Weather, climate and tourism: a New Zealand perspective
... tourism businesses. While tourists might expect certain climatic conditions, they will experience the actual weather, which might deviate quite substantially from the average conditions. Hence, in the first place tourists and tourism businesses are likely to be affected by weather conditions, althou ...
... tourism businesses. While tourists might expect certain climatic conditions, they will experience the actual weather, which might deviate quite substantially from the average conditions. Hence, in the first place tourists and tourism businesses are likely to be affected by weather conditions, althou ...
Capturing the Value of Appreciated Development Rights
... know that this spells at least change, and more likely disastrous change. Likewise we know that this change will profoundly affect every living creature voyaging around the sun on our beautiful but fragile planetary spaceship, including us. 4 What we have yet to agree on is which data and which mode ...
... know that this spells at least change, and more likely disastrous change. Likewise we know that this change will profoundly affect every living creature voyaging around the sun on our beautiful but fragile planetary spaceship, including us. 4 What we have yet to agree on is which data and which mode ...
COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Limber Pine Pinus
... Limber Pine is dependent on mycorrhizal fungi, which enable the roots to take up nutrients and also aid in protecting the roots from pathogens. Other fungi can damage seeds, needles, stems and roots. Limber Pine needles are the sole food of a small ermine moth, which is rare in Canada. Population Si ...
... Limber Pine is dependent on mycorrhizal fungi, which enable the roots to take up nutrients and also aid in protecting the roots from pathogens. Other fungi can damage seeds, needles, stems and roots. Limber Pine needles are the sole food of a small ermine moth, which is rare in Canada. Population Si ...
Response of spring crops and associated aphids to elevated
... CO2 had a shorter lifespan, whereas the opposite effect was found for aphids reared on oilseed rape. The average number of nymphs of the two pest species showed both an increase under elevated CO2. No consistent picture emerges from these findings, and further investigation on host – aphid relations ...
... CO2 had a shorter lifespan, whereas the opposite effect was found for aphids reared on oilseed rape. The average number of nymphs of the two pest species showed both an increase under elevated CO2. No consistent picture emerges from these findings, and further investigation on host – aphid relations ...
Northern Hemisphere blocking frequency and duration in the CMIP5
... possible changes in NH blocking frequency and duration in a warmer climate. Comparison with reanalysis data reveals that CMIP5 models can reproduce the NH blocking climatology reasonably well, although the frequency of Euro-Atlantic blockings, particularly those with relatively short duration, is si ...
... possible changes in NH blocking frequency and duration in a warmer climate. Comparison with reanalysis data reveals that CMIP5 models can reproduce the NH blocking climatology reasonably well, although the frequency of Euro-Atlantic blockings, particularly those with relatively short duration, is si ...
Vital but vulnerable: Climate change vulnerability and human use of
... IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and greening the world economy by supporting scientific research, managing ...
... IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and greening the world economy by supporting scientific research, managing ...
ACIDIFICATION AND CLIMATE WARMING: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF
... Lakes in the Adirondack Park (NY, USA) are undergoing chemical recovery from acidification. There is now a pressing research need to define recovery targets for acid-impacted sites. Researchers attempting to designate such targets are hampered by two issues: 1) a lack of long-term monitoring data, a ...
... Lakes in the Adirondack Park (NY, USA) are undergoing chemical recovery from acidification. There is now a pressing research need to define recovery targets for acid-impacted sites. Researchers attempting to designate such targets are hampered by two issues: 1) a lack of long-term monitoring data, a ...
Permafrost thermal state in the polar Northern Hemisphere during
... during the IPY in northernmost Alaska, eastern Greenland and easternmost Russia were similar to those in the previous 10 years. In the Nordic region, air temperatures were about 18C warmer during the IPY. The difference between air temperatures during the IPY and those of the previous 10 years there ...
... during the IPY in northernmost Alaska, eastern Greenland and easternmost Russia were similar to those in the previous 10 years. In the Nordic region, air temperatures were about 18C warmer during the IPY. The difference between air temperatures during the IPY and those of the previous 10 years there ...
IFC Sustainability Resources Brochure 2013
... that we face today are often the result of cumulative impacts from a large number of activities that are for the most part individually insignificant, but which together have had regional or even global repercussions. Jointly prepared by IFC and ESSA Technologies, this publication is based on IFC’s ...
... that we face today are often the result of cumulative impacts from a large number of activities that are for the most part individually insignificant, but which together have had regional or even global repercussions. Jointly prepared by IFC and ESSA Technologies, this publication is based on IFC’s ...
2016 UNEP Background Guide - National Model United Nations
... Directors Pauline Marcou (Conference A) and Maximilian Jungmann (Conference B), and Assistant Directors Jeffrey Thorpe (Conference A) and Katie Keelan (Conference B). Pauline recently graduated with a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from Yale University, where she specialized in clean energy and e ...
... Directors Pauline Marcou (Conference A) and Maximilian Jungmann (Conference B), and Assistant Directors Jeffrey Thorpe (Conference A) and Katie Keelan (Conference B). Pauline recently graduated with a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from Yale University, where she specialized in clean energy and e ...
The Role of the Sun in Climate Change - United Diversity
... Sunspots are part of solar "active regions" famous for their flares, coronal mass ejections, and other forms of activity. These features result when the sun's surface magnetic field gains sufficient strength to inhibit the convective heat flow from the sun's interior. Because sunspots are 1500 °K co ...
... Sunspots are part of solar "active regions" famous for their flares, coronal mass ejections, and other forms of activity. These features result when the sun's surface magnetic field gains sufficient strength to inhibit the convective heat flow from the sun's interior. Because sunspots are 1500 °K co ...
Moose Listing Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... Hunting was not a significant factor in the decline of Midwest moose populations, and subsistence hunting is not a current threat. Minnesota cancelled its moose hunt, and Michigan and Wisconsin have never allowed it. North Dakota does have a hunt, but the impact on populations in the state are poorl ...
... Hunting was not a significant factor in the decline of Midwest moose populations, and subsistence hunting is not a current threat. Minnesota cancelled its moose hunt, and Michigan and Wisconsin have never allowed it. North Dakota does have a hunt, but the impact on populations in the state are poorl ...
et al. - Squarespace
... Climate-driven Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) expansions in the geologic record provide an opportunity to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of OMZ change. Here we investigate OMZ expansion through the global-scale warming event of the most recent deglaciation (18-11 ka), an event with clear re ...
... Climate-driven Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) expansions in the geologic record provide an opportunity to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of OMZ change. Here we investigate OMZ expansion through the global-scale warming event of the most recent deglaciation (18-11 ka), an event with clear re ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Reservoir Sedimentation in the
... The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the largest operator of dams in the United States. Each USACE dam was planned, designed and built to provide specific benefits to the American public, including navigation, flood risk reduction, hydropower generation, recreation, and water supply. Most of th ...
... The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the largest operator of dams in the United States. Each USACE dam was planned, designed and built to provide specific benefits to the American public, including navigation, flood risk reduction, hydropower generation, recreation, and water supply. Most of th ...
Decade-long soil nitrogen constraint on the CO fertilization of plant biomass LETTERS *
... studies on plant biomass and productivity under contrasting CO2 and N supply suggest an N-limitation constraint on CO2 fertilization3–6 , as noted in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report1 . Nevertheless, nutrient limitations were not incorporated into the coupled climate–C cycle ...
... studies on plant biomass and productivity under contrasting CO2 and N supply suggest an N-limitation constraint on CO2 fertilization3–6 , as noted in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report1 . Nevertheless, nutrient limitations were not incorporated into the coupled climate–C cycle ...
Here - BioMedSearch
... unpredictable and nonlinear ways to impact marine ecosystem structure and functioning (Wernberg et al. 2011). In developed regions, such as the NE Atlantic, fishing and exploitation of other living marine resources, including seaweeds, plus coastal land use have impacted nearshore ecosystems for cen ...
... unpredictable and nonlinear ways to impact marine ecosystem structure and functioning (Wernberg et al. 2011). In developed regions, such as the NE Atlantic, fishing and exploitation of other living marine resources, including seaweeds, plus coastal land use have impacted nearshore ecosystems for cen ...
ITSSD – New NOAA FOIA Request (filed 9-22
... ITSSD files this new NOAA FOIA Request with the clear understanding that NOAA is obligated to release information regarding a peer review if it receives a Freedom of Information Act request, unless such information satisfies the criteria for a FOIA exemption. This new FOIA request seeks disclosure o ...
... ITSSD files this new NOAA FOIA Request with the clear understanding that NOAA is obligated to release information regarding a peer review if it receives a Freedom of Information Act request, unless such information satisfies the criteria for a FOIA exemption. This new FOIA request seeks disclosure o ...
Gene-flow through space and time: dispersal, dormancy and
... Fig. 1 Conceptual diagram illustrating the joint evolution of dispersal and dormancy as risk reduction c strategies under spatially and temporally variable environments. The cartoon represents three patches, suitable (continuous lines) or unsuitable (dashed lines) for a population (black and white c ...
... Fig. 1 Conceptual diagram illustrating the joint evolution of dispersal and dormancy as risk reduction c strategies under spatially and temporally variable environments. The cartoon represents three patches, suitable (continuous lines) or unsuitable (dashed lines) for a population (black and white c ...
The effects of a changing climate on root respiration of woody plants
... root respiration were investigated. In areas of increased and also decreased water levels, there were increases in the CO2 efflux from ecosystem fine root respiration. These studies show the importance of investigating further the impacts climate change may have on C balance in northern ecosystems. ...
... root respiration were investigated. In areas of increased and also decreased water levels, there were increases in the CO2 efflux from ecosystem fine root respiration. These studies show the importance of investigating further the impacts climate change may have on C balance in northern ecosystems. ...
The resilience renaissance? Unpacking of resilience for tackling
... Change (IPCC) and the Global Assessment Report, and international policy processes of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Hyogo Framework for Action. Those involved in international development efforts in the context of climate change and extreme events have therefore been for ...
... Change (IPCC) and the Global Assessment Report, and international policy processes of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Hyogo Framework for Action. Those involved in international development efforts in the context of climate change and extreme events have therefore been for ...
Threats and knowledge gaps for ecosystem
... Rapid environmental change is a threat to the functioning of marine ecosystems. Increased temperature, storminess and changes in the frequency and magnitude of extreme climatic events will influence the distribution of species, community structure and ecosystem functioning (Brierley and Kingsford, 2 ...
... Rapid environmental change is a threat to the functioning of marine ecosystems. Increased temperature, storminess and changes in the frequency and magnitude of extreme climatic events will influence the distribution of species, community structure and ecosystem functioning (Brierley and Kingsford, 2 ...