Kemp et al. (1) presented a new salt-marsh proxy record of relative sea level (RSL) from North Carolina (NCRSL). The salt marsh is slowly subsiding as a result of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), and the NCRSL record needs to be adjusted to remove [...]
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Success of the emerging Low Emissions Development paradigm in Southeast Asia depends on mitigating impacts of oil palm (OP) expansion on carbon-dense ecosystems, especially tropical peatlands. To this end, Koh et al. (1) mapped OP planted before 2002 [...] Paoli et al. (1) raise some interesting criticisms of our article (2), but we think that they misinterpret important elements of our study, ignore our consideration of model uncertainties, and fail to recognize the wider significance of our work.We [...] Essl et al. (1) tested whether historical socioeconomic conditions have created an invasion debt in Europe (i.e., a suite of nonnative species that have not yet been discovered but whose establishment has been determined by previous socioeconomic [...] We recently showed (1) that, for a wide range of taxa, the current numbers of established alien species in 28 European countries were generally more closely related to socioeconomic indicators from the year 1900 than 2000. Thus, the establishment of [...] Díaz et al. (1) proposed an “interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of relationships between functional diversity, ecosystem services, and human actions.” Their framework addresses the linkages between land uses and ecosystem service (ES) [...] Romero and Agrawal (1) question the usefulness of our framework to link functional diversity with social actor strategies (2), arguing that it oversimplifies the complexity of the social dimensions of socioecological systems. We agree on the crucial [...] Schuiling et al. (1) question our conclusion (2) that the annual dissolution rate of olivine is limited by the saturation of waters with silicic acid (H4SiO4), which is one product of the dissolution reaction of olivine. In support of this point they [...] Enhanced weathering of olivine as a means of sequestering carbon is investigated by Köhler et al. (1). Specifically, the study discusses the potential distribution of fine olivine powder, obtained from dunite mines, in the humid tropic regions of the [...] West et al.’s recent paper (1) compared tradeoffs of carbon and crop production in temperate and tropical zones. We welcome the empirical evidence in support of agricultural intensification rather than extensification. We strongly caution against [...] |
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