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Geography: Recent submissions
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South-to-south exchanges in understanding and addressing natural resource conflicts
(2018)Conflicts over natural resources affect millions of people in developing countries. Because they vary in terms of context, intensity, interactions between parties, and local and international implications, natural resource ... -
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Assessing Near Surface Hydrologic Processes and Plant Response over a 1600 m Mountain Valley Gradient in the Great Basin, NV, USA
(2018)This study investigated near surface hydrologic processes and plant response over a 1600 m mountain-valley gradient located in the Great Basin of North America (Nevada, U.S.A.) as part of a long-term climate assessment ... -
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Historical ecology reveals landscape transformation coincident with cultural development in central Italy since the Roman Period
(2018)Knowledge of the direct role humans have had in changing the landscape requires the perspective of historical and archaeological sources, as well as climatic and ecologic processes, when interpreting paleoecological records. ... -
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The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia
(2018)The Winton Formation is increasingly recognised as an important source of information about the Cretaceous of Australia, and, more broadly, the palaeobiogeographic history of eastern Gondwana. With more precise dating and ... -
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Pinon-juniper fuels reduction treatment impacts pinyon jay nesting habitat
(2018)Across multiple continents, mechanical thinning of forests and woodlands is an increasingly common management approach to reduce potential fire risks or improve ecological condition. Thinning programs designed to reduce ... -
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Mapping evaporative water loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration
(2017)Extreme high environmental temperatures produce a variety of consequences for wildlife, including mass die-offs. Heat waves are increasing in frequency, intensity, and extent, and are projected to increase further under ... -
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Reconceptualising Water Quality Governance to Incorporate Knowledge and Values: Case studies from Australian and Brazilian Indigenous Communities
(2018)This paper examines the significance of knowledge and values for water quality and its governance. Modernist approaches to the governance of water quality in rivers and lakes need to be reconceptualised and overhauled. The ... -
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Comment on "Non-Mineralized Fossil Wood" by George E. Mustoe (Geosciences, 2018)
(2018)We were pleased to see the summary article in Geosciences on fossil wood by George E. Mustoe [1], which does a very nice job of illuminating general conditions and characteristics of ancient wood preserved in various ... -
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PoLAR-FIT: Pliocene Landscapes and Arctic Remains-Frozen in Time
(2017)This short summary presents selected results of an ongoing investigation into the feedbacks that contribute to amplified Arctic warming. The consequences of warming for Arctic biodiversity and landscape response to global ... -
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Testing the daily PRISM air temperature model on semiarid mountain slopes
(2017)Studies in mountainous terrain related to ecology and hydrology often use interpolated climate products because of a lack of local observations. One data set frequently used to develop plot-to-watershed-scale climatologies ... -
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The Effect of Land Cover/Land Use Changes on the Regional Climate of the USA High Plains
(8/11/2014)We present the detection of the signatures of land use/land cover (LULC) changes on the regional climate of the US High Plains. We used the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as a proxy of LULC changes and ... -
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3000 Years of Environmental Change at Zaca Lake, California, Usa
(2014)Climatic variations of the last few millennia can reveal patterns of variability beyond that recorded by the instrumental record. In this study we use pollen and sediments to generate a high resolution 3000 year record of ...
