Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought.

Abstract:

:High-resolution analyses of a late Holocene core from Kettle Lake in North Dakota reveal coeval fluctuations in loss-on-ignition carbonate content, percentage of grass pollen, and charcoal flux. These oscillations are indicative of climate-fuel-fire cycles that have prevailed on the Northern Great Plains (NGP) for most of the late Holocene. High charcoal flux occurred during past moist intervals when grass cover was extensive and fuel loads were high, whereas reduced charcoal flux characterized the intervening droughts when grass cover, and hence fuel loads, decreased, illustrating that fire is not a universal feature of the NGP through time but oscillates with climate. Spectral and wavelet analyses reveal that the cycles have a periodicity of approximately = 160 yr, although secular trends in the cycles are difficult to identify for the entire Holocene because the periodicity in the early Holocene ranged between 80 and 160 yr. Although the cycles are evident for most of the last 4,500 yr, their occasional muting adds further to the overall climatic complexity of the plains. These findings clearly show that the continental interior of North America has experienced short-term climatic cycles accompanied by a marked landscape response for several millennia, regularly alternating between dual landscape modes. The documentation of cycles of similar duration at other sites in the NGP, western North America, and Greenland suggests some degree of regional coherence to climatic forcing. Accordingly, the effects of global warming from increasing greenhouse gases will be superimposed on this natural variability of drought.

authors

Brown KJ,Clark JS,Grimm EC,Donovan JJ,Mueller PG,Hansen BC,Stefanova I

doi

10.1073/pnas.0503621102

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-06-21 00:00:00

pages

8865-70

issue

25

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

pii

0503621102

journal_volume

102

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Gene encoding the alpha chain of the T-cell receptor is moved immediately downstream of c-myc in a chromosomal 8;14 translocation in a cell line from a human T-cell leukemia.

    abstract::The SKW-3 cell line, which was established from the malignant cells of a patient with T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, is characterized by a translocation involving chromosome 8 (band q24) and chromosome 14 (band q11) [t(8;14)(q24;q11)]. To determine the position of the gene encoding the alpha chain of the T-cell ...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.83.10.3439

    authors: Shima EA,Le Beau MM,McKeithan TW,Minowada J,Showe LC,Mak TW,Minden MD,Rowley JD,Diaz MO

    更新日期:1986-05-01 00:00:00

  • In vitro synthesis of different categories of specific protein by membrane-bound and free ribosomes.

    abstract::The free and membrane-bound ribosomes of hepatic cells were isolated and used to program protein synthesis in cell-free extracts. Immuno-electrophoretic and radioautographic analysis of the products showed that the membrane-bound ribosomes synthesized serum proteins, whereas ribosomes free of endoplasmic reticulum syn...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.63.4.1370

    authors: Ganoza MC,Williams CA

    更新日期:1969-08-01 00:00:00

  • Control of cell proliferation, endoreduplication, cell size, and cell death by the retinoblastoma-related pathway in maize endosperm.

    abstract::The endosperm of cereal grains is one of the most valuable products of modern agriculture. Cereal endosperm development comprises different phases characterized by mitotic cell proliferation, endoreduplication, the accumulation of storage compounds, and programmed cell death. Although manipulation of these processes c...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1304903110

    authors: Sabelli PA,Liu Y,Dante RA,Lizarraga LE,Nguyen HN,Brown SW,Klingler JP,Yu J,LaBrant E,Layton TM,Feldman M,Larkins BA

    更新日期:2013-05-07 00:00:00

  • Transcription of the polyoma virus genome: synthesis and cleavage of giant late polyoma-specific RNA.

    abstract::The size of virus-specific RNA synthesized in cultured mouse kidney cells infected with polyoma virus was estimated by electrophoresis and sedimentation analysis of RNA extracts from whole cells. Newly synthesized "late" polyoma-specific RNA appears as "giant" molecules of heterogeneous size, up to several times large...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.68.9.2231

    authors: Acheson NH,Buetti E,Scherrer K,Weil R

    更新日期:1971-09-01 00:00:00

  • Evidence for habitual climbing in a Pleistocene hominin in South Africa.

    abstract::Bipedalism is a defining trait of the hominin lineage, associated with a transition from a more arboreal to a more terrestrial environment. While there is debate about when modern human-like bipedalism first appeared in hominins, all known South African hominins show morphological adaptations to bipedalism, suggesting...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1914481117

    authors: Georgiou L,Dunmore CJ,Bardo A,Buck LT,Hublin JJ,Pahr DH,Stratford D,Synek A,Kivell TL,Skinner MM

    更新日期:2020-04-14 00:00:00

  • Entpd5 is essential for skeletal mineralization and regulates phosphate homeostasis in zebrafish.

    abstract::Bone mineralization is an essential step during the embryonic development of vertebrates, and bone serves vital functions in human physiology. To systematically identify unique gene functions essential for osteogenesis, we performed a forward genetic screen in zebrafish and isolated a mutant, no bone (nob), that does ...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1214231110

    authors: Huitema LF,Apschner A,Logister I,Spoorendonk KM,Bussmann J,Hammond CL,Schulte-Merker S

    更新日期:2012-12-26 00:00:00

  • Synthesis and assembly of self-complementary calix[4]arenes.

    abstract::A calix[4]arene was designed to reversibly dimerize and form an egg-shaped enclosure. Adhesive interactions in the assembly were provided by four self-associating ureas, which form a cyclic array containing 16 hydrogen bonds. The synthesis was completed in four steps from the previously described O,O',O",O"'-tetrabenz...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.92.26.12403

    authors: Shimizu KD,Rebek J Jr

    更新日期:1995-12-19 00:00:00

  • Generalized Verhulst laws for population growth.

    abstract::The growth or decay of population of a single species interacting with a large number of other species (or environment) according to the Volterra-Lotka model is investigated. When the environment is initially very close to its equilibrium level, the growth of a single species follows a generalized Verhulst law, contai...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.70.11.3048

    authors: Zwanzig R

    更新日期:1973-11-01 00:00:00

  • Spontaneous conformational change and toxin binding in alpha7 acetylcholine receptor: insight into channel activation and inhibition.

    abstract::Nicotinic AChRs (nAChRs) represent a paradigm for ligand-gated ion channels. Despite intensive studies over many years, our understanding of the mechanisms of activation and inhibition for nAChRs is still incomplete. Here, we present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the alpha7 nAChR ligand-binding domain, both i...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0710530105

    authors: Yi M,Tjong H,Zhou HX

    更新日期:2008-06-17 00:00:00

  • Sterols regulate cycling of SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP) between endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi.

    abstract::The proteolytic cleavage of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) is regulated by SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP), which forms complexes with SREBPs in membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In sterol-depleted cells, SCAP facilitates cleavage of SREBPs by Site-1 protease, thereby initiatin...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.96.20.11235

    authors: Nohturfft A,DeBose-Boyd RA,Scheek S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

    更新日期:1999-09-28 00:00:00

  • Crossover from interaction to driven regimes in quantum vortex reconnections.

    abstract::Reconnections of coherent filamentary structures play a key role in the dynamics of fluids, redistributing energy and helicity among the length scales, triggering dissipative effects, and inducing fine-scale mixing. Unlike ordinary (classical) fluids where vorticity is a continuous field, in superfluid helium and in a...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1818668116

    authors: Galantucci L,Baggaley AW,Parker NG,Barenghi CF

    更新日期:2019-06-18 00:00:00

  • Influence of paced maternal breathing on fetal-maternal heart rate coordination.

    abstract::Pregnant mothers often report a special awareness of and bonding with their unborn child. Little is known about this relationship although it may offer potential for the assessment of the fetal condition. Recently we found evidence of short epochs of fetal-maternal heart rate synchronization under uncontrolled conditi...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0901049106

    authors: Van Leeuwen P,Geue D,Thiel M,Cysarz D,Lange S,Romano MC,Wessel N,Kurths J,Grönemeyer DH

    更新日期:2009-08-18 00:00:00

  • Molecular modulation of calcium oxalate crystallization by osteopontin and citrate.

    abstract::Calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM), which plays a functional role in plant physiology, is a source of chronic human disease, forming the major inorganic component of kidney stones. Understanding molecular mechanisms of biological control over COM crystallization is central to development of effective stone disease ther...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0307900100

    authors: Qiu SR,Wierzbicki A,Orme CA,Cody AM,Hoyer JR,Nancollas GH,Zepeda S,De Yoreo JJ

    更新日期:2004-02-17 00:00:00

  • A nonperturbative approximation for the moderate Reynolds number Navier-Stokes equations.

    abstract::The nonlinearity of the Navier-Stokes equations makes predicting the flow of fluid around rapidly moving small bodies highly resistant to all approaches save careful experiments or brute force computation. Here, we show how a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations captures the drag-determining features of the fl...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0810578106

    authors: Roper M,Brenner MP

    更新日期:2009-03-03 00:00:00

  • Intramolecular vibrational dephasing obeys a power law at intermediate times.

    abstract::Experimental intramolecular vibrational dephasing transients for several large organic molecules are reanalyzed. Fits to the experimental data, as well as full numerical quantum calculations with a factorized potential surface for all active degrees of freedom of fluorene indicate that power law decays, not exponentia...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.95.11.5965

    authors: Gruebele M

    更新日期:1998-05-26 00:00:00

  • Positive association between population genetic differentiation and speciation rates in New World birds.

    abstract::An implicit assumption of speciation biology is that population differentiation is an important stage of evolutionary diversification, but its significance as a rate-limiting control on phylogenetic speciation dynamics remains largely untested. If population differentiation within a species is related to its speciatio...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1617397114

    authors: Harvey MG,Seeholzer GF,Smith BT,Rabosky DL,Cuervo AM,Brumfield RT

    更新日期:2017-06-13 00:00:00

  • Biochemical stratagem for obligate parasitism of eukaryotic cells by Coxiella burnetii.

    abstract::Coxiella burnetti, the etiologic agent of Q fever, is an oligate intracellular parasite of eukaryotes. Unlike the majority of successful bacterial parasites, which escape the bactericidal environment of the phagolysosome by various means, C. burnetii multiplies only in the phagolysosome. In view of the relatively hars...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.78.5.3240

    authors: Hackstadt T,Williams JC

    更新日期:1981-05-01 00:00:00

  • Expression cloning of a CMP-NeuAc:NeuAc alpha 2-3Gal beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1'Cer alpha 2,8-sialyltransferase (GD3 synthase) from human melanoma cells.

    abstract::Using an expression cloning approach, we have isolated a cDNA encoding GD3 synthase (CMP-NeuAc:NeuAc alpha 2-3Gal beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1'Cer alpha 2,8-sialyltransferase, EC 2.4.99.8), which is a key regulatory enzyme determining the prominence of the ganglioside biosynthesis pathway. The cloned cDNA encodes a 341-amino ...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.91.17.7952

    authors: Nara K,Watanabe Y,Maruyama K,Kasahara K,Nagai Y,Sanai Y

    更新日期:1994-08-16 00:00:00

  • Plant-derived anti-Lewis Y mAb exhibits biological activities for efficient immunotherapy against human cancer cells.

    abstract::Although current demands for therapeutic mAbs are growing quickly, production methods to date, including in vitro mammalian tissue culture and transgenic animals, provide only limited quantities at high cost. Several tumor-associated antigens in tumor cells have been identified as targets for therapeutic mAbs. Here we...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0603043103

    authors: Brodzik R,Glogowska M,Bandurska K,Okulicz M,Deka D,Ko K,van der Linden J,Leusen JH,Pogrebnyak N,Golovkin M,Steplewski Z,Koprowski H

    更新日期:2006-06-06 00:00:00

  • RNAi screening for kinases and phosphatases identifies FoxO regulators.

    abstract::Forkhead box class O (FoxO) transcription factors are key regulators of growth, metabolism, life span, and stress resistance. FoxOs integrate signals from different pathways and guide the cellular response to varying energy and stress conditions. FoxOs are modulated by several signaling pathways, e.g., the insulin-TOR...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0803022105

    authors: Mattila J,Kallijärvi J,Puig O

    更新日期:2008-09-30 00:00:00

  • The 28-kDa calbindin-D is a major calcium-binding protein in the basilar papilla of the chick.

    abstract::In previous work we identified a basilar papilla protein (BPP23) that appears to be one of the most abundant soluble proteins in the basilar papilla of the chick cochlea. Here we report the purification of protein BPP23 from chick cochlea and the generation of a specific antiserum. Immunoblotting and immunoprecipitati...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.85.10.3387

    authors: Oberholtzer JC,Buettger C,Summers MC,Matschinsky FM

    更新日期:1988-05-01 00:00:00

  • Phase geometries of two-dimensional excitable waves govern self-organized morphodynamics of amoeboid cells.

    abstract::In both randomly moving Dictyostelium and mammalian cells, phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-trisphosphate and F-actin are known to propagate as waves at the membrane and act to push out the protruding edge. To date, however, the relationship between the wave geometry and the patterns of amoeboid shape change remains elusi...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1218025110

    authors: Taniguchi D,Ishihara S,Oonuki T,Honda-Kitahara M,Kaneko K,Sawai S

    更新日期:2013-03-26 00:00:00

  • Shuttling of initiating kinase between discrete aggregates of the high affinity receptor for IgE regulates the cellular response.

    abstract::Using defined oligomers of IgE, our group previously studied the quantitative relationship between the aggregation of the high affinity receptors for IgE (Fc epsilonRI) and the earliest signals initiated by such aggregation: the phosphorylation of tyrosines on the receptor. Notably, at certain doses of the oligomers s...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.94.4.1372

    authors: Torigoe C,Goldstein B,Wofsy C,Metzger H

    更新日期:1997-02-18 00:00:00

  • Epoxidation reactions catalyzed by rat liver cytochromes P-450 and P-448 occur at different faces of the 8,9-double bond of 8-methylbenz[a]anthracene.

    abstract::8-Methylbenz[a]anthracene (8-MeBaA) transdihydrodiol metabolites were isolated by reversed-phase and normal-phase HPLCs from incubations of 8-MeBaA with liver microsomes or a reconstituted system containing purified cytochrome P-448 and epoxide hydrolase. Regardless of the enzyme source, the metabolically formed 8-MeB...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.79.22.6802

    authors: Yang SK,Chou MW,Fu PP,Wislocki PG,Lu AH

    更新日期:1982-11-01 00:00:00

  • A model for the hydrogen bond.

    abstract::A MODEL OF THE LINEAR HYDROGEN BOND HAS BEEN DEVISED WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED BY THREE PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF THE ISOLATED ELECTRON DONOR AND PROTON DONOR MOLECULES: mu(A-H), the bond dipole moment; DeltaI, the difference in ionization potential between that of the electron donor and the corresponding noble gas atom; an...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.72.12.4701

    authors: Allen LC

    更新日期:1975-12-01 00:00:00

  • The myosin step size: measurement of the unit displacement per ATP hydrolyzed in an in vitro assay.

    abstract::Chemomechanical coupling in muscle contraction may be due to "swinging crossbridges," such that a change in the angle at which the myosin head binds to the actin filament is tightly coupled to release of products of ATP hydrolysis. This model would limit the step size, the unit displacement of actin produced by a sing...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.87.18.7130

    authors: Toyoshima YY,Kron SJ,Spudich JA

    更新日期:1990-09-01 00:00:00

  • Adenovirus vector vaccination induces expansion of memory CD4 T cells with a mucosal homing phenotype that are readily susceptible to HIV-1.

    abstract::In the recently halted HIV type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine STEP trial, individuals that were seropositive for adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) showed increased rates of HIV-1 infection on vaccination with an Ad5 vaccine. We propose that this was due to activation and expansion of Ad5-specific mucosal-homing memory CD4 T cells. To t...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.0907898106

    authors: Benlahrech A,Harris J,Meiser A,Papagatsias T,Hornig J,Hayes P,Lieber A,Athanasopoulos T,Bachy V,Csomor E,Daniels R,Fisher K,Gotch F,Seymour L,Logan K,Barbagallo R,Klavinskis L,Dickson G,Patterson S

    更新日期:2009-11-24 00:00:00

  • Next-generation of targeted AAVP vectors for systemic transgene delivery against cancer.

    abstract::Bacteriophage (phage) have attractive advantages as delivery systems compared with mammalian viruses, but have been considered poor vectors because they lack evolved strategies to confront and overcome mammalian cell barriers to infective agents. We reasoned that improved efficacy of delivery might be achieved through...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1906653116

    authors: Suwan K,Yata T,Waramit S,Przystal JM,Stoneham CA,Bentayebi K,Asavarut P,Chongchai A,Pothachareon P,Lee KY,Topanurak S,Smith TL,Gelovani JG,Sidman RL,Pasqualini R,Arap W,Hajitou A

    更新日期:2019-09-10 00:00:00

  • Sequential activation and distinct functions for distal and proximal modules within the IgH 3' regulatory region.

    abstract::As a master regulator of functional Ig heavy chain (IgH) expression, the IgH 3' regulatory region (3'RR) controls multiple transcription events at various stages of B-cell ontogeny, from newly formed B cells until the ultimate plasma cell stage. The IgH 3'RR plays a pivotal role in early B-cell receptor expression, ge...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.1514090113

    authors: Garot A,Marquet M,Saintamand A,Bender S,Le Noir S,Rouaud P,Carrion C,Oruc Z,Bébin AG,Moreau J,Lebrigand K,Denizot Y,Alt FW,Cogné M,Pinaud E

    更新日期:2016-02-09 00:00:00

  • Transcriptional activity of transcription factor IIE is dependent on zinc binding.

    abstract::The functions of individual basal transcription factors during the formation of an initiation complex by RNA polymerase II remain largely unknown. Transcription factor IIE (TFIIE) has recently been shown to bind to multiple targets in the initiation complex. To assess the role of zinc binding in basal transcription, w...

    journal_title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1073/pnas.91.20.9529

    authors: Maxon ME,Tjian R

    更新日期:1994-09-27 00:00:00