The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

M Beniston, D Farinotti, M Stoffel, LM Andreassen… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a
range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview on the current …

Abrupt ecological shifts of lakes during the Anthropocene

S Huang, K Zhang, Q Lin, JB Liu, J Shen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abrupt ecological shifts have become a pervasive feature of aquatic ecosystems with severe
socio-ecological consequences. Yet, it remains uncertain whether these shifts happened …

Climate change fingerprints in recent European plant phenology

A Menzel, Y Yuan, M Matiu, T Sparks… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A paper published in Global Change Biology in 2006 revealed that phenological responses
in 1971–2000 matched the warming pattern in Europe, but a lack of chilling and adaptation …

Detecting change-point, trend, and seasonality in satellite time series data to track abrupt changes and nonlinear dynamics: A Bayesian ensemble algorithm

K Zhao, MA Wulder, T Hu, R Bright, Q Wu, H Qin… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Satellite time-series data are bolstering global change research, but their use to elucidate
land changes and vegetation dynamics is sensitive to algorithmic choices. Different …

[HTML][HTML] From Planetary Boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operating space—How can the scales be bridged?

T Häyhä, PL Lucas, DP van Vuuren, SE Cornell… - Global Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The planetary boundaries framework proposes quantitative global limits to the
anthropogenic perturbation of crucial Earth system processes, and thus marks out a …

Plants in the UK flower a month earlier under recent warming

U Büntgen, A Piermattei, PJ Krusic… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, but environmental responses are
often difficult to recognize and quantify. Long-term observations of plant phenology, the …

Shorter snow cover duration since 1970 in the Swiss Alps due to earlier snowmelt more than to later snow onset

G Klein, Y Vitasse, C Rixen, C Marty, M Rebetez - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
Global warming has strong impacts on snow cover, which in turn affects ecosystems,
hydrological regimes and winter tourism. Only a few long-term snow series are available …

Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin

JT Martin, GT Pederson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Across the Upper Missouri River Basin, the recent drought of 2000 to 2010, known as the
“turn-of-the-century drought,” was likely more severe than any in the instrumental record …

Overall negative trends for snow cover extent and duration in global mountain regions over 1982–2020

C Notarnicola - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Notwithstanding the large availability of data and models, a consistent picture of the snow
cover extent and duration changes in global mountain areas is lacking for long-term trends …

Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies

R Schacht, SR Beissinger, C Wedekind… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Converging lines of inquiry from across the social and biological sciences target the adult
sex ratio (ASR; the proportion of males in the adult population) as a fundamental population …