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Climate Science Document Library 2012

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Migrating Like a Herd of Cats: Climate Change and Emerging Forests in British Columbia We combine climate tolerances of tree species with probable changes in insect, disease, fire, and other abiotic factors to describe probable changes in distribu...
Time to Adapt to a Warming World, But Where’s the Science? With dangerous global warming seemingly inevitable, users of climate information— from water utilities to international aid workers—are turning to climate ...
Managing Wildfire Risk in Fire-Prone Landscapes: How Are Private Landowners Contributing? The fire-prone landscapes of the West include both public and private lands. Wildfire burns indiscriminately across property boundaries, which means that the...
Delayed detection of climate mitigation benefits due to climate inertia and variability Climate change mitigation acts by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thus curbing, or even reversing, the increase in their atmospheric concentration. This ...
Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance Animal migration is one of the great wonders of nature, but the factors that determine how far migrants travel remain poorly understood. We present a new quanti...
Logging Debris Matters: Better Soil, Fewer Invasive Plants The logging debris that remains after timber harvest traditionally has been seen as a nuisance. It can make subsequent tree planting more difficult and becom...
The timing of climate change An innovative assessment of climate change calculates the year in which ongoing warming will surpass the limits of historical climate variability. Three experts...
Monsoon Melee The rhythms of life across South Asia depend on the Indian monsoon. Climate scientists are locking horns over the cause of the summer deluges
Australia is ‘free to choose’ economic growth and falling environmental pressures Over two centuries of economic growth have put undeniable pressure on the ecological systems that underpin human well-being. While it is agreed that these press...
Hot climates, high sensitivity Concluding paragraph: One sure solution to the problem posed by uncertainty of climate sensitivity in hot climates is simply not to go there. Unfortunately, it ...
Ramification of stream networks The geometric complexity of stream networks has been a source of fascination for centuries. However, a comprehensive understanding of ramification—the mechani...
The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate Plant biodiversity is often correlated with ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, we know little about the relative and combined effects of ...
Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations1 . Our ability to unders...
Nonrandom, diversifying processes are disproportionately strong in the smallest size classes of a tropical forest 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...
Is Embracing Change Our Best Bet? Restoration ecology and conservation biology are both under pressure to adapt to accelerated anthropogenic global change. Pristine areas free from human inf...
Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America The worldwide energy consumption in 2006 was close to 498 exajoules. This is equivalent to an energy convergence of 15.8 TW into the populated regions, where en...
Climate negotiations under scientific uncertainty How does uncertainty about “dangerous” climate change affect the prospects for international cooperation? Climate negotiations usually are depicted as a pri...
Local climatic drivers of changes in phenology at a boreal-temperate ecotone in eastern North America Ecosystems in biogeographical transition zones, or ecotones, tend to be highly sensitive to climate and can provide early indications of future change. To evalu...
Energy intensities, EROIs (energy returned on invested), and energy payback times of electricity generating power plants The energy returned on investment, EROI, has been evaluated for typical power plants representing wind energy, photovoltaics, solar thermal, hydro, natural gas,...
Divergent global precipitation changes induced by natural versus anthropogenic forcing As a result of global warming, precipitation is likely to increase in high latitudes and the tropics and to decrease in already dry sub-tropical regions (1). Th...