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Emerging climate-driven disturbance processes: Widespread mortality associated with snow-to-rain transitions across 10° of latitude and half the range of a climate-threatened conifer [PDF]

, 2016
Climate change is causing rapid changes to forest disturbance regimes worldwide. While the consequences of climate change for existing disturbance processes, like fires, are relatively well studied, emerging drivers of disturbance such as snow loss and ...
Adam, Allen, Anderegg, Augspurger, Beier, Beier, Breiman, Buma, Buma, Buma, Cohen, D'Amore, D'Amore, Dale, Decker, DellaSala, Ellenwood, Frenkel, Groffman, Gu, Hampe, Hannah, Hannah, Hardy, Heller, Hennon, Hennon, Hennon, Hennon, Hijmans, Hobbs, Hänninen, Inouye, IUCN, Jackson, Johnson, Kareiva, Kranabetter, Krapek, Krist, Lierop, Matzner, McLachlan, McLauchlan, Meehl, Oakes, Oakes, Ohmann, Paine, Pauli, Perakis, Perry, Pickett, R Core Team, Raffa, Rhoades, Rigby, Running, Schaberg, Seidl, Shanley, Stan, Tierney, Vitousek   +63 more
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Flexible parental care in a songbird correlates with sex‐specific responses to seasonal phenology, mating opportunity and reproductive success

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This population‐comparative study reveals that male and female parents respond differently to social and ecological conditions. This sex‐specific responsive strategy is related to the incongruent parental care systems across populations in Chinese penduline tits.
Jia Zheng, Wenni Jiang, Hui Wang, Zhengwang Zhang, De Chen, Jan Komdeur   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How much variation in land surface phenology can climate oscillation modes explain at the scale of mountain pastures in Kyrgyzstan?

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2020
Climate oscillation modes can shape weather across the globe due to atmospheric teleconnections. We built on the findings of a recent study to assess whether the impacts of teleconnections are detectable and significant in the early season dynamics of ...
Monika A. Tomaszewska, Geoffrey M. Henebry   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reply to Wang et al.: Snow cover and air temperature affect the rate of changes in spring phenology in the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
We appreciate the comments on our recent study (1) from Wang et al. (2). Our study showed that the start of the growing season (SOS), derived from analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), continued to advance in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) from 1982 to 2011. Wang et al.
Jinwei, Dong, Geli, Zhang, Yangjian, Zhang, Xiangming, Xiao   +3 more
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Drought and growing season phenology over 35 years modulates species interactions among domestic and wild herbivores

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using a unique 35‐year dataset, this study shows that domestic livestock do not facilitate wild large herbivores as predicted by the grazing optimization hypothesis. Instead, competition caused avoidance of cattle by elk which intensified under drought, and highlights how climate change influences interactions among domestic and wild large herbivores ...
Joel Ruprecht, Tavis D. Forrester, Casey L. Brown, Lara F. Mengak, Michael J. Wisdom, Darren A. Clark, Taal Levi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The new indices to describe temporal discontinuity of snow cover on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Snow cover on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau significantly impacts the climate, hydrology, and ecology of China and East Asia. Current studies mainly use snow cover days to describe its duration, overlooking the snow’s discontinuous nature.
Jing Wang, Lin Tang, Heng Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Variability of Seasonal Snow Cover over 25 Years in the Romanian Carpathians: Insights from a MODIS CGF-Based Approach

Remote Sensing
Understanding long-term snow cover dynamics is essential in mountain regions with limited meteorological or in situ observations. This study examines seasonal snow cover evolution across the Romanian Carpathians (2000–2025) using daily MODIS/Terra ...
Andrei Ioniță, Iosif Lopătiță, Florina Ardelean, Flavius Sîrbu, Petru Urdea, Alexandru Onaca   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms promoting higher growth rate in arctic than in temperate shorebirds [PDF]

, 2002
We compared prefledging growth, energy expenditure, and time budgets in the arctic-breeding red knot (Calidris canutus) to those in temperate shorebirds, to investigate how arctic chicks achieve a high growth rate despite energetic difficulties ...
Piersma, Theunis,, Schekkerman, Hans,, Tulp, Ingrid,, Visser, G. Henk,   +3 more
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TABMON: Design and deployment of a transnational passive acoustic monitoring network for European birds

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological surveys are often fragmented, costly and limited in scale, leading to large and long‐standing knowledge gaps which threaten our ability to properly safeguard biodiversity. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has promised to deliver automated biodiversity monitoring, but networks are rarely deployed on scales that can offer truly novel
Benjamin Cretois, Carolyn M. Rosten, Julia Wiel, Cynthia Barile, Ben McEwen, Corentin Bernard, Michiel P. Boom, Gerard Bota, Lluìs Brotons, Eva Serrano‐Davies, Hervé Glotin, W. Daniel Kissling, Ricard Marxer, Cristian Pérez‐Granados, Dan Stowell, Dani Villero, Jelle S. van Zweden, Sarab Sethi   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying the exposure of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of steppe birds to renewable energy development

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity is globally threatened by human impacts, including land‐use transformation and climate change, which has prompted a rapid transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources, such as photovoltaic (PV) energy. However, utility‐scale PV plants require vast areas and can lead to conflicts with biodiversity conservation, making ...
Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno, François Mougeot, Beatriz Arroyo, Gerard Bota, David Giralt, Laura Maeso‐Pueyo, Carlos A. Martín, Manuel B. Morales, Pedro P. Olea, Juan Traba, Ana Benítez‐López   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source