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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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Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia
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The future trajectory of greenhouse gas concentrations depends on interactions between climate and the biogeosphere1,2. Thawing of Arctic permafrost could relea... |
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Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth
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Here, we show that in contrast to arctic regions, increased growing season vegetation activity over the TP may have attenuated surface warming. This negative fe... |
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Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance
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The United Nations conference in Rio de
Janeiro in June is an important opportunity
to improve the institutional framework
for sustainable development.
VO... |
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Delayed detection of climate mitigation benefits due to climate inertia and variability
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Climate change mitigation acts by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thus curbing, or even reversing, the increase in their atmospheric concentration. This ... |
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Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda
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We use field data linked to satellite image analysis to examine the relationship between biodiversity loss, deforestation, and poverty around Kibale National Pa... |
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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... |
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Strong increase in convective precipitation in response to higher temperatures
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Precipitation changes can affect society more directly than variations in most other meteorological observables1–3, but precipitation is difficult to characte... |
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Asynchronous Online Foresight Panels: The Case of Wildfire Management
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Framing the wildfire situation as a social trap emerged early in the Round 1 discussion and this topic was deemed important enough to merit its own discussion t... |
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Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss
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Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and... |
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Global change and the groundwater management challenge
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With rivers in critical regions already exploited to capacity throughout the world and ground- water overdraft as well as large-scale contamination occurring in... |
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Effect of fine wood on juvenile brown trout behaviour in experimental stream channels
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In-stream wood can increase shelter availability and prey abundance for stream-living fish such as brown trout, Salmo trutta, but the input of wood to streams h... |
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The declining uptake rate of atmospheric CO2 by land and ocean sinks
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Through 1959–2012, an airborne fraction (AF) of 0.44 of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions remained in the atmosphere, with the rest being taken up by land and... |
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Predicting a change in the order of spring phenology in temperate forests
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The rise in spring temperatures over the past half-century has led to advances in the phenology of many nontropical plants and animals. As species and populatio... |
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Comment: Time to Model all Life on Earth
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To help transform our understanding of the biosphere, ecologists — like climate scientists — should simulate whole ecosystems, argue Drew Purves and colleag... |
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Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally
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It is possible that anthropogenic climate change will drive the Earth system into a qualitatively different state1. Although different types of uncertainty limi... |
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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change
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Evidence is mounting that extinctions are altering key processes important to the productivity and sustainability of Earth’s ecosystems (1–4). Further speci... |
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Extent and scale of local adaptation in salmonid fishes: review and meta-analysis
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What is the extent and scale of local adaptation (LA)? How quickly does LA arise? And what is its underlying molecular basis? Our review and meta-analysis on sa... |
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Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism
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Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity crisis1–4 caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogen... |
