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Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin
Across the Upper Missouri River Basin, the recent drought of 2000 to 2010, known as the “turn-of-the-century drought,” was likely more severe than any in the instrumental record including the Dust Bowl drought. However, until now, adequate proxy records needed to better understand this event with regard to long-term variability have been lacking. Here we examine 1,200 y of streamflow...
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Justin Martin, Gregory Pederson, Connie Woodhouse, Edward Cook, Gregory McCabe, Kevin Anchukaitis, Erika Wise, Patrick Erger, Larry Dolan, Marketa McGuire, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Katherine Chase, Jeremy Littell, Stephen Gray, Scott St. George, Jonathan Friedman, David Sauchyn, Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques, John C. King
Forecasting, detecting, and tracking volcanic eruptions from space Forecasting, detecting, and tracking volcanic eruptions from space
Satellite monitoring of volcanic activity typically includes four primary observations: (1) deformation and surface change, (2) gas emissions, (3) thermal anomalies, and (4) ash plumes. These phenomena are imaged by remote sensing data that span the electromagnetic spectrum, from microwave to ultraviolet energy and including visible and infrared wavelengths. The primary uses of satellite...
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Michael Poland, Taryn Lopez, Robert Wright, Michael Pavolonis
Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: Emerging research and perspectives Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: Emerging research and perspectives
Drylands encompass over 40% of terrestrial ecosystems and face significant anthropogenic degradation causing a loss of ecosystem integrity, services, and deterioration of social‐ecological systems. To combat this degradation, some dryland restoration efforts have focused on the use of biological soil crusts (biocrusts): complex communities of cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, bryophytes...
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Anita Antoninka, Akasha Faist, Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero, Kristina E. Young, V Bala Chaudhary, Lea Condon, David Pyke
Disturbances drive changes in coral community assemblages and coral calcification capacity Disturbances drive changes in coral community assemblages and coral calcification capacity
Anthropogenic environmental change has increased coral reef disturbance regimes in recent decades, altering the structure and function of many coral reefs globally. In this study, we used coral community survey data collected from 1996 to 2015 to evaluate coral calcification capacity (CCC) dynamics with respect to recorded pulse disturbances for 121 reef sites in the Main Hawaiian...
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Travis Courtney, Brian Barnes, Iliana Chollett, Robin Elahi, Kevin Gross, James Guest, Ilsa Kuffner, Elizabeth Lenz, Hanna Nelson, Caroline Rogers, Lauren Toth, Andreas Andersson
HESS opinions: Beyond the long-term water balance: Evolving Budyko's supply–demand framework for the Anthropocene towards a global synthesis of land-surface fluxes under natural and human-altered watersheds HESS opinions: Beyond the long-term water balance: Evolving Budyko's supply–demand framework for the Anthropocene towards a global synthesis of land-surface fluxes under natural and human-altered watersheds
Global hydroclimatic conditions have been substantially altered over the past century by anthropogenic influences that arise from the warming global climate and from local/regional anthropogenic disturbances. Traditionally, studies have used coupling of multiple models to understand how land-surface water fluxes vary due to changes in global climatic patterns and local land-use changes...
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A. Sankarasubramanian, Dingbao Wang, Stacey Archfield, Meredith Reitz, Richard M Vogel, Amirhossein Mazrooei, Sudarshana Mukhopadhyaya
Testing ecosystem accounting in the United States: A case study for the Southeast Testing ecosystem accounting in the United States: A case study for the Southeast
Ecosystem accounts, as formalized by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EEA), have been compiled in a number of countries, yet there have been few attempts to develop them for the U.S. We explore the potential for U.S. ecosystem accounting by compiling ecosystem extent, condition, and ecosystem services supply and use accounts for a ten...
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Katie Warnell, Marc Russell, Charles Rhodes, Kenneth Bagstad, Lydia Olander, David J. Nowak, Rajendra Poudel, Pierre Glynn, Julie Hass, Satoshi Hiribayashi, Jane Ingram, John Matuszak, Kirsten Oleson, Stephen Posner, Ferdinando Villa
Low threshold for nitrogen concentration saturation in headwaters increases regional and coastal delivery Low threshold for nitrogen concentration saturation in headwaters increases regional and coastal delivery
River corridors store, convey, and process nutrients from terrestrial and upstream sources, regulating delivery from headwaters to estuaries. A consequence of chronic excess nitrogen loading, as supported by theory and field studies in specific areas, is saturation of the biogeochemically-mediated nitrogen removal processes that weakens the capacity of the river corridor to remove...
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Noah Schmadel, Judson Harvey, Richard Alexander, Elizabeth Boyer, Gregory Schwarz, Jesus D. Gomez-Velez, Durelle Scott, Christopher Konrad
Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes
In many regions across the globe, extreme weather events such as storms have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration due to climate change. Ecological theory predicts that such extreme events should have large impacts on ecosystem structure and function. High winds and precipitation associated with storms can affect lakes via short‐term runoff events from watersheds and physical...
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Jason Stockwell, Jonathan Doubek, Rita Adrian, Orlane Anneville, Cayelan Carey, Laurence Carvalho, Marieke Frassl, Lisette Domis, Gael Dur, Bas Ibelings, Hans-Peter Grossart, Marc Lajeunesse, Aleksandra Lewandowska, Maria Llames, Shin-Ichiro Matsuzaki, Emily Nodine, Peeter Noges, Vijay Patil, Francesco Pomati, Karsten Rinke, Lars Rudstam, James Rusak, Nico Salmaso, Christian Seltmann, Dietmar Straile, Stephen Thackeray, Wim Thiery, Pablo Urrutia-Cordero, Patrick Venail, Piet Verburg, R. Iestyn Woolway, Tamar Zohary, Mikkel R. Andersen, Ruchi Bhattacharya, J. Hejzlar, Nasime Janatian, Alfred Kpodonu, Tanner Williamson, Harriet Wilson
An open source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: ISRaD version 1.0 An open source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: ISRaD version 1.0
Radiocarbon is a critical constraint on our estimates of the timescales of soil carbon cycling that can aid in identifying mechanisms of carbon stabilization and destabilization and improve the forecast of soil carbon response to management or environmental change. Despite the wealth of soil radiocarbon data that have been reported over the past 75 years, the ability to apply these data...
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Corey Lawrence, Jeffrey Beem-Miller, Alison Hoyt, Grey Monroe, Carlos Sierra, Shane Stoner, Katherine Heckman, Joseph Blankinship, Susan Crow, Gavin McNichol, Susan Trumbore, Paul Levine, Olga Vinduskova, Katherine Todd-Brown, Craig Rasmussen, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Christina Schadel, Karis McFarlane, Sebastian Doetterl, Christine Hatte, Yujie He, Claire Treat, Jennifer Harden, Margaret Torn, Cristian Estop-Aragonés, Asmeret Berhe, Marco Keiluweit, Agatha Kuhnen, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Alain Plante, Aaron Thompson, Zheng Shi, Joshua Schimel, Lydia J.S. Vaughn, Sophie von Fromm, Rota Wagai
Using conceptual models to relate multiparameter satellite data to subsurface volcanic processes in Latin America Using conceptual models to relate multiparameter satellite data to subsurface volcanic processes in Latin America
Satellite data have been extensively used to identify volcanic behavior. However, the physical subsurface processes causing any individual manifestation of activity can be ambiguous. We propose a classification scheme for the cause of unrest that simultaneously considers three multiparameter satellite observations. The scheme is based on characteristics of the volcanic system (open...
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Kevin Reath, Matthew Pritchard, Juliet Biggs, Ben Andrews, Susi Ebmeier, Marco Bagnardi, Tarsilo Girona, Paul Lundgren, Taryn Lopez, Michael Poland
A hydrologic landscapes perspective on groundwater connectivity of depressional wetlands A hydrologic landscapes perspective on groundwater connectivity of depressional wetlands
Research into processes governing the hydrologic connectivity of depressional wetlands has advanced rapidly in recent years. Nevertheless, a need persists for broadly applicable, non-site-specific guidance to facilitate further research. Here, we explicitly use the hydrologic landscapes theoretical framework to develop broadly applicable conceptual knowledge of depressional-wetland...
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Brian Neff, Donald Rosenberry, Scott Leibowitz, David Mushet, Heather Golden, Mark Rains, Renee Brooks, Charles R. Lane
Evolutionary history predicts high-impact invasions by herbivorous insects Evolutionary history predicts high-impact invasions by herbivorous insects
A long‐standing goal of invasion biology is to identify factors driving highly variable impacts of non‐native species. Although hypotheses exist that emphasize the role of evolutionary history (e.g., enemy release hypothesis & defense‐free space hypothesis), predicting the impact of non‐native herbivorous insects has eluded scientists for over a century. Using a census of all 58 non...
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Angela Mech, Kathryn Thomas, Travis Marsico, Daniel Herms, Craig Allen, Matthew Ayres, Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Jessica Gurevitch, Nathan Havill, Ruth Hufbauer, Andrew Liebhold, Kenneth Raffa, Ashley Schulz, Daniel Uden, Patrick Tobin