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How wide is a stream? Spatial extent of the potential ‘‘stream signature’’ in terrestrial food webs using meta-analysis
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The magnitude of cross-ecosystem resource subsidies is increasingly well recognized; however, less is known about the distance these subsidies travel into the r... |
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BOTANY AND A CHANGING WORLD: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL CHANGE
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The impacts of global change have heightened the need to understand how organisms respond to and influence these changes. Can we forecast how change at the glob... |
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Wildfire, Wildlands, and People: Understanding and Preparing for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-299. Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 36 p.
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Fire has historically played a fundamental ecological role in many of America’s wildland areas. However, the rising number of homes in the wildland-urban inte... |
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Increasing Northern Hemisphere water deficit
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A monthly water-balance model is used with CRUTS3.1 gridded monthly precip- itation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data to examine changes in global wat... |
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Safe Havens, Safe Passages for Vulnerable Fish and Wildlife
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Some of the best-known and most-cherished mountains on Earth are set in the
Canadian Rockies of British Columbia and Alberta. Indeed, the mention of
Banff, Ja... |
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Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change on Stream Health
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Estimation of stream health involves the analysis of changes in aquatic species, riparian vegetation, microinvertebrates, and channel degradation due to hydrolo... |
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Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
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Growing evidence demonstrates that climatic conditions can have a profound impact on the functioning of modern human societies (1,2), but effects on economic ac... |
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Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration
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Renewable fresh water over continents has input from precipitation and losses to the atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration .... The dominance of tran... |
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Cross-scale impact of climate temporal variability on ecosystem water and carbon fluxes
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While the importance of ecosystem functioning is undisputed in the context of climate change and Earth system modeling, the role of short-scale temporal variabi... |
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Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the western United States
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Sequestration of carbon (C) in forests has the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change by offsetting
future emissions of greenhouse gases. However,... |
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Ecosystem Service Markets 101: Supply and Demand for Nature
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Establishing markets for ecosystem services—the benefits that nature provides, such as clean air, water, and wildlife habitat—has gained traction in some ci... |
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ScienceExtinction.pdf
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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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Integrating multiple lines of evidence into historical biogeography hypothesis testing: a Bison bison case study
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One of the grand goals of historical biogeography is to understand how and why species’ population sizes and distributions change over time. Multiple types of... |
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Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration
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Renewable fresh water over continents has input from precipitation and losses to the atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration. Global-scale estimates of... |
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Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages
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Mining impacts on stream systems have historically been studied over small spatial scales, yet investigations over large areas may be useful for characterizing ... |
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Density stratification in an estuary with complex geometry: Driving processes and relationship to hypoxia on monthly to inter-annual timescales
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The density field in Narragansett Bay (NB), a northeast U.S. estuary with complex geometry that suffers hypoxia, is described and related to driving factors usi... |
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The Montérégie Connection: linking landscapes, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to improve decision making
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To maximize specific ecosystem services (ES) such as food production, people alter landscape structure, i.e., the types of ecosystems present, their relative pr... |
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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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Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Although boreal fire regimes are heterogeneous, recent trends6 and future projections7 point to increasing fire activity in response to climate warming througho... |
