Do impacts impact global tectonics?

Metallogeny and the New Global Tectonics

— The economic implications of the new global tectonics are reviewed according to plate anatomy. The uprises, stable platforms, downflows, and median zones exhibit particular features in ore genesis. Intercontinental metallogenic provinces, and intersection of transform fault trajectories with local structures as ore controls are discussed. Possible applications to Turkey are considered. HISTOR...

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

In recent decades, many climate manipulation experiments have investigated biosphere responses to global change. These experiments typically examined effects of elevated atmospheric CO(2), warming or drought (driver variables) on ecosystem processes such as the carbon and water cycle (response variables). Because experiments are inevitably constrained in the number of driver variables tested si...

Global evaluation of erosion rates in relation to tectonics

Understanding the mechanisms and controlling factors of erosion rates is essential in order to sufficiently comprehend bigger processes such as landscape evolution. For decades, scientists have been researching erosion rates where one of the main objectives was to find the controlling factors. A variety of parameters have been suggested ranging from climate-related, basin morphometry and the te...

Global Analysis of Grooved Terrain Tectonics on Ganymede

Global protected area impacts

Protected areas (PAs) dominate conservation efforts. They will probably play a role in future climate policies too, as global payments may reward local reductions of loss of natural land cover. We estimate the impact of PAs on natural land cover within each of 147 countries by comparing outcomes inside PAs with outcomes outside. We use 'matching' (or 'apples to apples') for land characteristics...