Recent climate projections indicate substantial environmental alterations in oceanic island regions during the 21st century, setting up profound threats to insular floras. Inherent …
Current and future climate-related drivers of risk for small islands during the 21st century include sea level rise (SLR), tropical and extratropical cyclones, increasing air and sea …
Abstract The Dynamic Interactive Vulnerability Assessment Wetland Change Model (DIVA_WCM) comprises a dataset of contemporary global coastal wetland stocks (estimated …
Introduction This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate …
Forgotten Grasslands of the South is a literary and scientific case study of some of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. Eminent ecologist …
MDP Godoy, LD Lacerda - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Mangroves function as a natural coastline protection for erosion and inundation, providing important environmental services. Due to their geographical distribution at the continent …
RJ Mitchell, Y Liu, JJ O'Brien, KJ Elliott, G Starr… - Forest Ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fire has a profound, though paradoxical influence on landscapes of the southeastern US; it simultaneously maintains native biodiversity and ecosystem processes but also threatens …
Coastal wetland plants are expected to respond to global sea level rise by migrating toward higher elevations. Housing, infrastructure, and other anthropogenic modifications are …
Old growth mangroves in existing protected areas store more carbon than restored forests or plantations. Carbon storage in such forests has economic value independent of …