|
Human Evolution Out of Africa: The Role of Refugia and Climate Change
|
Although an African origin of the modern human species is generally accepted, the evolutionary
processes involved in the speciation, geographical spread, and e... |
|
Conservation value of forests attacked by bark beetles: Highest number of indicator species is found in early successional stages
|
Heavy natural disturbance in large protected areas of former commercial forests increasingly evokes European parliaments to call for management intervention bec... |
|
Cumulative Effects of Fire and Fuels Management on Stream Water Quality and Ecosystem Dynamics
|
Prescribed fires and wildland fire-use are increasingly important management tools used to reduce fuel loads and restore the ecological integrity of western for... |
|
Citizen Involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act
|
Data on listed species refute critiques of citizen involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act. |
|
From Death Comes Life: Recovery and Revolution in the Wake of Epidemic Outbreaks of Mountain Pine Beetle
|
Excerpt : “Part of the initial increase in nutrients and moisture under dead and dying trees is due to reduced uptake,” Rhoades says. “But the sick and d... |
|
The Holocene`
|
Combining nine tree growth proxies from four sites, from the west coast of Norway to the Kola Peninsula of NW Russia, provides a well replicated
(> 100 annua... |
|
Mountain landscapes offer few opportunities for high-elevation tree species migration
|
Climate change is anticipated to alter plant species distributions. Regional context, notably the spatial complexity of climatic gradients, may influence specie... |
|
METABOLISM AS A CURRENCY AND CONSTRAINT IN ECOLOGY Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy
|
We test for the existence of asymmetries in consumer–resource thermal responses by analy- sing an extensive database on thermal response curves of ecological ... |
|
Virtual Hot Spots
|
Physiological ecologists who design computer models to predict how animals handle heat are forecasting the effects of climate change |
|
The energetic implications of curtailing versus storing solar- and wind-generated electricity
|
We present a theoretical framework to calculate how storage affects the energy return on energy
investment (EROI) ratios of wind and solar resources. Our metho... |
|
Climate change and the world economy: short-run determinants of atmospheric CO2
|
Volcanic eruptions, the El Nin ̃ o Southern oscillation (ENSO), world population, and the world economy are the four variables usually discussed as influencing... |
|
Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience
|
Drought reduces plant productivity, induces widespread plant mortality and limits the geographic distribution of plant species1–7. As climates warm and precip... |
|
Investment, transformation and leadership CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2013 On behalf of 722 investors representing US$87 trillion in assets
|
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... |
|
Characterizing Fire-on-Fire interactions in three Large Wilderness areas
|
The interaction of fires, where one fire burns into another recently burned area, is receiving increased attention from scientists and land managers wishing to ... |
|
Developing a broader scientific foundation for river restoration: Columbia River food webs
|
Well-functioning food webs are fundamental for sustaining rivers as ecosystems and maintaining associated aquatic and terrestrial communities. The current empha... |
|
Spatial relationship between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity
|
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... |
|
An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot
|
Extreme climatic events, such as heat waves, are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude as a consequence of global warming but their ecological effect... |
|
Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation
|
For more than a decade, the target of keeping global warming below 2 6C has been a key focus of the international climate debate1. In response, the scientific c... |
|
Adapting to flood risk under climate change
|
Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase f... |
|
Effect of fine wood on juvenile brown trout behaviour in experimental stream channels
|
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... |
