Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

MG Turner, WJ Calder… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… changes as climate warming accelerates. Abrupt changes in … sequence of disturbances, and
spatial context are important; and … sequence of disturbances, spatial context and whether an …

The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline

J Blažek, V Květoň… - European Planning …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Finally, a key challenge for future research is to elaborate on how policy at various spatial
scales could target the dark side of path development in different spatial contexts. Declining

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019 - science.org
… The increase in the global production of consumer goods and the decline in almost all other
contributions are directly related. The world is increasingly managed to accelerate the flow …

Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia

Y Feng, AD Ziegler, PR Elsen, Y Liu, X He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… ) gave way to a non-significant decline in primary forest loss in the … tropical forests play in
the context of global climate mitigation, … at 30 m spatial resolution for the year 2001 in SEA 10 . …

To what degree is late life cognitive decline driven by age-related neuropathologies?

PA Boyle, T Wang, L Yu, RS Wilson, R Dawe… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… between dimensionality reduction and spatial specificity of the … decline), 18 we further
applied random change point models to determine when the rate of cognitive decline accelerated

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

O Mottl, SGA Flantua, KP Bhatta, VA Felde, T Giesecke… - Science, 2021 - science.org
… methods, we detect a worldwide acceleration in the rates of vegetation compositional change
… The acceleration of biodiversity change demonstrated in ecological datasets from the past …

Density matters? Settlement expansion and land degradation in Peri-urban and rural districts of Italy

R Coluzzi, L Bianchini, G Egidi, P Cudlin… - Environmental impact …, 2022 - Elsevier
… average, more vulnerable local systems with accelerated territorial dynamics than the South)…
broader context, the Italian experience reflects the need for a wide-scale, spatially balanced …

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

CH Trisos, C Merow, AL Pigot - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
… ; however, the risk accelerates with the magnitude of warming, … should be interpreted in
the context of known data limitations. … correlated with the spatial heterogeneity in temperature …

Asymmetric thinning of the cerebral cortex across the adult lifespan is accelerated in Alzheimer's disease

JM Roe, D Vidal-Piñeiro, Ø Sørensen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… asymmetry decline in early adulthood, and accelerated decline … trajectories known to show
accelerated decline from age 60 … in relation to asymmetry in other contexts 63 ). This is also …

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

DL Wagner, EM Grames, ML Forister… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… While there is much variation—across time, space, and taxonomic … declines in Europe
appear to be directly linked to changes in agricultural practices, with the rate of losses accelerating