Nature Climate Change Contents: March 2018 Volume 8 Number 3

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The research even looks at utilising artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve combustion processes.  Read more online >>    Advertisement Nature Outlook: Climate Change  Discover how scientists that are tired of inaction on climate change are seeking technical and political solutions to a truly global problem.  Access the Outlook free online for six months >>   Advertisement ForScience.com: Sustainability  Stay informed on the latest developments in the effort to improve earth's sustainability and much more. Make For Science your free resource for online news articles, research, video and podcast exclusively for the Arabic-speaking audience.  Visit ForScience.com    Editorial   Enhancing reporting standards    p173 doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0109-x Comment   Locking in positive climate responses in cities    pp174 - 177 Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Richard J. Dawson, Roberto Sanchez Rodriguez, Xuemei Bai et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0100-6 City transformations in a 1.5 °C warmer world    pp177 - 181 William Solecki, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Shobhakar Dhakal, Debra Roberts, Aliyu Salisu Barau et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0101-5 Sustainable Development Goals and climate change adaptation in cities    pp181 - 183 Roberto Sanchez Rodriguez, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz & Aliyu Salisu Barau doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0098-9 Turning Paris into reality at the University of California    pp183 - 185 David G. Victor, Ahmed Abdulla, David Auston, Wendell Brase, Jack Brouwer et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0103-3 Books & Arts   Time to re-think solutions    pp186 - 187 Janet K. Swim & Ashley J. Gillis doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0106-0 On our bookshelf    p187 Adam Yeeles doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0104-2 Research Highlights   Winding back the horizon    p188 Alastair Brown doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0110-4 Agulhas variability    p188 Graham Simpkins doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0111-3 Mercury multiplied    p188 Bronwyn Wake doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0112-2 Decreasing ozone    p188 Adam Yeeles doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0113-1 News & Views   Underestimating belief in climate change    pp189 - 190 John T. Jost doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0082-4 Searching for climate–conflict links    pp190 - 191 Cullen S. Hendrix doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0083-3 An uncertain future for lightning    pp191 - 192 Lee T. Murray doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0094-0 Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Asst Professor (tenure-track) - hydrogeology UBC-Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department Chair and Professor of Human Ecology University of California - Davis Hydrodynamic-Ecosystem Modellers x 2 PML Tenure-Track Professor, Material Science & Environmental Chemistry Lakehead University, Canada More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT Ecology & Safety 2018, 27th International Conference 23.06.18 Elenite, Bulgaria More science events from Perspectives   Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment    pp193 - 199 J. C. J. H. Aerts, W. J. Botzen, K. C. Clarke, S. L. Cutter, J. W. Hall et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0085-1 Flood impact and recovery is influenced by behavioural responses. This Perspective describes how integrating human behaviour and risk perception into flood-risk assessment models may improve identification of effective risk-management strategies.   Letters   Sampling bias in climate–conflict research    pp200 - 203 Courtland Adams, Tobias Ide, Jon Barnett & Adrien Detges doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0068-2 A systematic review shows that climate–conflict research tends to focus on a few accessible regions characterized by violent conflict rather than those most vulnerable to climate change, which may inflate the perceived prevalence of links between climate change and violent conflict.   Bottom-up linking of carbon markets under far-sighted cap coordination and reversibility    pp204 - 209 Jobst Heitzig & Ulrike Kornek doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0079-z Meeting mitigation targets requires domestic action and international cooperation. This study uses game-theoretic modelling to understand carbon-market linkages and to show the conditions that facilitate global coalition formation.   A projected decrease in lightning under climate change    pp210 - 213 Declan L. Finney, Ruth M. Doherty, Oliver Wild, David S. Stevenson, Ian A. MacKenzie et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0072-6 It has been suggested that lightning activity will increase with anthropogenic warming. However, the use of a physically based lightning parameterization—incorporating cloud ice fluxes—reveals global flash rates in 2100 may decrease by 15% under RCP8.5.   Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands    pp214 - 218 Lindsey L. Sloat, James S. Gerber, Leah H. Samberg, William K. Smith, Mario Herrero et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0081-5 Satellite measures of vegetation greenness, together with animal stocking data and key climatic factors, reveal interannual precipitation variability to be a significant constraint on global pasture productivity.   Mitigation potential of soil carbon management overestimated by neglecting N2O emissions    pp219 - 223 Emanuele Lugato, Adrian Leip & Arwyn Jones doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0087-z Agricultural soils can be targeted for carbon (C) sequestration. Research considering C and nitrogen (N) dynamics confirms that significant CO2 mitigation can be achieved, but after 20–30 years N inputs also need controlling to prevent the C sequestration being offset by N2O emissions.   A global synthesis of animal phenological responses to climate change    pp224 - 228 Jeremy M. Cohen, Marc J. Lajeunesse & Jason R. Rohr doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0067-3 A synthesis of animal phenology shows that temperature primarily drives mid-latitude responses, with precipitation important at lower latitudes. Phylogeny and body size are associated with the strength of phenological shifts.   Ecological complexity buffers the impacts of future climate on marine consumers    pp229 - 233 Silvan U. Goldenberg, Ivan Nagelkerken, Emma Marangon, Angélique Bonnet, Camilo M. Ferreira et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0086-0 The complexity of ecosystems could influence how warmer waters and acidification affect marine biota. In this study, whilst individual behaviours were affected by increased CO2, community dynamics buffered the impacts on fish and crustaceans.   Advertisement Searching for a new career? At Nature Research we frequently recruit talented individuals to join our editorial and publishing teams. If you have a PhD and a passion for any aspect of climate change research, including policy and economics this may be the perfect career for you. Visit our research editorial and publishing careers website to discover more about what we do.   Articles   Under-estimated wave contribution to coastal sea-level rise    pp234 - 239 Angélique Melet, Benoit Meyssignac, Rafael Almar & Gonéri Le Cozannet doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0088-y Large-scale sea-level rise is primarily dominated by thermal expansion and ice melt. However, wave processes are found to significantly influence local sea-level trends at the coast, amplifying or reducing steric and eustatic contributions.   Global carbon stocks and potential emissions due to mangrove deforestation from 2000 to 2012    pp240 - 244 Stuart E. Hamilton & Daniel A. Friess doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0090-4 Annual mangrove carbon stocks are quantified (2000–2012) at global, national and sub-national levels, together with global carbon emissions resulting from deforestation. Two percent of global mangrove carbon was lost between 2000 and 2012.   Climate-driven range shifts of the king penguin in a fragmented ecosystem    pp245 - 251 Robin Cristofari, Xiaoming Liu, Francesco Bonadonna, Yves Cherel, Pierre Pistorius et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0084-2 Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.   Anthropogenic range contractions bias species climate change forecasts    pp252 - 256 Søren Faurby & Miguel B. Araújo doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0089-x Models of the distribution of North American mammals show that estimated future diversity under climate change is drastically underestimated unless the full historical distribution of species is included in the models.   Advertisement An open access, online-only journal providing researchers, policy makers and the public with the latest research on weather and climate, focusing on topics including climate dynamics, climate variability, weather and climate prediction, climate change, weather extremes, atmospheric composition including aerosols, the hydrological cycle and atmosphere-ocean interactions. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science has now published its first articles.   Explore all articles available >>>   Amendments & Corrections   Author Correction: Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses    p257 Trisha B. Atwood, Rod M. Connolly, Hanan Almahasheer, Paul E. Carnell, Carlos M. Duarte et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-017-0019-3 Author Correction: In the observational record half a degree matters    p257 Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer & Erich M. Fischer doi:10.1038/s41558-017-0055-z Author Correction: Whither methane in the IPCC process?    p257 Patrick M. Crill & Brett F. Thornton doi:10.1038/s41558-017-0035-3 Publisher Correction: Measuring progress from nationally determined contributions to mid-century strategies    p258 Gokul Iyer, Catherine Ledna, Leon Clarke, James Edmonds, Haewon McJeon et al. doi:10.1038/s41558-017-0027-3 Publisher Correction: The price of fast fashion    p258 doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0074-4 Publisher Correction: A global synthesis of animal phenological responses to climate change    p258 Jeremy M. Cohen, Marc J. Lajeunesse & Jason R. Rohr doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0099-8 Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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