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Elevated temperature and nutrients lead to increased N2O emissions from salt marsh soils from cold and warm climates
Inundation tolerance, rather than drought tolerance, predicts riparian plant distributions along a local hydrologic gradient
Forest age is a primary trait filter for saproxylic beetles in the southeastern United States
Unprecedented distribution data for Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana) reveal contemporary climate associations of a Mojave Desert icon
Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity
Assessment of prerestoration water quality in the Herring River to support adaptive management at the Cape Cod National Seashore
Characterizing urban heat islands across 50 major cities in the United States
Neogene faulting, basin development, and relief generation in the southern Klamath Mountains (USA)
Development and evaluation of models for tectonic evolution in the Cascadia forearc require understanding of along-strike heterogeneity of strain distribution, uplift, and upper-plate characteristics. Here, we investigated the Neogene geologic record of the Klamath Mountains province in southernmost Cascadia and obtained apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) thermochronology of Mesozoic plutons, Neogene graben