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Climate Science Document Library 2011

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Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity crisis1–4 caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogen...
Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind 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...
Commentary: The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world It is time to acknowledge that global average temperatures are likely to rise above the 2 °C policy target and consider how that deeply troubling prospect shou...
National post-2020 greenhouse gas targets and diversity-aware leadership Achieving the collective goal of limiting warming to below 2 ◦ C or 1.5 ◦ C compared to pre-industrial levels requires a transition towards a fully decarbon...
Genealogy of nature conservation: a political perspective Modern nature conservation is a product of post-Enlightenment modernity; I explore the heterogeneity of its conceptual and ideological background. The 19th cent...
Relationships of Fire and Precipitation Regimes in Temperate Forests of the Eastern United States Fire affects virtually all terrestrial ecosystems but occurs more commonly in some than in others. This paper investigates how climate, specifically the moistur...
Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl Relative abundances of elk, roe deer, red deer and wild boar within the Chernobyl exclusion zone are similar to those in four (uncontaminated) nature reserves ...
The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass Recently, several studies have quantified the effects on atmospheric CO2 concentration of an increased harvest level in forests. Although these studies agreed i...
Forests in Decline: Yellow-Cedar Research Yields Prototype for Climate Change Adaptation Planning 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 ...
Adaptation: Planning for Climate Change and Its Effects on Federal Lands National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap...
Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme ...
A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years The collapse of some pre-historical and historical cultures, including Chinese dynasties were presumably linked to widespread droughts, on the basis of synchron...
Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems Biodiversity in rangelands is decreasing, due to intense utilization for livestock production and conversion of rangeland into cropland; yet the outlook of rang...
Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change Humans directly change the dynamics of the water cycle through dams constructed for water storage, and through water withdrawals for industrial, agricultural, o...
Anthropogenic influence on multidecadal changes in reconstructed global evapotranspiration Global warming is expected to intensify the global hydrological cycle1, with an increase of both evapotranspiration (EVT) and precipitation. Yet, the magnitude ...
A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol Forests emit large quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the atmosphere. Their condensable oxidation products can form secondary organic aerosol, a...
Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States Climate change predictions include warming and drying trends, which are expected to be particularly pronounced in the southwestern United States. In this region...
Mapping tree density at a global scale The global extent and distribution of forest trees is central to our understanding of the terrestrial biosphere. We provide the first spatially continuous map o...
Brownness of organics in aerosols from biomass burning linked to their black carbon content Atmospheric particulate matter plays an important role in the Earth’s radiative balance. Over the past two decades, it has been established that a portion of ...
A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by ...