Computer models are important tools for assessing regional carbon sequestration and other environmental impacts of agricultural management practices. The Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model is a very flexible model that has been used to make a wide range of fieldand regional-scale environmental assessments. Large regional-scale applications of EPIC and similar models can requir...

Acknowledgements: We thank John McMillan, David Laibson, Colin Camerer, and three anonymous referees for useful comments. We thank Mandar Oak and Rosa Stipanovic for research assistance. For financial support, Frederick and Loewenstein thank the Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon University (NSF Grant SBR-9521914), and O’Donoghue thanks the National Sci...

* This value represents an average weighted score of the environmental issues associated to the concern. ** This value represents the overall score including environmental, socio-economic and likely future impacts. *** Priority refers to the ranking of GIWA concerns. Sea of Okhotsk This section presents the results of the assessment of the impacts of each of the fi ve predefi ned GIWA concerns ...

1 Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2 Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio, Almería, Spain, 3 Instituto de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Ciencia Marina, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Alicante, Spain, 4 Laboratori d’Investigacions Marines i Aqüicultura, Illes Balears, Spain,...

1 Department of Biodiversity Research, Global Change Research Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, 2 Faculty of Science, Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 3 Department of Agriculture, Yamagata University, Tsuruoka, Japan, 4 Biological and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA, 5...

Resurveys of historical collecting localities have revealed range shifts, primarily leading edge expansions, which have been attributed to global warming. However, there have been few spatially replicated community-scale resurveys testing whether species' responses are spatially consistent. Here we repeated early twentieth century surveys of small mammals along elevational gradients in northern...

The legacy of the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) includes advances in open data and meaningful progress towards interoperability of data, systems, and standards. Enabled by metadata brokering technologies and by the growing adoption of international metadata standards, federated data search welcomes diversity in Arctic data and recognizes the value of expertise in community data repos...

Carlos M. Duarte* 1 Department of Global Change Research, (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-University of the Balearic Islands) Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Mallorca, Spain 2 The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia 3 Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway *Correspondence:...