Health
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Estimation of stream health involves the analysis of changes in aquatic species, riparian vegetation, microinvertebrates, and channel degradation due to hydrolo... |
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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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Characterizing Fire-on-Fire interactions in three Large Wilderness areas
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The interaction of fires, where one fire burns into another recently burned area, is receiving increased attention from scientists and land managers wishing to ... |
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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
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The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the E... |
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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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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability
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A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporati... |
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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability
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A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporati... |
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Disturbance−diversity models: what do they really predict and how are they tested?
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and the dynamic equilibrium model (DEM) are influential theories in ecology. The IDH predicts large species number... |
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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. Global-scale estimates of... |
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Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages
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Mining impacts on stream systems have historically been studied over small spatial scales, yet investigations over large areas may be useful for characterizing ... |
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Logging Debris Matters: Better Soil, Fewer Invasive Plants
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The logging debris that remains after
timber harvest traditionally has been seen
as a nuisance. It can make subsequent tree
planting more difficult and becom... |
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A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years
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The collapse of some pre-historical and historical cultures, including Chinese dynasties were presumably linked to widespread droughts, on the basis of synchron... |
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Synthesis of Knowledge of Extreme Fire Behavior: Volume I for Fire Managers
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The National Wildfire Coordinating Group definition of extreme fire behavior (EFB) indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes ... |
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Allowable carbon emissions lowered by multiple climate targets
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Climate targets are designed to inform policies that would limit the
magnitude and impacts of climate change caused by anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse g... |
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A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol
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Forests emit large quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the atmosphere. Their condensable oxidation products can form secondary organic aerosol, a... |
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Reliability of Indicators of Decline in Abundance
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Although there are many indicators of endangerment (i.e., whether populations or species meet criteria that justify conservation action), their reliability has ... |
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Changes in Avian and Plant Communities of Aspen Woodlands over 12 Years after Livestock Removal in the Northwestern Great Basin
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Riparian and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) woodlands are centers of avian abundance and diversity in the western United States, but they have been affecte... |
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Do small tributaries function as refuges from floods? A test in a salmonid-dominated mountainous river
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Excerpts from the text: On 8–10 August 2003, a powerful typhoon hit Hokkaido Island, Japan, accompanied with heavy rain, which allowed us to investigate the p... |
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Phylogenetic and functional diversity in large carnivore assemblages
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Large terrestrial carnivores are important ecological components and promi- nent flagship species, but are often extinction prone owing to a combination of biol... |
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Distribution and characterization of in‐channel large wood in relation to geomorphic patterns on a low‐gradient river
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A 177 river km georeferenced aerial survey of in‐channel large wood (LW) on the lower Roanoke River, NC was conducted to determine LW dynamics and distributio... |
