The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century. The newest volume focuses on the impacts and risks faced by the United States in the face of global climate change across 16 national topic chapters (water, air quality, transportation, health, coastal impacts, etc.) and 10 regional chapters.
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The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptations in the United States
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Climate Change is an interdisciplinary topic; many databases Fogler subscribes to will cover the topic. Use these databases to begin your search for articles on climate change:
Climate Change Institute in UMaine Digital Commons
Read articles written by faculty members in the Climate Change Institute available through UMaine's Digital Commons.
Articles of Interest
Thornton, P. K., Ericksen, P. J., Herrero, M., & Challinor, A. J. (2014). Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: A review. Global Change Biology, 20(11), 3313-3328. doi :10.1111/gcb.12581
Coral Bleaching
Hughes, T. P., Barnes, M. L., Bellwood, D. R., Cinner, J. E., Cumming, G. S., Jackson, J. B. C., ...Scheffer, M. (2017). Coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature, 546(7656), 82+.
Hughes, T. P., Kerry, J. T., lvarez-Noriega, M., lvarez-Romero, J. G., Anderson, K. D., Baird, A. H., ...Wilson, S. K. (2017). Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature, 543(7645), 373+.
Ecology
Pecl, G. T., Araújo, M. B., Bell, J. D., Blanchard, J., Bonebrake, T. C., Chen, I., . . . Williams, S. (2017). Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science, 355(6332). doi:10.1126/science.aai9214
Urban, M. C. (2015). Accelerating extinction risk from climate change. Science, 348(6234), 571 LP-573.
Human Dimensions
Vermeulen, S. J., Campbell, B. M., & Ingram, J. S. I. (2012). Climate Change and Food Systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37(1), 195–222.
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