Sour Streams in Appalachia: Mapping Nature’s Buffer Against Sulfur Deposition
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Sulfur emissions are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, but sulfuric acid that has
leached into soil and streams can linger in the environment a... |
Linked in: Connectiong Riparian areas to support Forest Biodiversity
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Many forest-dwelling species rely on both
terrestrial and aquatic habitat for their
survival. These species, including rare and
little-understood amphibians ... |
Forests in Decline: Yellow-Cedar Research Yields Prototype for Climate Change Adaptation Planning
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Yellow-cedar has been dying across
600 miles of North Pacific coastal rain
forest—from Alaska to British Columbia—since
about 1880. Thirty years
ago, a ... |
Rethinking Private Land Conservation in the Face of Climate Change: A California Case Study & Future Options
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This Article looks at how private land conservation may need to be rethought in the face of climate change, with a particular emphasis on the protection of biod... |
Effect of Risk Aversion on Prioritizing Conservation Projects
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Agencies making decisions about what threat mitigation actions to take to save which species frequently face the dilemma of whether to invest in actions with hi... |
Insect Responses to Major Landscape-Level Disturbance
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Keywords
tolerance, dispersal, succession, local extinction, outbreak, population dynamics
Abstract
Disturbances are abrupt events that dramatically alter ha... |
DO CARBON OFFSETS WORK? THE ROLE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION
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As forest carbon offset projects become more popular, professional foresters are providing their expertise to support them. But when several members of the Soci... |
A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
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Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is
unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by ... |
Does global warming favour the occurrence of extreme floods in European Alps? First evidences from a NW Alps proglacial lake sediment record
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Our record suggests climate warming is favouring the occurrence of high magnitude torrential flood events in high-altitude catchments. |
The Myth of Smart Growth
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“Smart growth” is an urban growth management strategy that applies planning and design principles intended to mitigate the impacts of continued growth. If p... |
Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience
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Drought reduces plant productivity, induces widespread plant mortality and limits the geographic distribution of plant species1–7. As climates warm and precip... |
Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming
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Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires, but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly con... |
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Inhomogeneous forcing and transient climate sensitivity
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Understanding climate sensitivity is critical to projecting climate change in response to a given forcing scenario. Recent analyses1–3 have suggested that tra... |
Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America
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The worldwide energy consumption in 2006 was close to 498 exajoules. This is equivalent to an energy convergence of 15.8 TW into the populated regions, where en... |
Climate negotiations under scientific uncertainty
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How does uncertainty about “dangerous” climate change affect the prospects for international cooperation? Climate negotiations usually are depicted as a pri... |
The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate
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Soils are the largest repository of organic carbon (C) in the terrestrial biosphere and represent an important source of carbon dioxide (CO2)totheatmosphere,rel... |
Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology
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We show that the phenology of vegetation activity changed severely (by more than 2 standard deviations in one or more dimensions of phe- nological change) on 54... |
Investment, transformation and leadership CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2013 On behalf of 722 investors representing US$87 trillion in assets
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Sample text : Fears are increasing over future climate change impacts as we see more extreme weather events, Hurricane Sandy the most noted with damages totall... |
Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness
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The search for predictions of species diversity across environmental gradients has challenged ecologists for decades. The humped-back model (HBM) suggests that ... |