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Protected areas in Borneo may fail to conserve tropical forest biodiversity under climate change
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Protected areas (PAs) are key for conserving rainforest species, but many PAs are becoming increasingly
isolated within agricultural landscapes, which may have... |
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Temperature and precipitation controls over leaf- and ecosystem-level CO2 flux along a woody plant encroachment gradient
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Conversion of grasslands to woodlands may alter the sensitivity of CO2 exchange of individual plants and entire ecosystems to air temperature and precipitation.... |
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Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Forest Ecosystems: General Technical Report PNW-GTR-870 December 2012
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This report is a scientific assessment of the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the United States relative to climatic variab... |
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Identifying human influences on atmospheric temperature
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We perform a multimodel detection and attribution study with climate model simulation output and satellite-based measurements of tropospheric and stratospheric ... |
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Carbon Storage with Benefits
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Biochar—a material related to charcoal—has the potential to benefit farming as well as mitigate climate change.
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Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming
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The distributions of many terrestrial organisms are currently shifting in latitude or elevation in responseto changing climate. Using a meta-analysis, we estima... |
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The search for unknown biodiversity
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1st paragraph: in a world being rapidly transformed by human activities, an alarming possibility is that many species might disappear before we have a chance to... |
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The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe
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The summer of 2010 was exceptionally warm in eastern
Europe and large parts of Russia. We provide evidence
that the anomalous 2010 warmth that caused adverse
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Spatial relationship between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity
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Vegetation forms a main component of the terrestrial biosphere and plays a crucial role in land-cover and climate- related studies. Activity of vegetation syste... |
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Future hotspots of terrestrial mammal loss
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Current levels of endangerment and historical trends of species and habitats are the main criteria used to direct conservation efforts globally. Estimates of fu... |
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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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Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change
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A focus on species interactions may improve predictions of the effects of climate change
on ecosystems.
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On the vapour trail of an atmospheric imprint in insects
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Terrestrial arthropods, at constant risk from desiccation, are highly sensitive to atmospheric temperature and humidity. A physiological marker of these abiotic... |
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Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity
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Ecosystems are simultaneously affected by biodiversity loss and climate change, but we know little about how these factors interact. We predicted that climate w... |
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Fear of failure in conservation: The problem and potential solutions to aid conservation of extremely small populations
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The potential for extirpation of extremely small populations (ESPs) is high due to their vulnerability to
demographic and environmental stochasticity and negat... |
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REfugia in conservation.pdf
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Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA
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Pine forest in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, USA, are experiencing the most severe moun- tain pine beetle epidemic in recorded history, and possible d... |
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Post-clearcut dynamics of carbon, water and energy exchanges in a midlatitude temperate, deciduous broadleaf forest environment
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Clearcutting and other forest disturbances perturb carbon, water, and energy balances in significant ways, with corre- sponding influences on Earth’s climate ... |
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Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change
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Summary. 1. Shifts in the spatial and temporal patterns of flowering could affect the resources available to pollinators, and such shifts might become more comm... |
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The False Spring of 2012, Earliest in North American Record
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2nd paragraph: As global climate warms, increasingly warmer springs may combine with the random climatological occurrence of advective freezes, which result fro... |
