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Ingmar R. Staude; Henrique M. Pereira; Gergana N. Daskalova; Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann; Martin Diekmann; Harald Pauli; Hans Van Calster; Mark Vellend; Anne D. Bjorkman; Jörg Brunet; Pieter De Frenne; Radim Hédl; Ute Jandt; Jonathan Lenoir; Isla H. Myers‐Smith; Kris Verheyen; Sonja Wipf; Monika Wulf; Christopher Andrews; Peter Barančok; Elena Barni; José‐Luis Benito‐Alonso; Jonathan Bennie; Imre Berki; Volker Blüml; Markéta Chudomelová; Guillaume Decocq; Jan Dick; Thomas Dirnböck; Tomasz Durak; Ove Eriksson; Brigitta Erschbamer; Bente Jessen Graae; Thilo Heinken; Fride Høistad Schei; Bogdan Jaroszewicz; Martin Kopecký; Thomas Kudernatsch; Martin Macek; Marek Malicki; František Máliš; Ottar Michelsen; Tobias Naaf; Thomas A. Nagel; Adrian C. Newton; Lena Nicklas; Ludovica Oddi; Adrienne Ortmann‐Ajkai; Andrej Palaj; Alessandro Petraglia; Petr Petřík; Remigiusz Pielech; Francesco Porro; Mihai Puşcaş; Kamila Reczyńska; Christian Rixen; Wolfgang Schmidt; Tibor Standovár; Klaus Steinbauer; Krzysztof Świerkosz; Balázs Teleki; Jean‐Paul Theurillat; Pavel Dan Turtureanu; Tudor‐Mihai Ursu; Thomas Vanneste; Philippine Vergeer; Ondřej Vild; Luis Villar; Pascal Vittoz; Manuela Winkler; Lander Baeten
... Species turnover is ubiquitous. However, it remains unknown whether certain types of species are consistently gained or lost across different habitats. Here, we analysed the trajectories of 1827 plant species over time intervals of up to 78 years at 141 sites across mountain summits, forests, and lowland grasslands in Europe. We found, albeit with relatively small effect sizes, displacements of sm ...
... Animals originated under hypoxia—low‐oxygen conditions that are currently expanding throughout the global ocean. How marine sponges respond to hypoxia is both relevant to reconstructing early animal evolution and for forecasting the fate of modern marine ecosystems. In a new effort, multiple sponge species from two different oceans were found to tolerate hypoxia in the lab, revealing a more genera ...
... We show that the explosive microbial and biogeochemical dynamics triggered by rewetting dry soil in laboratory experiments also has relevance in intact ecosystems. This highlights an opportunity to use predictions derived from laboratory studies to provide targets in ecosystem‐scale biogeochemical studies. ...
... The largest concentration of isolated indigenous peoples in the world is in the indigenous lands of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. However, the right to self-isolation and the survival of these societies are at risk because powerful interests want to exploit the natural assets of their relatively untouched areas. These ambitions are reflected in a recent bill (PL191/2020), which proposes opening up i ...
M.J. Stablein; J. Gonzalez Cruz; E.N. Fidan; J. Talbot; S.P. Reed; R.S. Walters; A.J. Ogunyiola; M. Fernández Frey; M. Ramirez; B. Rosado Casanova; J. Heemstra; A. Marshall; L.F. Rodríguez
... Puerto Rico has been subject to complex and compounding effects of multiple disasters, exacerbated by sociopolitical, climactic, and geographical challenges that complicate relief and resilience. Interdisciplinary teams are uniquely suited to traverse emerging challenges in post-disaster settings, but there are few studies that leverage transdisciplinary skill sets and virtual co-production of kno ...
globalchange, etc ; energy; humans; infrastructure; transportation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Power grid operations increasingly interact with environmental systems and human systems such as transportation, agriculture, the economy, and financial markets. Our objective is to discuss the modelling gaps and opportunities to advance the science for multisector adaptation and tradeoffs. We focus on power system operational models, which typically represent key physical and economic aspects of ...
globalchange, etc ; aquatic invertebrates; hydrology; rivers; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Temporary rivers (TRs) dominate global river networks and are increasing in occurrence and spatiotemporal extent. However, few studies have investigated the communities that establish after rewetting events (i.e. the end of the dry phase), when local hydrological conditions can shape the communities through species sorting, and the spatial connectivity of sites can also influence colonisation. Her ...
... Consumer intention to avoid food waste is determined by various socio-demographic and psychographic/psychological factors. While many of these factors have been well studied, some remain under-researched. This is the case for religious values and family upbringing that may represent strong antecedents of personal norms towards food waste avoidance. This study tests the role of these factors on a s ...
globalchange, etc ; citizen participation; sustainable development; Show all 3 Subjects
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... The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted as reference and universal guidepost for transitioning to Sustainable Development by the United Nations in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, are intended to be used as a set of interconnected goals and global targets for ‘Transforming our world’, as the 2030 Agenda is titled. This is a far more challenging task than busin ...
globalchange, etc ; agricultural income; drought; irrigation; Mexico; Show all 5 Subjects
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... There is now substantial empirical evidence that climatic variability increases international migration, but relatively little is known about the mechanism driving the association and about adaptations that may reduce it. We use detailed data on migrants from Mexico to the U.S. to provide evidence in support of the hypothesis that drought induced migration from Mexico to the U.S. is mediated by ag ...
Emily Kyker‐Snowman; Danica L. Lombardozzi; Gordon B. Bonan; Susan J. Cheng; Jeffrey S. Dukes; Serita D. Frey; Elin M. Jacobs; Risa McNellis; Joshua M. Rady; Nicholas G. Smith; R. Quinn Thomas; William R. Wieder; A. Stuart Grandy
globalchange, etc ; climate; energy; models; mutualism; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Terrestrial ecosystems regulate Earth's climate through water, energy, and biogeochemical transformations. Despite a key role in regulating the Earth system, terrestrial ecology has historically been underrepresented in the Earth system models (ESMs) that are used to understand and project global environmental change. Ecology and Earth system modeling must be integrated for scientists to fully com ...
globalchange, etc ; evolution; microbiology; time series analysis; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Ocean microbes are fundamental for the functioning of the Earth system. Yet, our understanding of how they are reacting to global change in terms of evolution is limited. Microbes typically grow in large populations and reproduce quickly, which may allow them to rapidly adapt to environmental stressors compared to larger organisms. However, genetic evidence of contemporary evolution in wild microb ...
globalchange, etc ; biocenosis; drought; soil-plant interactions; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Droughts exarcerbate Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) making positive PSFs more positive and negative PSFs more negative. Alterations in PSFs that droughts induce could relate to the rooting depth of the tested plants. We present some rare evidence on how a driver of global change will alter a biotic interaction. ...
globalchange, etc ; career change; employment; environmental protection; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Renewed attention to the role of subnational efforts in addressing myriad environmental challenges necessitates a greater understanding of the factors associated with program adoption. Given observed relationships between adoption of sustainability practices and the presence of carbon-intensive industry, and separately the observed persistence of industrial history in a given place, we explore the ...
globalchange, etc ; aerial parts; ecosystems; microbiome; phyllosphere; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Plants form complex interaction networks with diverse microbiomes in the environment, and the intricate interplay between plants and their associated microbiomes can greatly influence ecosystem processes and functions. The phyllosphere, the aerial part of the plant, provides a unique habitat for diverse microbes, and in return the phyllosphere microbiome greatly affects plant performance. As an op ...
globalchange, etc ; hydrology; rivers; social identification; Amazonia; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Environmental change is significantly altering hydrological systems worldwide, with substantial impacts for the people who live on floodplains and depend on rivers for their livelihoods and lifeways. Amazonia is a region significantly affected by these changes, particularly more severe flooding. This paper proposes a multi-scalar approach to vulnerability, applying it empirically to the analysis o ...
globalchange, etc ; ecosystems; education; gender; poverty; Zanzibar; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Households within tropical coastal communities face a multitude of stressors related to environmental, social and economic change. To minimise negative impacts on households, a priority is to understand and if possible build adaptive capacity to enable adjustment to both extant, and anticipated stressors. Adaptive capacity may not be equally distributed across households due to social differences ...
globalchange, etc ; issues and policy; momentum; Europe; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The notion that pathways can be identified and followed towards more sustainable futures has become an increasingly prevalent idea across the science and policy of global environmental change. Focusing on the debate within literatures on socio-technical systems, we find that pathways are often tied to the concept of scaling up such that they are dependent on trajectories which extend from the geog ...
globalchange, etc ; data collection; ecological function; evolution; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Indicators to predict ecosystem state change are urgently needed to cope with the degradation of ecosystem services caused by global change. With the development of new technologies for measuring ecosystem function with fine spatiotemporal resolution over broad areas, we are in the era of 'big data'. However, it is unclear how large, emerging datasets can be used to anticipate ecosystem state chan ...
globalchange, etc ; climate; greenhouses; microbiome; soil; soil microorganisms; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Recent advances in computation power have enabled the creation of digital twins of the microbiome (DTM) to substantially curb soil greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions under global change conditions [...] ...