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Open AccessPandemic spotlight on urban water quality
Surface water improvements associated with the COVID-19 economic slowdown illustrate environmental resiliency and societal control over urban water quality.
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Forest-Water Interactions Under Global Change
This chapter reviews how global change affects forest-water interactions and water availability to ecosystems and people and synthesises current understanding of the implications of present and anticipated cha...
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Open AccessBurned forests impact water supplies
Wildland fire impacts on surface freshwater resources have not previously been measured, nor factored into regional water management strategies. But, large wildland fires are increasing and raise concerns abou...
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Impact of air pollution induced climate change on water availability and ecosystem productivity in the conterminous United States
Air pollution from greenhouse gases and atmospheric aerosols are the major driving force of climate change that directly alters the terrestrial hydrological cycle and ecosystem functions. However, most current...
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Open AccessSurface storm flow prediction on hillslopes based on topography and hydrologic connectivity
Hillslopes provide critical watershed ecosystem services such as soil erosion control and storm flow regulation through collecting, storing, and releasing rain water. During intense rainstorms, rainfall intens...
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Open AccessDivergence of ecosystem services in U.S. National Forests and Grasslands under a changing climate
The 170 National Forests and Grasslands (NFs) in the conterminous United States are public lands that provide important ecosystem services such as clean water and timber supply to the American people. This stu...
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The rise of the mediocre forest: why chronically stressed trees may better survive extreme episodic climate variability
Anthropogenic climate change is a relatively new phenomenon, largely occurring over the past 150 years, and much of the discussion on climate change impacts to forests has focused on long-term shifts in temper...
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Regional Highlights of Climate Change
Climatic extremes, ecological disturbance, and their interactions are expected to have major effects on ecosystems and social systems in most regions of the United States in the coming decades. In Alaska, wher...
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Climate Change and Fire impacts on Ecosystem Critical Nitrogen Load
The federal agencies of the United States (US) are currently develo** guidelines for critical nitrogen loads for US forest ecosystems. These guidelines will be used to establish regulations designed to maint...
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Dead Fuel Loads in North Carolina’s Piedmont and Coastal Plain and a Small Scale Assessment of NFDRS Fuel Models
Dead fuel loads were measured on six distinct forest management compartments in North Carolina’s Uwharrie national forest, Croatan national forest and the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Average 1-, ...
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Managing for Multiple Resources Under Climate Change: National Forests
This study explores potential adaptation approaches in planning and management that the United States Forest Service might adopt to help achieve its goals and objectives in the face of climate change. Availabi...
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Sensitivity of pine flatwoods hydrology to climate change and forest management in Florida, USA
Pine flatwoods (a mixture of cypress wetlands and managed pine uplands) is an important ecosystem in the southeastern U.S. However, long-term hydrologic impacts of forest management and climate change on this ...
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Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere
Northern mid-latitude forests are a large terrestrial carbon sink1,2,3,4. Ignoring nutrient limitations, large increases in carbon sequestration from carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization are expected in these fores...
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Predictions and Projections of Pine Productivity and Hydrology in Response to Climate Change Across the Southern United States
The southeastern United States is one of the most rapidly growing human population regions in continental United States, and as the population increases, the demand for commercial, industrial, and residential ...
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An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change on Timber Markets of the Southern United States
There is growing public concern that continued emissions of greenhouse gases could cause the global climate to change (Gore, 1992). Altered global climate could, in turn, have impacts on the earth’s natural sy...
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Predictions of Southern Pine Beetle Populations Using a Forest Ecosystem Model
Dendroctonus frontalis Zirnm. (southern pine beetle (SPB)) has caused over $900 million in damage to pines in the southern United States between 1960 and 1990 (Price et al., 1992). The damage of ...
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Summary of Simulated Forest Responses to Climate Change in the Southeastern United States
During the next century, substantial changes are expected to occur involving such environmental variables as temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), tropospheric ozone, and atmos...
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Forest biogeochemistry and primary production altered by nitrogen saturation
Results from four intensive site-level manipulations and one extensive field survey in northern temperate and boreal forests show a consistent set of responses to chronic N additions. These include 1) initial ...
