Climate

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dynamic yet vulnerable pipeline: Integration and coordination of hydraulic traits across whole plants. 
  • A global meta-analysis of soil phosphorus dynamics after afforestation. 
  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • 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. 
  • Accounting for landscape heterogeneity improves spatial predictions of tree vulnerability to drought. 
  • Age, dose, and environmental temperature are risk factors for topiramate-related hyperthermia. 
  • Annual climate variation modifies nitrogen induced carbon accumulation of Pinus sylvestris forests. 
  • Applying developmental threshold models to evolutionary ecology. 
  • Are the ghosts of nature's past haunting ecology today? 
  • 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. 
  • Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous United States. 
  • Asynchrony in individual and subpopulation fecundity stabilizes reproductive output of an alpine plant population. 
  • 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? 
  • Biotic and anthropogenic forces rival climatic/abiotic factors in determining global plant population growth and fitness. 
  • 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 drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities 
  • Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia. 
  • Climate, socioeconomic status and Hodgkin's disease mortality in the United States. 
  • Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. 
  • Comparing the Model-Simulated Global Warming Signal to Observations Using Empirical Estimates of Unforced Noise 
  • Comparison of water-energy trajectories of two major regions experiencing water shortage. 
  • 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. 
  • Dual impact of elevated temperature on plant defence and bacterial virulence in Arabidopsis. 
  • 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. 
  • Elasticity of population growth with respect to the intensity of biotic or abiotic driving factors. 
  • 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. 
  • Functional coordination between leaf gas exchange and vulnerability to xylem cavitation in temperate forest trees. 
  • Geographic differences in disease expression of cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States. 
  • Geographic location, local environment, and individual size mediate the effects of climate warming and neighbors on a benefactor plant. 
  • Geographic selection in the small heat shock gene complex differentiating populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura. 
  • Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field data. 
  • Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. 
  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation 
  • Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. 
  • Heatwaves, medications, and heat-related hospitalization in older Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Intra- and interspecific tree growth across a long altitudinal gradient in the Peruvian Andes. 
  • 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. 
  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. 
  • 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 natural environments in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae) 
  • Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming. 
  • Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter. 
  • 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. 
  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes. 
  • On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology. 
  • One Small Step for Step 1. 
  • 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. 
  • Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America. 
  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. 
  • Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities. 
  • Range change evolution of peat mosses (Sphagnum) within and between climate zones. 
  • Reserves protect against deforestation fires in the Amazon. 
  • Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas. 
  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. 
  • Scenarios for modeling solar radiation modification. 
  • 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. 
  • Social structure among vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). 
  • Sociocultural discourse in science: Flawed assumptions and bias in the CLASH model. 
  • 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. 
  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. 
  • 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. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Li, Wenhong, Associate Professor of Climate, Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Lozier, M. Susan, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Emerita Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Earth and Climate Sciences
  • Williams, Blythe A., Associate Professor of the Practice Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology