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The potential transient dynamics of forests in New England under historical and projected future climate change
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Projections of vegetation distribution that incorporate the transient responses of vegetation to climate change are likely to be more efficacious than those tha... |
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Land cover effects on runoff patterns in eastern Piedmont (USA) watersheds
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Physiography and land cover determine the hydrologic response of watersheds to climatic events. However, vast differences in climate regimes and variation of la... |
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A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra
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Linking functional traits to plant growth is critical for scaling attributes of organisms to the dynamics of ecosystems (1,2) and for understanding how selectio... |
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THE COST OF INACTION: RECOGNISING THE VALUE AT RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
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The asset management industry—and thus the wider community of investors of all sizes— is facing the prospect of significant losses from the effects of clima... |
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Satellite methods underestimate indirect climate forcing by aerosols
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Satellite-based estimates of the aerosol indirect effect (AIE) are consistently smaller than the estimates from global aerosol models, and, partly as a result o... |
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The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge
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Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conserva... |
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Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value
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Protected areas are crucial for biodiversity conservation because they provide safe havens for species threatened by land-use change and resulting habitat loss.... |
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Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
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The United States produces 41% of the world’s corn and 38% of the world’s soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy p... |
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Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau
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Projected increases in aridity throughout the southwestern United States due to anthropogenic climate change will likely cause reduc- tions in perennial vegetat... |
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Uncertainty in the response of transpiration to CO2 and implications for climate change
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While terrestrial precipitation is a societally highly relevant climate variable, there is little consensus among climate models about its projected 21st centur... |
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Global declines in oceanic nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification
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Ocean acidification produced by dissolution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in seawater has profound conse- quences for marine ecology and bioge... |
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Nonrandom, diversifying processes are disproportionately strong in the smallest size classes of a tropical forest
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Here, we use one of the world’s longest-running, plot-based forest dynamics projects to compare nonrandom outcomes across stage classes. We considered a cohor... |
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1.5°C or 2°C: a conduit’s view from the science-policy interface at COP20 in Lima, Peru
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An average global 2°C warming compared to pre-industrial times is commonly understood as the most important target in climate policy negotiations. It is a temp... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Wildfire and forest harvest disturbances in the boreal forest leave different long-lasting spatial signatures
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Natural disturbances leave long-term legacies that vary among landscapes and ecosystem types, and which become integral parts of successional pro- cesses at a g... |
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Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
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A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challeng... |
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Creating Wetlands: Primary Succession, Water Quality Changes, and Self-Design over 15 Years
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The succession of vegetation, soil development, water quality changes, and carbon and nitrogen dynamics are summarized in this article for a pair of 1-hectare f... |
