Climate

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A global meta-analysis of soil phosphorus dynamics after afforestation. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia. 
  • Climate, socioeconomic status and Hodgkin's disease mortality in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • 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). 
  • 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. 
  • 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). 
  • Geographic differences in disease expression of cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States. 
  • Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field data. 
  • 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. 
  • Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Nitrogen fertilization has a stronger effect on soil nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities than elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Overturning in the North Atlantic. 
  • Phylogeography and historical ecology of the North Atlantic intertidal. 
  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. 
  • Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities. 
  • Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon. 
  • Seed predation and climate impacts on reproductive variation in temperate forests of the southeastern USA. 
  • Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. 
  • Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change. 
  • Spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Australia. 
  • Sustaining America's forest legacy. 
  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. 
  • The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralization. 
  • The relationship between meteorological conditions and index acute coronary events in a global clinical trial. 
  • The seasonal timing of warming that controls onset of the growing season. 
  • Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. 
  • Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies 
  • 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