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Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption by Machovina, Brian, Feeley, Kenneth J., Ripple, William J.

“…The consumption of animal-sourced food products by humans is one of the most powerful negative forces affecting the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems and…”
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Global climate change increases risk of crop yield losses and food insecurity in the tropical Andes by Tito, Richard, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…One of the greatest current challenges to human society is ensuring adequate food production and security for a rapidly growing population under changing…”
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Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes by Duque, Alvaro, Stevenson, Pablo R., Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…Climate change is expected to cause shifts in the composition of tropical montane forests towards increased relative abundances of species whose ranges were…”
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inability of tropical cloud forest species to invade grasslands above treeline during climate change: potential explanations and consequences by Rehm, Evan M, Feeley, Kenneth J

“…The upper elevational range edges of most tropical cloud forest tree species and hence the ‘treeline’ are thought to be determined primarily by temperatures…”
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Losing your edge: climate change and the conservation value of range‐edge populations by Rehm, Evan M., Olivas, Paulo, Stroud, James, Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…Populations occurring at species' range edges can be locally adapted to unique environmental conditions. From a species' perspective, range‐edge environments…”
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Freezing temperatures as a limit to forest recruitment above tropical Andean treelines by Rehm, Evan M, Feeley, Kenneth J

“…The elevation of altitudinal treelines is generally believed to occur where low mean temperatures during the growing season limit growth and prevent trees from…”
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The capacity to emit isoprene differentiates the photosynthetic temperature responses of tropical plant species by Taylor, Tyeen C., Smith, Marielle N., Slot, Martijn, Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…Experimental research shows that isoprene emission by plants can improve photosynthetic performance at high temperatures. But whether species that emit…”
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Repeated Tree Inventories of Pine Forests in South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve by Feeley, Kenneth J., Belles, Holly A., Snyder, James R.

“…ABSTRACT The natural forest ecosystems of South Florida, USA, support a high biodiversity of plant and animal species and provide valuable ecosystem services…”
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Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest by Feeley, Kenneth J, Davies, Stuart J, Perez, Rolando, Hubbell, Stephen P, Foster, Robin B

“…Long-term studies have revealed that the structure and dynamics of many tropical forests are changing, but the causes and consequences of these changes remain…”
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Observing character displacement from process to pattern in a novel vertebrate community by Stroud, James T., Giery, Sean T., Heathcote, Robert J. P., Tiatragul, Sarin, Yuan, Michael L., Feeley, Kenneth J., Losos, Jonathan B.

“…Ecological character displacement, whereby shifts in resource use in the presence of competing species leads to adaptive evolutionary divergence, is widely…”
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Habitat Fragmentation Drives Plant Community Assembly Processes across Life Stages by Hu, Guang, Feeley, Kenneth J, Yu, Mingjian

“…Habitat fragmentation is one of the principal causes of biodiversity loss and hence understanding its impacts on community assembly and disassembly is an…”
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Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges by Duque, Alvaro, Peña, Miguel A., Cuesta, Francisco, González-Caro, Sebastián, Kennedy, Peter, Phillips, Oliver L., Calderón-Loor, Marco, Blundo, Cecilia, Carilla, Julieta, Cayola, Leslie, Farfán-Ríos, William, Fuentes, Alfredo, Grau, Ricardo, Homeier, Jürgen, Loza-Rivera, María I., Malhi, Yadvinder, Malizia, Agustina, Malizia, Lucio, Martínez-Villa, Johanna A., Myers, Jonathan A., Osinaga-Acosta, Oriana, Peralvo, Manuel, Pinto, Esteban, Saatchi, Sassan, Silman, Miles, Tello, J. Sebastián, Terán-Valdez, Andrea, Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…It is largely unknown how South America’s Andean forests affect the global carbon cycle, and thus regulate climate change. Here, we measure aboveground carbon…”
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Establishing the Position and Drivers of the Eastern Andean Treeline with Automated Transect Sampling by Zelazowski, Przemyslaw, Jozefowicz, Stefan, Feeley, Kenneth J., Malhi, Yadvinder

“…The eastern Andean treeline (EATL) is the world’s longest altitudinal ecotone and plays an important role in biodiversity conservation in the context of land…”
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Responsible academia: optimizing conference locations to minimize greenhouse gas emissions by Stroud, James T., Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to many scientists, including ecologists and conservation biologists, are often much greater than those…”
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Evidence of thermophilization in Afromontane forests by Cuni-Sanchez, Aida, Martin, Emanuel H., Uzabaho, Eustrate, Ngute, Alain S. K., Bitariho, Robert, Kayijamahe, Charles, Marshall, Andrew R., Mohamed, Nassoro A., Mseja, Gideon A., Nkwasibwe, Aventino, Rovero, Francesco, Sheil, Douglas, Tinkasimire, Rogers, Tumugabirwe, Lawrence, Feeley, Kenneth J., Sullivan, Martin J. P.

“…Thermophilization is the directional change in species community composition towards greater relative abundances of species associated with warmer…”
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Ecological contingency in species shifts: downslope shifts of woody species under warming climate and land-use change by Zhang, Xianwu, Zhang, Bo, Feeley, Kenneth J, Wang, G Geoff, Zhang, Jinchi, Zhai, Lu

“…A predicted impact of a warming climate is an upslope shift of montane plant species. These upslope shifts may be amplified by land-use changes or attenuated…”
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Downward shift of montane grasslands exemplifies the dual threat of human disturbances to cloud forest biodiversity by Feeley, Kenneth J., Rehm, Evan M.

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Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees by Feeley, Kenneth J, Joseph Wright, S, Nur Supardi, M.N, Kassim, Abd Rahman, Davies, Stuart J

“…The impacts of global change on tropical forests remain poorly understood. We examined changes in tree growth rates over the past two decades for all species…”
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Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes by Peres, Carlos A., Gardner, Toby A., Barlow, Jos, Zuanon, Jansen, Michalski, Fernanda, Lees, Alexander C., Vieira, Ima C.G., Moreira, Fatima M.S., Feeley, Kenneth J.

“…Amazonia ( sensu lato) is by far the largest tropical forest region, but has succumbed to the highest absolute rates of tropical deforestation and forest…”
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Variation in the Drought Tolerance of Tropical Understory Plant Communities across an Extreme Elevation and Precipitation Gradient by Bravo-Avila, Catherine H, Feeley, Kenneth J

“…Little is known about how differences in water availability within the “super humid” tropics can influence the physiology of understory plant species and the…”
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