[MCN] D. Perrone and S. Jasechko. Dry groundwater wells in the western United States.

[Lance Olsen]

“Ongoing reductions to groundwater storage are drying groundwater wells in the western US, and this manifestation of water scarcity warrants innovative groundwater management transcending status quos."
 
D. Perrone and S. Jasechko. 
Dry groundwater wells in the western United States.
 
Environmental Research Letters  12 (2017) 104002
OPEN ACCESS
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8ac0







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If there’s one thing Ebi wants to avoid, it’s thinking of this catastrophic heat wave as the “new normal,” which she calls “really misleading” as it actually underestimates the gravity of the situation. 

“It implies we’re going from one state to another state. We’re in a period when there’s going to be ongoing change for decades.”

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/western-canada-burns-and-deaths-mount-after-worlds-most-extreme-heat-wave-in-modern-history/ <https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/western-canada-burns-and-deaths-mount-after-worlds-most-extreme-heat-wave-in-modern-history/>


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“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation.”

Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. 
Science 31 August 2018 

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“We contend that traditional approaches to forest conservation and management will be inadequate ... in the 21st century. New approaches ... acknowledge that change is inevitable and sometimes irreversible, and that maintenance of ecosystem services depends in part on novel ecosystems, i.e., species combinations with no analog in the past.”

Forest Ecology and Management 360 (2016) 80–96 

Review and synthesis 

Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management 

S.W. Golladay,, K.L. Martin, J.M. Vose , D.N. Wear, A.P. Covich, R.J. Hobbs , K.D. Klepzig , G.E. Likens , R.J. Naiman  A.W. Shearer 

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“Here we discuss the capacity of conservation organizations to adapt to changing environmental conditions, focusing primarily on public agencies and nonprofits active in land protection and management in the US. After first reviewing how these organizations anticipate and detect impacts affecting target species and ecosystems, we then discuss whether they are sufficiently flexible to prepare and respond by reallocating funding, staff, or other resources. We raise new hypotheses about how the configuration of different organizations enables them to protect particular conservation targets and manage for particular biophysical changes that require coordinated management actions over different spatial and temporal scales. Finally, we provide a discussion resource to help conservation organizations assess their capacity to adapt.”

Paul R Armsworth et al. Are conservation organizations configured for effective adaptation to global change? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2015; doi:10.1890/130352

<<https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/99fb/7332339eba74185274972c8b31eb21ea116f.pdf <https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/99fb/7332339eba74185274972c8b31eb21ea116f.pdf>>>


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