<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);" class=""><br class=""></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Environmental Research Letters </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #161616" class="">Published 2 December 2014</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002/pdf" class="">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002/pdf" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002/pdf" class="">10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002/pdf</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Maximum warming occurs about one decade after a carbon dioxide emission</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Katharine L Ricke and Ken Caldeira</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">50,622</b> <b class="">Total downloads</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002/pdf" class="">10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002/pdf</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 54, 198); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff11" class="">It is known that carbon dioxide emissions cause the Earth to warm, but no previous study has focused on examining how long it takes to reach maximum warming following a particular CO2 emission.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Using conjoined results of carbon-cycle and physical-climate model intercomparison projects (Taylor <i class="">et al</i> 2012, Joos <i class="">et al</i> 2013), </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff11" class="">we find the <b class="">median time</b> between an emission and maximum warming is 10.1 years, with a 90% probability range of 6.6–30.7 years. </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We evaluate uncertainties in timing and amount of warming, partitioning them into three contributing factors: carbon cycle, climate sensitivity and ocean thermal inertia. If uncertainty in any one factor is reduced to zero without reducing uncertainty in the other factors, the majority of overall uncertainty remains. Thus, narrowing uncertainty in century-scale warming depends on narrowing uncertainty in all contributing factors. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Our results indicate that benefit from avoided climate damage from avoided CO2 emissions will be manifested within the lifetimes of people who acted to avoid that emission. While such avoidance could be expected to benefit future generations, there is potential for emissions avoidance to provide substantial benefit to current generations.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(22, 22, 22); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">=========================================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Forest fires of the western United States have advanced upslope over the past few decades, scorching territories previously too wet to burn. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">We document an upslope advancement of high- elevation fires of 7.6 m/y, a rate comparable to the elevational velocity of vapor pressure deficit of 8.9 m/y. Strong interannual links between aridity and high-elevation forest fires and reduced influence of fire exclusion policies in montane mesic forests im- ply such changes are a byproduct of climate warming. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">We esti- mate that increased aridity between 1984 and 2017 exposed an additional 81,500 km</span><span style="vertical-align: 5.0px; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">2 </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">of western US montane forests to fires. These changes have significant implications for terrestrial carbon storage, snowpack, and water quantity and quality. </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">PNAS 2021 Vol. 118 No. 22 e2009717118</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Warming enabled upslope advance in western US forest fires</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009717118" class="">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009717118</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">========================================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(139, 139, 139);" class=""><span style="color: #005274" class=""><a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2576604x%22%20%5Co%20%22AGU%20Advances%20homepage%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class=""><b class="">AGU Advances </b></a></span>First published: <span style="color: #1c1d1e" class="">06 July 2022</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(28, 29, 30);" class="">Research Article</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(109, 32, 119);" class=""><b class="">Open Access</b></div><p style="margin: 5px 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(28, 29, 30);" class=""><b class="">Losses of Tree Cover in California Driven by Increasing Fire Disturbance and Climate Stress</b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Wang,+Jonathan+A%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class="">Jonathan A. Wang</a></span><span style="color: #8b8b8b" class="">,<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Randerson,+James+T%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class="">James T. Randerson</span></a>,<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Goulden,+Michael+L%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class="">Michael L. Goulden</span></a>,<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Knight,+Clarke+A%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class="">Clarke A. Knight</span></a>,<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Battles,+John+J%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class="">John J. Battles</span></a></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(118, 118, 118);" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000654%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank" class=""><b class="">https://doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000654</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(118, 118, 118); min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(65, 66, 70);" class="">Abstract</div><p style="margin: 5px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(28, 29, 30);" class="">Forests provide natural climate solutions for sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change, yet are increasingly threatened by increasing temperature and disturbance. Understanding these threats requires accurate information on vegetation dynamics and their drivers, which is currently lacking in many regions experiencing rapid climate change such as California. To address this, we combined remote sensing observations with geospatial databases to develop annual maps of vegetation cover (tree, shrub, and herbaceous) and disturbance type (fire, harvest, and forest die-off) in California at 30 m resolution from 1985 to 2021. Considering both changes in cover fraction and areal extent, California lost 4,566 km2 of its tree cover area (6.7% relative to initial cover) since 1985. Substantial gains in tree cover area during the 1990s were more than offset by fire-driven declines since 2000, resulting in greater shrub and herbaceous cover area. Tree cover loss occurred in all ecoregions but was most severe in the southern mountains, where losses from wildfire were not compensated by regrowth in undisturbed areas. <span style="background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Fires and tree cover area loss generally occurred where summer temperatures were greater than 17.5°C, whereas net tree cover gain often occurred in cooler areas, suggesting that ongoing climate warming is threatening forests in many areas. California's vegetation is undergoing rapid transformation, with disturbance rates and climate change posing substantial potential risks to the integrity of California's terrestrial carbon sink.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">====================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and anthropogenic perturbations (that is, their resilience)</span><span style="vertical-align: 5.0px; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">1</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">. </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Experimental evidence of sudden increases in tree mortality is raising concerns about variation in forest resilience</span><span style="vertical-align: 5.0px; font-kerning: none" class="">2</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, yet little is known about how it is evolving in response to climate change. Here we integrate satellite-based vegetation indices with machine learning to show how forest resilience, quantified in terms of critical slowing down indicators</span><span style="vertical-align: 5.0px; font-kerning: none" class="">3–5</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, has changed during the period 2000–2020. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">We show that tropical, arid and temperate forests are experiencing a significant decline in resilience, probably related to increased water limitations and climate variability. </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">By contrast, boreal forests show divergent local patterns with an average increasing trend in resilience, probably benefiting from warming and CO</span><span style="vertical-align: -3.0px; font-kerning: none" class="">2 </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">fertilization, which may outweigh the adverse effects of climate change. These patterns emerge consistently in both managed and intact forests, corroborating the existence of common large-scale climate drivers. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Reductions in resilience are statistically linked to abrupt declines in forest primary productivity, occurring in response to slow drifting towards a critical resilience threshold. Approximately 23% of intact undisturbed forests, corresponding to 3.32 Pg C of gross primary productivity, have already reached a critical threshold and are experiencing a further degradation in resilience. Together, these signals reveal a widespread decline in the capacity of forests to withstand perturbation that should be accounted for in the design of land-based mitigation and adaptation plans. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> </b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change </b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Giovanni Forzieri</b></span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1,5</b> </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; vertical-align: 4px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">✉</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">, Vasilis Dakos</b></span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">, Nate G. McDowell</b></span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">3,4</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">, Alkama Ramdane</b></span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1 </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">& Alessandro Cescatti</b></span><span style="vertical-align: 4.0px; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">1</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Nature </b>Published online July 13, 2022 </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><img alt="page1image66696704.png" apple-inline="yes" id="DAEDAD16-A9B9-4D0A-981E-A3B40CA5F88D" src="cid:F2390AC1-D891-4EAD-95E2-E0E5F43AFB58" class=""><img alt="page1image66696896.png" apple-inline="yes" id="B21458BF-F183-4EB8-B165-A53C779041D0" src="cid:42416D0F-276C-44E1-AD99-DD334B1C5AE5" class=""></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04959-9" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04959-9</a> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">====================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“By the end of the 21st century, forest ecosystems in the United States will differ from those of today as a result of changing climate.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Effects of climatic variability and change on forest ecosystems: </span>a comprehensive science synthesis for the U.S. </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">General Technical </span>Report PNW-GTR-870. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 265 p. Vose, James M.; Peterson, David L.; Patel-Weynand, Toral. 2012. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/42610" class="">http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/42610</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">====================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/07/alaska-fires-epic-season-2022-lightning-drought/" class=""><b class="">Alaska Is Headed for an Epic Fire Season - Mother Jones</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/07/alaska-fires-epic-season-2022-lightning-drought/" class="">https://www.motherjones.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › environment › 2022/07</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267" class="">Jul 9, 2022 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Faced with the challenge of adapting to a future of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""><b class="">fire</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> in the </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""><b class="">Arctic</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, ...</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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