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What does “Global Change” mean?
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Elderfield H (2000) A world in transition… Nature 407: 851-852
Eschle C, Stammers N (2004) Taking part: social movements, INGOs, and global change.
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Hughes L (2000) Biological consequences of global warming: is the signal already. Trends in
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Karl TR, Trenberth KE (2003) Modern Global Climate Change. Science 302: 1719-1723
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Tilman D, Fargione J, Wolff B, D’Antonio C, Dobson A, Howarth R, Schindler D, Schlesinger
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Drivers in global climate warming
Akimoto H (2003) Global Air Quality and Pollution. Science 302: 1716-1719
Devol AH (2002) Getting cool with nitrogen. Nature 415: 131-132
Dickens GR (2004) Hydrocarbon-driven warming. Nature 429: 513-515
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Clark PU, Alley RB, Pollard D (1999) Northern hemisphere ice-sheet influences on global
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Global climate change: climates of the future?
Barnett TP, Pierce DW, Schnur R (2001) Detection of Anthropogenic climate change in the
world’s oceans. Science 292: 270-274
Crowley TJ (2000) Causes of climate change over the past 1000 years. Science 289: 270-277
Dunbar RB (2003) Leads, lags and the tropics. Nature 421: 121-122
Easterling DR, Evans JL, Groisman PY, Karl TR, Kunkel KE, Ambenje P (2000) Observed
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States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 77: 279-292
Pallé E, Goode PR, Montañés-Rodríguez P, Koonin SE (2004) Changes in earth’s reflectance
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Soden BJ, Wetherald RT, Stenchikov GL, Robock A (2002) Global cooling after the eruption of
Mount Pinatubo: a test of climate feedback by water vapor. Science 296: 727-730
Zwiers FW, Zhang X (2003) Toward regional-scale climate change detection. Journal of Climate
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Role of the oceans in global change
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carbon dioxide fluxes of land and oceans since 1980. Science 290: 1342-1346
Joos F, Plattner GK, Stocker TF, Marchal O, Schmittner A (1999) Global warming and marine
carbon cycle feedbacks on future atmospheric CO2. Science 284: 464-467
Lea DW, Pak DK, Peterson LC, Hughen KA (2003) Synchroneity of tropical and high-latitude
Atlantic temperatures over the last glacial termination. Science 301: 1361-1364
Toscano MA, Macintyre IG (2003) Corrected western Atlantic sea-level curve for the last 11,000
years based on calibrated 14C dates from Acropora palmata framework and intertidal
mangrove peat. Coral Reefs 22: 257-270
Modelling global change effects on vegetation
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ecosystems to interannual temperature variability. Science 278: 870-872
Cao M, Woodward FI (1998) Dynamic responses of terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling to
global climate change. Nature 393: 249-252
Nemani RR, Keeling CD, Hashimoto H, Jolly WM, Piper SC, Tucker CJ, Myneni RB, Running
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Impacts of global change on plant development
Abu-Asab MS, Peterson PM, Shetler SG, Orli SS (2001) Earlier plant flowering in spring as a
response to global warming in the Washington, DC, area. Biodiversity and Conservation 10:
597-612
Beaubin EG, Freeland HJ (2000) Spring phenology trends in Alberta, Canada: links to ocean
temperature. International Journal of Biometeorology 44: 53-59
Bradley NL, Leopold AC, Ross J, Huffaker W (1999) Phenological changes reflect climate
change in Wisconsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 9701-9704
Menzel A (2000) Trends in phenological phases in Europe between 1951 and 1996. International
Journal of Biometeorology 44: 76-81
Roetzer T, Wittenzeller M, Haeckel H, Nekovar J (2000) Phenology in central Europe –
differences and trends of spring phenophases in urban and rural areas. International Journal of
Biometeorology 44: 60-66
White MA, Nemani RR, Thornton PE, Running SW (2002) Satellite evidence of phenological
differences between urbanized and rural areas of the Eastern United States deciduous
broadleaf forest. Ecosystems 5: 160-277
Grass dynamics in a changing world
Alward RD, Detling JK, Milchunas (1999) Grassland vegetation changes and nocturnal global
warming. Science 283: 229-231
Collatz GJ, Berry JA, Clark JS (1998) Effects of climate and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure on
the global distribution of C4 grasses: present, past, and future. Oecologia 114: 441-454
Fox DL, Koch PL (2004) Carbon and oxygen isotopic variability in Neogene paleosol
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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 207: 305-329
Suyker AE, Verma SB (2001) Year-round observations of the net ecosystem exchange of carbon
dioxide in a native tallgrass prairie. Global Change Biology 7: 279-289
Wand SJE, Midgley GF, Jones MH, Curtis PS (1999) Responses of wild C4 and C3 grass
(Poaceae) species to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations: a meta-analytic test of current
theories and perceptions. Global Change Biology 5: 723-741
Tree dynamics in a changing world
Briffa KR, Schweingruber FH, Jones PD, Osborn TJ, Harris IC, Shiyatov SG, Vaganov EA,
Grudd H (1998) Trees tell of past climates: but are the speaking less clearly today?
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Grace J, Berninger F, Nagy L (2002) Impacts of climate change on the tree line. Annals of
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Körner C (1998) A re-assessment of high elevation treeline positions and their explanation.
Oecologia 115: 445-459
Myneni RB, Dong J, Tucker CJ, Kaufmann RK, Kauppi PE, Liski J, Zhou L, Alexeyev V,
Hughes MK (2001) A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98: 14784-14789
Global change and mycorrhizal fungi
Gavito ME, Schweiger P, Jakobsen I (2003) P uptake by arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae: effect of
soil temperature and atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Global Change Biology 9: 106-116
Kasurinen A, Helmisaari HS, Holopainen T (1999) The influence of elevated CO2 and O3 on fine
roots and mycorrhizas of naturally growing Scots pine trees during three exposure years.
Global Change Biology 5: 771-780
Olsrud M, Melillo JM, Christensen TR, Michelsen A, Wallander H, Olsson PA (2004) Response
of ericoid mycorrhizal colonization and functioning to global change factors. New Phytologist
162: 459-469
Rillig MC, Field CB, Allen MF (1998) Fungal root colonization responses in natural grasslands
after long-term exposure to elevated atmospheric CO2. Global Change Biology 5: 577-585
Rillig MC, Hernández GY, Newton PCD (2000) Arbuscular mycorrhizae respond to elevated
atmospheric CO2 after long-term exposure: evidence from a CO2 spring in New Zealand
supports the resource balance model. Ecology Letters 3: 475-478
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Rillig MC, Wright SF, Shaw MR, Field CB (2002) Artificial climate warming positively affects
arbuscular mycorrhizae but decrease soil aggregate water stability in an annual grassland.
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Staddon PL (1998) Insights into mycorrhizal colonisation at elevated CO2: a simple carbon
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Staddon PL, Fitter AH, Graves JD (1999) Effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 on mycorrhizal
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lanceolata and Trifolium repens in association with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus
Glomus mosseae. Global Change Biology 5: 347-358
Staddon PL, Heinemeyer A, Fitter AH (2002) Mycorrhizas and global environmental change:
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Impact of climate change on biodiversity and adaptive responses
Brown JH, Valone TJ, Curtin CG (1997) Reorganization of an arid ecosystem in response to
recent climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94: 9729-9733
Horz HP, Barbrook A, Field CB, Bohannan BJM (2004) Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria respond to
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Hughes L (2003) Climate change and Australia: trends, projections and impacts. Austral Ecology
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Mercer JM, Roth VL (2003) The effects of cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny.
Science 299: 1568-1572
Parmesan C, Root TL, Willig MR (2000) Impacts of extreme weather and climate on terrestrial
biota. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81: 443-450
Peterson AT, Ortega-Huerta MA, Bartley J, Sánchez-Cordero V, Soberónk J, Buddemeier RH,
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Smith FA, Browning H, Shepherd UA (1998) The influence of climate change on the body mass
of woodrats Neotoma in an arid region of New Mexico, USA. Ecography 21: 140-148
Thuiller W, Araújo MB, Lavorel S (2004) Do we need land-cover data to model species
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Tilman D, Fargione J, Wolff B, D’Antonio C, Dobson A, Howarth R, Schindler D, Schlesinger
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environmental change. Science 292: 281-284
Zavaleta ES, Shaw MR, Chiariello NR, Mooney, HA, Field CB (2003) Additive effects of
simulated climate changes, elevated CO2, and nitrogen deposition on grassland diversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100: 7650-7654
Effects of climate change on birds
Brown JL, Li SH, Bhagabati N (1999) Long-term trend toward earlier breeding in an American
bird: a response to global warming? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
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Crick HQP, Dudley C, Glue DE, Thomson DL (1997) UK birds are laying eggs earlier. Nature
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Dunn PO, Winkler DW (1999) Climate change has affected the breeding date of tree swallows
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Inouye DW, Barr B, Armitage KB, Inouye BD (2000) Climate change is affecting altitudinal
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Lemone N, Böhning-Gaese K (2003) Potential impact of global climate change on species
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Effects of climate change on reptiles
Glen F, Mrosovsky N (2004) Antigua revisited: the impact of climate change on sand and nest
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Hays GC, Broderick AC, Glen F, Godley BJ (2003) Climate change and sea turtles: a 150-year
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Janzen FJ (1994) Climate change and temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91: 7487-7490
Morjan CL (2003) How rapidly can maternal behavior affecting primary sex ratio evolve in a
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Effects of climate change on insects
Asshoff R, Hättenschwiler S (2005) Growth and reproduction of the alpine grasshopper
Miramella alpine feeding on CO2-enriched dwarf shrubs at treeline. Oecologia 142: 191-201
Crozier L (2003) Winter warming facilitates range expansion: cold tolerance of the butterfly
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Effects of climate change on the success of invasive species
Dukes JS, Mooney HA (1999) Does global change increase the success of biological invaders?
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Climate change and sea level rise impacts on mangrove ecosystems
Ellison AM, Farnsworth EJ (1997) Simulated sea level change alters anatomy, physiology,
growth, and reproduction of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.). Oecologia 112: 435-446
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Toscano MA, Macintyre IG (2003) Corrected western Atlantic sea-level curve for the last 11,000
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Coral reefs and global climate change
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The El Niño phenomenon
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Economics of global change
Bradford DF (2001) Time, money and tradeoffs. Nature 410: 649-650
Changnon SA, Pielke RA, Changnon D, Sylves RT, Pulwarty R (2000) Human factors explain
the increased losses from weather and climate extremes. Bulletin of the American
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Verschuren D (2003) The heat on Lake Tanganyika. Nature 424: 731-732
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