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Nature and Farming: Links for July 2019

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Ecosystems threatened: The Sixth Great Extinction

EcoWatch   Climate Change Is Making Animals Smaller

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EcoWatch   Plant Extinction Is Happening 500x Faster Than Before the Industrial Revolution

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PSMagazine   HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS THREATENING THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE BRAZILIAN SAVANNA

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WILEY/GCB   Rethinking false spring risk

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Academic articles about terrestrial ecosystems

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GCB   Legacies of more frequent drought in ponderosa pine across the western United States

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GCB   The climatic drivers of primary Picea forest growth along the Carpathian arc are changing under rising temperatures

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Global Change Biology   A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios

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Global Change Biology   Projecting impacts of global climate and land‐use scenarios on plant biodiversity using compositional‐turnover modelling

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Nature   Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation and climate change

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Nature   Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events

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Nature   Shifting avian spatial regimes in a changing climate

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Science Direct   Climate change leads to a doubling of turbidity in a rapidly expanding Tibetan lake

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Wiley/GCB   Changes in timing of seasonal peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems

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Wiley/GCB   Connectivity in coastal systems: Barrier island vegetation influences upland migration in a changing climate

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Wiley/GCB   Differing climate and landscape effects on regional dryland vegetation responses during wet periods allude to future patterns

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Oceanic ecosystems

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Global Change Biology   Disentangling how climate change can affect an aquatic food web by combining multiple experimental approaches

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Inside Climate News   Mass Die-Off of Puffins Raises More Fears About Arctic's Warming Climate

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Wiley/GCB   Climate and fishing drive regime shifts in consumer‐mediated nutrient cycling in kelp forests

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Wiley/GCB   Experimental evidence of gradual size‐dependent shifts in body size and growth of fish in response to warming

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Xinhua   Crocodile attacks to rise as global warming takes hold: Aussie expert

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Academic articles about oceanic ecosystems

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GCB   Climate change impacts on mismatches between phytoplankton blooms and fish spawning phenology

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GCB   Meta‐analysis reveals enhanced growth of marine harmful algae from temperate regions with warming and elevated CO2 levels

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GCB   Phytoplankton decline in the eastern North Pacific transition zone associated with atmospheric blocking

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GCB   Seabird nutrient subsidies alter patterns of algal abundance and fish biomass on coral reefs following a bleaching event

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GCB   Thermal stress induces persistently altered coral reef fish assemblages

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GCB  Subregional differences in groundfish distributional responses to anomalous ocean bottom temperatures in the northeast Pacific

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Farming, fishing and food: Human food supply imperiled

ABC [Australia]   Carbon neutral livestock production — consumers want it and farmers say it is achievable

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Bloomberg   Climate Change Is Coming for the $3.6 Billion Cognac Business

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E&E News   As fish move north, 'things are getting weird out there'

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Eco-Business   UN food body elects first Chinese head as climate crisis worsens

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Guardian   Scotch on the rocks: distilleries fear climate crisis will endanger whisky production

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JSTOR   Can Cows Help Mitigate Climate Change? Yes, They Can!

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PhysOrg   Climate change is already affecting global food production—unequally

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Treehugger   Wine has barely changed since Roman times, and that's a problem

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Vox   The climate crisis and the end of the golden era of food choice

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Wiley/GCB   Invited review: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, agriculture, and food—A case of shifting cultivation and history

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Academic articles about farming, fishing and food

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Climatic Change   Climate change impacts on the global potential geographical distribution of the agricultural invasive pest, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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GCB   Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment enhances soil carbon accumulation by impacting saprotrophs rather than ectomycorrhizal fungal activity

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GCB   Carbon dynamics, net primary productivity and human‐appropriated net primary productivity across a forest–cocoa farm landscape in West Africa

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GCB   Response of maize biomass and soil water fluxes on elevated CO2 and drought – from field experiments to process‐based simulations

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Nature   Shifting habitats expose fishing communities to risk under climate change

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PLOS One   Vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate change: The development of a pan-tropical Climate Risk Vulnerability Assessment to inform sub-national decision making

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Wiley/GCB   Deep soil flipping increases carbon stocks of New Zealand grasslands

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Wiley/GCB   Excessive rainfall leads to maize yield loss of a comparable magnitude to extreme drought in the United States

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Wiley/GCB   Legumes regulate grassland soil N cycling and its response to variation in species diversity and N supply but not CO2

Photo Attributions

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Banner: Photo by: Jillyspoon

Agriculture threatened: Photo by: Diganta Talukdar

Ecosystems threatened: Photo by: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters

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