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Opinion : No quick switch to low-carbon energy
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In the first of two pieces on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, Gert Jan Kramer and Martin Haigh analyse historic growth in energy systems to explain why deplo... |
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Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging
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Given widespread declines in pollinator communities and increas- ing global reliance on pollinator-dependent crops, there is an acute need to develop a mechanis... |
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Response of the North Atlantic storm track to climate change shaped by ocean– atmosphere coupling
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A poleward shift of the mid-latitude storm tracks in response to anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing has been diagnosed in climate model simulations1,2. Explan... |
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Phenology Feedbacks on Climate Change
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A longer growing season as a result of climate
change will in turn affect climate through
biogeochemical and biophysical effects.
SCIENCE VOL 324 |
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Approaching the Limits: A book review in Science
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Excerpts: "In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil traces the historical development of human consumption of biological resources and evaluates whether we coul... |
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Seasons and Life Cycles
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A conceptual framework. This table is a guide to determining how individual species are responding to an extended growing
season by observing the duration of p... |
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Wildlife decline and social conflict
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Policies aimed at reducing
wildlife-related conflict
must address the
underlying causes |
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Hydrological connectivity in coastal inland systems: lessons from a Neotropical fish metacommunity
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We assessed the influence of hydrological connectivity in structuring fish communities through seasonal samplings of environmental variables and fishes in a coa... |
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Area–heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities
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For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche par... |
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Bergmann’s rule and climate change revisited: Disentangling environmental and genetic responses in a wild bird population
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Ecological responses to on-going climate change are numerous, diverse, and taxonomically widespread. However, with one exception, the relative roles of phenotyp... |
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Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities
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Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes. These organisms face multiple environmental changes1, includ... |
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Global Warming: Why Business is Taking it So Seriously.
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Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO[... |
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The floodplain large-wood cycle hypothesis: A mechanism for the physical and biotic structuring of temperate forested alluvial valleys in the North Pacific coastal ecoregion
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A ‘floodplain large-wood cycle’ is hypothesized as a mechanism for generating landforms and influencing river dynamics in ways that structure and maintain r... |
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The floodplain large-wood cycle hypothesis: A mechanism for the physical and biotic structuring of temperate forested alluvial valleys in the North Pacific coastal ecoregion
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A ‘floodplain large-wood cycle’ is hypothesized as a mechanism for generating landforms and influencing river dynamics in ways that structure and maintain r... |
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After the talks
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The real business of decarbonization begins after an agreement is signed at the Paris climate conference, argue David G. Victor and James P. Leape. |
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Water in the Balance
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Satellite data may enable improved management of regional groundwater reserves.
VOL 340 SCIENCE |
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Limits to adaptation
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An actor-centered, risk-based approach to defining limits to social adaptation provides a useful analytic framing for identifying and anticipating these limits ... |
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Rapid deposition of oxidized biogenic compounds to a temperate forest
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We report fluxes and dry deposition velocities for 16 atmospheric compounds above a southeastern United States forest, including: hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitr... |
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Evaluating the Effects and Effectiveness of Post-fire Seeding Treatments in Western Forests
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Key Findings• In studies that evaluated soil erosion in seeded versus unseeded controls, 78 percent revealed that seeding did not reduce erosion relative to u... |
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The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater
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Groundwater is important for energy and food security, human health and ecosystems. The time since groundwater was recharged—or groundwater age—can be impor... |
