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The Greenhouse Is Making the Water-Poor Even Poorer
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How bad will global warming get? The question
has long been cast in terms of how hot
the world will get. But perhaps more important
to the planet’s inhabit... |
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A long-term perspective on a modern drought in the American Southeast
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The depth of the 2006–9 drought in the humid, southeastern US left several metropolitan areas
with only a 60–120 day water supply. To put the region’s re... |
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Drought, disease, defoliation and death: forest pathogens as agents of past vegetation change
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The temperate and boreal forests of Europe and North America have been subject to repeated pathogen (fungal disease and phytophagus insect) outbreaks over the l... |
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Reliability of Indicators of Decline in Abundance
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Although there are many indicators of endangerment (i.e., whether populations or species meet criteria that justify conservation action), their reliability has ... |
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Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty
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Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world’s dire challenges. Claims of conservation’s contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain controve... |
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Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?
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1st paragraph: Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have ... |
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Enhanced poleward moisture transport and amplified northern high-latitude wetting trend
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Observations and climate change projections forced by greenhouse gas emissions have indicated a wetting trend in northern high latitudes, evidenced by increasin... |
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Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
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Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of clima... |
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Response of the North Atlantic storm track to climate change shaped by ocean– atmosphere coupling
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A poleward shift of the mid-latitude storm tracks in response to anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing has been diagnosed in climate model simulations1,2. Explan... |
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Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
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Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of clima... |
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Spatially and temporally consistent prediction of heavy precipitation from mean values
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Extreme precipitation can cause flooding, result in substantial damages and have detrimental effects on ecosystems1,2. Climate adaptation must therefore account... |
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A holistic approach to climate targets
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An assessment of allowable carbon emissions that factors in multiple climate targets finds smaller permissible emission budgets than those inferred from studies... |
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Contemporary ocean warming and freshwater conditions are related to later sea age at maturity in Atlantic salmon spawning in Norwegian rivers
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Atlantic salmon populations are reported to be declining throughout its range, raising major management concerns. Variation in adult fish abundance may be due t... |
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Insect Responses to Major Landscape-Level Disturbance
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Keywords
tolerance, dispersal, succession, local extinction, outbreak, population dynamics
Abstract
Disturbances are abrupt events that dramatically alter ha... |
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Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing water availability
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Here, we reveal temporally increasing tree mortality across all study species over the last three decades in the central boreal forests of Canada, where long-te... |
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Influence of different tree-harvesting intensities on forest soil carbon stocks in boreal and northern temperate forest ecosystems
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Untangling human and environmental effects on geographical gradients of mammal species richness: a global and regional evaluation
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1. Different hypotheses (geographical, ecological, evolutionary or a combination of them) have been suggested to account for the spatial variation in species ri... |
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Thermodynamics of firms’ growth
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The distribution of firms’ growth and firms’ sizes is a topic under intense scrutiny. In this paper, we show that a thermodynamic model based on the maximum... |
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Approaching the Limits: A book review in Science
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Excerpts: "In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil traces the historical development of human consumption of biological resources and evaluates whether we coul... |
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Wildlife decline and social conflict
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Policies aimed at reducing
wildlife-related conflict
must address the
underlying causes |
