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Climate Science Document Library 2011

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Multi-year drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in Southeastern US forests 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 ...
Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management We contend that traditional approaches to forest conservation and management will be inadequate given the predicted scale of social-economic and biophysical cha...
Invited Review: Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities By altering fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture exchanges between the land surface and atmosphere, forestry and other land-use activities affect climate. Alt...
Barking up the Wrong Tree? Forest Sustainability in the wake of Emerging Bioenergy Policies The spotted owl controversy revealed that federal forest management policies alone could not guarantee functioning forest ecosystems. At the same time as the ow...
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 ...
Evaluating the Effects and Effectiveness of Post-fire Seeding Treatments in Western Forests Key Findings• In studies that evaluated soil erosion in seeded versus unseeded controls, 78 percent revealed that seeding did not reduce erosion relative to u...
Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well-being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and ...
Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience Drought reduces plant productivity, induces widespread plant mortality and limits the geographic distribution of plant species1–7. As climates warm and precip...
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...
Do small tributaries function as refuges from floods? A test in a salmonid-dominated mountainous river Excerpts from the text: On 8–10 August 2003, a powerful typhoon hit Hokkaido Island, Japan, accompanied with heavy rain, which allowed us to investigate the p...
Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems The reality confronting ecosystem managers today is one of heterogeneous, rapidly transforming landscapes, particularly in the areas more affected by urban and ...
Elevation-dependent influence of snow accumulation on forest greening Rising temperatures and declining water availability have influenced the ecological function of mountain forests over the past half-century. For instance, warmi...
Temperature-growth divergence in white spruce forests of Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, and adjacent regions of northwestern North America We present a new 23-site network of white spruce ring-width chronologies near boreal treeline in Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, Canada. Most chronologies span...
A reality check on the shale revolution The production of shale gas and oil in the United States is overhyped and the costs are underestimated, says J. David Hughes.
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients Positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has been observed in many studies, but how this relationship is affected by environmental s...
Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Editorial: Journal of the American Medical Association. Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this rela...
Impact of reduced Arctic sea ice on Greenland ice sheet variability in a warmer than present climate A global climate model with interactive vegetation and a coupled ice sheet-shelf component is used to test the response of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) to incr...
How does climate change influence demographic processes of widespread species? Lessons from the comparative analysis of contrasted populations of roe deer How populations respond to climate change depends on the interplay between life history, resource avail- ability, and the intensity of the change. Roe deer are ...
Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands Experiments suggest that biodiversity enhances the ability of ecosystems to maintain multiple functions, such as carbon storage, productivity, and the buildup ...
Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change Ongoing climate change is assumed to be exceptional because of its unprecedented velocity. However, new geophysical research suggests that dramatic climatic cha...