Is the hydrological cycle accelerating, and are there tipping points?
Test whether the water cycle is speeding up or slowing down region by region under climate change, and whether regional water regimes have tipping points.
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Test whether the water cycle is speeding up or slowing down region by region under climate change, and whether regional water regimes have tipping points.
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Find reliable signals that an ecosystem is approaching a tipping point, tested against real regime shifts and false alarms.
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Test whether species-abundance and species-area patterns follow from simple statistical constraints, and what ecology adds beyond them.
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Explain why some species track a warming climate quickly while others lag or move the wrong way, using traits, landscapes and interactions.
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Work out which weather, snowpack and soil conditions turn rain on snow into an exceptional flood, and how warming shifts the risk.
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Determine whether warming is pulling interacting species out of step in their seasonal timing, and whether the mismatch harms populations.
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Explain why streams react within hours of rain although storm runoff is largely old water, and how long water takes to cross catchments.
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Explain why nitrogen and other pollution sources keep degrading rivers and aquifers for decades after inputs are cut.
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Predict how deforestation, afforestation, farming and soil disturbance change evaporation, runoff and groundwater recharge.
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Build and test hydrological models that stay reliable under a changing climate, land use and vegetation, not just in calibration.
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Quantify groundwater recharge, flow beneath catchment divides and discharge to the sea, and the processes that control them.
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Find out why floods and droughts cluster into rich decades, whether these periods are changing, and what drives them.
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Measure how many species are committed to delayed extinction by past habitat loss and fragmentation, and how long until they are lost.
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Explain how warming and water use change ephemeral rivers and the groundwater they recharge in arid and semi-arid regions.
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Predict how glacier loss and permafrost thaw will change the amount and timing of runoff and groundwater in cold regions.
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