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Water competition between cities and agriculture driven by climate change and urban growth by Flörke, Martina, Schneider, Christof, McDonald, Robert I.

“…Urban water demand will increase by 80% by 2050, while climate change will alter the timing and distribution of water. Here we quantify the magnitude of these…”
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Energy Sprawl Is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in United States by Trainor, Anne M, McDonald, Robert I, Fargione, Joseph

“…Energy production in the United States for domestic use and export is predicted to rise 27% by 2040. We quantify projected energy sprawl (new land required for…”
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Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability by McDonald, Robert I, Green, Pamela, Balk, Deborah, Fekete, Balazs M, Revenga, Carmen, Todd, Megan, Montgomery, Mark

“…Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new…”
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A systematic review of the human health and social well-being outcomes of green infrastructure for stormwater and flood management by Venkataramanan, Vidya, Packman, Aaron I., Peters, Daniel R., Lopez, Denise, McCuskey, David J., McDonald, Robert I., Miller, William M., Young, Sera L.

“…The increase in frequency and intensity of urban flooding is a global challenge. Flooding directly impacts residents of industrialized cities with aging…”
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Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure by McDonald, Robert I., Weber, Katherine, Padowski, Julie, Flörke, Martina, Schneider, Christof, Green, Pamela A., Gleeson, Thomas, Eckman, Stephanie, Lehner, Bernhard, Balk, Deborah, Boucher, Timothy, Grill, Günther, Montgomery, Mark

“…•We surveyed the water infrastructure of the world's large cities.•Cumulatively, cities moved 504 billion liters/day a distance of 27,000±3800km.•Previous…”
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The tree cover and temperature disparity in US urbanized areas: Quantifying the association with income across 5,723 communities by McDonald, Robert I, Biswas, Tanushree, Sachar, Cedilla, Housman, Ian, Boucher, Timothy M, Balk, Deborah, Nowak, David, Spotswood, Erica, Stanley, Charlotte K, Leyk, Stefan

“…Urban tree cover provides benefits to human health and well-being, but previous studies suggest that tree cover is often inequitably distributed. Here, we use…”
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The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation by Mcdonald, Robert I., Kareiva, Peter, Forman, Richard T.T.

“…Due to human population growth and migration, there will be nearly 2 billion new urban residents by 2030, yet the consequences of both current and future…”
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Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity by McDonald, Robert I., Mansur, Andressa V., Ascensão, Fernando, Colbert, M’lisa, Crossman, Katie, Elmqvist, Thomas, Gonzalez, Andrew, Güneralp, Burak, Haase, Dagmar, Hamann, Maike, Hillel, Oliver, Huang, Kangning, Kahnt, Belinda, Maddox, David, Pacheco, Andrea, Pereira, Henrique M., Seto, Karen C., Simkin, Rohan, Walsh, Brenna, Werner, Alexandra S., Ziter, Carly

“…By 2030, an additional 1.2 billion people are forecast in urban areas globally. We review the scientific literature ( n = 922 studies) to assess direct and…”
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Energy sprawl or energy efficiency: climate policy impacts on natural habitat for the United States of America by McDonald, Robert I, Fargione, Joseph, Kiesecker, Joe, Miller, William M, Powell, Jimmie

“…Concern over climate change has led the U.S. to consider a cap-and-trade system to regulate emissions. Here we illustrate the land-use impact to U.S. habitat…”
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Global Urbanization: Can Ecologists Identify a Sustainable Way Forward? by McDonald, Robert I.

“…The year 2007 was the first year in which more than half of humanity lived in cities. Over the next 25 years, the world will see the addition of nearly one…”
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Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature by Keeler, Bonnie L., Hamel, Perrine, McPhearson, Timon, Hamann, Maike H., Donahue, Marie L., Meza Prado, Kelly A., Arkema, Katie K., Bratman, Gregory N., Brauman, Kate A., Finlay, Jacques C., Guerry, Anne D., Hobbie, Sarah E., Johnson, Justin A., MacDonald, Graham K., McDonald, Robert I., Neverisky, Nick, Wood, Spencer A.

“…Urban nature has the potential to improve air and water quality, mitigate flooding, enhance physical and mental health, and promote social and cultural…”
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Global development and the future of the protected area strategy by McDonald, Robert I., Boucher, Timothy M.

“…Land protection has become increasingly common, and global land protection is now greater than 12%. Prediction of future protected area expansion are…”
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Global state and potential scope of investments in watershed services for large cities by Romulo, Chelsie L., Posner, Stephen, Cousins, Stella, Hoyle Fair, Jenn, Bennett, Drew E., Huber-Stearns, Heidi, Richards, Ryan C., McDonald, Robert I.

“…Investments in watershed services (IWS) programs, in which downstream water users pay upstream watershed service suppliers for actions that protect drinking…”
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Two challenges for U.S. irrigation due to climate change: increasing irrigated area in wet states and increasing irrigation rates in dry states by McDonald, Robert I, Girvetz, Evan H

“…Agricultural irrigation practices will likely be affected by climate change. In this paper, we use a statistical model relating observed water use by U.S…”
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Global protection from tropical cyclones by coastal ecosystems—past, present, and under climate change by Hülsen, Sarah, McDonald, Robert I, Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, Bresch, David N, Sharp, Richard, Worthington, Thomas, Kropf, Chahan M

“…Abstract Coastal ecosystems have the potential to contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. While previous studies have estimated…”
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Opportunities for natural infrastructure to improve urban water security in Latin America by Tellman, Beth, McDonald, Robert I, Goldstein, Joshua H, Vogl, Adrian L, Flörke, Martina, Shemie, Daniel, Dudley, Russ, Dryden, Rachel, Petry, Paulo, Karres, Nathan, Vigerstol, Kari, Lehner, Bernhard, Veiga, Fernando

“…Governments, development banks, corporations, and nonprofits are increasingly considering the potential contribution of watershed conservation activities to…”
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Putting beta-diversity on the map: broad-scale congruence and coincidence in the extremes by McKnight, Meghan W, White, Peter S, McDonald, Robert I, Lamoreux, John F, Sechrest, Wes, Ridgely, Robert S, Stuart, Simon N

“…Beta-diversity, the change in species composition between places, is a critical but poorly understood component of biological diversity. Patterns of…”
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Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature by McDonald, Robert I., Aronson, Myla F. J., Beatley, Timothy, Beller, Erin, Bazo, Micaela, Grossinger, Robin, Jessup, Kelsey, Mansur, Andressa V., Puppim de Oliveira, José Antonio, Panlasigui, Stephanie, Burg, Joe, Pevzner, Nicholas, Shanahan, Danielle, Stoneburner, Lauren, Rudd, Andrew, Spotswood, Erica

“…Green spaces in urban areas—like remnant habitat, parks, constructed wetlands, and street trees—supply multiple benefits. Many studies show green spaces in and…”
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promise and pitfalls of systematic conservation planning by McDonald, Robert I

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Open space loss and land inequality in United States' cities, 1990-2000 by McDonald, Robert I, Forman, Richard T T, Kareiva, Peter

“…Urban growth reduces open space in and around cities, impacting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Using land-cover and population data, we examined land…”
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