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When the river runs dry: human and ecological values of dry riverbeds
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Temporary rivers and streams that naturally cease to flow and dry up can be found on every continent.
Many other water courses that were once perennial now als... |
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Downstream Warming and Headwater Acidity May Diminish Coldwater Habitat in Southern Appalachian Mountain Streams
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Stream-dwelling species in the U.S. southern Appalachian Mountains region are particularly vulnerable to climate change and acidification. The objectives of thi... |
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Time to Adapt to a Warming World, But Where’s the Science?
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With dangerous global warming seemingly inevitable, users of climate information—
from water utilities to international aid workers—are turning to climate ... |
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Biotic Drivers of Stream Planform: Implications for Understanding the Past and Restoring the Future
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Traditionally, stream channel planform has been viewed as a function of larger watershed and valley-scale physical variables, including valley slope, the amount... |
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Energy intensities, EROIs (energy returned on invested), and energy payback times of electricity generating power plants
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The energy returned on investment, EROI, has been evaluated for typical power plants representing wind energy, photovoltaics, solar thermal, hydro, natural gas,... |
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Three perspectives on U.S. fire policy
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Following a 2015 paper on US wildfire policy and practices, published by Science, Science published two letters challenging the paper, and authors of the paper ... |
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The Historical Dynamics of Social–Ecological Traps
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Environmental degradation is a typical unintended outcome of collective human behavior. Hardin’s metaphor of the ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ has become... |
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Adaptation: Planning for Climate Change and Its Effects on Federal Lands
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National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources
under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap... |
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The Historical Dynamics of Socio-ecological Traps
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Environmental degradation is a typical unintended
outcome of collective human behavior. Hardin’s
metaphor of the ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ has beco... |
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Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System
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Tracking biodiversity change is increasingly important in sustaining ecosystems and ultimately human well-being. |
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Humans and Nature Duel Over the Next Decade’s Climate
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Rising greenhouse gases are changing global climate, but during the next few decades natural climate variations will have a say as well, so researchers are scra... |
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Physical Laws Shape Biology
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IN THE PERSPECTIVE “A DYNAMICAL-SYSTEMS VIEW OF STEM CELL
biology” (12 October 2012, p. 215), C. Furusawa and K. Kaneko discuss
the relevance of dynamic s... |
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Impacts of climate change on August stream discharge in the Central-Rocky Mountains
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In the snowmelt dominated hydrology of arid western US landscapes, late summer low streamflow is the most vulnerable period for aquatic ecosystem habitats and t... |
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Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau
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Projected increases in aridity throughout the southwestern United States due to anthropogenic climate change will likely cause reduc- tions in perennial vegetat... |
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Ecologists Report Huge Storm Losses in China’s Forests
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From delicate orchids and magnolias to rare Chinese yews and Kwangtung pines, the flora of Guangdong
Nanling National Nature Reserve is considered so precious ... |
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Tangled Trends for Temperate Rain Forests as Temperatures Tick Up
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Climate change is altering growing
conditions in the temperate rain forest
region that extends from northern California
to the Gulf of Alaska. Longer,
warme... |
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Tangled Trends for Temperate Rain Forests as Temperatures Tick Up
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Climate change is altering growing
conditions in the temperate rain forest
region that extends from northern California
to the Gulf of Alaska. Longer,
warme... |
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Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
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Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were st... |
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Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset of collapse in mutualistic communities
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Tipping points are crossed when small changes in external conditions cause abrupt unexpected responses in the current state of a system. In the case of ecologic... |
