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The energy–water limitation threshold explains divergent drought responses in tree growth, needle length, and stable isotope ratios

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Examining the mechanisms of species responses to climate change: Are there biological thresholds?

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Threshold responses of songbirds to forest loss and fragmentation across the Marcellus-Utica shale gas region

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Temporal changes in rainfall intensity-duration thresholds for debris flows in a recovering burned area

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Threshold responses of songbirds to long-term timber management on an active industrial forest

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Identifying the Environmental Limits of Aquatic Species in Prairie Streams to Build Climate Resilience

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A critique of the use of indicator-species scores for identifying thresholds in species responses

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Response to King and Baker: Limitations on threshold detection and characterization of community thresholds

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Mercury demethylation in waterbird livers: Dose-response thresholds and differences among species

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Rethinking avian response to Tamarix on the lower Colorado River: A threshold hypothesis

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Rainfall intensity-duration thresholds for postfire debris-flow emergency-response planning

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Auditory brainstem responses in the Eastern Screech Owl: An estimate of auditory thresholds

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Stronger peak ground motion, beyond the threshold to initiate a response, does not lead to larger stream discharge responses to earthquakes

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Identification of linear and threshold responses in streams along a gradient of urbanization in Anchorage, Alaska

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Examining the Responses of Species to Climate Change: Will Wildlife Face Biological Thresholds?

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In-air hearing of a diving duck: A comparison of psychoacoustic and auditory brainstem response thresholds

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Response of algal metrics to nutrients and physical factors and identification of nutrient thresholds in agricultural streams

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Slight Climate Changes May Trigger Abrupt Ecosystem Responses

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Response to Gard et al.'s (2021) Comments on the Critical Review “Polychlorinated Biphenyl Tissue-Concentration Thresholds for Survival, Growth, and Reproduction in Fish”

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Growth strategies and threshold responses to water deficit modulate effects of warming on tree seedlings from forest to alpine

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Threshold responses of Blackside Dace (Chrosomus cumberlandensis) and Kentucky Arrow Darter (Etheostoma spilotum) to stream conductivity

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Thresholds in the response of free-floating plant abundance to variation in hydraulic connectivity, nutrients, and macrophyte abundance in a large floodplain river

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Response of Big Sagebrush Plant Communities

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Experimental and environmental factors affect spurious detection of ecological thresholds

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Role of Infrasound in the USGS Eruption Response

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Ecological thresholds: The key to successful enviromental management or an important concept with no practical application?

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A synthesis of thresholds for focal species along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: A review of research and applications

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Prediction of spatially explicit rainfall intensity–duration thresholds for post-fire debris-flow generation in the western United States

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Identification of management thresholds of urban development in support of aquatic biodiversity conservation

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Performance-based earthquake early warning for tall buildings

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