Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
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Human behaviour can trigger large carnivore attacks in developed countries
<p>The media and scientific literature are increasingly reporting an escalation of large carnivore attacks on humans in North America and Europe. Although rare compared to human fatalities by other wildlife,
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Carbon sequestration in managed temperate coniferous forests under climate change
<p>Management of temperate forests has the potential to increase carbon sinks and mitigate climate change. However, those opportunities may be confounded by negative climate change impacts. We therefore
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Characterizing the GHG emission impacts of carsharing: a case of Vancouver
<p>Carsharing exemplifies a growing trend towards service provision displacing ownership of capital goods. We developed a model to quantify the impact of carsharing on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The
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Provisional Annual Statement on the Status of Global Climate in 2015
The long-term rise in global temperatures, the dominant cause of which is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases, combined with the effects of a developing El Niño, have resulted in unusual global
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Do healthy Monarchs migrate farther? Tracking natal origins of parasitized vs. uninfected Monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico
<p>Long-distance migration can lower parasite prevalence if strenuous journeys remove infected animals from wild populations. We examined wild monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to investigate the
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Smartphone applications for communicating avalanche risk information – a review of existing practices
<p>Every year, in all mountainous regions, people are victims of avalanches. One way to decrease those losses is believed to be informing about danger levels. The paper presents a study on current practices
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Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees?
<p>Bees have been managed and utilised for honey production for centuries and, more recently, pollination services. Since the mid 20th Century, the use and production of managed bees has intensified with
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Biotic and climatic velocity identify contrasting areas of vulnerability to climate change
<p>Metrics that synthesize the complex effects of climate change are essential tools for mapping future threats to biodiversity and predicting which species are likely to adapt in place to new climatic
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Conservation status of North American birds in the face of future climate change
<p>Human-induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns. Historic climate change is known to have caused shifts in the geographic ranges
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Impact of school cycles and environmental forcing on the timing of pandemic influenza activity in Mexican States, May-December 2009
<p>While a relationship between environmental forcing and influenza transmission has been established in inter-pandemic seasons, the drivers of pandemic influenza remain debated. In particular, school