Abstract. This study investigates how warm conveyor belts (WCBs) will change in a future climate. WCBs are strongly ascending airstreams extratropical cyclones that responsible for most of their precipitation. In conjunction with the cloud formation, latent heat is released, which has an impact on potential vorticity distribution and therefore atmospheric circulation middle upper troposphere. B...

The behavior and fate of alkylphenols (APs) were studied in surface water from the Jialu River, Henan Province, China. Located at its upper stream, Zhengzhou city is regarded as the major discharge source to this river with its annual effluents containing 726 kg for nonylphenol (NP) and 30.2 kg for octylphenol (OP). The concentrations of NP and OP in surface water ranged from 75.2 to 1520 ngL(-...

Kline et al. (1) pose a series of “what-if” scenarios intended to cast doubt on our (2) findings. These scenarios arise from a critical misreading of our paper and misinterpretation of the US Department of Agriculture’s Cropland Data Layer (CDL). First, we did not include alfalfa (Medicago sativa), a perennial cultivated-hay legume, in our definition of grassland (2), contrary to Kline et al.’s...

Formal efforts to connect animal behavior and behavioral ecology to conservation biology and management began ten years ago, time enough to assess their impact on stopping species decline and extinction. After outlining the rationale for applying behavior to conservation, and the links that were originally proposed between them, I argue that theoretical advances in our understanding of behavior...

Water scarcity in the United States needs to be addressed with demand- and supply-side initiatives. Yet, water is often provided for a low cost households residential areas that have potential reduce consumption. The theory of planned behavior (TpB) social science used understand why volitional conservation behaviors, including conservation, are performed by consumers. Additional predictors inc...