| Western water and climate change | Dettinger, Michael, Bradley Udall, and Aris Georgakakos | 2015 | water management, climate change impacts, precipitation | 
          
                  | What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States? | Booker, Kayje, Huntsinger, Lynn, Bartolome, James W., Sayre, Nathan F., and Stewart, William | 2013 | carbon sequestration, rangelands, ecosystem management | 
          
                  | What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples? | Whyte, Kyle Powys | 2015 | traditional ecological knowledge, knowledge exchange, indigenous peoples | 
          
                  | What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis | Koenig, Walter D., Johannes M. H. Knops, William J. Carmen, and Ian Seth Pearse | 2014 | Quercus lobata, phenology, climate change impacts on biodiversity | 
          
                  | What is a GCM? | IPCC | 2013 | global circulation models | 
          
                  | What mediates tree mortality during drought in the southern Sierra Nevada? | Paz-Kagan, Tarin, Philip G. Brodrick, Nicholas R. Vaughn, Adrian J. Das, Nathan L. Stephenson, Koren R. Nydick, and Gregory P. Asner | 2017 | drought, tree mortality, remote sensing | 
          
                  | When do conservation planning methods deliver? Quantifying the consequences of uncertainty | Langford, William T., Gordon, Ascelin, and Bastin, Lucy | 2009 | model uncertainty, conservation planning, conservation prioritization | 
          
                  | Why climate change makes riparian restoration more important than ever: recommendations for practice and research | Seavy, Nathaniel E., Gardali, Thomas, Golet, Gregory H., Griggs, F. Thomas, Howell, Christine A., Kelsey, Rodd, Small, Stacy L., Viers, Joshua H. and Weigand, James F. | 2009 | riparian ecosystems, climate change, ecological restoration | 
          
                  | Why geodiversity matters in valuing nature's stage | Hjort, Jan, John E. Gordon, Murray Gray, and Malcolm L. Hunter | 2015 | geodiversity, conservation planning, biodiversity management | 
          
                  | Widespread shifts in the demographic structure of subalpine forests in the Sierra Nevada, California, 1934 to 2007 | Dolanc, Christopher R., Thorne, James H., and Safford, Hugh D. | 2012 | climate change impacts, vegetation distribution | 
          
                  | Wildfire and drought dynamics destabilize carbon stores of fire-suppressed forests | Earles, J. Mason, Malcolm P. North, and Matthew D. Hurteau | 2014 | carbon storage, wildfire, drought, forest management | 
          
                  | Wildlife in a Warming World | Staudt, Amanda,  Shott, Corey. Inkley, Doug and Ricker, Isabel | January, 2013 | climate change adaptation, wildlife, biodiversity management | 
          
                  | Will there be a shift to alien-dominated vegetation assemblages under climate change? | Leishman, Michelle R. and Gallagher, Rachael V. | 2015 | invasive species, plant diversity, biodiversity | 
          
                  | Wintering Shorebird Monitoring Plans for Coastal California / Baja, Central Valley, and San Francisco Bay Area | Reiter, M. E., W. D. Shuford, K. M. Strum, C. M. Hickey, and G. W. Page | April, 2012 |  | 
          
                  | Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis | IPCC | September, 2013 | climate change assessment | 
          
                  | WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas |  | 2017 | downscaled climate data, historical climate, temperature, precipitation |