Is Embracing Change Our Best Bet?
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Restoration ecology and conservation
biology are both under pressure to
adapt to accelerated anthropogenic
global change. Pristine areas free from human
inf... |
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... |
The timing of climate change
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An innovative assessment of climate change calculates the year in which ongoing warming will surpass the limits of historical climate variability. Three experts... |
Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire
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Altered fuels and climate change are transforming fire regimes in many of Earth’s biomes. Postfire reassembly of vegetation – paramount to C storage and bio... |
Teitelbaum_et_al-2015-Ecology_Letters.pdf
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
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The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated... |
Barking up the Wrong Tree? Forest Sustainability in the wake of Emerging Bioenergy Policies
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The spotted owl controversy revealed that federal forest management policies alone could not guarantee functioning forest ecosystems. At the same time as the ow... |
The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century
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The distribution and future fate of ectothermic organisms in a warming world will be dictated by thermal-scapes across landscapes. That is particularly true for... |
What Does Zero Deforestation Mean?
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Ambiguous defi nitions and metrics create risks
for forest conservation and accountability.
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
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The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated... |
A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
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Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is
unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by ... |
Investment, transformation and leadership CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2013 On behalf of 722 investors representing US$87 trillion in assets
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Sample text : Fears are increasing over future climate change impacts as we see more extreme weather events, Hurricane Sandy the most noted with damages totall... |
The challenge of hot drought
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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... |
Long-term aspen cover change in the western US
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Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is one of the most important tree species in the western United States due to its role in biodiversity, tourism, and ... |
Editorial: The “New Conservation”
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EDITORIAL: OPENING PARAGRAPHS A powerful but chimeric movement is rapidly gaining recognition and supporters. Christened the “new conservation,” it promotes... |
Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption
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Consumption, although often considered an individual choice, is deeply ingrained in behaviors, cultures, and institutions, and is driven and supported by corpor... |
Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960
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Seasonal variations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Northern Hemisphere have increased since the 1950s, but sparse observations have prevented a clea... |
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... |
Science-2015-Coumou-science.1261768.pdf
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Energy intensities, EROIs (energy returned on invested), and energy payback times of electricity generating power plants
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The energy returned on investment, EROI, has been evaluated for typical power plants representing wind energy, photovoltaics, solar thermal, hydro, natural gas,... |