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Effects of tree mortality caused by a bark beetle outbreak on the ant community in the San Bernardino National Forest
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Ants are used as bioindicators of the effects of disturbance on ecosystems for several reasons. First, ants are generally responsive to alteration of the biomas... |
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Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss
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Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and... |
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Comment: Time to Model all Life on Earth
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To help transform our understanding of the biosphere, ecologists — like climate scientists — should simulate whole ecosystems, argue Drew Purves and colleag... |
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Area–heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities
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For more than 50 y ecologists have believed that spatial heterogeneity in habitat conditions promotes species richness by increasing opportunities for niche par... |
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Carbon Market Lessons and Global Policy Outlook
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Summary: Ongoing work on linking markets and mixing policies builds on successes and failures in pricing and trading carbon. Closing sentence, 1st paragraph: Ar... |
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Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities
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Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes. These organisms face multiple environmental changes1, includ... |
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Using and improving the social cost of carbon: Regular, institutionalized updating and review are essential
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The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a crucial tool for economic analysis of climate policies. The SCC estimates the dollar value of reduced climate change damage... |
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Allometry of thermal variables in mammals: consequences of body size and phylogeny
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A large number of analyses have examined how basal metabolic rate (BMR) is affected by body mass in mammals. By contrast, the critical ambient temperatures that... |
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Growing feedback from ocean carbon to climate
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The finding that feedbacks between the ocean’s carbon cycle and climate may
become larger than terrestrial carbon–climate feedbacks has implications for th... |
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Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl
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Relative abundances of elk, roe deer, red deer and wild boar within the Chernobyl exclusion zone are similar to those in four (uncontaminated) nature reserves ... |
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Spatial aspects of tree mortality strongly differ between young and old-growth forests
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In young forests, mortality should be primarily density dependent due to competition for light, leading to an increasingly spatially uniform pattern of survivi... |
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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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Comment: The end of cheap coal
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New forecasts suggest that coal reserves will run out faster than many believe. Energy policies relying on cheap coal have no future, say Richard Heinberg and D... |
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SE US megalopolis.pdf
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When the river runs dry: human and ecological values of dry riverbeds
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Temporary rivers and streams that naturally cease to flow and dry up can be found on every continent.
Many other water courses that were once perennial now als... |
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A megacity in a changing climate: the case of Kolkata
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Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest that there will be an increase in the frequency and intensity of climate extremes in the 21... |
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and ForestDegradation: Global Land-Use Implications
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Recent climate talks in Bali have made progress toward action on deforestation and forest degradation
in developing countries, within the anticipated post-Kyot... |
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Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems
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The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and ... |
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Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization
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The collapse of the Bronze Age Harappan, one of the earliest urban civilizations, remains an enigma. Urbanism flourished in the western region of the Indo-Gange... |
