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Volume 5 (2008), Issue 5 (May)

1. Models for forest ecosystem management: a European perspective.
   Ann Bot (Lond), 101(8): 1065-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Climate change, humans, and the extinction of the woolly mammoth.
   PLoS Biol, 6(4): e79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. 10th anniversary review: addressing land degradation and climate change in dryland agroecosystems through sustainable land management.
   J Environ Monit, 10(5): 595-603. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. A community change in the algal endosymbionts of a scleractinian coral following a natural bleaching event: field evidence of acclimatization.
   Proc Biol Sci, 275(1641): 1359-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Prehistorical climate change increased diversification of a group of butterflies.
   Biol Lett, 4(3): 274-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Glucose-induced inhibition of seed germination in Lotus japonicus is alleviated by nitric oxide and spermine.
   J Plant Physiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Evidence of temperature-dependent effects on the estrogenic response of fish: implications with regard to climate change.
   Sci Total Environ, 397(1): 72-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Reconstructing dry and wet summers in SE Slovenia from oak tree-ring series.
   Int J Biometeorol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. The influence of summertime fog and overcast clouds on the growth of a coastal Californian pine: a tree-ring study.
   Oecologia, 156(3): 601-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(18): 6668-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Younger Dryas "black mats" and the Rancholabrean termination in North America.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(18): 6520-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. The role of amoeboid protists and the microbial community in moss-rich terrestrial ecosystems: biogeochemical implications for the carbon budget and carbon cycle, especially at higher latitudes.
    J Eukaryot Microbiol, 55(3): 145-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Modeling Ground Water Flow in Alluvial Mountainous Catchments on a Watershed Scale.
    Ground Water. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots.
    Ecol Lett, 11(6): 554-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Fracture propagation to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet during supraglacial lake drainage.
    Science, 320(5877): 778-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Interactions among fungal community structure, litter decomposition and depth of water table in a cutover peatland.
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 64(3): 433-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change in a wild bird population.
    Science, 320(5877): 800-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years.
    Science, 320(5877): 765-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Neutral metacommunity models predict fish diversity patterns in Mississippi-Missouri basin.
    Nature, 453(7192): 220-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Climate change and postglacial human dispersals in southeast Asia.
    Mol Biol Evol, 25(6): 1209-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Global farm animal production and global warming: impacting and mitigating climate change.
    Environ Health Perspect, 116(5): 578-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Spatial variations in biomarkers of Mytilus edulis mussels at four polluted regions spanning the Northern Hemisphere.
    Environ Res, 107(2): 201-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Addressing diarrhea prevalence in the West African Middle Belt: social and geographic dimensions in a case study for Benin.
    Int J Health Geogr, 7: 17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Impacts of macroalgal spores on the dynamics of adult macroalgae in a eutrophic estuary: High versus low hydrodynamic seasons and long-term simulations for global warming scenarios.
    Mar Pollut Bull, 56(5): 984-98. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
    New Phytol, 178(4): 719-39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Pointed wings, low wingloading and calm air reduce migratory flight costs in songbirds.
    PLoS ONE, 3(5): e2154. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Production of renewable polymers from crop plants.
    Plant J, 54(4): 684-701. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Climate change and its impact on birch pollen quantities and the start of the pollen season an example from Switzerland for the period 1969-2006.
    Int J Biometeorol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years.
    Nature, 453(7193): 383-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change.
    Nature, 453(7193): 353-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The impact of climate on Japanese encephalitis.
    Epidemiol Infect, 136(7): 980-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Macrophysiology for a changing world.
    Proc Biol Sci, 275(1642): 1469-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Patterns and drivers of Holocene vegetational change near the prairie-forest ecotone in Minnesota: revisiting McAndrews' transect.
    New Phytol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Genetic approaches to crop improvement: responding to environmental and population changes.
    Nat Rev Genet, 9(6): 444-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Assessing the Impacts of Future Climate Change on Protected Area Networks: A Method to Simulate Individual Species' Responses.
    Environ Manage. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Observed change of the standardized precipitation index, its potential cause and implications to future climate change in the Amazon region.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1498): 1767-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia: a Late-Holocene perspective.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1498): 1795-02. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. An objective tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature gradient index for studies of south Amazon dry-season climate variability and change.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1498): 1761-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Human dimensions of climate change: the vulnerability of small farmers in the Amazon.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1498): 1803-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1498): 1779-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Peat soils as a source of lead contamination to upland fluvial systems.
    Environ Pollut, 153(3): 582-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. The influence of weather conditions on the activity of high-arctic arthropods inferred from long-term observations.
    BMC Ecol, 8: 8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. A gene expression signature of confinement in peripheral blood of red wolves (Canis rufus).
    Mol Ecol, 17(11): 2782-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Climate change, travel and complex futures.
    Br J Sociol, 59(2): 261-79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Rubisco, Rubisco activase, and global climate change.
    J Exp Bot, 59(7): 1581-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Ecosystem oceanography for global change in fisheries.
    Trends Ecol Evol, 23(6): 338-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. The role of personal mastery in clinical practice: how personal leadership can transform the workplace.
    J Perianesth Nurs, 23(3): 172-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Differential sensitivity to cadmium of key mitochondrial enzymes in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin (Bivalvia: Ostreidae).
    Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol, 148(1): 72-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Could increased boreal forest ecosystem productivity offset carbon losses from increased disturbances?
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2261-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Sensitivity of managed boreal forests in Finland to climate change, with implications for adaptive management.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2341-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Streamflow hydrology in the boreal region under the influences of climate and human interference.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2251-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Climate change and the northern Russian treeline zone.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2285-99. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. The effect of climate anomalies and human ignition factor on wildfires in Russian boreal forests.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2331-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Potentials and limitations for human control over historic fire regimes in the boreal forest.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2353-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Hierarchical path analysis of deer responses to direct and indirect effects of climate in northern forest.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2359-68. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Climate change reduces reproductive success of an Arctic herbivore through trophic mismatch.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 363(1501): 2369-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate.
    Nature, 453(7195): 642-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. The Water Framework Directive: Total environment or political compromise?
    Sci Total Environ. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Simultaneous observations of aerosol-cloud-albedo interactions with three stacked unmanned aerial vehicles.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(21): 7370-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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