Browsing by Subject "climate change"
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17,000 Years of Climate Change: The Phytolith Record from Hall's Cave, Texas
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)We used modern analog technique to develop phytolith-based transfer functions. We applied these transfer functions to phytolith assemblages in sediments from Hall's Cave, Texas to reconstruct mean annual precipitation and ... -
A 20-Year Survey of Short-Duration Extreme Rainfall Events from Summertime Convection Over the Central and Eastern United States: Climatology, Trends, and Meteorological Patterns
(2023-12-15)Short-duration extreme rainfall events (EREs) caused by convection are often associated with flash flooding, which can have devastating impacts on society. An increase in the frequency and intensity of EREs has been ... -
Abiotic and biotic drivers of grassland structure: from individual to community responses
(2021-11-02)Climate has long been recognized as an important factor in determining the spatial-temporal distribution and abundance of species, consequently influencing global biological diversity. Model projections point to changes ... -
Analyzing the relationship between urbanization, food supply and demand, and irrigation requirements in Jordan
(2018)The landscape surrounding urban areas is often used as farmland. With the observed expansion of urban areas over the last decades and a projected continuation of this trend, our objective was to analyze how urbanization ... -
Bayesian versus politically motivated reasoning in human perception of climate anomalies
(IOP Publishing, 2017-10-30)In complex systems where humans and nature interact to produce joint outcomes, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience require that humans perceive feedback-signals of health and distress-from natural systems. In many ... -
Biotic and abiotic drivers of avian community dynamics
(2022-05)Birds are an imperiled taxon in North America and have experienced rapid and widespread decline in the most recent century. Here, we use both basic and applied approaches to better understand how bird communities function ... -
Electrosensory and Metabolic Responses of Weakly Electric Fish to Changing Water Conductivity
(2022-12-16)South American weakly electric fishes (Gymnotiformes) use self-generated electric fields, known as electric organ discharges (EODs), for sensory processes such as navigation and communication. EOD production incurs significant ... -
Environmental drivers of prairie arthropod community structure
(2020)Global climate change—including increased temperature, altered precipitation patterns, and nutrient deposition—may reshape plant–arthropod relationships. Arthropods comprise the majority of animal biodiversity on Earth and ... -
Historical geography III: Climate matters
(Progress in Human Geography, 2014-06-01)My third report covering recent research in historical geography focuses on climate, and particularly scholarship that explores how the meaning of climate and climate change varies in distinct cultural and temporal contexts. ... -
Investigation of Changing Wind Energy on the Evolution of Copanobay, Texas
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-05-01)Over 123 km of high-resolution 2-D seismic lines and 6 sediment cores up to 16 m in length were collected from Copano Bay along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico in order to investigate the role wind energy had on the evolution ... -
It's a dry heat: Quantifying effects of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on native Oklahoma trees
(Oklahoma State University, 2019-04-26)Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to alter precipitation frequency and intensity across Oklahoma in the coming decades, leading to an increase in the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme events such as ... -
Measuring Changes in Phenology of Oklahoma Asteraceae Using Herbarium Specimens
(2021)Analyzing shifts in plant flowering times (flowering phenology) in response to changing climate is crucial to understanding the impacts of climate change on plants. Herbaria contain the physical record of reproductive ... -
Measuring Changes in Phenology of Oklahoma Asteraceae Using Herbarium Specimens [Data set]
(2021-12)This is the data set for: Unterschutez, J., Moore, A., & Messick, J. (2021). Measuring changes in phenology of Oklahoma asteraceae using herbarium specimens. Oklahoma Native Plant Record, 21. https://doi.org/10.22488/oks ... -
Metabolic theory explains latitudinal variation in common carp populations and predicts responses to climate change
(Ecological Society of America, 2015-04-14)Climate change is expected to alter temperature regimes experienced by fishes, which may also alter life history traits. However, predicting population-level responses to climate change has been difficult. Metabolic theory ... -
Movement and flow-ecology relationships of Great Plains pelagophil fishes
(2020-07)Alterations to freshwater systems are a leading cause of reduction in diversity and abundance of freshwater fishes. Pelagophils have been negatively affected by anthropogenic decreases in the frequency and magnitude of ... -
Potential Climate Change Impacts on Wind Resources in Oklahoma: a Focus on Future Energy Output
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-05-01)The current study focused on the potential climate change effects on wind resources in Oklahoma. This was a quantitative study that involved Global Climate Model output, Oklahoma Mesonet data, and electric power-curve ... -
Precipitation effects on grassland plant performance are lessened by hay harvest
(2022-02)Climate and human management, such as hay harvest, shape grasslands. With both disturbances co-occurring, understanding how these ecosystems respond to these combined drivers may aid in projecting future changes in ... -
Restored Heterogeneity as a Conservation Strategy for Grassland Birds
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)Grasslands are inherently dynamic in space and time evolving with frequent disturbance from fire and herbivores. Throughout much of the world, grasslands have been converted and fragmented and many remaining grasslands ... -
Role that climate variability and landscape heterogeneity have on the movement ecology of Northern Bobwhite
(2021-12)Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life influencing survival and population connectivity. Therefore, understanding how animals move is critical to their conservation in a changing world. Animal behavior is influenced ... -
Spatial Smoothing of Corn Yield Trends and Robustness of the Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Corn Yields
(2019-07)In evaluating plans to mitigate climate change, policy makers require estimates of the cost of climate change. One potential cost of climate change is the negative effect that an increase in temperature would have on ...