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Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict

Published:February 2023

Author(s):Briana Abrahms, Neil H. Carter, T. J. Clark-Wolf, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Erik Johansson, Alex McInturff, Anna C. Nisi, Kasim Rafiq, Leigh West

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This peer-reviewed study synthesizes global evidence of climate-driven conflicts between humans and wildlife, and introduces a framework to describe distinct environmental, ecological and sociopolitical pathways of climate wildlife conflict.Read More →

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends

Published:February 2023

Author(s):Steven Higgins, Timo Conradi, and Edward Muhoko

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

This peer-reviewed study uses datasets on vegetation dynamics of 100 sites over the past 40 years to analyze the impact of anthropogenic climate change on vegetation in all terrestrial ecosystem types.Read More →

Divergent effects of climate change on the egg-laying opportunity of species in cold and warm regions

Published:January 2023

Author(s):Liang Ma, Chao Hu, Zhong-Wen Jiang, Wei-Guo Du

Publisher:Conservation Biology

This peer-reviewed study evaluates egg-laying opportunity within a model species of lizard to evaluate the impact of climate change on population decline in egg-laying species.Read More →

Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

Published:January 2023

Author(s):Gopal Murali, Takuya Iwamura, Shai Meiri, Uri Roll

Publisher:Nature

This peer-reviewed study provides a global assessment of land vertebrates’ exposures to future extreme thermal events.Read More →

Climate-driven changes of global marine mercury cycles in 2100

Published:January 2023

Author(s):Yujuan Wang, Peipei Wu, Yanxu Zhang

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences

This peer reviewed study uses a global ocean model to project potentially harmful climate-driven changes to the global marine mercury cycle in 2100.Read More →

Impact of climatic and vegetation dynamic change on runoff over the Three Rivers Source Region based on the Community Land Model

Published:December 2022

Author(s):Mingshan Deng, Xianhong Meng, Yaqiong Lu, Lele Shu, Zhaoguo Li, Lin Zhao, Hao Chen, Lunyu Shang, Danrui Sheng, and Xinmao Ao.

Publisher:Climate Dynamics

This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling to investigate the impact of anthropogenic warming and related vegetation changes on the runoff in the Three Rivers Source Region that drives three economically important rivers in China.Read More →

Climate-driven decoupling of wetland and upland biomass trends on the mid-Atlantic coast

Published:October 2022

Author(s):Yaping Chen, Matthew L. Kirwan

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

This peer-reviewed study uses 36 years of satellite observations to understand the impact of climate change and sea-level rise on the role that coastal ecosystems play as a global carbon sink.Read More →

Climate Change Alters Aging Patterns of Reservoir Aquatic Habitats

Published:September 2022

Author(s):Leandro E. Miranda, Nicky M. Faucheux

Publisher:Climatic Change

This study assesses the likely impact of projected temperature and precipitation changes on freshwater reservoir habitats in the continental United States.Read More →

Recent Climate Change Has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-Latitude Peatlands

Published:August 2022

Author(s):Hui Zhang, Minna Väliranta, Graeme T. Swindles, Marco A. Aquino-López, Donal Mullan, Ning Tan, Matthew Amesbury, Kirill V. Babeshko, Kunshan Bao, Anatoly Bobrov, Viktor Chernyshov, Marissa A. Davies, Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu, Angelica Feurdean, Sarah A. Finkelstein, Michelle Garneau, Zhengtang Guo, Miriam C. Jones, Martin Kay, Eric S. Klein, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Gabriel Magnan, Katarzyna Marcisz, Natalia Mazei, Yuri Mazei, Richard Payne, Nicolas Pelletier, Sanna R. Piilo, Steve Pratte, Thomas Roland, Damir Saldaev, William Shotyk, Thomas G. Sim, Thomas J. Sloan, Michał Słowiński, Julie Talbot, Liam Taylor, Andrey N. Tsyganov, Sebastian Wetterich, Wei Xing, Yan Zhao

Publisher:Nature Communications

This article analyzes historical changes to high-latitude peatlands, which store one third of the global soil carbon.Read More →

Changing Hydrographic, Biogeochemical, and Acidification Properties in the Gulf of Maine as Measured by the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, GNATS, Between 1998 and 2018

Published:June 2022

Author(s):William M. Balch, David T. Drapeau, Bruce C. Bowler, Nicholas R. Record, Nicholas R. Bates, Sunny Pinkham, Rebecca Garley, Catherine Mitchell

Publisher:JGR: Biogeosciences

This study covers physical, chemical, biological, biogeochemical, and bio-optical changes in the Gulf of Maine.Read More →

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