The scale, rate, and intensity of humans’ environmental impact has engendered broad discussion about how to find plausible pathways of development that hold the most promise for fostering a better future in the Anthropocene. However, the dominance of dystopian visions of irreversible environmenta...
Bennett, Elena M.
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Solan, Martin
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Biggs, Reinette
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McPhearson, Timon
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Norström, Albert V.
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Olsson, Per
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Pereira, Laura
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Peterson, Garry D.
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Raudsepp-Hearne, Ciara
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Biermann, Frank
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Carpenter, Stephen R.
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Ellis, Erle C.
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Hichert, Tanja
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Galaz, Victor
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Lahsen, Myanna
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Milkoreit, Manjana
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Martin López, Berta
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Nicholas, Kimberly A.
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Preiser, Rika
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Vince, Gaia
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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Xu, Jianchu
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[Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene]
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Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene
Climate change has affected the rates of chilling and heat accumulation, which are vital for flowering and production, in temperate fruit trees, but few studies have been conducted in the cold-winter climates of East Asia. To evaluate tree responses to variation in chill and heat accumulation rat...
Guo L
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Dai, J.
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Ranjitkar S
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Yu H
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Xu, Jianchu
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Luedeling, Eike
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[Chilling and heat requirements for flowering in temperate fruit trees]
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Chilling and heat requirements for flowering in temperate fruit trees
Shortening of the growing season despite a longer thermally favorable period implies that vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau is unable to exploit additional thermal resources availed by climate change. Ecosystem composition may no longer be well attuned to the local temperature regime, which has c...
Yu H
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Xu, Jianchu
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Okuto E
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Luedeling, Eike
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[Seasonal response of grasslands to climate change on the Tibetan plateau]
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Seasonal response of grasslands to climate change on the Tibetan plateau
This paper develops three scenarios for the management of an existing, low productivity, collective forest plot in Southwest China: continuation of the status quo, transition to sustainable forest management (SFM), and conversion to a short rotation species for producing biomass for electricity g...
Kahrl F
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Su Y
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Wilkes, Andreas
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Xu, Jianchu
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Yan M
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[Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China]
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Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China
The first decade of the new millennium saw a boom in rubber prices. This led to rapid and widespread land conversion to monoculture rubber plantations in continental SE Asia, where natural rubber production has increased >50% since 2000. Here, we analyze the subsequent spread of rubber between 20...
Ahrends, Antje
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Hollingsworth PM
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Ziegler, A.D.
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Fox JM
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Chen, H.
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Su Y
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Xu, Jianchu
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[Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods]
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Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
Southwest China s Yunnan province has been affected throughout history by climate-induced water stresses, with the 2009 drought as a recent example. To deal with such stresses, mountain farmers have developed many local coping strategies. This paper provides case studies of these coping mechanism...
Su Y
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Xu, Jianchu
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Wilkes, Andreas
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Lu J
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Li Q
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Fu Y
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Ma X
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Grumbine, R. Edward
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[Coping with climate-induced water stresses through time and space in the mountains of Southwest China]
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Coping with climate-induced water stresses through time and space in the mountains of Southwest China
China s forest bioenergy policies are evolving against the backdrop of pressing national energy challenges similar to those faced by OECD countries, and chronic rural energy challenges more characteristic of developing countries. Modern forest bioenergy could contribute to solutions to both of th...
Kahrl F
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Su Y
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Yang Y
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Xu, Jianchu
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[Large or small? Rethinking China s forest bioenergy policies]
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Large or small? Rethinking China s forest bioenergy policies
Climate change is projected to impact on biodiversity conservation and the effectiveness of the existing protected area network in biologically rich Yunnan Province of southwestern China. A statistically derived bioclimatic stratification is used to analyze projected bioclimatic conditions across...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Xu, Jianchu
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Wanga M
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Li Z
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[Projected impact of climate change on the effectiveness of the existing protected area network for biodiversity conservation within Yunnan Province, China]
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Projected impact of climate change on the effectiveness of the existing protected area network for biodiversity conservation within Yunnan Province, China
New hybrid forms of climate change adaptation combining local and nonlocal/scientific knowledge are emerging across the Asian Highlands region. Yet, while local adaptive capacity can be based on place-based knowledge that governments often lack, communities still need assistance from states to be...
Xu, Jianchu
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Grumbine, R. Edward
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[Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands]
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Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands
The tree rhododendrons include the most widely distributed Himalayan Rhododendron species belonging to the subsection Arborea. Distributions of two members of this sub-species were modelled using bioclimatic data for current conditions (1950–2000). A subset of the least correlated bioclimatic var...
Ranjitkar S
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Kindt, Roeland
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Sujakhu NM
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Hart R
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Guo W
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Yang X
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Shrestha, Krishna K.
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Xu, Jianchu
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Luedeling, Eike
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[Separation of the bioclimatic spaces of Himalayan tree rhododendron species predicted by ensemble suitability models]
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Separation of the bioclimatic spaces of Himalayan tree rhododendron species predicted by ensemble suitability models