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Climate Science Document Library 2012

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Coupling snowpack and groundwater dynamics to interpret historical streamflow trends in the western United States A key challenge for resource and land managers is predicting the consequences of climate warming on streamflow and water resources. During the last century in t...
Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985–2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline Evidence of shifting dominance among major forest disturbance agent classes regionally to globally has been emerging in the literature. For example, climate-rel...
What Does Zero Deforestation Mean? Ambiguous defi nitions and metrics create risks for forest conservation and accountability. SCIENCE VOL 342
How does climate change cause extinction? Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be a major cause of species extinctions in the next 100 years. But what will actually cause these extinctions? For ...
The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe How did Europe escape the “Iron Law of Wages?” We construct a simple Malthusian model with two sectors and multiple steady states, and use it to explain why...
Old Trees: Extraction, Conservation Can Coexist BECAUSE LARGE OLD TREES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR FOREST ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY AND BIODIVERsity, timber extraction in managed forests should preferentially be concentrat...
Sectoral contributions to surface water stress in the coterminous United States Here, we assess current stress in the freshwater system based on the best available data in order to understand possible risks and vulnerabilities to regional w...
Drought’s legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk Forest mortality constitutes a major uncertainty in projections of climate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and car- bon-cycle feedbacks. Recent drought-induce...
Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak Network analysis offers insight into the structure and function of ecological communities, but little is known about how empirical networks change over time du...
Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse Theory predicts that the approach of catastrophic thresholds in natural systems (e.g., ecosystems, the climate) may result in an increasingly slow recovery fro...
Life history predicts risk of species decline in a stochastic world Understanding what traits determine the extinction risk of species has been a long-standing challenge. Natural populations increasingly experience reductions in...
Diverse pollinator communities enhance plant reproductive success Understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is a major goal of ecology. Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem function and se...
Rising air and stream-water temperatures in Chesapeake Bay region, USA Monthly mean air temperature (AT) at 85 sites and instantaneous stream-water temperature (WT) at 129 sites for 1960–2010 are examined for the mid-Atlantic reg...
The challenge of hot drought 1st paragraph: rought is heating up around the warm- ing world. Particularly hot drought has cost more than US$40 billion and claimed 218 human lives since 2010...
Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate Climate change is expected to drive increased tree mortality through drought, heat stress, and insect attacks, with manifold impacts on forest ecosystems. Yet, ...
Changes in Wind Pattern Alter Albatross Distribution and Life-History Traits Westerly winds in the Southern Ocean have increased in intensity and moved poleward. Using long-term demographic and foraging records, we show that foraging ra...
Analysing fossil-fuel displacement It is commonly assumed that fossil fuels can be replaced by alternative forms of energy. Now research challenges this assumption, and highlights the role of non...
Heat stress related dairy cow mortality during heat waves and control periods in rural Southern Ontario from 2010–2012 Background: Heat stress is a physiological response to extreme environmental heat such as heat waves. Heat stress can result in mortality in dairy cows when ext...
A systems approach to evaluating the air quality co-benefits of US carbon policies Because human activities emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and conventional air pollutants from common sources, policy designed to reduce GHGs can have co-benefits f...
Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology We show that the phenology of vegetation activity changed severely (by more than 2 standard deviations in one or more dimensions of phe- nological change) on 54...