Regime Shifts in Social-Ecological Systems
What are regime shifts?
Ecosystems consist of components that interact and self-organize through internal feedback mechanisms that maintain the system’s structure and function. Regime shifts occur when systems experience changes in their internal dynamics that push the system into a new state. 1,2
For instance, natural periodic fires help to keep grasslands structure; if fire is suppressed grasslands may shift to encroached shrubland. 3 In humid forests tree evapotranspiration is an important source of humidity for forest persistence. The loss of large tracts of forest may lead to declines in evapotranspiration, wh...
Source: ActionBioscience - June 30, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Fact Sheet on NSF's Investments in Biological Research
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Source: ActionBioscience - May 19, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Fact Sheet on NSF's Investments in Biological Research
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Source: ActionBioscience - May 19, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Fact Sheet on NSF's Investments in Biological Research
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Source: ActionBioscience - May 19, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Large Wildfires in Forests: What Can be Done?
Introduction
Forest fires have received increased attention from the media, politicians, and the public in the last 20 years. Visceral pictures of towering flames on the nightly news and Internet routinely depict fire as a disaster that humans are called upon to fight by all means necessary, similar to warfare. This view of fire began in the US in the early 1900’s.1 The Great Idaho Fires of 1910 cemented this view when they burned about 3 million acres (1.2 million ha) and killed 87 people. Early fire exclusion policies were primarily designed to increase wood production from US forests since they were thought to be...
Source: ActionBioscience - April 29, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Large Wildfires in Forests: What Can be Done?
Introduction
Forest fires have received increased attention from the media, politicians, and the public in the last 20 years. Visceral pictures of towering flames on the nightly news and Internet routinely depict fire as a disaster that humans are called upon to fight by all means necessary, similar to warfare. This view of fire began in the US in the early 1900’s.1 The Great Idaho Fires of 1910 cemented this view when they burned about 3 million acres (1.2 million ha) and killed 87 people. Early fire exclusion policies were primarily designed to increase wood production from US forests since they were thought to be...
Source: ActionBioscience - April 29, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Large Wildfires in Forests: What Can be Done?
Introduction
Forest fires have received increased attention from the media, politicians, and the public in the last 20 years. Visceral pictures of towering flames on the nightly news and Internet routinely depict fire as a disaster that humans are called upon to fight by all means necessary, similar to warfare. This view of fire began in the US in the early 1900’s.1 The Great Idaho Fires of 1910 cemented this view when they burned about 3 million acres (1.2 million ha) and killed 87 people. Early fire exclusion policies were primarily designed to increase wood production from US forests since they were thought to be...
Source: ActionBioscience - April 28, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
AIBS Expresses Concerns about COMPETES Reauthorization
The Honorable Lamar Smith, Chairman
House Science, Space and Technology Committee
2321 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Member
House Science, Space and Technology Committee
394 Ford House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Subject: HR 1806, The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
Dear Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee:
On behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, I would like to thank you for your continued efforts to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. T...
Source: ActionBioscience - April 21, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
AIBS Expresses Concerns about COMPETES Reauthorization
The Honorable Lamar Smith, Chairman
House Science, Space and Technology Committee
2321 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Member
House Science, Space and Technology Committee
394 Ford House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Subject: HR 1806, The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
Dear Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee:
On behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, I would like to thank you for your continued efforts to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. Thank you, too, for...
Source: ActionBioscience - April 21, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
AIBS Expresses Concerns about COMPETES Reauthorization
The Honorable Lamar Smith, Chairman
House Science, Space and Technology Committee
2321 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Member
House Science, Space and Technology Committee
394 Ford House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Subject: HR 1806, The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
Dear Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee:
On behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, I would like to thank you for your continued efforts to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. T...
Source: ActionBioscience - April 20, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
2,100 Organizations Call for End to Sequestration
Dear Representative/Senator:
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 negotiated by Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray provided partial, temporary relief from sequestration. With the expiration of this relief in fiscal year (FY) 2016, lawmakers should act quickly to stop sequestration from taking effect in the upcoming fiscal year. The undersigned 2,100 national, state, and local organizations--representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who support and benefit from nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs--strongly urge lawmakers to replace sequestration with a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In so ...
Source: ActionBioscience - February 18, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
AIBS Report on the President's 2016 Budget Request
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Source: ActionBioscience - February 18, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
2,100 Organizations Call for End to Sequestration
Dear Representative/Senator:
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 negotiated by Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray provided partial, temporary relief from sequestration. With the expiration of this relief in fiscal year (FY) 2016, lawmakers should act quickly to stop sequestration from taking effect in the upcoming fiscal year. The undersigned 2,100 national, state, and local organizations--representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who support and benefit from nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs--strongly urge lawmakers to replace sequestration with a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In so ...
Source: ActionBioscience - February 18, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
AIBS Report on the President's 2016 Budget Request
Click here to read the PDF. (Source: ActionBioscience)
Source: ActionBioscience - February 18, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
2,100 Organizations Call for End to Sequestration
Dear Representative/Senator:
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 negotiated by Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray provided partial, temporary relief from sequestration. With the expiration of this relief in fiscal year (FY) 2016, lawmakers should act quickly to stop sequestration from taking effect in the upcoming fiscal year. The undersigned 2,100 national, state, and local organizations--representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who support and benefit from nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs--strongly urge lawmakers to replace sequestration with a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In so ...
Source: ActionBioscience - February 17, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
