Climate Adaptation

“Pairing 13C-labeled tracer incubations across sandy-to-loamy soils (17-67% sand) with Cycles model runs for continuous maize in Nebraska and Illinois shows that soil texture strongly controls whether added carbon is respired as CO2 or retained as soil organic matter, and that texture, precipitation and drying-rewetting frequency together with tillage regime (no-till vs. conventional) determine future soil carbon change. The dataset provides the respiration, soil carbon retention and simulated soil organic carbon and maize yield outputs behind those comparisons.”

“Thirty years of expanding winter cover cropping and other conservation practices in Nebraska's Shell Creek watershed coincided with less frequent extreme flood events and downward trends in turbidity, total suspended solids, and total phosphorus — though the water quality declines were not statistically significant. Summer cropping intensified over the same period, showing conservation gains happened alongside, not instead of, production.”

“Sunn hemp grew as a viable warm-season forage/cover crop in Maine, yielding 4296 kg DM/ha in a normal year but only 1099 kg DM/ha under 2025 drought; drought actually raised the share of nitrogen fixed from the air (52% vs 34%) and boosted crude protein and digestibility. Cut at 60 days for high-quality feed or 90 days for maximum cover crop biomass (though lignin rises and digestibility drops), and choose 'Crescent Sunn' or 'Loei' over 'Red Mini'.”

“In Nebraska's irrigated corn (2005–2018), about 87% of recent yield gains came from better agronomy and climate — not seed genetics — a signal to invest in management and practice, not breeding alone.”

“Cold climate influences on maize nitrogen management.”

“A review of the influence of climate change on the hydrologic cycling and gaseous fluxes of mercury in Boreal peatlands.”

“Assisted migration across fixed seed zones detects adaptation lags in two major North American tree species.”

“This study was conducted to investigate linkages between seasonal climatic conditions and sugarbeet sucrose content in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.”

“Assessing the climate change mitigation potential from food waste compost.”

“Climate change impacts on streamflow, water quality, and best management practices for the Shell and Logan Creek Watersheds in Nebraska, USA.”

“A riskbased approach of reservoir flood control operations that incorporates ensemble streamflow predictions is developed for Lake Mendocino, a 111,000 acrefoot reservoir near Ukiah, California.”

“Conservation agriculture increases the soil resilience and cotton yield stability in climate extremes of the southeast US.”

“Soil Water Holding Capacity Mitigates Downside Risk and Volatility in US Rainfed Maize.”

“We introduce a new configuration of the Community Land Model which includes a fully prognostic water table calculation for a vegetated peatland.”

“Microhabitat requirements of the uncompahgre fritillary butterfly (Boloria improba acrocnema) and climate change implications.”

“Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire.”

“The AFWA dust emission scheme for the GOCART aerosol model in WRF-Chem v3.8.1.”

“Intensified dust storm activity and Valley fever infection in the southwestern United States.”

“This research examines the efficacy of flood protection systems and land use planning by comparing Amsterdam in the Netherlands (renown for resilience planning methods), with the city of Houston, Texas (seeking ways of increasing resilience due to extreme recent flooding).”

“A rapid flood risk assessment method for response operations and nonsubject matter experts community planning.”

“Satellite-based identification of tornado damage tracks from the 27 April 2011 severe weather outbreak.”

“Local factors associated with onhost flea distributions on prairie dog colonies.”

“Land management and climate change determine secondgeneration bioenergy potential of the US Northern Great Plains.”

“Recent Land Use Change to Agriculture in the U.S. Lake States: Impacts on Cellulosic Biomass Potential and Natural Lands.”

“Population genomics and local adaptation in wild isolates of a model microbial eukaryotic.”

“Quantifying changes in total and pyrogenic carbon stocks across fire severity gradients in California mixed-conifer forest.”

“Simulating Soil Organic Carbon Responses to Cropping Intensity, Tillage, and Climate Change in Pacific Northwest Dryland.”

“Climate change and wetland loss impacts on a western river's water quality.”

“Forest riparian buffers reduce timber harvesting impacts on stream water temperature, but additional climate adaptation strategies are likely needed under future conditions.”

“Factors influencing fire severity under moderate burning conditions in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA.”

“The U.S. Climate Reference Network after One Decade of Operations: Status and Assessment.”

“Coccidioidomycosis Dynamics in Relation to Climate in the Southwestern United States.”

“Climate smart agriculture: assessing needs and perceptions of California's farmers.”

“Diversification can reduce the negative environmental impacts of agricultural production, including soil erosion and nutrient discharge.”

“Local impact of temperature and precipitation on West Nile virus infection in Culex species mosquitoes in northeast Illinois, USA.”

“The potential for extensive land surface changes in cities to provide adaptive benefits to urban populations at risk for rising heat exposure with climate change.”

“Neighborhood Effects on Heat Deaths: Social and Environmental Predictors of Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona.”

“Agroforestry in temperate-climate commercial agriculture: Feedback from agroforestry practitioners in the Mid-Atlantic United States.”

“Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) invasion in the Northern Great Plains: A story of rapid dominance in an endangered ecosystem.”

“Modeling the northward expansion of Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) under future climate scenarios.”

“Changes in monthly baseflow across the US Midwest.”

“Quantifying and mapping the supply of and demand for carbon storage and sequestration service from urban trees.”

“The spatial-temporal pattern of drought and the response lag of vegetation in Nebraska were analyzed from 2000 to 2015.”

“Land use change is responsible for having a marked impact on the local climate.”

“Soil organic carbon is more strongly related to soil moisture than soil temperature in temperate grasslands.”

“The Tree-Crop Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration Experiment (T-REX): A Science-Based Path for Sustainable Water Management and Climate Resilience.”

“Improving detention ponds for effective stormwater management and water quality enhancement under future climate change: a simulation study.”

“High temperature extremes cause fire occurrence and burned area to increase nonlinearly.”

“Standard soil health frameworks built around raising organic matter in humid regions don't transfer well to arid and semi-arid Great Plains soils, where low rainfall caps SOM gains; dryland assessments need indicators tied to water-related functions instead. Gains in soil health indicators are largest when practices are stacked — reduced tillage plus residue retention, organic amendments, and more diverse, intensified rotations — rather than adopted singly.”

“Variability and Transitions in Precipitation Extremes in the Midwest United States.”

“A 40-Year History of Fire in Semi-Arid Rangelands.”

“Monitoring Climate Impacts on Annual Forage Production across U.S. Semi-Arid Grasslands.”

“The land surface temperature changes in North America are very abnormal recently, but few studies have systematically researched these anomalies from several aspects, especially the influencing forces.”

“Examining the status of forest fire emission in 2020 and its connection to COVID-19 incidents in West Coast regions of the United States.”

“Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Intermountain West Rangelands, United States.”

“This paper synthesizes understanding of the potential effects of changing climate and fire regimes on Pacific Northwest forests.”

“Microclimate Refugia: Comparing Modeled to Empirical Near-Surface Temperatures on Rangeland.”

“Earlier fall precipitation and low severity fire impacts on cheatgrass and sagebrush establishment in the Great Basin.”

“We show how modern soil data and “clumped” isotope paleothermometry can be leveraged to constrain the conditions of rind formation for a sample from the western Colorado Plateau.”

“Low-intensity forest restoration does not increase surface water yields.”

“Modeling of tile-drained corn–soybean fields in Iowa (validated to within 6% for corn and 13% for soybean yields) showed drainage boosts soil oxygen in wet springs, which spurs deeper rooting that later buffers summer drought, raising yields about 6% — but it also increases subsurface flow and inorganic nitrogen leaching.”