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Competitive and demographic leverage points of community shifts under climate warming
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Accelerating rates of climate change and a paucity of whole-community studies of climate impacts limit our ability to forecast shifts in ecosystem structure and... |
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Bergmann’s rule and climate change revisited: Disentangling environmental and genetic responses in a wild bird population
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Ecological responses to on-going climate change are numerous, diverse, and taxonomically widespread. However, with one exception, the relative roles of phenotyp... |
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Spatial patterns and policy implications for residential water use
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The front yard makes a powerful visual statement about the
occupants of the residence. As visible statements, yards are likely
to induce a behavioral response... |
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Trend changes in global greening and browning: contribution of short-term trends to longer-term change
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Field observations and time series of vegetation greenness data from satellites provide evidence of changes in terres- trial vegetation activity over the past d... |
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The potential transient dynamics of forests in New England under historical and projected future climate change
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Projections of vegetation distribution that incorporate the transient responses of vegetation to climate change are likely to be more efficacious than those tha... |
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Timing of climate variability and grassland productivity
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Future climates are forecast to include greater precipitation variability and more frequent heat waves, but the degree to which the timing of climate variabilit... |
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Assessing potential climate change effects on vegetation using a linked model approach
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We developed a process that links the mechanistic power of dynamic global vegetation models with the detailed vegetation dynamics of state-and-transition models... |
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Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling
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Although temperature is an important driver of seasonal changes in photosynthetic physiology, photoperiod also regulates leaf activity. Climate change will exte... |
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Emerging Techniques for Soil Carbon measurements
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Soil carbon sequestration is one approach to mitigate greenhouse gases. However, to reliably
assess the quantities sequestered as well as the chemical structur... |
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Green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011
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As the Earth’s third pole, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced a pronounced warming in the past decades. Recent studies reported that the start of the vegetat... |
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On the forest cover–water yield debate: from demand- to supply-side thinking
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Several major articles from the past decade and beyond conclude the impact of reforestation or afforestation on water yield is negative: additional forest cover... |
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Solar energy development impacts on land cover change and protected areas
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Decisions determining the use of land for energy are of exigent concern as land scarcity, the need for ecosystem services, and demands for energy generation hav... |
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Solar energy development impacts on land cover change and protected areas
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Decisions determining the use of land for energy are of exigent concern as land scarcity, the need for ecosystem services, and demands for energy generation hav... |
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Dispersal will limit ability of mammals to track climate change in the Western Hemisphere
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As they have in response to past climatic changes, many species will shift their distributions in response to modern climate change. However, due to the unprece... |
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Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change
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Determining how climate change will affect global ecology and ecosystem services is one of the next important frontiers in environmental science. Many species a... |
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Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world’s most carbon-dense forests
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From analysis of published global site biomass data (n = 136) from primary forests, we discovered (i) the world’s highest known total biomass carbon density (... |
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1.5°C or 2°C: a conduit’s view from the science-policy interface at COP20 in Lima, Peru
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An average global 2°C warming compared to pre-industrial times is commonly understood as the most important target in climate policy negotiations. It is a temp... |
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Animal migration amid shifting patterns of phenology and predation: lessons from a Yellowstone elk herd
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Migration is a striking behavioral strategy by which many animals enhance resource acquisition while reducing predation risk. Historically, the demographic bene... |
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Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States
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This article applies formal detection and attribution techniques to investigate the nature of observed shifts in the timing of streamflow in the western United ... |
