Climate change impacts on South American Rangelands
... forests. This massive deforestation will have negative impacts on the biological diversity ...
... forests. This massive deforestation will have negative impacts on the biological diversity ...
Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores
... Advances: Based on empirical studies, trophic cascades have been documented for 7 of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores (not including pinnipeds). For each of these species (see figure), human actions have both caused declines and contributed to recovery, providing “natural experiments” for quantify ...
... Advances: Based on empirical studies, trophic cascades have been documented for 7 of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores (not including pinnipeds). For each of these species (see figure), human actions have both caused declines and contributed to recovery, providing “natural experiments” for quantify ...
Status and Ecological Effects of the World`s Largest Carnivores
... Advances: Based on empirical studies, trophic cascades have been documented for 7 of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores (not including pinnipeds). For each of these species (see figure), human actions have both caused declines and contributed to recovery, providing “natural experiments” for quantif ...
... Advances: Based on empirical studies, trophic cascades have been documented for 7 of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores (not including pinnipeds). For each of these species (see figure), human actions have both caused declines and contributed to recovery, providing “natural experiments” for quantif ...
Status and Ecological Effects of the World`s Largest Carnivores
... Advances: Based on empirical studies, trophic cascades have been documented for 7 of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores (not including pinnipeds). For each of these species (see figure), human actions have both caused declines and contributed to recovery, providing “natural experiments” for quantify ...
... Advances: Based on empirical studies, trophic cascades have been documented for 7 of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores (not including pinnipeds). For each of these species (see figure), human actions have both caused declines and contributed to recovery, providing “natural experiments” for quantify ...
Uncharted Territory (1170L)
... Reves-Sohn says. "The real problem is [learning] how prevalent venting is on the seafloor. We make all these extrapolations based on some pretty heavy assumptions." At the moment, there are two ways to directly investigate the seafloor. Manned submersibles such as WHOI's Alvin can take scientists do ...
... Reves-Sohn says. "The real problem is [learning] how prevalent venting is on the seafloor. We make all these extrapolations based on some pretty heavy assumptions." At the moment, there are two ways to directly investigate the seafloor. Manned submersibles such as WHOI's Alvin can take scientists do ...
Future Climate Change, Sea-level riSe, and OCean aCidiFiCatiOn
... the short- and medium-term, the optimal approach to mitigating the harmful impacts of ocean warming and acidification on fisheries is to minimize the other human-related pressures on fishery resources, such as excess nutrient and suspended riverine loads to coastal ecosystems due to human activities ...
... the short- and medium-term, the optimal approach to mitigating the harmful impacts of ocean warming and acidification on fisheries is to minimize the other human-related pressures on fishery resources, such as excess nutrient and suspended riverine loads to coastal ecosystems due to human activities ...
Introduction - Department of the Environment
... surrounding climate change have been integrated to establish a set of working principles and criteria which formed the basis for the design and development of the project outputs. This project works from within a theoretical framework that landscape connectivity will play a major role in both the al ...
... surrounding climate change have been integrated to establish a set of working principles and criteria which formed the basis for the design and development of the project outputs. This project works from within a theoretical framework that landscape connectivity will play a major role in both the al ...
Draft Resolution X - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
... AFFIRMS that this Resolution builds upon Resolution X.24 on Climate change and wetlands, which requested the Ramsar Secretariat, the STRP, and the Coordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands (CCGAP) to work together with relevant international conventions and agencies (including the CBD, C ...
... AFFIRMS that this Resolution builds upon Resolution X.24 on Climate change and wetlands, which requested the Ramsar Secretariat, the STRP, and the Coordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands (CCGAP) to work together with relevant international conventions and agencies (including the CBD, C ...
Impact of sea level rise on the 10 insular biodiversity hotspots
... consequences. Such reduction, and the subsequent decrease of biodiversity, will be the most direct and inevitable outcome of sea level rise. Ongoing research suggests that the conclusions of the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concerning the future increase of global mea ...
... consequences. Such reduction, and the subsequent decrease of biodiversity, will be the most direct and inevitable outcome of sea level rise. Ongoing research suggests that the conclusions of the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concerning the future increase of global mea ...
12/2 Sea Floor Spreading HW
... Pacific Ocean is shrinking. Its many trenches are swallowing more ocean crust than the mid-ocean ridge is producing. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding. In most places, the oceanic crust of the Atlantic Ocean is attached to continental crust. As the Atlantic’s floor spreads, the continents along its ed ...
... Pacific Ocean is shrinking. Its many trenches are swallowing more ocean crust than the mid-ocean ridge is producing. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding. In most places, the oceanic crust of the Atlantic Ocean is attached to continental crust. As the Atlantic’s floor spreads, the continents along its ed ...
Geography Department Scheme of Work – Summary Exploring
... 1. What are the traditional ways of dividing up the world? 2. How can we measure development? 3. What factors exacerbate global inequalities? 4. How do physical and human factors exacerbate inequalities? 5. How can international efforts reduce inequalities? 6. How successful are aid projects? 7. How ...
... 1. What are the traditional ways of dividing up the world? 2. How can we measure development? 3. What factors exacerbate global inequalities? 4. How do physical and human factors exacerbate inequalities? 5. How can international efforts reduce inequalities? 6. How successful are aid projects? 7. How ...
Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to
... responses to global climate change1,2. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of future responses, they should reflect the empirical record of responses to temperature variability and recent warming, including advances in the timing of flowering and leafing3–5. We compared phenology (the ...
... responses to global climate change1,2. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of future responses, they should reflect the empirical record of responses to temperature variability and recent warming, including advances in the timing of flowering and leafing3–5. We compared phenology (the ...
2012 Annual Report on the Monitoring of
... resources on these forests requires considerable sampling effort because of the sheer size (more than 4 million hectares or 10 million acres) and highly variable topography. This broad-scale assessment is possible by application of a design based on probabilistic sampling (Stevens and Olsen 2003, 20 ...
... resources on these forests requires considerable sampling effort because of the sheer size (more than 4 million hectares or 10 million acres) and highly variable topography. This broad-scale assessment is possible by application of a design based on probabilistic sampling (Stevens and Olsen 2003, 20 ...
Climate Change Impacts in Indonesia
... (ENSO) events and that some researchers suggest that there will be more frequent and perhaps intense ENSO events in the future because of the warming global climate (Tsonis et al., 2005). Because Indonesia typically experiences droughts during El Niño events (the warm phase of ENSO) and excessive ra ...
... (ENSO) events and that some researchers suggest that there will be more frequent and perhaps intense ENSO events in the future because of the warming global climate (Tsonis et al., 2005). Because Indonesia typically experiences droughts during El Niño events (the warm phase of ENSO) and excessive ra ...
Using the past to understand the future
... There have been many attempts to place the present and projected global climate change into an historical context (eg Crowley32). However, most of these attempts are undertaken by palaeoclimatologists interested in the comparisons of rates and magnitudes of physical change, but not the corresponding ...
... There have been many attempts to place the present and projected global climate change into an historical context (eg Crowley32). However, most of these attempts are undertaken by palaeoclimatologists interested in the comparisons of rates and magnitudes of physical change, but not the corresponding ...
Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change
... The time to address the impacts of climate change is now. While this may seem like an overwhelming charge, there are many things that coastal resource managers around the country are already doing that are specifically or indirectly addressing the effects of climate change. The purpose of this docum ...
... The time to address the impacts of climate change is now. While this may seem like an overwhelming charge, there are many things that coastal resource managers around the country are already doing that are specifically or indirectly addressing the effects of climate change. The purpose of this docum ...
Causes of Sea Level Rise: What the Science Tells Us
... Sea level sets a baseline for storm surge—the potentially destructive rise in sea height that occurs during a coastal storm. As local sea level rises, so does that baseline, allowing coastal storm surges to penetrate farther inland. With higher global sea levels in 2050 and 2100, areas much farther ...
... Sea level sets a baseline for storm surge—the potentially destructive rise in sea height that occurs during a coastal storm. As local sea level rises, so does that baseline, allowing coastal storm surges to penetrate farther inland. With higher global sea levels in 2050 and 2100, areas much farther ...
Suggestions for monitoring of biological effects of
... There was a general consensus that although there has been research on ocean acidification the past 10 year, we still know very little about the effects on marine life. There are large variation in responses, also in closely related species and we need to understand more about individual species, bu ...
... There was a general consensus that although there has been research on ocean acidification the past 10 year, we still know very little about the effects on marine life. There are large variation in responses, also in closely related species and we need to understand more about individual species, bu ...
biol 3503 ecología - Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico
... The scientific method involves a sequential series of steps. This link not only leads you through those steps, but uses both a hypothetical situation and real examples to illustrate the points. Keywords: hypothesis, observation, scientific method, testing. ...
... The scientific method involves a sequential series of steps. This link not only leads you through those steps, but uses both a hypothetical situation and real examples to illustrate the points. Keywords: hypothesis, observation, scientific method, testing. ...
New Policy Protocols for Marine ... Research: Lessons Learned from Past ... Studies Stephanie Ann Harrington
... input into their research without compromising the integrity of the science in this new era of intense public scrutiny. The foundation for these protocols is established through an analysis of the relevant national and international legislation and a series of case studies of oceanographic research. ...
... input into their research without compromising the integrity of the science in this new era of intense public scrutiny. The foundation for these protocols is established through an analysis of the relevant national and international legislation and a series of case studies of oceanographic research. ...
Investigating La Runion Hot Spot From Crust to Core
... boundary. Depending on their numbers and typical heat fluxes, mantle plumes could be major factors in Earth’s heat budget, providing direct cooling to the core. Seismology could settle the controversy regarding their existence and significance by imaging plume conduits—or lack thereof—in situ, but t ...
... boundary. Depending on their numbers and typical heat fluxes, mantle plumes could be major factors in Earth’s heat budget, providing direct cooling to the core. Seismology could settle the controversy regarding their existence and significance by imaging plume conduits—or lack thereof—in situ, but t ...
Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA
... Marine environments are generally considered as highly valuable and their health and conservation status are seen as key priorities. Marine wildlife and habitats are facing multiple threats ranging from eutrophication to overfishing and ocean acidification, all of which directly or indirectly affect ...
... Marine environments are generally considered as highly valuable and their health and conservation status are seen as key priorities. Marine wildlife and habitats are facing multiple threats ranging from eutrophication to overfishing and ocean acidification, all of which directly or indirectly affect ...
Complex seasonal patterns of primary producers at the land–sea
... open ocean weakens in coastal marine waters that receive nutrient inputs from land. Therefore, we might expect different seasonal patterns of primary producers at the land– sea interface where the nutrient constraint is relaxed. However, there has been no global inventory available of phytoplankton ...
... open ocean weakens in coastal marine waters that receive nutrient inputs from land. Therefore, we might expect different seasonal patterns of primary producers at the land– sea interface where the nutrient constraint is relaxed. However, there has been no global inventory available of phytoplankton ...
BC Coastal Marine Science 2015 Workshop
... the regions of Hecate Strait and Dixon Entrance. These remain important areas as we know southern salmon and other iconic species migrate throughout these waters. ...
... the regions of Hecate Strait and Dixon Entrance. These remain important areas as we know southern salmon and other iconic species migrate throughout these waters. ...
Climate change and integrated analysis of mountain
... and characteristics in high catchments; (ii) modelling of sediment transfers in the Borgne d’Arolla watershed, and (iii) mapping of sediment sources in mountain torrents. 2 Conceptualisation: sediment transfers and high mountain systems Figure 1 synthesises the typical sediment cascade of steep A ...
... and characteristics in high catchments; (ii) modelling of sediment transfers in the Borgne d’Arolla watershed, and (iii) mapping of sediment sources in mountain torrents. 2 Conceptualisation: sediment transfers and high mountain systems Figure 1 synthesises the typical sediment cascade of steep A ...