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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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Biogenic vs. geologic carbon emissions and forest biomass energy production
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n the current debate over the CO2 emissions implications of switching from fossil fuel energy sources to include a substantial amount of woody biomass energy, m... |
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Adapting to flood risk under climate change
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Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase f... |
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Mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments
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Forest carbon cycles play an important role in efforts to understand and mitigate climate change. Large amounts of carbon (C) are stored in deep mineral forest ... |
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What Every Conservation Biologist Should Know about Human Population
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EDITORIAL:CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH:
As with population issues, conservation biologists should ensure that we, as individuals and a professional society, understand... |
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An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot
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Extreme climatic events, such as heat waves, are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude as a consequence of global warming but their ecological effect... |
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Too late for two degrees? Low carbon economy index 2012
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Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of
warming by the end of the century. To give ourselv... |
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH ILLUSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE
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Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced... |
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Modelling the long-term response to positive and negative priming of soil organic carbon by black carbon
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bserved increases in the mineralization rate of labile organic carbon (LOC) in the presence of black carbon (BC) have led to speculation that corresponding decr... |
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Drought’s legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk
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Forest mortality constitutes a major uncertainty in projections of climate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and car- bon-cycle feedbacks. Recent drought-induce... |
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Challenges of ecological restoration: Lessons from forests in northern Europe
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The alarming rate of ecosystem degradation has raised the need for ecological restoration throughout different biomes and continents. North European forests may... |
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How global extinctions impact regional biodiversity in mammals
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Phylogenetic diversity (PD) represents the evol- utionary history of a species assemblage and is a valuable measure of biodiversity because it cap- tures not on... |
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Seeds of Change for Restoration Ecology
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FORESTS PROVIDE A WIDE VARIETY OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, INCLUDING PROVISIONS SUCH AS
food and fuel and services that affect climate and water quality (1). In lig... |
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Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species
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Species distributions have shifted in response to global warming in all major ecosystems on the Earth. Despite cogent evidence for these changes, the underlying... |
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Predicting satellite-derived patterns of large-scale disturbances in forests of the Pacific Northwest Region in response to recent climatic variation
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Across the Pacific Northwest, the climate between 1950 and 1975 was exceptionally cool and wet compared
with more recent conditions (1995–2005). We reasoned ... |
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Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead
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Keywords
resilience, ecosystem restoration, restoration ecology, recovery, degradation, ecosystem services, environmental change, novel ecosystems
Abstract
A... |
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When It Rains, It Pours Global Warming and the Increase in Extreme Precipitation from 1948 to 2011
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Global warming is happening now and
its effects are being felt in the United
States and around the world. Among
the expected consequences of global warming
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Predicting ecosystem shifts requires new approaches that integrate the effects of climate change across entire systems
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Most studies that forecast the ecological conse- quences of climate change target a single species and a single life stage. Depending on climatic impacts on oth... |
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Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity
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Many studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possi... |
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Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
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KEY FINDINGS
Biodiversity and ecosystems are already more stressed than at any comparable period of human history. Climate change almost always exacerbates the... |
