Historically, farmers and hunter-gatherers relied directly on ecosystem services, which they
both exploited and enjoyed. Urban populations still rely on ecosystems, but prioritize non …

The recognition that a system can appear resilient to changes in the environment, only to
reach a critical threshold of rapid and unexpected change, is spurring work to apply …

Ecosystem service assessment and management are shaped by the scale at which they are
conducted; however, there has been little systematic investigation of the scales associated …

While a sustained flow of ecosystem services brings tangible benefits to humans, some
ecosystem states and suites of services may be more desired by some people than others …

Contemporary climate change in Alaska has resulted in amplified rates of press and pulse
disturbances that drive ecosystem change with significant consequences for socio …

The past decade has seen a proliferation of community-scale climate change vulnerability
assessments globally. Much of this work has employed frameworks informed by scholarship …

In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer
a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues …

During the past three decades, conservation and restoration biologists have increasingly
recognized that ecological communities are likely to exhibit threshold changes in structure …

Complex nonlinear dynamics in marine fisheries create challenges for prediction and
management, yet the extent to which they occur in fisheries is not well known. Using …

The causes of a greening trend detected in the Arctic using the normalized difference
vegetation index (NDVI) are still poorly understood. Changes in NDVI are a result of multiple …