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Megaproject reclamation and climate change
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Megaprojects such as oil sands mining require large-scale and long-term closure and reclamation plans. Yet these plans are created and approved without consider... |
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Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption
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Consumption, although often considered an individual choice, is deeply ingrained in behaviors, cultures, and institutions, and is driven and supported by corpor... |
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First signs of carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass
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European forests are seen as a clear example of vegetation rebound in the Northern Hemisphere; recovering in area and growing stock since the 1950s, after centu... |
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Climate change, income and happiness: An empirical study for Barcelona
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The present article builds upon the results of an empirical study exploring key factors which determine life satisfaction in Barcelona. Based on a sample of 840... |
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Scenarios of future land use change around United States’ protected areas
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Land use change around protected areas can diminish their conservation value, making it important to
predict future land use changes nearby. Our goal was to ev... |
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Regional variability in extinction thresholds for forest birds in the north-eastern United States: an examination of potential drivers using long-term breeding bird atlas datasets
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Main conclusions: Extinction threshold estimates varied tremendously across species and landscapes. Thus, habitat thresholds are difficult to generalize as they... |
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Why a collapse of global civilization will be avoided: a comment on Ehrlich & Ehrlich
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1st paragraph: Ehrlich FRS & Ehrlich [1] claim that over-population, over-consumption and the future climate mean that ‘preventing a global collapse of civili... |
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Protected areas in Borneo may fail to conserve tropical forest biodiversity under climate change
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Protected areas (PAs) are key for conserving rainforest species, but many PAs are becoming increasingly
isolated within agricultural landscapes, which may have... |
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National post-2020 greenhouse gas targets and diversity-aware leadership
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Achieving the collective goal of limiting warming to below 2 ◦ C or 1.5 ◦ C compared to pre-industrial levels requires a transition towards a fully decarbon... |
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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
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The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants,... |
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Planetary boundaries- Guidi.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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Effect of Risk Aversion on Prioritizing Conservation Projects
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Agencies making decisions about what threat mitigation actions to take to save which species frequently face the dilemma of whether to invest in actions with hi... |
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Functional response of U.S. grasslands to the early 21st-century drought
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Grasslands across the United States play a key role in regional livelihood and national food security. Yet, it is still unclear how this important resource will... |
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Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores
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The largest terrestrial species in the order Carnivora are wide-ranging and rare
because of their positions at the top of food webs. They are some of the world... |
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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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Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change
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Warming experiments are increasingly relied on to estimate plant responses to global climate change1,2. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of fut... |
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Impacts of mountaintop mining on terrestrial ecosystem integrity: identifying landscape thresholds for avian species in the central Appalachians, United States
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Reclaimed mine-dominated landscapes (less forest and more grassland/shrubland cover) elicited more negative (57 %) than positive (39 %) species responses. Negat... |
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function
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Using historic data sets, we quantified the degree to which global change over 120 years disrupted plant-pollinator interactions in a temperate forest understor... |
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Comparative Drought Responses of Quercus ilex L. and Pinus sylvestris L. in a Montane Forest Undergoing a Vegetation Shift
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Different functional and structural strategies to cope with water shortage exist both within and across plant communities. The current trend towards increasing ... |
