Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

C Rixen, TT Høye, P Macek, R Aerts, JM Alatalo… - Arctic …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Snow is an important driver of ecosystem processes in cold biomes. Snow accumulation
determines ground temperature, light conditions, and moisture availability during winter. It …

Climate change effects on deer and moose in the Midwest

SR Weiskopf, OE Ledee… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is an increasing concern for wildlife managers across the United States and
Canada. Because climate change may alter populations and harvest dynamics of key …

Regional hydrologic response to climate change in the conterminous United States using high-resolution hydroclimate simulations

BS Naz, SC Kao, M Ashfaq, D Rastogi, R Mei… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that Global Climate Model (GCM) outputs have been used to project
hydrologic impacts of climate change using off-line hydrologic models for two decades …

The meaning of wild: Genetic and adaptive consequences from large-scale releases of domestic mallards

P Lavretsky, JE Mohl, P Söderquist, RHS Kraus… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The translocation of individuals around the world is leading to rising incidences of
anthropogenic hybridization, particularly between domestic and wild congeners. We apply a …

Vulnerability of forests of the Midwest and Northeast United States to climate change

C Swanston, LA Brandt, MK Janowiak, SD Handler… - Climatic Change, 2018 - Springer
Forests of the Midwest and Northeast significantly define the character, culture, and
economy of this large region but face an uncertain future as the climate continues to change …

Lakes at risk of chloride contamination

HA Dugan, NK Skaff, JP Doubek… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lakes in the Midwest and Northeast United States are at risk of anthropogenic chloride
contamination, but there is little knowledge of the prevalence and spatial distribution of …

Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA

SR Carpenter, EG Booth, S Gillon, CJ Kucharik… - Ecology and …, 2015 - JSTOR
Agricultural watersheds are affected by changes in climate, land use, agricultural practices,
and human demand for energy, food, and water resources. In this context, we analyzed the …

Dynamically downscaled projections of lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes basin

M Notaro, V Bennington, S Vavrus - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Projected changes in lake-effect snowfall by the mid-and late twenty-first century are
explored for the Laurentian Great Lakes basin. Simulations from two state-of-the-art global …

Forest fragmentation alters winter microclimates and microrefugia in human‐modified landscapes

CE Latimer, B Zuckerberg - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With over half of earth's terrestrial biota living beneath forest canopies, our ability to
accurately capture organism–climate relationships in forested ecosystems is imperative for …

A shallow cumuliform snowfall census using spaceborne radar

MS Kulie, L Milani, NB Wood… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The first observationally based near-global shallow cumuliform snowfall census is
undertaken using multiyear CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar observations. CloudSat …