Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "climate"
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Andean Growth and the Deceleration of South American Subduction: Time Evolution of a Coupled Orogen-subduction System
(Elsevier, 2008)Present-day orography at the Andean margin is a result of isostasy, tectonic accretion, and erosional processes. The resulting excess mass of the Andes gives rise to frictional stresses on the seismogenic plate interface ... -
Application of the Helium Isotopic System to Accretion of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Dust through the Cenozoic
(2013-02-25)The Helium isotopic system provides novel tools to probe the sedimentary record of the earth over the last few hundred million years. Radiogeneically derived \(^4He\) and solar wind implanted \(^3He\) is delivered to ... -
Early Holocene Openlands in Southern New England
(Ecological Society of America, 2006)The pre-historical vegetation structure in temperate forest regions is much debated among European and North American ecologists and conservationists. Frans Vera’s recent hypothesis that large mammals created mosaics of ... -
Evolutionary assembly of island faunas reverses the classic island-mainland richness difference in Anolis lizards
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Aim: Islands are widely considered to be species depauperate relative to mainlands but, somewhat paradoxically, are also host to many striking adaptive radiations. Here, focusing on Anolis lizards, we investigate if ... -
Forest ecosystem changes from annual methane source to sink depending on late summer water balance
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Forests dominate the global carbon cycle, but their role in methane (CH4) biogeochemistry remains uncertain. We analyzed whole-ecosystem CH4 fluxes from 2 years, obtained over a lowland evergreen forest in Maine, USA. Gross ... -
Geographic Variation in Network Structure of a Nearctic Aquatic Food Web
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)Aim: The network structure of food webs plays an important role in the maintenance of diversity and ecosystem functioning in ecological communities. Previous research has found that ecosystem size, resource availability, ... -
Orogen Response to Changes in Climatic and Tectonic Forcing
(Elsevier, 2006)Despite much progress, many questions remain regarding the potential dynamic coupling between atmospheric and lithospheric processes in the long-term evolution of mountain belts. As a complement to recent efforts to discover ... -
Paleophysical Oceanography with an Emphasis on Transport Rates
(Annual Reviews, 2010)Paleophysical oceanography is the study of the behavior of the fluid ocean of the past, with a specific emphasis on its climate implications, leading to a focus on the general circulation. Even if the circulation is not ... -
The Response of Stratospheric Water Vapor to a Changing Climate: Insights from In Situ Water Vapor Measurements
(2012-10-31)Stratospheric water vapor plays an important role in the Earth system, both through its role in stratospheric ozone destruction and as a greenhouse gas contributing to radiative forcing of the climate. Highly accurate water ... -
Role of Ecosystem Development and Climate Change in Bog Formation in Central Sweden
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1990)Bog development, in terms of the rates of horizontal and vertical accumulation of peat and the timing of landform development of open-water pools, was examined on two concentric raised bogs in central Sweden. The results ... -
Studying the relationship between past people and their environments
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations; Santa Fe, New Mexico, 21–25 March 2011; The fortunes of human societies are intimately linked to the environments that sustain them. This has been ... -
Toward an Integrated Model for Raised-Bog Development: Theory and Field Evidence
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1995)The development and distribution of Northern mires, including minerotrophic fens and ombrotrophic raised bogs, frequently are presumed to be strongly controlled by the interplay of regional climate and site geomorphology ... -
Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission: Design, execution, and first results
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003)The NASA Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission was conducted in February–April 2001 over the NW Pacific (1) to characterize the Asian chemical outflow and relate it quantitatively to ... -
What is Geobiology?
(John Wiley & Sons, 2012)