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    Global Change Biology: Volume 21, Issue 7

    2465-2828
    July 2015
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Comment to ‘Opdal AF, Jørgensen C (2015) Long-term change in a behavioural trait: truncated spawning distribution and demography in Northeast Arctic cod. Global Change Biology, 21:4, 1521–1530, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12773’

Svein Sundby, 
  • Pages: 2465-2466
  • First Published: 10 March 2015

Primary Research Articles

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The ecological impact of city lighting scenarios: exploring gap crossing thresholds for urban bats

James D. Hale,  Alison J. Fairbrass,  Thomas J. Matthews,  Gemma Davies,  Jon P. Sadler, 
  • Pages: 2467-2478
  • First Published: 02 February 2015
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Forecasted coral reef decline in marine biodiversity hotspots under climate change

Patrice Descombes,  Mary S. Wisz,  Fabien Leprieur,  Valerianio Parravicini,  Christian Heine,  Steffen M. Olsen,  Didier Swingedouw,  Michel Kulbicki,  David Mouillot,  Loïc Pellissier, 
  • Pages: 2479-2487
  • First Published: 21 January 2015
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Testing local and global stressor impacts on a coastal foundation species using an ecologically realistic framework

Brian S. Cheng,  Jillian M. Bible,  Andrew L. Chang,  Matthew C. Ferner,  Kerstin Wasson,  Chela J. Zabin,  Marilyn Latta,  Anna Deck,  Anne E. Todgham,  Edwin D. Grosholz, 
  • Pages: 2488-2499
  • First Published: 12 February 2015
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Increasing hydrologic variability threatens depleted anadromous fish populations

Eric J. Ward,  Joseph H. Anderson,  Tim J. Beechie,  George R. Pess,  Michael J. Ford, 
  • Pages: 2500-2509
  • First Published: 29 January 2015
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Genetic diversity is related to climatic variation and vulnerability in threatened bull trout

Ryan P. Kovach,  Clint C. Muhlfeld,  Alisa A. Wade,  Brian K. Hand,  Diane C. Whited,  Patrick W. DeHaan,  Robert Al-Chokhachy,  Gordon Luikart, 
  • Pages: 2510-2524
  • First Published: 06 February 2015
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The impact of ENSO on coral heat stress in the western equatorial Pacific

Joan A. Kleypas,  Frederic S. Castruccio,  Enrique N. Curchitser,  Elizabeth Mcleod, 
  • Pages: 2525-2539
  • First Published: 28 January 2015
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The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century

Daniel J. Isaak,  Michael K. Young,  David E. Nagel,  Dona L. Horan,  Matthew C. Groce, 
  • Pages: 2540-2553
  • First Published: 27 February 2015
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Evidence of climate-driven ecosystem reorganization in the Gulf of Mexico

Mandy Karnauskas,  Michael J. Schirripa,  J. K. Craig,  Geoffrey S. Cook,  Christopher R. Kelble,  Juan J. Agar,  Bryan A. Black,  David B. Enfield,  David Lindo-Atichati,  Barbara A. Muhling,  Kevin M. Purcell,  Paul M. Richards,  Chunzai Wang, 
  • Pages: 2554-2568
  • First Published: 16 March 2015
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The fate of Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century arising from changes in climate, atmospheric CO2, and land use

Ke Zhang,  Andrea D. de Almeida Castanho,  David R. Galbraith,  Sanaz Moghim,  Naomi M. Levine,  Rafael L. Bras,  Michael T. Coe,  Marcos H. Costa,  Yadvinder Malhi,  Marcos Longo,  Ryan G. Knox,  Shawna McKnight,  Jingfeng Wang,  Paul R. Moorcroft, 
  • Pages: 2569-2587
  • First Published: 20 February 2015
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Antecedent moisture and temperature conditions modulate the response of ecosystem respiration to elevated CO2 and warming

Edmund M. Ryan,  Kiona Ogle,  Tamara J. Zelikova,  Dan R. LeCain,  David G. Williams,  Jack A. Morgan,  Elise Pendall, 
  • Pages: 2588-2602
  • First Published: 25 February 2015
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Predicting a change in the order of spring phenology in temperate forests

Adrian M.I. Roberts,  Christine Tansey,  Richard J. Smithers,  Albert B. Phillimore, 
  • Pages: 2603-2611
  • First Published: 02 March 2015
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How organic carbon derived from multiple sources contributes to carbon sequestration processes in a shallow coastal system?

Kenta Watanabe,  Tomohiro Kuwae, 
  • Pages: 2612-2623
  • First Published: 16 April 2015
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Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

Alan K. Knapp,  David L. Hoover,  Kevin R. Wilcox,  Meghan L. Avolio,  Sally E. Koerner,  Kimberly J. La Pierre,  Michael E. Loik,  Yiqi Luo,  Osvaldo E. Sala,  Melinda D. Smith, 
  • Pages: 2624-2633
  • First Published: 03 February 2015
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The timing of autumn senescence is affected by the timing of spring phenology: implications for predictive models

Trevor F. Keenan,  Andrew D. Richardson, 
  • Pages: 2634-2641
  • First Published: 07 February 2015
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The contribution of trees to ecosystem methane emissions in a temperate forested wetland

Sunitha R. Pangala,  Edward R.C. Hornibrook,  David J. Gowing,  Vincent Gauci, 
  • Pages: 2642-2654
  • First Published: 09 February 2015
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The Contribution of Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use activities to Global Warming, 1990–2012

Francesco N. Tubiello,  Mirella Salvatore,  Alessandro F. Ferrara,  Jo House,  Sandro Federici,  Simone Rossi,  Riccardo Biancalani,  Rocio D. Condor Golec,  Heather Jacobs,  Alessandro Flammini,  Paolo Prosperi,  Paola Cardenas-Galindo,  Josef Schmidhuber,  Maria J. Sanz Sanchez,  Nalin Srivastava,  Pete Smith, 
  • Pages: 2655-2660
  • First Published: 10 January 2015
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The severity of wheat diseases increases when plants and pathogens are acclimatized to elevated carbon dioxide

Zsolt Váry,  Ewen Mullins,  Jennifer C. McElwain,  Fiona M. Doohan, 
  • Pages: 2661-2669
  • First Published: 20 April 2015
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Response of wheat growth, grain yield and water use to elevated CO2 under a Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment and modelling in a semi-arid environment

Garry J. O'Leary,  Brendan Christy,  James Nuttall,  Neil Huth,  Davide Cammarano,  Claudio Stöckle,  Bruno Basso,  Iurii Shcherbak,  Glenn Fitzgerald,  Qunying Luo,  Immaculada Farre-Codina,  Jairo Palta,  Senthold Asseng, 
  • Pages: 2670-2686
  • First Published: 05 December 2014
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Increased heat requirement for leaf flushing in temperate woody species over 1980–2012: effects of chilling, precipitation and insolation

Yongshuo H. Fu,  Shilong Piao,  Yann Vitasse,  Hongfang Zhao,  Hans J. De Boeck,  Qiang Liu,  Hui Yang,  Ulrich Weber,  Heikki Hänninen,  Ivan A. Janssens, 
  • Pages: 2687-2697
  • First Published: 10 January 2015
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Experimental climate warming alters aspen and birch phytochemistry and performance traits for an outbreak insect herbivore

Mary A. Jamieson,  Ezra G. Schwartzberg,  Kenneth F. Raffa,  Peter B. Reich,  Richard L. Lindroth, 
  • Pages: 2698-2710
  • First Published: 23 December 2014
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Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

Boris Sakschewski,  Werner von Bloh,  Alice Boit,  Anja Rammig,  Jens Kattge,  Lourens Poorter,  Josep Peñuelas,  Kirsten Thonicke, 
  • Pages: 2711-2725
  • First Published: 22 January 2015
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Trait-based analysis of decline in plant species ranges during the 20th century: a regional comparison between the UK and Estonia

Lauri Laanisto,  Marek Sammul,  Tiiu Kull,  Petr Macek,  Michael J. Hutchings, 
  • Pages: 2726-2738
  • First Published: 02 February 2015
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Plant stomatal closure improves aphid feeding under elevated CO2

Yucheng Sun,  Huijuan Guo,  Liang Yuan,  Jianing Wei,  Wenhao Zhang,  Feng Ge, 
  • Pages: 2739-2748
  • First Published: 10 January 2015
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Tree growth variation in the tropical forest: understanding effects of temperature, rainfall and CO2

Peter Schippers,  Frank Sterck,  Mart Vlam,  Pieter A. Zuidema, 
  • Pages: 2749-2761
  • First Published: 28 January 2015
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Soil carbon dynamics following land-use change varied with temperature and precipitation gradients: evidence from stable isotopes

Kerong Zhang,  Haishan Dang,  Quanfa Zhang,  Xiaoli Cheng, 
  • Pages: 2762-2772
  • First Published: 02 February 2015
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From forest to cropland and pasture systems: a critical review of soil organic carbon stocks changes in Amazonia

Kenji Fujisaki,  Anne-Sophie Perrin,  Thierry Desjardins,  Martial Bernoux,  Luiz Carlos Balbino,  Michel Brossard, 
  • Pages: 2773-2786
  • First Published: 26 February 2015
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A pan-Arctic synthesis of CH4 and CO2 production from anoxic soil incubations

Claire C. Treat,  Susan M. Natali,  Jessica Ernakovich,  Colleen M. Iversen,  Massimo Lupascu,  Anthony David McGuire,  Richard J. Norby,  Taniya Roy Chowdhury,  Andreas Richter,  Hana Šantrůčková,  Christina Schädel,  Edward A. G. Schuur,  Victoria L. Sloan,  Merritt R. Turetsky,  Mark P. Waldrop, 
  • Pages: 2787-2803
  • First Published: 24 January 2015
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Large amounts of labile organic carbon in permafrost soils of northern Alaska

Carsten W. Mueller,  Janet Rethemeyer,  Jenny Kao-Kniffin,  Sebastian Löppmann,  Kenneth M. Hinkel,  James G. Bockheim, 
  • Pages: 2804-2817
  • First Published: 27 January 2015
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Lignin decomposition is sustained under fluctuating redox conditions in humid tropical forest soils

Steven J. Hall,  Whendee L. Silver,  Vitaliy I. Timokhin,  Kenneth E. Hammel, 
  • Pages: 2818-2828
  • First Published: 25 February 2015