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Understanding change at the base of the marine foodwebs is fundamental to understanding how climate change can impact fisheries. However, there is a shortage of empirical measurements of primary productivity, and models estimates often disagree with each other by an order of magnitude or more. In this study we incorporate information from empirical studies and a suite of Earth system models statistically downscaled using an en...
Despite occupying a small fraction of the landscape, fluvial networks are disproportionately large emitters of CO 2 and CH 4 , with the potential to offset terrestrial carbon sinks. Yet the extent of this offset remains uncertain, because current estimates of fluvial emissions often do not integrate beyond individual river reaches and over the entire fluvial network in complex landscapes. Here we studied broad patterns of conc...
The impact of a loss of hydrologic connectivity on boreal lake thermal and evaporative regimesNARA Subscribed
This paper summarizes the initial results (first 4 yr) of a whole‐catchment manipulation to evaluate the impact of a loss of hydrologic connectivity of a boreal lake with its watershed on lake thermal and evaporative regimes. We diverted the upstream flow to a fourth order lake resulting in a marked reduction (81%) in watershed area, and compared the response to a comparable control lake in a headwater position. The manipulati...
Testing the sensitivity of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to Southern Ocean dynamics: past changes and future implicationsNARA Subscribed
The stability of Antarctic ice sheets and their potential contribution to sea level under projected future warming remains highly uncertain. The Last Interglacial (135 000–116 000 years ago) provides a potential analogue, with global temperatures 2 °C higher and rates of sea‐level rise >5.6 m ka −1 , leading to sea levels 6.6–9.4 m higher than present. The source(s) of this sea‐level rise remain fiercely debated. Here we repor...
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