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Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects

February 2021
James S. Clark, Robert Andrus, Melaine Aubry-Kientz, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Don C. Bragg, Dale Brockway, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Susan Cohen, Benoit Courbaud, Robert Daley, Adrian J. Das, Michael Dietze, Timothy J. Fahey, Istem Fer, Jerry F. Franklin, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Ines Ibanez, Jill Johnstone, Christopher L. Kilner, Johannes Knops, Walter D. Koenig, Georges Kunstler, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Kristin L. Legg, Jordan Luongo, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Yassine Messaoud, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Jonathan A. Myers, Orrin B. Myers, Chase Nunez, Robert Parmenter, Sam Pearse, Scott Pearson, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Ethan Ready, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Amanda M. Schwantes, Erin Shanahan, Shubhi Sharma, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Kai Zhu & Roman Zlotin.
Nature Communications
Climate change that stimulates tree growth can make smaller trees produce more seeds per year, but also can render larger trees less able to reproduce.Read More →

Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons

February 2021
William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Leonard Bielory, Patrick L. Kinney & Lewis Ziska
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Long-term pollen data from 60 North American stations and Earth system model simulations quantify the role of human-caused climate change in continental patterns in pollen concentrations.Read More →

Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival

February 2020
Cristian Román-Palacios, John J. Wiens
PNAS
This study addresses the specific changes in climate that were associated with recent population extinctions, using data from 538 plant and animal species distributed globally. Read More →

Fourth National Climate Assessment

November 2018
David Reidmiller, Christopher W. Avery, Daniel Barrie, Apurva Dave, Benjamin DeAngelo, Matthew Dzaugis, Michael Kolian, Kristin Lewis, Katie Reeves, Darrell Winner, David R. Easterling, David W. Fahey, Sarah Doherty, James P. Kossin, William V. Sweet, Russell S. Vose, Michael F. Wehner, Donald J. Wuebbles, Thomas Johnson, Peter Colohan, Amir AghaKouchak, Sankar Arumugam, Casey Brown, Gregory McCabe, Roger Pulwarty, Craig D. Zamuda, Daniel E. Bilello, Guenter Conzelmann, Ellen Mecray, Ann Satsangi, Vincent Tidwell, Brian J. Walker, Thomas Loveland, James Wickham, Grant Domke, Nate Herold, Nathan Wood, James M. Vose, David L. Peterson, Grant M. Domke, Christopher J. Fettig, Linda A. Joyce, Robert E. Keane, Charles H. Luce, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Shawn Carter, Jay Peterson, Lisa Crozier, Michael Fogarty, Sarah Gaichas, Kimberly J. W. Hyde, Toni Lyn Morelli, Jeffrey Morisette, Hassan Moustahfid, Roldan Muñoz, Rajendra Poudel, Michelle D. Staudinger, Charles Stock, Laura Thompson, Robin Waples, Jake F. Weltzin, Je
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
This report analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, examines current trends in global change, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years. Read More →

Marine Heatwaves Under Global Warming

August 2018
Thomas L. Frölicher, Erich M. Fischer, Nicolas Gruber
Nature
This report argues that marine heat waves (MHWs) are becoming longer-lasting and more frequent, extensive and intense in the past few decades, and that this trend will accelerate under further global warming.Read More →

Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard

April 2018
Emerson Pontes-da-Silva, William E. Magnuson, Barry Sinervo, Gabriel H. Caetano, Donald B. Miles, Guarino R. Colli, Luisa M. Diele-Viegas, Jessica Fenker, Juan C. Santos, Fernanda P. Werneck
Journal of Thermal Biology
The study's results support the hypothesis that tropical-lizard taxa are at high risk of local extinction caused by increasing temperatures.Read More →

Anthropogenic Intensification of Southern African Flash Droughts as Exemplified by the 2015/16 Season

January 2018
Xing Yuan, Linying Wang, Eric F. Wood
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Flash drought over southern Africa was tripled during the last 60 years mainly due to anthropogenic climate change, and it was intensified during 2015/16 in the midst of heat waves.Read More →

Anthropogenic Enhancement of Moderate-to-Strong El Niño Events Likely Contributed to Drought and Poor Harvests in Southern Africa During 2016

January 2018
Chris Funk, Frank Davenport, Laura Harrison, Tamuka Magadzire, Gideon Galu, Guleid A. Artan, Shraddhanand Shukla, Diriba Korecha, Matayo Indeje, Catherine Pomposi, Denis Macharia, Gregory Husak, Faka Dieudonne Nsadisa
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
A 40-member CESM LE ensemble indicates that climate change likely increased the intensity of the 2015/16 El Niño, contributing to further decreases in SA precipitation, crop production and food availability.Read More →

A Multifactor Risk Analysis of the Record 2016 Great Barrier Reef Bleaching

January 2018
Sophie C. Lewis, Jennie Mallela
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Anthropogenic greenhouse gases likely increased the risk of the extreme Great Barrier Reef bleaching event through anomalously high sea surface temperature and the accumulation of thermal stress.Read More →

Ecological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño in the Central Equatorial Pacific

January 2018
Russell E. Brainard, Thomas Oliver, Michael J. McPhaden, Anne Cohen, Roberto Venegas, Adel Heenan, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, Randi Rotjan, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Elizabeth Flint, Susan A. Hunter
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Coral reef and seabird communities in the central equatorial Pacific were disrupted by record-setting sea surface temperatures, linked to an anthropogenically forced trend, during the 2015/16 El Niño.Read More →

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