Climate

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A biometeorology study of climate and heat-related morbidity in Phoenix from 2001 to 2006. 
  • A comparative climate analysis of heat-related emergency 911 dispatches: Chicago, Illinois and Phoenix, Arizona USA 2003 to 2006. 
  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • A national assessment of the epidemiology of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, China. 
  • A predictive framework to understand forest responses to global change. 
  • A study of anthropogenic and climatic disturbance of the New River Estuary using a Bayesian belief network. 
  • Age, dose, and environmental temperature are risk factors for topiramate-related hyperthermia. 
  • Applying developmental threshold models to evolutionary ecology. 
  • Aridity drove the evolution of extreme embolism resistance and the radiation of conifer genus Callitris. 
  • Associations of environmental factors with elderly health and mortality in China. 
  • Benefits and costs of improved cookstoves: assessing the implications of variability in health, forest and climate impacts. 
  • Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives. 
  • Biogeography in deep time - What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution? 
  • Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks. 
  • Carbon dynamics and land-use choices: building a regional-scale multidisciplinary model. 
  • Characterization of infectious aerosols in health care facilities: an aid to effective engineering controls and preventive strategies. 
  • Chlordanes in the indoor and outdoor air of three U.S. cities. 
  • Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon 
  • Climate and heat-related emergencies in Chicago, Illinois (2003-2006). 
  • Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia. 
  • Climate, socioeconomic status and Hodgkin's disease mortality in the United States. 
  • Comparing the Model-Simulated Global Warming Signal to Observations Using Empirical Estimates of Unforced Noise 
  • Computer simulations show that Neanderthal facial morphology represents adaptation to cold and high energy demands, but not heavy biting. 
  • Consistent simulations of multiple proxy responses to an abrupt climate change event. 
  • Continental-level population differentiation and environmental adaptation in the mushroom Suillus brevipes. 
  • Contrasting quaternary histories in an ecologically divergent sister pair of low-dispersing intertidal fish (Xiphister) revealed by multilocus DNA analysis. 
  • Cross influences of ozone and sulfate precursor emissions changes on air quality and climate. 
  • Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO2 enrichment. 
  • Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts. 
  • Deterministic Factors Overwhelm Stochastic Environmental Fluctuations as Drivers of Jellyfish Outbreaks. 
  • Differential responses to changes in growth temperature between trees from different functional groups and biomes: a review and synthesis of data. 
  • Disability and sunshine: can hedonic predictions be improved by drawing attention to focusing illusions or emotional adaptation? 
  • Diversification and the evolution of dispersal ability in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae). 
  • Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: climate, soils, and species pools. 
  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. 
  • Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. 
  • Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants. 
  • Effects of fire frequency on litter decomposition as mediated by changes to litter chemistry and soil environmental conditions. 
  • Effects of stomatal delays on the economics of leaf gas exchange under intermittent light regimes. 
  • Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures. 
  • Entrepreneurial insects. 
  • Faunal assemblage composition and paleoenvironment of Plovers Lake, a Middle Stone Age locality in Gauteng Province, South Africa. 
  • Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought. 
  • Five anthocyanin polymorphisms are associated with an R2R3-MYB cluster in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae). 
  • Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity. 
  • Geographic differences in disease expression of cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States. 
  • Geographic selection in the small heat shock gene complex differentiating populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura. 
  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation. 
  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. 
  • How eco-evolutionary principles can guide tree breeding and tree biotechnology for enhanced productivity. 
  • How well do growing season dynamics of photosynthetic capacity correlate with leaf biochemistry and climate fluctuations? 
  • Hydraulic limits on maximum plant transpiration and the emergence of the safety-efficiency trade-off. 
  • Hydraulic redistribution of soil water in two old-growth coniferous forests: quantifying patterns and controls. 
  • Ice-age survival of Atlantic cod: agreement between palaeoecology models and genetics. 
  • Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2. 
  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂. 
  • Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake. 
  • Into and out of the tropics: global diversification patterns in a hyperdiverse clade of ectomycorrhizal fungi. 
  • Intra- and interspecific tree growth across a long altitudinal gradient in the Peruvian Andes. 
  • Intra-urban societal vulnerability to extreme heat: the role of heat exposure and the built environment, socioeconomics, and neighborhood stability. 
  • Lessons learned from coordinating research on the North Atlantic (CORONA). 
  • Local adaptation across a climatic gradient despite small effective population size in the rare sapphire rockcress. 
  • Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. 
  • Malaria hotspots drive hypoendemic transmission in the Chittagong Hill Districts of Bangladesh. 
  • Marine Socio-Environmental Covariates: queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies. 
  • Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). 
  • Microgeographic Patterns of Genetic Divergence and Adaptation across Environmental Gradients in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae). 
  • New Orleans asthma. II. Relationship of climatologic and seasonal factors to outbreaks. 
  • New Uintan primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene. 
  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes. 
  • Overturning in the North Atlantic. 
  • Partitioning interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange between climatic variability and functional change. 
  • Pervasive migration across rainforest and sandy coastal plain Aechmea nudicaulis (Bromeliaceae) populations despite contrasting environmental conditions. 
  • Phylogeography and historical ecology of the North Atlantic intertidal. 
  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. 
  • Range change evolution of peat mosses (Sphagnum) within and between climate zones. 
  • Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon. 
  • Seed predation and climate impacts on reproductive variation in temperate forests of the southeastern USA. 
  • Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle. 
  • Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. 
  • Sociocultural discourse in science: Flawed assumptions and bias in the CLASH model. 
  • Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change. 
  • Spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Australia. 
  • Sustaining America's forest legacy. 
  • Temporal variability in (13)C of respired CO(2) in a pine and a hardwood forest subject to similar climatic conditions. 
  • Tests of the contribution of acclimation to geographic variation in water loss rates of the West Indian lizard Anolis cristatellus. 
  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. 
  • The Paucity of Frugivores in Madagascar May Not Be Due to Unpredictable Temperatures or Fruit Resources. 
  • The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralization. 
  • The seasonal timing of warming that controls onset of the growing season. 
  • Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. 
  • Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. 
  • Understanding Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality: An Introduction to the Symposium. 
  • Whole-community facilitation regulates biodiversity on Patagonian rocky shores. 
  • Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Li, Wenhong, Associate Professor of Climate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Lozier, M. Susan, Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Williams, Blythe A., Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology