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Recent Press Coverage for Global Change Biology
The following press coverage has been recorded for Global Change Biology in 2009:

Wildlife of Galapagos Islands 'devastated by ocean warming'
Telegraph; also reported by UPI, BBC News, Sky News (December 2009)

Carbon dioxide makes aspens grow faster
USA Today (December 2009)

Ice retreat creates new CO2 store
BBC News (November 2009)

Beneath the waves: the future of carbon capture and storage
Guardian (November 2009)

Cities trap more carbon than rainforests
National Geographic (September 2009)

Reindeer herds in global decline
BBC Earth News online; also reported in The Sun, United Press International, CBC.ca, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald

Warmer summers 'killing off daddy long legs and beloved British Birds
Mail Online (March 2009)

Weather Eye: frogspawn is a good indicator of spring
Times Online (March 2009)

Research Highlights, Ecology: Bouillabaise
Nature, 459, 142, (May 2009)

The International Polar Year - Virtual Special Issue
This virtual issue of Global Change Biology has been assembled to mark the end of the fourth International Polar Year. The two overarching themes of this issue are Ecosystem Processes and Population Change.
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Fire - A Special Issue
This special issue of Global Change Biology considers fires on four continents (Europe, North and South America and Africa) and addresses the drivers for recent changes in fire activity, models what we can expect in the future and considers some of the challenges facing forest managers. Read the issue online now.

Impacts of Environmental Change on Insect Management and Conservation - Virtual Special Issue
The articles of this thematic issue are associated with a symposium of the XXII International Congress of Entomology - Entomology: Strength in Diversity (15-21 August 2004 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). Edited by Hefin Jones.


Popular Articles
The following articles demonstrate some of the topics published in the journal over the last few years. Click on any title to view the abstract:

Bird migration times, climate change, and changing population sizes
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Trevor L. Lloyd-Evans, Richard B. Primack, Paul Satzinger

Meeting US biofuel goals with less land: the potential of Miscanthus
Emily A. Heaton, Frank G. Dohleman, Stephen P. Long

Effects of temperature and fertilization on nitrogen cycling and community composition of an urban lawn
Neeta S. Bijoor, Claudua I. Czimczik, Diane E. Pataki, Sharon A. Billings

Effects of elevated CO2 on the protein concentration of food crops: a meta-analysis
Daniel R. Taub, Brian Miller, Holly Allen

Climate change effects on upland stream macroinvertebrates over a 25-year period
Isabelle Durance, S. J. Ormerod

European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern
Annette Menzel, Tim H. Sparks, Nicole Estrella et al.

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