30 results on '"Verburg, P."'
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2. Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?
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Reed, Cody C., Merrill, Amy G., Drew, W. Mark, Christman, Beth, Hutchinson, Rachel A., Keszey, Levi, Odell, Melissa, Swanson, Sherman, Verburg, Paul S. J., Wilcox, Jim, Hart, Stephen C., and Sullivan, Benjamin W.
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- 2021
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3. Assessing uncertainties in land cover projections.
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Alexander, Peter, Prestele, Reinhard, Verburg, Peter H, Arneth, Almut, Baranzelli, Claudia, Batista E Silva, Filipe, Brown, Calum, Butler, Adam, Calvin, Katherine, Dendoncker, Nicolas, Doelman, Jonathan C, Dunford, Robert, Engström, Kerstin, Eitelberg, David, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Harrison, Paula A, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Havlik, Petr, Holzhauer, Sascha, Humpenöder, Florian, Jacobs-Crisioni, Chris, Jain, Atul K, Krisztin, Tamás, Kyle, Page, Lavalle, Carlo, Lenton, Tim, Liu, Jiayi, Meiyappan, Prasanth, Popp, Alexander, Powell, Tom, Sands, Ronald D, Schaldach, Rüdiger, Stehfest, Elke, Steinbuks, Jevgenijs, Tabeau, Andrzej, van Meijl, Hans, Wise, Marshall A, and Rounsevell, Mark DA
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Plants ,Uncertainty ,Climate ,Earth (Planet) ,Forecasting ,Climate Change ,cropland ,land cover ,land use ,model inter-comparison ,uncertainty ,Earth ,Planet ,Earth ,Planet ,Biological Sciences ,Environmental Sciences ,Ecology - Abstract
Understanding uncertainties in land cover projections is critical to investigating land-based climate mitigation policies, assessing the potential of climate adaptation strategies and quantifying the impacts of land cover change on the climate system. Here, we identify and quantify uncertainties in global and European land cover projections over a diverse range of model types and scenarios, extending the analysis beyond the agro-economic models included in previous comparisons. The results from 75 simulations over 18 models are analysed and show a large range in land cover area projections, with the highest variability occurring in future cropland areas. We demonstrate systematic differences in land cover areas associated with the characteristics of the modelling approach, which is at least as great as the differences attributed to the scenario variations. The results lead us to conclude that a higher degree of uncertainty exists in land use projections than currently included in climate or earth system projections. To account for land use uncertainty, it is recommended to use a diverse set of models and approaches when assessing the potential impacts of land cover change on future climate. Additionally, further work is needed to better understand the assumptions driving land use model results and reveal the causes of uncertainty in more depth, to help reduce model uncertainty and improve the projections of land cover.
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- 2017
4. Food systems for sustainable development: proposals for a profound four-part transformation
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Caron, Patrick, Ferrero y de Loma-Osorio, Gabriel, Nabarro, David, Hainzelin, Etienne, Guillou, Marion, Andersen, Inger, Arnold, Tom, Astralaga, Margarita, Beukeboom, Marcel, Bickersteth, Sam, Bwalya, Martin, Caballero, Paula, Campbell, Bruce M., Divine, Ntiokam, Fan, Shenggen, Frick, Martin, Friis, Anette, Gallagher, Martin, Halkin, Jean-Pierre, Hanson, Craig, Lasbennes, Florence, Ribera, Teresa, Rockstrom, Johan, Schuepbach, Marlen, Steer, Andrew, Tutwiler, Ann, and Verburg, Gerda
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- 2018
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5. Spatio-Temporal Changes in the Rice Planting Area and Their Relationship to Climate Change in Northeast China: A Model-Based Analysis
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Tian XIA, Wen-bin WU, Qing-bo ZHOU, Qiang-yi YU, Peter H Verburg, Peng YANG, Zhong-jun LU, and Hua-jun TANG
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spatio-temporal change ,rice planting area ,climate change ,Northeast China ,Agriculture (General) ,S1-972 - Abstract
Rice is one of the most important grain crops in Northeast China (NEC) and its cultivation is sensitive to climate change. This study aimed to explore the spatio-temporal changes in the NEC rice planting area over the period of 1980–2010 and to analyze their relationship to climate change. To do so, the CLUE-S (conversion of land use and its effects at small region extent) model was first updated and used to simulate dynamic changes in the rice planting area in NEC to understand spatio-temporal change trends during three periods: 1980–1990, 1990–2000 and 2000–2010. The changing results in individual periods were then linked to climatic variables to investigate the climatic drivers of these changes. Results showed that the NEC rice planting area expanded quickly and increased by nearly 4.5 times during 1980–2010. The concentration of newly planted rice areas in NEC constantly moved northward and the changes were strongly dependent on latitude. This confirmed that climate change, increases in temperature in particular, greatly influenced the shift in the rice planting area. The shift in the north limit of the NEC rice planting area generally followed a 1°C isoline migration pattern, but with an obvious time-lag effect. These findings can help policy makers and crop producers take proper adaptation measures even when exposed to the global warming situation in NEC.
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- 2014
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6. Interpretation of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptations by Local Household Farmers: a Case Study at Bin County, Northeast China
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Qiang-yi YU, Wen-bin WU, Zhen-huan LIU, Peter H Verburg, Tian XIA, Peng YANG, Zhong-jun LU, Liang-zhi YOU, and Hua-jun TANG
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perception ,adaptation ,survey ,climate change ,agriculture ,Agriculture (General) ,S1-972 - Abstract
Although climate change impacts and agricultural adaptations have been studied extensively, how smallholder farmers perceive climate change and adapt their agricultural activities is poorly understood. Survey-based data (presents farmers' personal perceptions and adaptations to climate change) associated with external biophysical-socioeconomic data (presents real-world climate change) were used to develop a farmer-centered framework to explore climate change impacts and agricultural adaptations at a local level. A case study at Bin County (1980s–2010s), Northeast China, suggested that increased annual average temperature (0.6°C per decade) and decreased annual precipitation (46 mm per decade, both from meteorological datasets) were correctly perceived by 76 and 66.9%, respectively, of farmers from the survey, and that a longer growing season was confirmed by 70% of them. These reasonably correct perceptions enabled local farmers to make appropriate adaptations to cope with climate change: Longer season alternative varieties were found for maize and rice, which led to a significant yield increase for both crops. The longer season also affected crop choice: More farmers selected maize instead of soybean, as implicated from survey results by a large increase in the maize growing area. Comparing warming-related factors, we found that precipitation and agricultural disasters were the least likely causes for farmers' agricultural decisions. As a result, crop and variety selection, rather than disaster prevention and infrastructure improvement, was the most common ways for farmers to adapt to the notable warming trend in the study region.
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- 2014
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7. The role of small scale sand dams in securing water supply under climate change in Ethiopia
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Lasage, Ralph, Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H., Verburg, Peter H., and Sileshi, Alemu Seifu
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- 2015
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8. Harvested area gaps in China between 1981 and 2010: effects of climatic and land management factors
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Qiangyi Yu, Jasper van Vliet, Peter H Verburg, Liangzhi You, Peng Yang, and Wenbin Wu
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land use change ,multiple cropping ,cropping frequency ,food security ,land use intensity ,climate change ,Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering ,TD1-1066 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 ,Science ,Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
Previous analyses have shown that cropland in China is intensifying, leading to an increase in crop production. However, these output measures leave the potential for further intensification largely unassessed. This study uses the harvested area gap (HAG), which expresses the amount of harvested area that can be gained if all existing cropland is harvested as frequently as possible, according to their potential limit for multi-cropping. Specifically, we calculate the HAG and changes in the HAG in China between 1981 and 2010. We further assess how climatic and land management factors affect these changes. We find that in China the HAG decreases between the 1980s and the 1990s, and subsequently increases between the 1990s and the 2000s, resulting in a small net increase for the entire study period. The initial decrease in the HAG is the result of an increase in the average multi-cropping index throughout the country, which is larger than the increase in the potential multi-cropping index as a result of the changed climatic factors. The subsequent increase in the HAG is the result of a decrease in average multi-cropping index throughout the country, in combination with a stagnant potential. Despite the overall increase in harvested area in China, many regions, e.g. Northeast and Lower Yangtze, are characterized by an increased HAG, indicating their potential for further increasing the multi-cropping index. The study demonstrates the application of the HAG as a method to identify areas where the harvested area can increase to increase crop production, which is currently underexplored in scientific literature.
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- 2018
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9. A Synthesis of Climate and Vegetation Cover Effects on Biogeochemical Cycling in Shrub-Dominated Drylands
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de Graaff, Marie-Anne, Throop, Heather L., Verburg, Paul S. J., Arnone, III, John A., and Campos, Xochi
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- 2014
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10. Carbon allocation in Larrea tridentata plant-soil systems as affected by elevated soil moisture and N availability
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Verburg, Paul S. J., Kapitzke, Sheila E., Stevenson, Bryan A., and Bisiaux, Marion
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- 2014
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11. Deforestation and climate risk hotspots in the global cocoa value chain.
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Parra-Paitan, Claudia, Meyfroidt, Patrick, Verburg, Peter H., and zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K.H.J.
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GLOBAL value chains ,CLIMATE change adaptation ,DEFORESTATION ,FARMS ,FARMERS ,CLIMATE change & health - Abstract
In this study, we produced a spatially explicit diagnosis of the deforestation hotspots and future climate risk (2050) of cocoa producing areas, zooming into the top 8 cocoa exporting countries and the main global cocoa traders. Cocoa-driven deforestation often co-occurs with deforestation driven by other agri-commodities, and thus needs to be tackled jointly. Climate risk will be substantially increased in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two most important suppliers of cocoa, which may lead to supply failures and severe socio-economic impacts if left unaddressed. Climate risk and deforestation have a high spatial variability between and within countries, calling for geographically differentiated approaches to mitigation and adaptation. Large transnational traders depending heavily on West African supplies, as well as the regionally based exporting farmer cooperatives and domestic firms, will be affected by the increased climate risk in that region. Traders operating in Latin America and Southeast Asia might only face a modest increase in climate risk, with subregional exceptions. These results raise concerns about the validity of sustainability commitments made by companies and other sector initiatives, which focus on single commodities and fail to consider the diversity of actors adding pressure on landscapes. Tackling these issues requires a collaborative effort from various sectors and stakeholders involved in land use decisions to prevent the geographical displacement of negative impacts, prioritize urgent action, and implement these changes efficiently and in a coordinated manner. Further, sustainability commitments often neglect climate change adaptation, with agroforestry and climate smart agriculture initiatives primarily focusing on carbon reductions and increased farmer income, paying less attention to farm practices that reduce cocoa vulnerability. • Cocoa is one of many drivers of deforestation and assessments must consider competing sectors in a landscape. • No-deforestation initiatives must integrate all sectors competing for agricultural land to avoid displacing impacts. • Global cocoa supply is at risk if climate risk is unaddressed among West African smallholder farmers. • Horizontally-integrated traders are key to implementing landscape approaches especially where agri-commodities overlap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. The need to correct for the Suess effect in the application of δ13C in sediment of autotrophic Lake Tanganyika, as a productivity proxy in the Anthropocene
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Verburg, Piet
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- 2007
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13. Upscaling Regional Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Rice Cultivation: Methods and Sources of Uncertainty
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Verburg, Peter H., van Bodegom, Peter M., van der Gon, Hugo A. C. Denier, Bergsma, Aldo, and van Breemen, Nico
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- 2006
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14. Soil solution and extractable soil nitrogen response to climate change in two boreal forest ecosystems
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Verburg, Paul S. J.
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- 2005
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15. An innovation perspective to climate change adaptation in coffee systems.
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Verburg, René, Rahn, Eric, Verweij, Pita, van Kuijk, Marijke, and Ghazoul, Jaboury
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CLIMATE change ,COFFEE growers ,COLLECTIVE action ,COFFEE ,PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation - Abstract
Climate change is expected to have strong implications for smallholder coffee farmers and implementing adaptation measures would lessen their vulnerabilities. Adaptation measures have been identified in literature, but how these can be implemented remains unclear. Current certification programmes have the potential to provide guidance on how sustainability criteria can be addressed and taken up by farmers. We identify climate change adaptation options, their scale of application, and the necessary implementation steps. We show that implementation complexity strongly increases with the degree of climate change. With modest climatic changes, incremental adaptations might suffice, but more substantial climatic change will require radical social-institutional changes for adaptation uptake and interventions. For the majority of smallholders the implementation of any measure is largely constrained by a lack of access to knowledge networks and training material, organisational support, and (mainly financial) resources. A landscape approach that encompasses collective action and coordinated cross-sector planning can overcome some of these barriers. Certification approaches can facilitate a move in this direction. Yet, the implementation of transformative adaptations requires visioning, realignment of policies and incentives, and new market formations. This entails a repositioning and revision of certification schemes to allow for more effective adaptation uptake for the benefit of smallholders and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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16. Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe's cultural landscapes.
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Schulp, Catharina J.E., Levers, Christian, Kuemmerle, Tobias, Tieskens, Koen F., and Verburg, Peter H.
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CULTURAL landscapes ,LAND use ,CLIMATE change ,CULTURAL property ,LANDSCAPE changes ,URBANIZATION - Abstract
Highlights • Europe's cultural landscapes are threatened by urbanization and abandonment. • Different cultural landscapes are sensitive to different types of landscape change. • The future of low-intensity, culturally valuable landscapes is scenario dependent. Abstract Cultural landscapes are valued for their landscape character and cultural heritage. Yet, these often low-intensity, multifunctional landscapes are at risk of disappearance. Understanding how cultural landscapes might change under alternative futures is important for identifying where to target actions towards persistence of cultural landscapes. This study therefore aims to identify past and future land use changes in the European Union's (EU's) cultural landscapes. To do so, we overlay past and projected plausible future land change trajectories with the spatial distribution of cultural landscapes in the EU. Our results highlight a clear co-occurrence of specific land change trajectories and cultural landscape types. Past and future urbanization and agricultural abandonment are the land use change processes most strongly affecting small-scale, low-intensity agricultural landscapes that are valued by society. De-intensification is overrepresented in landscapes with a low management intensity. Past intensification was overrepresented in small-scale landscapes with a high value to society, while future intensification might concentrate on landscapes with a low intensity. Typical cultural landscapes show a strong variation of changes under different scenario conditions in terms of future landscape change. Scenario analysis revealed that some of the threats to cultural landscapes are related to agricultural policies, nature policies and other spatial restrictions. At the same time, these policies may also alleviate these threats when properly designed and targeted by accounting for the impacts they may have on cultural landscapes. Considering cultural landscapes more directly in decisions to be made for the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy period is needed, and could be achieved by a focus on landscape quality beyond the current focus on specific greening measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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17. Global change effects on land management in the Mediterranean region.
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Malek, Žiga, Verburg, Peter H, R Geijzendorffer, Ilse, Bondeau, Alberte, and Cramer, Wolfgang
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LAND management ,IRRIGATION efficiency ,WATER supply -- Climatic factors ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
The Mediterranean region faces significant challenges to supply its growing population with food and living space. The region’s potential to do so in the future is even more uncertain in the light of global change effects. Climate change will impact water availability in the region, which is already limited and often used at unsustainable rates. To investigate the effects of global change and explore alternative development pathways of Mediterranean land use, we simulated two future scenarios with different land, water and biodiversity management transitions. We adopted a land systems approach, where land use and land cover are combined with data on land management, irrigation and livestock density, taking into account the characteristics of Mediterranean multifunctional landscapes, specific agricultural products, such as permanent crops, and irrigation water demands. Future land system changes were explored using the CLUMondo model for different development pathways of the region. We constrained the withdrawal of irrigation water based on existing freshwater resources. In a ‘growth’ scenario, we simulated a hypothetical future without consideration of environmental constraints and where food production and urban expansion are main priorities. The ‘sustainability’ scenario represents a future where limited water resources are extracted in a sustainable way and where areas of high biodiversity value are protected. The growth scenario projected significant intensification of land management, and loss of agro-silvo-pastoral mosaic systems. To achieve this, we calculate that the region would need to increase water withdrawal for irrigation significantly, resulting in increased pressure on freshwater resources. The sustainability scenario presents a way of increasing food production and at the same time improving the state of water resources, wetlands and traditional landscapes. Achieving this future would require improvements of yields of rain-fed systems and efficiencies of irrigated systems. The results indicate that coordinated environmental policy together with appropriate market access are needed to steer the regions land management towards a more sustainable future while ensuring food production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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18. Opportunities for sustainable intensification in European agriculture.
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Scherer, L.A., Verburg, P.H., and Schulp, C.J.E.
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AGRICULTURAL intensification ,SUSTAINABLE development ,AGRICULTURE ,CLIMATE change ,FOOD security - Abstract
Sustainable agricultural intensification is needed to tackle food insecurity and global environmental change. Local environmental conditions determine the needs and potentials for increasing sustainability of agricultural practices. However, the potential for implementation also depends on socio-economic factors, as farmers need to adopt innovative farming practices, and consumer demand affects the economic feasibility. This study aims to map opportunities for sustainable intensification in Europe taking into account farmer characteristics, consumer behaviour, environmental pressures, and unexploited agronomic potentials. In areas identified as having high opportunities, we estimate the impacts of specific sustainable intensification measures on both intensification (in terms of calorie gains) and sustainability (in terms of resource savings). The study finds high spatial variation in opportunities for sustainable intensification across Europe. High opportunities for sustainable intensification are found on 34% of the arable area in Europe. In addition, the analysis shows that a combination of different measures can simultaneously improve food security and sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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19. Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010.
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Jepsen, Martin Rudbeck, Kuemmerle, Tobias, Müller, Daniel, Erb, Karlheinz, Verburg, Peter H., Haberl, Helmut, Vesterager, Jens Peter, Andrič, Maja, Antrop, Marc, Austrheim, Gunnar, Björn, Ismo, Bondeau, Alberte, Bürgi, Matthias, Bryson, Jessica, Caspar, Gilles, Cassar, Louis F., Conrad, Elisabeth, Chromý, Pavel, Daugirdas, Vidmantas, and Van Eetvelde, Veerle
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LAND management ,BIODIVERSITY ,BIFURCATION theory ,LAND use ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
Land use is a cornerstone of human civilization, but also intrinsically linked to many global sustainability challenges—from climate change to food security to the ongoing biodiversity crisis. Understanding the underlying technological, institutional and economic drivers of land-use change, and how they play out in different environmental, socio-economic and cultural contexts, is therefore important for identifying effective policies to successfully address these challenges. In this regard, much can be learned from studying long-term land-use change. We examined the evolution of European land management over the past 200 years with the aim of identifying (1) key episodes of changes in land management, and (2) their underlying technological, institutional and economic drivers. To do so, we generated narratives elaborating on the drivers of land use-change at the country level for 28 countries in Europe. We qualitatively grouped drivers into land-management regimes, and compared changes in management regimes across Europe. Our results allowed discerning seven land-management regimes, and highlighted marked heterogeneity regarding the types of management regimes occurring in a particular country, the timing and prevalence of regimes, and the conditions that result in observed bifurcations. However, we also found strong similarities across countries in the timing of certain land-management regime shifts, often in relation to institutional reforms (e.g., changes in EU agrarian policies or the emergence and collapse of the Soviet land management paradigm) or to technological innovations (e.g., drainage pipes, tillage and harvesting machinery, motorization, and synthetic fertilizers). Land reforms frequently triggered changes in land management, and the location and timing of reforms had substantial impacts on land-use outcomes. Finally, forest protection policies and voluntary cooperatives were important drivers of land-management changes. Overall, our results demonstrate that land-system changes should not be conceived as unidirectional developments following predefined trajectories, but rather as path-dependent processes that may be affected by various drivers, including sudden events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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20. Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe.
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van Vliet, Jasper, de Groot, Henri L.F., Rietveld, Piet, and Verburg, Peter H.
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FARMS ,LAND use ,CLIMATE change ,LAND management ,AGRICULTURAL intensification - Abstract
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is limited because the evidence is fragmented. This paper presents a systematic review of case study evidence on manifestations and underlying drivers for agricultural land use change in Europe. We analyzed 137 studies that together report on 76 cases of intensification and 143 cases of disintensification. Observed changes were manifested as expansion or contraction of agricultural land as well as in changes of land management intensity, landscape elements, agricultural land use activity, and specialization/diversification. Economic, technological, institutional and location factors were frequently identified as underlying drivers, while demographic drivers and sociocultural drivers were mentioned less often. In addition, we found that farmers were very important as moderators between underlying drivers and manifestations of agricultural land use change. Farmer decisions differed between different farmer types, and according to their characteristics and attitudes. We found major land use change trajectories in relation to globalization of agricultural markets, the transition from a rural to an urban society, and the shift to post-socialism in central and eastern Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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21. Linking Land-Change Science and Policy: Current Lessons and Future Integration.
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Reid, Robin S., Tomich, Thomas P., Xu, Jianchu, Geist, Helmut, Mather, Alexander, DeFries, Ruth S., Liu, Jianguo, Alves, Diogenes, Agbola, Babatunde, Lambin, Eric F., Chabbra, Abha, Veldkamp, Tom, Kok, Kasper, van Noordwijk, Meine, Thomas, David, Palm, Cheryl, and Verburg, Peter H.
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Human use of the land and oceans is at the center of some of the most complicated and pressing problems faced by policy makers around the world today (e.g., DeFries et al. 2004b; Platt 2004; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). For the terrestrial biosphere, our need to balance current human needs and longer-term environmental sustainability often involves consideration of the way we use ecosystem goods and services produced by the land. Land-use is at the center of these trade-offs because changes in land use often enhance the share of energy, water and nutrients devoted to human needs but decrease the share available for other species and ecosystem functions. Problems as far ranging as improving human health or ensuring adequate food production cannot be solved unless policy makers understand how their policies alter land use and how altered land use affects ecosystem functions. For example, public health policy that adequately accounts for the future spread of mosquitoes that carry Plasmodium or malaria in the tropics often requires an understanding of the interplay between land use and climate (Lines 1995) (see Chap. 4). In China, agricultural policy makers are using a recent assessment of cropland area to create policies that ensure there will be enough land to meet China's rapidly growing demand for food, feedgrains, and raw materials that is driven by rapid economic growth (Welch and Pannell 1982; Yang and Li 2000; Ho and Lin 2004; Lin and Ho 2005), although it is not clear that other ecosystem services will be maintained in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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22. Modeling Land-Use and Land-Cover Change.
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Lambin, Eric F., Geist, Helmut, Verburg, Peter H., Kok, Kasper, Pontius, Robert Gilmore, and Veldkamp, A.
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The decade since the initiation of the Land-Use/Cover Change (LUCC) project in 1995 (see Chap. 1) has witnessed considerable advances in the field of modeling of land-use/cover change. The science plan of the project indicated that the major task would be the development of a new generation of land-use/cover change models capable of simulating the major socioeconomic and biophysical driving forces of land-use and land-cover change. In addition, these models were supposed to be able to handle interactions at several spatial and temporal scales. Recent publications indicate that the LUCC science community has successfully met this challenge and a wide range of advanced models, aiming at different scales and research questions, is now available (Briassoulis 2000; Agarwal et al. 2001; Veldkamp and Lambin 2001; Parker et al. 2003; Nagendra et al. 2004; Veldkamp and Verburg 2004; Verburg et al. 2004b; Verburg and Veldkamp 2005). One of the most important observations that can be made examining the range of available land-use/ cover change models is the wide variety of approaches and concepts underlying the models. This chapter intends to describe the variety of modeling approaches, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches and indicate the remaining challenges for the land-use science community. Not being able to discuss all individual models and approaches, we will focus on broad distinctions between approaches and discuss how modelers have dealt with a number of important aspects of the functioning of the landuse system. A land-use system is understood here as a type of land use with interrelated determining factors with strong functional relations with each other (see Fig. 1.2). These factors include a wide range of land-use influencing factors than can be biophysical, economic, social, cultural, political, or institutional. The discussion of modeling approaches in this chapter is illustrated with examples of models and results from selected research projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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23. The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture.
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Debonne, Niels, Bürgi, Matthias, Diogo, Vasco, Helfenstein, Julian, Herzog, Felix, Levers, Christian, Mohr, Franziska, Swart, Rebecca, and Verburg, Peter
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ENVIRONMENTAL regulations ,AGRICULTURE ,GEOGRAPHY ,DEMOGRAPHIC change ,CLIMATE change ,AGRICULTURAL policy - Abstract
• We map megatrends to gain foresight on the future of European agriculture. • Mapped megatrends are climate, demography, value system, and environmental regulation. • Different regions face pressures from different combinations of megatrends. • Regions range from highly susceptible to systemic change to highly persistent. • For sustainability transitions, megatrends inform what governance is needed. A range of intensifying pressures is making the future of European agriculture dynamic and contested. Insights into these pressures are needed to inform debates about the future of the sector. In this study, we use a foresight approach to identify, quantify and map megatrends. Megatrends are long-term driving forces which are observable today and will likely have transformational potential in the future. By mapping these megatrends at the regional scale, we establish a geography of megatrends and detect where they coincide. Four megatrends significant for the future of European agriculture at the regional scale are assessed: Climate change, demographic change, (post-) productivism shifts, and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. The direction and intensity of these megatrends differs between regions, which drives regions into different systemic lock-ins or dynamics. In most regions, megatrends converge to destabilize the current system, forewarning impending systemic changes. While the specific megatrends contributing to this instability differ regionally, this result highlights that many regions are on a dynamic rather than stable trajectory, and the governance challenge is to steer these dynamics towards a desirable future. However, some regions are found to be highly persistent, indicating that megatrends reinforce business as usual, and change needs to be triggered through purposeful governance. In a minority of regions megatrends may drive marginalization as the current system becomes increasingly unviable. We argue that research and policies concerning agricultural sustainability transitions should be cognizant of the regional diversity of European megatrends and the pressures they create. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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24. Towards decision-based global land use models for improved understanding of the Earth system.
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Rounsevell, M. D. A., Arneth, A., Alexander, P., Brown, D. G., de Noblet-Ducoudré, N., Ellis, E., Finnigan, J., Galvin, K., Grigg, N., Harman, I., Lennox, J., Magliocca, N., Parker, D., O'Neill, B. C., Verburg, P. H., and Young, O.
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LAND use ,LAND cover ,EARTH system science ,DECISION making ,BIOPHYSICS ,CLIMATE change ,ECOSYSTEMS - Abstract
A primary goal of Earth system modelling is to improve understanding of the interactions and feedbacks between human decision making and biophysical processes. The nexus of land use and land cover change (LULCC) and the climate system is an important example. LULCC contributes to global and regional climate change, while climate affects the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and LULCC. However, at present, LULCC is poorly represented in Global Circulation Models (GCMs). LULCC models that are explicit about human behaviour and decision making processes have been developed at local to regional scales, but the principles of these approaches have not yet been applied to the global scale level in ways that deal adequately with both direct and indirect feedbacks from the climate system. In this article, we explore current knowledge about LULCC modelling and the interactions between LULCC, GCMs and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs). In doing so, we propose new ways forward for improving LULCC representations in Earth System Models. We conclude that LULCC models need to better conceptualise the alternatives for up-scaling from the local to global. This involves better representation of human agency, including processes such as learning, adaptation and agent evolution, formalising the role and emergence of governance structures, institutional arrangements and policy as endogenous processes and better theorising about the role of tele-connections and connectivity across global networks. Our analysis underlines the importance of observational data in global scale assessments and the need for coordination in synthesising and assimilating available data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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25. A high-resolution and harmonized model approach for reconstructing and analyzing historic land changes in Europe.
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Fuchs, R., Herold, M., Verburg, P. H., and W. Clevers, J. G. P.
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CARBON dioxide mitigation ,FOREST conversion ,COMPARATIVE studies ,LAND use ,GREENHOUSE gas mitigation ,CLIMATE change ,REFORESTATION - Abstract
Currently, up to 30% of global carbon emission is estimated to originate from land use and land changes. Existing historic land change reconstructions on the European scale do not sufficiently meet the requirements of greenhouse gas (GHG) and climate assessments, due to insufficient spatial and thematic detail and the consideration of various land change types. This paper investigates if the combination of different data sources, more detailed modeling techniques and the integration of land conversion types allow us to create accurate, high resolution historic land change data for Europe suited for the needs of GHG and climate assessments. We validated our reconstruction with historic aerial photographs from 1950 and 1990 for 73 sample sites across Europe and compared it with other land reconstructions like Klein Goldewijk et al. (2010, 2011), Ramankutty and Foley (1999), Pongratz et al. (2008) and Hurtt et al. (2006). The results indicate that almost 700 000 km² (15.5 %) of land cover in Europe changes over the period 1950 to 2010, an area similar to France. In Southern Europe the relative amount was almost 3.5% higher than average (19 %). Based on the results the specific types of conversion, hot-spots of change and their relation to political decisions and socioeconomic transitions were studied. The analysis indicate that the main drivers of land change over the studied period were urbanization, the reforestation program after the timber shortage since the Second World War, the fall of the Iron Curtain, Common Agricultural Policy and accompanying afforestation actions of the EU. Compared to existing land cover reconstructions, the new method takes stock of the harmonization of different datasets by achieving a high spatial resolution and regional detail with a full coverage of different land categories. These characteristic allow the data to be used to support and improve ongoing GHG inventories and climate research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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26. Nitrogen transformations in a forested catchment in southern Norway subjected to elevated temperature and CO[sub 2].
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Model predictions on the response of soil processes to global warming are mostly inferred from small-scale laboratory studies. In this study, a forested catchment in southern Norway was enclosed by a greenhouse and experimentally manipulated by increasing CO[sub 2] (+200 µl 1[sup -1] above ambient) and temperature (+3-5°C). This paper reports on the effects of the climate manipulation on N mineralization and nitrification. We measured net N mineralization and nitrification in a control and treated part of the greenhouse as well as in an uncovered reference catchment in plots dominated by Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull or Vaccinium myrtillus L. Net N mineralization in the 0-10 cm soil layer significantly increased, most likely as a result of increased temperature. The effect was largest in plots dominated by Calluna. Nitrification did not significantly increase. Soil moisture inside the incubated cores was not affected by the climate change treatment. Pre-treatment mineralization was similar inside and outside the enclosure whereas nitrification was higher inside the enclosure. The NH[sub 4, sup +] content was significantly lower inside the chamber due to removal of acidifying components from the precipitation and lower inputs of dry deposition. We found however no differences in Ph, %C and %N of the LF and H layer and total C and N in the soil cores between the two catchments. Mineralization was generally higher under Vaccinium than under Calluna even though measured soil chemical and physical characteristics were similar. Nitrification was higher under Calluna than under Vaccinium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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27. State of the climate in 2017
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Abernethy, R., Ackerman, S. A., Adler, R., Albanil Encarnación, A., Aldeco, L. S., Alfaro, E. J., Aliaga-Nestares, V., Allan, R. P., Allan, R., Alves, L. M., Amador, J. A., Anderson, J., Andreassen, L. M., Argüez, A., Armitage, C., Arndt, D. S., Avalos, G., Azorin-Molina, C., Báez, J., Bardin, M. Yu, Barichivich, J., Baringer, M. O., Barreira, S., Baxter, S., Beck, H. E., Becker, A., Bedka, K. M., Behe, C., Bell, G. D., Bellouin, N., Belmont, M., Benedetti, A., Bernhard, G. H., Berrisford, P., Berry, D. I., Bhatt, U. S., Bissolli, P., Bjerke, J., Blake, E. S., Blenkinsop, S., Blunden, J., Bolmgren, K., Bosilovich, M. G., Boucher, O., Bouchon, M., Box, J. E., Boyer, T., Braathen, G. O., Bromwich, D. H., Brown, R., Buehler, S., Bulygina, O. N., Burgess, D., Calderón, B., Camargo, S. J., Campbell, E. C., Campbell, J. D., Cappelen, J., Carrea, L., Carter, B. R., Castro, A., Chambers, D. P., lijing cheng, Christiansen, H. H., Christy, J. R., Chung, E. -S, Clem, K. R., Coelho, C. A. S., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Colwell, S., Cooper, O. R., Copland, L., Costanza, C., Covey, C., Coy, L., Cronin, T., Crouch, J., Cruzado, L., Daniel, R., Davis, S. M., Davletshin, S. G., Eyto, E., Jeu, R. A. M., La Cour, J. L., Laat, J., Gasperi, C. L., Degenstein, D., Deline, P., Demircan, M., Derksen, C., Dewitte, B., Dhurmea, R., Di Girolamo, L., Diamond, H. J., Dickerson, C., Dlugokencky, E. J., Dohan, K., Dokulil, M. T., Dolman, A. J., Domingues, C. M., Domingues, R., Donat, M. G., Dong, S., Dorigo, W. A., Drozdov, D. S., Dunn, R. J. H., Durre, I., Dutton, G. S., Eakin, C. M., El Kharrim, M., Elkins, J. W., Epstein, H. E., Espinoza, J. C., Famiglietti, J. S., Farmer, J., Farrell, S., Fauchald, P., Fausto, R. S., Feely, R. A., Feng, Z., Fenimore, C., Fettweis, X., Fioletov, V. E., Flemming, J., Fogt, R. L., Folland, C., Forbes, B. C., Foster, M. J., Francis, S. D., Franz, B. A., Frey, R. A., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Ganter, C., Geiger, E. F., Gerland, S., Gilson, J., Gobron, N., Goldenberg, S. B., Gomez, A. M., Goni, G., Grooß, J. U., Gruber, A., Guard, C. P., Gugliemin, M., Gupta, S. K., Gutiérrez, D., Haas, C., Hagos, S., Hahn, S., Haimberger, L., Hall, B. D., Halpert, M. S., Hamlington, B. D., Hanna, E., Hansen, K., Hanssen-Bauer, L., Harris, I., Hartfield, G., Heidinger, A. K., Heim, R. R., Helfrich, S., Hemming, D. L., Hendricks, S., Hernández, R., Hernández, S. M., Heron, S. F., Heuzé, C., Hidalgo, H. G., Ho, S. -P, Hobbs, W. R., Horstkotte, T., Huang, B., Hubert, D., Hueuzé, C., Hurst, D. F., Ialongo, I., Ibrahim, M. M., Ijampy, J. A., Inness, A., Isaac, V., Isaksen, K., Ishii, M., Jacobs, S. J., Jeffries, M. O., Jevrejeva, S., Jiménez, C., Jin, X., John, V., Johns, W. E., Johnsen, B., Johnson, B., Johnson, G. C., Johnson, K. S., Jones, P. D., Jumaux, G., Kabidi, K., Kaiser, J. W., Karaköylü, E. M., Kato, S., Kazemi, A., Keller, L. M., Kennedy, J., Kerr, K., Khan, M. S., Kholodov, A. L., Khoshkam, M., Killick, R., Kim, H., Kim, S. -J, Klotzbach, P. J., Knaff, J. A., Kohler, J., Korhonen, J., Korshunova, N. N., Kramarova, N., Kratz, D. P., Kruger, A., Kruk, M. C., Krumpen, T., Ladd, C., Lakatos, M., Lakkala, K., Lander, M. A., Landschützer, P., Landsea, C. W., Lankhorst, M., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Lazzara, M. A., Lee, S. -E, Lee, T. C., Leuliette, E., L Heureux, M., Li, T., Lieser, J. L., Lin, I. -I, Mears, C. A., Liu, G., Li, B., Liu, H., Locarnini, R., Loeb, N. G., Long, C. S., López, L. A., Lorrey, A. M., Loyola, D., Lumpkin, R., Luo, J. -J, Luojus, K., Luthcke, S., Macias-Fauria, M., Malkova, G. V., Manney, G. L., Marcellin, V., Marchenko, S. S., Marengo, J. A., Marín, D., Marra, J. J., Marszelewski, W., Martens, B., Martin, A., Martínez, A. G., Martínez-Güingla, R., Martínez-Sánchez, O., Marsh, B. L., Lyman, J. M., Massom, R. A., May, L., Mayer, M., Mazloff, M., Mcbride, C., Mccabe, M. F., Mccarthy, M., Meier, W., Meijers, A. J. S., Mekonnen, A., Mengistu Tsidu, G., Menzel, W. P., Merchant, C. J., Meredith, M. P., Merrifield, M. A., Miller, B., Miralles, D. G., Mitchum, G. T., Mitro, S., Moat, B., Mochizuki, Y., Monselesan, D., Montzka, S. A., Mora, N., Morice, C., Mosquera-Vásquez, K., Mostafa, A. E., Mote, T., Mudryk, L., Mühle, J., Mullan, A. B., Müller, R., Myneni, R., Nash, E. R., Nerem, R. S., Newman, L., Newman, P. A., Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., Nieto, J. J., Noetzli, J., Noll, B. E., O Neel, S., Osborn, T. J., Osborne, E., Overland, J., Oyunjargal, L., Park, T., Pasch, R. J., Pascual-Ramírez, R., Pastor Saavedra, M. A., Paterson, A. M., Paulik, C., Pearce, P. R., Peltier, A., Pelto, M. S., Peng, L., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. E., Perovich, D., Petropavlovskikh, I., Pezza, A. B., Phillips, C., Phillips, D., Phoenix, G., Pinty, B., Pinzon, J., Po-Chedley, S., Polashenski, C., Purkey, S. G., Quispe, N., Rajeevan, M., Rakotoarimalala, C., Rayner, D., Raynolds, M. K., Reagan, J., Reid, P., Reimer, C., Rémy, S., Revadekar, J. V., Richardson, A. D., Richter-Menge, J., Ricker, R., Rimmer, A., Robinson, D. A., Rodell, M., Rodriguez Camino, E., Romanovsky, V. E., Ronchail, J., Rosenlof, K. H., Rösner, B., Roth, C., Roth, D. M., Rusak, J. A., Rutishäuser, T., Sallée, J. -B, Sánchez-Lugo, A., Santee, M. L., Sasgen, L., Sawaengphokhai, P., Sayad, T. A., Sayouri, A., Scambos, T. A., Scanlon, T., Schenzinger, V., Schladow, S. G., Schmid, C., Schmid, M., Schreck, C. J., Selkirk, H. B., Send, U., Sensoy, S., Sharp, M., Shi, L., Shiklomanov, N. I., Shimaraeva, S. V., Siegel, D. A., Silow, E., Sima, F., Simmons, A. J., Skirving, W. J., Smeed, D. A., Smeets, C. J. P. P., Smith, A., Smith, S. L., Soden, B., Sofieva, V., Sparks, T. H., Spence, J. M., Spillane, S., Srivastava, A. K., Stackhouse, P. W., Stammerjohn, S., Stanitski, D. M., Steinbrecht, W., Stella, J. L., Stengel, M., Stephenson, K., Stephenson, T. S., Strahan, S., Streletskiy, D. A., Strong, A. E., Sun-Mack, S., Sutton, A. J., Swart, S., Sweet, W., Takahashi, K. S., Tamar, G., Taylor, M. A., Tedesco, M., Thackeray, S. J., Thoman, R. L., Thompson, P., Thomson, L., Thorsteinsson, T., Timbal, B., Timmermans, M. -L, Timofeyev, M. A., Tirak, K. V., Tobin, S., Togawa, H., Tømmervik, H., Tourpali, K., Trachte, K., Trewin, B. C., Triñanes, J. A., Trotman, A. R., Tschudi, M., Tucker, C. J., Tye, M. R., As, D., Wal, R. S. W., Ronald, J. A., Schalie, R., Schrier, G., Werf, G. R., Meerbeeck, C. J., Velden, C. S., Velicogna, I., Verburg, P., Vickers, H., Vincent, L. A., Vömel, H., Vose, R. S., Wagner, W., Walker, D. A., Walsh, J., Wang, B., Wang, J., Wang, L., Wang, M., Wang, R., Wang, S. -H, Wanninkhof, R., Watanabe, S., Weber, M., Webster, M., Weller, R. A., Westberry, T. K., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Whitewood, R., Widlansky, M. J., Wiese, D. N., Wijffels, S. E., Wilber, A. C., Wild, J. D., Willett, K. M., Willis, J. K., Wolken, G., Wong, T., Wood, E. F., Wood, K., Woolway, R. I., Wouters, B., Xue, Y., Yin, X., Yoon, H., York, A., Yu, L., Zambrano, E., Zhang, H. -M, Zhang, P., Zhao, G., Zhao, L., Zhu, Z., Ziel, R., Ziemke, J. R., Ziese, M. G., Griffin, J., Hammer, G., Love-Brotak, S. E., Misch, D. J., Riddle, D. B., Slagle, M., Sprain, M., Veasey, S. W., and Mcvicar, T. R.
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Meteor (satellite) ,Atmospheric Science ,Climate Research ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Climate change ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities ,Klimatforskning ,El Niño Southern Oscillation ,13. Climate action ,Climatology ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Environmental science ,SDG 14 - Life Below Water ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
In 2017, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth's atmosphere-carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide-reached new record highs. The annual global average carbon dioxide concentration at Earth's surface for 2017 was 405.0 ± 0.1 ppm, 2.2 ppm greater than for 2016 and the highest in the modern atmospheric measurement record and in ice core records dating back as far as 800 000 years. The global growth rate of CO2 has nearly quadrupled since the early 1960s. With ENSO-neutral conditions present in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during most of the year and weak La Niña conditions notable at the start and end, the global temperature across land and ocean surfaces ranked as the second or third highest, depending on the dataset, since records began in the mid-to-late 1800s. Notably, it was the warmest non-El Niño year in the instrumental record. Above Earth's surface, the annual lower tropospheric temperature was also either second or third highest according to all datasets analyzed. The lower stratospheric temperature was about 0.2°C higher than the record cold temperature of 2016 according to most of the in situ and satellite datasets. Several countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, and Bulgaria, reported record high annual temperatures. Mexico broke its annual record for the fourth consecutive year. On 27 January, the temperature reached 43.4°C at Puerto Madryn, Argentina-the highest temperature recorded so far south (43°S) anywhere in the world. On 28 May in Turbat, western Pakistan, the high of 53.5°C tied Pakistan's all-time highest temperature and became the world-record highest temperature for May. In the Arctic, the 2017 land surface temperature was 1.6°C above the 1981-2010 average, the second highest since the record began in 1900, behind only 2016. The five highest annual Arctic temperatures have all occurred since 2007. Exceptionally high temperatures were observed in the permafrost across the Arctic, with record values reported in much of Alaska and northwestern Canada. In August, high sea surface temperature (SST) records were broken for the Chukchi Sea, with some regions as warm as +11°C, or 3° to 4°C warmer than the longterm mean (1982-present). According to paleoclimate studies, today's abnormally warm Arctic air and SSTs have not been observed in the last 2000 years. The increasing temperatures have led to decreasing Arctic sea ice extent and thickness. On 7 March, sea ice extent at the end of the growth season saw its lowest maximum in the 37-year satellite record, covering 8% less area than the 1981-2010 average. The Arctic sea ice minimum on 13 September was the eighth lowest on record and covered 25% less area than the long-term mean. Preliminary data indicate that glaciers across the world lost mass for the 38th consecutive year on record; the declines are remarkably consistent from region to region. Cumulatively since 1980, this loss is equivalent to slicing 22 meters off the top of the average glacier. Antarctic sea ice extent remained below average for all of 2017, with record lows during the first four months. Over the continent, the austral summer seasonal melt extent and melt index were the second highest since 2005, mostly due to strong positive anomalies of air temperature over most of the West Antarctic coast. In contrast, the East Antarctic Plateau saw record low mean temperatures in March. The year was also distinguished by the second smallest Antarctic ozone hole observed since 1988. Across the global oceans, the overall long-term SST warming trend remained strong. Although SST cooled slightly from 2016 to 2017, the last three years produced the three highest annual values observed; these high anomalies have been associated with widespread coral bleaching. The most recent global coral bleaching lasted three full years, June 2014 to May 2017, and was the longest, most widespread, and almost certainly most destructive such event on record. Global integrals of 0-700-m and 0-2000-m ocean heat content reached record highs in 2017, and global mean sea level during the year became the highest annual average in the 25-year satellite altimetry record, rising to 77 mm above the 1993 average. In the tropics, 2017 saw 85 named tropical storms, slightly above the 1981-2010 average of 82. The North Atlantic basin was the only basin that featured an above-normal season, its seventh most active in the 164-year record. Three hurricanes in the basin were especially notable. Harvey produced record rainfall totals in areas of Texas and Louisiana, including a storm total of 1538.7 mm near Beaumont, Texas, which far exceeds the previous known U.S. tropical cyclone record of 1320.8 mm. Irma was the strongest tropical cyclone globally in 2017 and the strongest Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean on record with maximum winds of 295 km h-1. Maria caused catastrophic destruction across the Caribbean Islands, including devastating wind damage and flooding across Puerto Rico. Elsewhere, the western North Pacific, South Indian, and Australian basins were all particularly quiet. Precipitation over global land areas in 2017 was clearly above the long-term average. Among noteworthy regional precipitation records in 2017, Russia reported its second wettest year on record (after 2013) and Norway experienced its sixth wettest year since records began in 1900. Across India, heavy rain and flood-related incidents during the monsoon season claimed around 800 lives. In August and September, above-normal precipitation triggered the most devastating floods in more than a decade in the Venezuelan states of Bolívar and Delta Amacuro. In Nigeria, heavy rain during August and September caused the Niger and Benue Rivers to overflow, bringing floods that displaced more than 100 000 people. Global fire activity was the lowest since at least 2003; however, high activity occurred in parts of North America, South America, and Europe, with an unusually long season in Spain and Portugal, which had their second and third driest years on record, respectively. Devastating fires impacted British Columbia, destroying 1.2 million hectares of timber, bush, and grassland, due in part to the region's driest summer on record. In the United States, an extreme western wildfire season burned over 4 million hectares; the total costs of $18 billion tripled the previous U.S. annual wildfire cost record set in 1991.
28. Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes
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Jasmine E. Saros, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer, Scott N. Higgins, Rolf D. Vinebrooke, Pierre Denis Plisnier, Orlane Anneville, Stephanie J. Melles, Jen Klug, Jason Tallant, Noah R. Lottig, Denis Y. Rogozin, Wim Thiery, Josef Wanzenböck, Jouko Sarvala, Peter B. McIntyre, David P. Hamilton, Harald Hetzenauer, Peter D. F. Isles, Johanna Korhonen, Fabio Lepori, Rita Adrian, Michela Rogora, Martin S. Luger, Donald C. Pierson, Margaret Dix, Koji Tominaga, Peter R. Leavitt, Chris G. McBride, Svetlana V. Shimaraeva, David C. Richardson, Stephen C. Maberly, Barbara Leoni, Esteban Balseiro, Émilie Saulnier-Talbot, Karl E. Havens, Ruben Sommaruga, Timo Huttula, Maxim A. Timofeyev, Steve Sadro, Lesley B. Knoll, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Nikolai M. Korovchinsky, Evelyn E. Gaiser, T. V. Zhukova, James A. Rusak, Craig E. Williamson, Dag O. Hessen, Wendel Keller, Hannu Huuskonen, Martin T. Dokulil, Ekaterina V. Lepskaya, Syuhei Ban, Lewis Sitoki, K. David Hambright, Beatriz Modenutti, Shawn P. Devlin, Dietmar Straile, Eugene A. Silow, Andrew M. Paterson, Laura Pacholski, Sally Macintyre, Hilary M. Swain, Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra, Alexander P. Tolomeev, Helen V. Pislegina, Oliver Köster, Sudeep Chandra, Piet Verburg, Nico Salmaso, Rachel M. Pilla, Elizabeth M. Mette, Klaus Joehnk, Michael J. Vanni, María J. González, Daniel E. Schindler, Natalie A. Feldsine, Natalie K. Fogarty, Egor S. Zadereev, William Colom-Montero, Alon Rimmer, Kristin E. Strock, Scott F. Girdner, Benjamin M. Kraemer, B. V. Adamovich, Kathleen C. Weathers, Olga O. Rusanovskaya, Pilla, R, Mette, E, Williamson, C, Adamovich, B, Adrian, R, Anneville, O, Balseiro, E, Ban, S, Chandra, S, Colom-Montero, W, Devlin, S, Dix, M, Dokulil, M, Feldsine, N, Feuchtmayr, H, Fogarty, N, Gaiser, E, Girdner, S, Gonzalez, M, Hambright, K, Hamilton, D, Havens, K, Hessen, D, Hetzenauer, H, Higgins, S, Huttula, T, Huuskonen, H, Isles, P, Joehnk, K, Keller, W, Klug, J, Knoll, L, Korhonen, J, Korovchinsky, N, Koster, O, Kraemer, B, Leavitt, P, Leoni, B, Lepori, F, Lepskaya, E, Lottig, N, Luger, M, Maberly, S, Macintyre, S, Mcbride, C, Mcintyre, P, Melles, S, Modenutti, B, Muller-Navarra, D, Pacholski, L, Paterson, A, Pierson, D, Pislegina, H, Plisnier, P, Richardson, D, Rimmer, A, Rogora, M, Rogozin, D, Rusak, J, Rusanovskaya, O, Sadro, S, Salmaso, N, Saros, J, Sarvala, J, Saulnier-Talbot, E, Schindler, D, Shimaraeva, S, Silow, E, Sitoki, L, Sommaruga, R, Straile, D, Strock, K, Swain, H, Tallant, J, Thiery, W, Timofeyev, M, Tolomeev, A, Tominaga, K, Vanni, M, Verburg, P, Vinebrooke, R, Wanzenbock, J, Weathers, K, Weyhenmeyer, G, Zadereev, E, Zhukova, T, and Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
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0106 biological sciences ,Data Descriptor ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,lämpötilajakautuma ,Limnology ,Magnitude (mathematics) ,Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser ,Atmospheric sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources ,happikato ,Subarctic climate ,ekologia ,Computer Science Applications ,kesä ,Freshwater ecology ,BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA ,veden lämpeneminen ,lämpötila ,lämpeneminen ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Information Systems ,Statistics and Probability ,Science ,veden lämpötila ,Climate change ,Library and Information Sciences ,järvet ,Ecology and Environment ,Education ,limnologia ,ecological data ,ddc:570 ,Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA ,pystysuora sekoittuminen ,otantamenetelmät ,14. Life underwater ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,15. Life on land ,Term (time) ,Data set ,13. Climate action ,Environmental science ,subarktinen vyöhyke ,Water quality ,lämpötilan pystyjakauma ,Surface water - Abstract
Climate change and other anthropogenic stressors have led to long-term changes in the thermal structure, including surface temperatures, deepwater temperatures, and vertical thermal gradients, in many lakes around the world. Though many studies highlight warming of surface water temperatures in lakes worldwide, less is known about long-term trends in full vertical thermal structure and deepwater temperatures, which have been changing less consistently in both direction and magnitude. Here, we present a globally-expansive data set of summertime in-situ vertical temperature profiles from 153 lakes, with one time series beginning as early as 1894. We also compiled lake geographic, morphometric, and water quality variables that can influence vertical thermal structure through a variety of potential mechanisms in these lakes. These long-term time series of vertical temperature profiles and corresponding lake characteristics serve as valuable data to help understand changes and drivers of lake thermal structure in a time of rapid global and ecological change., Measurement(s) temperature of water • temperature profile Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) lake location • temporal interval Sample Characteristic - Environment lake • reservoir Sample Characteristic - Location global Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14619009
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29. Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes
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Donald C. Pierson, Chris G. McBride, Benjamin M. Kraemer, Steven Sadro, Michela Rogora, Julita Dunalska, Laura Diemer, Kathleen C. Weathers, Jean-Philippe Jenny, Wim Thiery, Andrew M. Paterson, Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra, Martin Schmid, Gretchen J. A. Hansen, Émilie Saulnier-Talbot, Rebecca L. North, Rachel M. Pilla, Joshua L. Mincer, Lauri Arvola, Ruben Sommaruga, John R. Jones, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer, Kevin C. Rose, Josef Hejzlar, Barbara Leoni, Jonathan T. Stetler, James A. Rusak, O. Erina, Lesley B. Knoll, Lorraine L. Janus, Curtis L. DeGasperi, Craig E. Williamson, Sudeep Chandra, Peter R. Leavitt, Eleanor B. Mackay, Piet Verburg, K. David Hambright, Kiyoko Yokota, Stephen F. Jane, Giovanna Flaim, Hans-Peter Grossart, Catherine L. Hein, R. Iestyn Woolway, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Jane, S, Hansen, G, Kraemer, B, Leavitt, P, Mincer, J, North, R, Pilla, R, Stetler, J, Williamson, C, Woolway, R, Arvola, L, Chandra, S, Degasperi, C, Diemer, L, Dunalska, J, Erina, O, Flaim, G, Grossart, H, Hambright, K, Hein, C, Hejzlar, J, Janus, L, Jenny, J, Jones, J, Knoll, L, Leoni, B, Mackay, E, Matsuzaki, S, Mcbride, C, Muller-Navarra, D, Paterson, A, Pierson, D, Rogora, M, Rusak, J, Sadro, S, Saulnier-Talbot, E, Schmid, M, Sommaruga, R, Thiery, W, Verburg, P, Weathers, K, Weyhenmeyer, G, Yokota, K, Rose, K, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques (CARRTEL), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), and National Science Foundation (NSF)11373271702991163870417542651761805US Fulbright Student grantGerman Research Foundation (DFG)AD 91/22-1Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Canada Research ChairsProvince of SaskatchewanQueen's University BelfastMissouri Department of Natural ResourcesMissouri Agricultural Experiment StationNational Science Foundation (NSF)17542761950170Miami University Eminent Scholar FundEuropean Commission791812University of NevadaUC DavisUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynRussian Science Foundation (RSF)19-77-30004Oklahoma Department of Wildlife ConservationOklahoma Water Resources BoardUnited States Department of DefenseCity of TulsaERDF/ESF project Biomanipulation as a tool for improving water quality of dam reservoirsCZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_025/0007417FA-UNIMIBUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)International Commission for the Protection of Italian-Swiss Waters (CIPAIS)LTSER platform Tyrolean Alps (LTER-Austria)Belgian Federal Science Policy OfficeCD/AR/02AClark Foundation
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Time Factors ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Time Factor ,Oceans and Seas ,Limnology ,Climate Change ,Oceans and Sea ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Lake ,Nutrient ,Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA ,Phytoplankton ,Animals ,14. Life underwater ,Ecosystem ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Animal ,Aquatic ecosystem ,Lake ecosystem ,Temperature ,Hypoxia (environmental) ,15. Life on land ,6. Clean water ,Oxygen ,Lakes ,Solubility ,13. Climate action ,Environmental chemistry ,Environmental science ,BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Hypolimnion ,Surface water - Abstract
The concentration of dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems helps to regulate biodiversity1,2, nutrient biogeochemistry3, greenhouse gas emissions4, and the quality of drinking water5. The long-term declines in dissolved oxygen concentrations in coastal and ocean waters have been linked to climate warming and human activity6,7, but little is known about the changes in dissolved oxygen concentrations in lakes. Although the solubility of dissolved oxygen decreases with increasing water temperatures, long-term lake trajectories are difficult to predict. Oxygen losses in warming lakes may be amplified by enhanced decomposition and stronger thermal stratification8,9 or oxygen may increase as a result of enhanced primary production10. Here we analyse a combined total of 45,148 dissolved oxygen and temperature profiles and calculate trends for 393 temperate lakes that span 1941 to 2017. We find that a decline in dissolved oxygen is widespread in surface and deep-water habitats. The decline in surface waters is primarily associated with reduced solubility under warmer water temperatures, although dissolved oxygen in surface waters increased in a subset of highly productive warming lakes, probably owing to increasing production of phytoplankton. By contrast, the decline in deep waters is associated with stronger thermal stratification and loss of water clarity, but not with changes in gas solubility. Our results suggest that climate change and declining water clarity have altered the physical and chemical environment of lakes. Declines in dissolved oxygen in freshwater are 2.75 to 9.3 times greater than observed in the world’s oceans6,7 and could threaten essential lake ecosystem services2,3,5,11., The concentration of dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems helps to regulate biodiversity, nutrient biogeochemistry, greenhouse gas emissions, and the quality of drinking water. The long-term declines in dissolved oxygen concentrations in coastal and ocean waters have been linked to climate warming and human activity, but little is known about the changes in dissolved oxygen concentrations in lakes. Although the solubility of dissolved oxygen decreases with increasing water temperatures, long-term lake trajectories are difficult to predict. Oxygen losses in warming lakes may be amplified by enhanced decomposition and stronger thermal stratification8,9 or oxygen may increase as a result of enhanced primary production10. Here we analyse a combined total of 45,148 dissolved oxygen and temperature profiles and calculate trends for 393 temperate lakes that span 1941 to 2017. We find that a decline in dissolved oxygen is widespread in surface and deep-water habitats. The decline in surface waters is primarily associated with reduced solubility under warmer water temperatures, although dissolved oxygen in surface waters increased in a subset of highly productive warming lakes, probably owing to increasing production of phytoplankton. By contrast, the decline in deep waters is associated with stronger thermal stratification and loss of water clarity, but not with changes in gas solubility. Our results suggest that climate change and declining water clarity have altered the physical and chemical environment of lakes. Declines in dissolved oxygen in freshwater are 2.75 to 9.3 times greater than observed in the world’s oceans and could threaten essential lake ecosystem services.
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- 2021
30. Ecosystem services of lakes
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Schallenberg, Marc, de Winton, Mary D., Verburg, P., Kelly, David J., Hamill, Keith D., and Hamilton, David P.
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