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Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges
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National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) in the United States play an important role in the adaptation of social-ecological systems to climate change, land-use change,... |
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Ecosystem carbon stocks and sequestration potential of federal lands across the conterminous United States
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Federal lands across the conterminous United States (CONUS) account for 23.5% of the CONUS terrestrial area but have received no systematic studies on their eco... |
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Predicting a change in the order of spring phenology in temperate forests
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The rise in spring temperatures over the past half-century has led to advances in the phenology of many nontropical plants and animals. As species and populatio... |
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nclimate2695.pdf
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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
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The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the E... |
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Indian-Set Fires in the Forests of the Northeastern United States
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The historical evidence for the Indians' burning the forests of the northeastern United
Abstract. States is reevaluated. Of 35 documents that describe vegetati... |
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Planetary boundaries- Guidi.pdf
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Cross-scale impact of climate temporal variability on ecosystem water and carbon fluxes
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While the importance of ecosystem functioning is undisputed in the context of climate change and Earth system modeling, the role of short-scale temporal variabi... |
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Microhabitats in the tropics buffer temperature in a globally coherent manner
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Vegetated habitats contain a variety of fine-scale features that can ameliorate temperate extremes. These buffered microhabitats may be used by species to evade... |
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Multi-year drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in Southeastern US forests
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Recent forest diebacks combined with threats of future drought focus attention on the extent to which tree death is caused by catastrophic events as opposed to ... |
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Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change
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The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the ... |
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Mapping tree density at a global scale
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The global extent and distribution of forest trees is central to our understanding of the terrestrial biosphere. We provide the first spatially continuous map o... |
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Life history influences rates of climatic niche evolution in flowering plants
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Across angiosperms, variable rates of molecular substitution are linked with life-history attributes associ- ated with woody and herbaceous growth forms. As the... |
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Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
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Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were st... |
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Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak
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Network analysis offers insight into the structure and function of ecological
communities, but little is known about how empirical networks change over time du... |
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Adaptation: Planning for Climate Change and Its Effects on Federal Lands
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National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources
under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap... |
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Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests – Completely paid after 160 years?
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The time-delayed extinction of plant species following habitat fragmentation is a well-known phenomenon in ecology. The length of the relaxation time until this... |
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Accounting for groundwater in stream fish thermal habitat responses to climate change
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Forecasting climate change effects on aquatic fauna and their habitat requires an understanding of how water temperature responds to changing air temperature (i... |
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Seeing the landscape for the trees: Metrics to guide riparian shade management in river catchments
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Rising water temperature (Tw) due to anthropogenic climate change may have serious conse- quences for river ecosystems. Conservation and/or expansion of riparia... |
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A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years
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The collapse of some pre-historical and historical cultures, including Chinese dynasties were presumably linked to widespread droughts, on the basis of synchron... |
