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- Adaptive management of biological systems: A review
- Adaptive Management (AM) is widely considered to be the best available approach for managing biolog- ical systems in the presence of uncertainty. But AM has ...
- Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians
- Many scientists argue that we are either entering or in the midst of the sixth great mass extinction. Intense human pressure, both direct and indirect, is ...
- Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems
- The evolution and subsequent ecological expansion of grasses (Poaceae) since the Late Cretaceous have resulted in the establishment of one of Earth’s dominant ...
- Climate Change, Aboveground-Belowground Interactions, and Species’ Range Shifts
- Changes in climate, land use, fire incidence, and ecological connections all may contribute to current species’ range shifts. Species shift range individually, ...
- Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks.pdf
- Metabolism of terrestrial organic carbon in freshwater ecosystems is responsible for a large amount of carbon dioxide outgassing to the atmosphere, in ...
- Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions
- Biome-scale disturbances by eruptive herbivores provide valuable insights into species interactions, ecosystem function, and impacts of global change. We ...
- Creating Wetlands: Primary Succession, Water Quality Changes, and Self-Design over 15 Years
- The succession of vegetation, soil development, water quality changes, and carbon and nitrogen dynamics are summarized in this article for a pair of 1-hectare ...
- Bird population trends are linearly affected by climate change along species thermal ranges
- Beyond the effects of temperature increase on local population trends and on species distribution shifts, how populations of a given species are affected by ...
- Correlations among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa
- This paper explores whether spatial variation in the biodiversity values of vertebrates and plants (species richness, range-size rarity and number or ...
- A century of climate and ecosystem change in Western Montana: what do temperature trends portend?
- Abstract The physical science linking human-induced increases ingreenhouse gasses to the warming of the global climate system is well established, but the ...
- Climatic variability and episodic Pinus ponderosa establishment along the forest-grassland ecotones of Colorado
- The primary objective of this study was the detection of possible climatic influences on the recent (i.e., past c. 40 years) establishment of ponderosa pine ...
- Conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire varies along an elevation gradient in a ponderosa pine forest, Oregon, USA
- Climate change is expected to increase disturbances such as stand-replacing wildfire in many ecosystems, which have the potential to drive rapid turnover in ...
- Feedbacks of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Climate Change
- Most modeling studies on terrestrial feedbacks to warming over the twenty-first century imply that the net feedbacks are negative—that changes in ecosystems, ...
- Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland
- It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10% of Earth’s terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the ...
- Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Forest Ecosystems: General Technical Report PNW-GTR-870 December 2012
- This report is a scientific assessment of the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the United States relative to climatic ...
- Annual plants change in size over a century of observations
- Abstract Studies have documented changes in animal body size over the last century, but very little is known about changes in plant sizes, even though reduced ...
- Divergent phenological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds
- Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects of ...
- Declining annual streamflow distributions in the Pacific Northwest United States, 1948–2006
- Much of the discussion on climate change and water in the western United States centers on decreased snowpack and earlier spring runoff. Although increasing ...
- Changes in winter precipitation extremes for the western United States under a warmer climate as simulated by regional climate models
- We find a consistent and statistically significant increase in the intensity of future extreme winter precipitation events over the western United States, as ...
- Effective Enforcement in a Conservation Area
- There are two primary approaches to wildlife conservation, the generation of economic benefits from wildlife to local communities, so that protecting wildlife ...
- Drought, disease, defoliation and death: forest pathogens as agents of past vegetation change
- The temperate and boreal forests of Europe and North America have been subject to repeated pathogen (fungal disease and phytophagus insect) outbreaks over the ...
- Climatic Impact of Tropical Lowland Deforestation on Nearby Montane Cloud Forests
- Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) depend on predictable, frequent, and prolonged immersion in cloud. Clearing upwind lowland forest alters surface energy ...
- Effects of Management on Carbon Sequestration in Forest Biomass in Southeast Alaska
- The Tongass National Forest (Tongass) is the largest national forest and largest area of old-growth forest in the United States. Spatial geographic informa- ...
- CARBON CYCLE : Fertilizing change
- Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to diminish the size of the terrestrial carbon sink over the next century. Model simulations suggest that nitrogen ...
- Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
- The continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide due to anthropogenic emissions is predicted to lead to significant changes in ...
- Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change
- Significant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans, with a concentration of available data in Europe and ...
- Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic
- Among the largest uncertainties in current projections of future climate is the feedback between the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate1. Northern peatlands ...
- Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire
- Arctic tundra soils store large amounts of carbon (C) in organic soil layers hundreds to thousands of years old that insulate, and in some cases maintain, ...
- Comment: Don’t judge species on their origins
- SUMMARY: Conservationists should assess organisms on environmental impact rather than on whether they are natives, argue Mark Davis and 18 other ecologists. ...
- Enhanced poleward moisture transport and amplified northern high-latitude wetting trend
- Observations and climate change projections forced by greenhouse gas emissions have indicated a wetting trend in northern high latitudes, evidenced by ...
