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... Similar patterns of clinal variation have been observed along latitudinal and elevational gradients in common garden experiments for many temperate and boreal species. These studies convinced forest managers that a ‘local is best’ seed source policy was usually safest for reforestation. In recent de ...
... Similar patterns of clinal variation have been observed along latitudinal and elevational gradients in common garden experiments for many temperate and boreal species. These studies convinced forest managers that a ‘local is best’ seed source policy was usually safest for reforestation. In recent de ...
Climate Change and Our Natural Resources A Report from the
... Figure 5: Egg-to-migrant survival for juvenile chinook in the Stillaguamish River under a range of annual peak flow magnitudes. Source: Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians...................................................................................................................................... ...
... Figure 5: Egg-to-migrant survival for juvenile chinook in the Stillaguamish River under a range of annual peak flow magnitudes. Source: Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians...................................................................................................................................... ...
Will climate change increase ozone depletion from low
... IPCC model simulations using the SRES A2 scenario. SSTs and sea ice coverage as well as the concentrations of greenhouse gases are the most important boundary conditions that are required to simulate a future climate. SST and sea ice coverage data were taken from an IPCC AR4 simulation including an ...
... IPCC model simulations using the SRES A2 scenario. SSTs and sea ice coverage as well as the concentrations of greenhouse gases are the most important boundary conditions that are required to simulate a future climate. SST and sea ice coverage data were taken from an IPCC AR4 simulation including an ...
Integrating Climate Change into Northeast and Midwest State
... 4. Scale-appropriate adaptation strategies and actions in the Northeast and Midwest United States: What approaches, strategies, and actions could be taken to sustain fish, wildlife and their habitats in the short and long term across the Northeast and ...
... 4. Scale-appropriate adaptation strategies and actions in the Northeast and Midwest United States: What approaches, strategies, and actions could be taken to sustain fish, wildlife and their habitats in the short and long term across the Northeast and ...
Coastal Risk Management Guide
... assessments, development assessment, coastal infrastructure design processes and landuse planning exercises. These benchmarks are a projected rise in sea level (relative to the 1990 mean sea level) of 0.4 metres by 2050 and 0.9 metres by 2100 (Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DEC ...
... assessments, development assessment, coastal infrastructure design processes and landuse planning exercises. These benchmarks are a projected rise in sea level (relative to the 1990 mean sea level) of 0.4 metres by 2050 and 0.9 metres by 2100 (Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DEC ...
Temperature-induced mismatches between
... B). These temperatures were within the range of temperatures normally experienced by L. variegatus (Appendix A: Fig. A1). The upper limit of temperatures at our collection site is 318C and this temperature will likely become more frequent under current climate change projections. All temperatures we ...
... B). These temperatures were within the range of temperatures normally experienced by L. variegatus (Appendix A: Fig. A1). The upper limit of temperatures at our collection site is 318C and this temperature will likely become more frequent under current climate change projections. All temperatures we ...
Climate Change: Adaptation for Queensland Issues Paper
... warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Even with only 2°C global warming there are serious risks to Queensland from the impacts of climate change, and it is important to start planning now to manage these risk. Where decisions have very long term implications – for example with land use plannin ...
... warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Even with only 2°C global warming there are serious risks to Queensland from the impacts of climate change, and it is important to start planning now to manage these risk. Where decisions have very long term implications – for example with land use plannin ...
Document Title - Sanjeev Sabhlok
... You can only explain REALITY. You can't impose theory on reality. That's not how science works. (Of course, religion does work that way, whereby you take theory and impose it on reality. Such approaches are guaranteed to lead us astray.) So we must focus on finding out what is real, before we make u ...
... You can only explain REALITY. You can't impose theory on reality. That's not how science works. (Of course, religion does work that way, whereby you take theory and impose it on reality. Such approaches are guaranteed to lead us astray.) So we must focus on finding out what is real, before we make u ...
Climate change and
... channels, including movement of people to coasts, impacts on coastal infrastructure and living space and through more readily observed pathways of fisheries productivity and availability. Indirect changes and trends may interact with, amplify or even overwhelm biophysical impacts on fish ecology. 2. ...
... channels, including movement of people to coasts, impacts on coastal infrastructure and living space and through more readily observed pathways of fisheries productivity and availability. Indirect changes and trends may interact with, amplify or even overwhelm biophysical impacts on fish ecology. 2. ...
The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
... space, utterly dependent on the life-support systems provided by our planet. But the truth, as pointed out by philosopher Marshall McLuhan, is that none of us are just passengers— we are all drivers of planet Earth. In the very simple act of breathing each of us slightly alters the composition of th ...
... space, utterly dependent on the life-support systems provided by our planet. But the truth, as pointed out by philosopher Marshall McLuhan, is that none of us are just passengers— we are all drivers of planet Earth. In the very simple act of breathing each of us slightly alters the composition of th ...
The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change
... and communal pooling. Partnerships between private and civil society institutions are relatively uncommon and need greater encouragement. They tend to be more closely associated with exchange and storage based adaptation practices. Mobility, although often neglected in the literature on adaptation ...
... and communal pooling. Partnerships between private and civil society institutions are relatively uncommon and need greater encouragement. They tend to be more closely associated with exchange and storage based adaptation practices. Mobility, although often neglected in the literature on adaptation ...
Pension Fund Trustees and Climate Change Research report 106
... I hope that this timely report will act as a wake-up call to trustees to put climate change, resource efficiency and social sustainability at the heart of their investment practices. Pension funds need an economic recovery that lasts. To achieve this, they must take greater responsibility as asset o ...
... I hope that this timely report will act as a wake-up call to trustees to put climate change, resource efficiency and social sustainability at the heart of their investment practices. Pension funds need an economic recovery that lasts. To achieve this, they must take greater responsibility as asset o ...
Day3.C.Butchart.pdf
... Filters out more eastward but allows more westward flux with an increase in the gross flux ...
... Filters out more eastward but allows more westward flux with an increase in the gross flux ...
What is the temporal and spatial variability in porewater chemistry?
... - Estimated TOC pools can vary by almost 2-fold; highlighting the importance of sampling over space and time when upscaling. ...
... - Estimated TOC pools can vary by almost 2-fold; highlighting the importance of sampling over space and time when upscaling. ...
Primer on Hydrofluorocarbons
... Depending on the application, generation mix, and fuel type, emissions from generating electricity account for between 70-95% of total climate emissions attributable to products using refrigerants.25 The phase out of CFCs under the Montreal Protocol, which began in the mid-1980s, catalyzed substanti ...
... Depending on the application, generation mix, and fuel type, emissions from generating electricity account for between 70-95% of total climate emissions attributable to products using refrigerants.25 The phase out of CFCs under the Montreal Protocol, which began in the mid-1980s, catalyzed substanti ...
Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth`s
... over the oceans into the atmosphere (moistening of the atmosphere but cooling the ocean). The extratropical storm track precipitation is also evident in the Q2 field but is more than compensated for by radiative effects in Q1. At TOA, RT (Figure 1) is much more zonally symmetric and reveals the exces ...
... over the oceans into the atmosphere (moistening of the atmosphere but cooling the ocean). The extratropical storm track precipitation is also evident in the Q2 field but is more than compensated for by radiative effects in Q1. At TOA, RT (Figure 1) is much more zonally symmetric and reveals the exces ...
High-latitude cooling associated with landscape
... and severity by the end of the 21st century, due primarily to longer growing seasons and exacerbated mid-summer drought. Studies using fire weather indices or statistical relationships between burn area and climate variables from climate models generally predict increases in burn area on the order o ...
... and severity by the end of the 21st century, due primarily to longer growing seasons and exacerbated mid-summer drought. Studies using fire weather indices or statistical relationships between burn area and climate variables from climate models generally predict increases in burn area on the order o ...
From Kyoto to Copenhagen - Law, Environment and Development
... change mitigation efforts. These debates, which have been ongoing since 1997, are even more intense now as scholars analyse the future of climate change mitigation and adaptation in the post Copenhagen era.4 The most prominent question on many lips are ‘how effective have these mechanisms been and d ...
... change mitigation efforts. These debates, which have been ongoing since 1997, are even more intense now as scholars analyse the future of climate change mitigation and adaptation in the post Copenhagen era.4 The most prominent question on many lips are ‘how effective have these mechanisms been and d ...
Climate Change as Metaphor & Catalyst
... which have allowed humankind to increasingly manipulate its own environment. White (1967) points to the plow, developed by late seventh century farmers in northern Europe, as the moment when the relationship of western society to the natural world profoundly changed: “distribution of land was based ...
... which have allowed humankind to increasingly manipulate its own environment. White (1967) points to the plow, developed by late seventh century farmers in northern Europe, as the moment when the relationship of western society to the natural world profoundly changed: “distribution of land was based ...
Do Models Underestimate the Solar Contribution to Recent Climate
... Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were able to conclude that ‘‘most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations’’ (Mitchell et al. 2001). Quantifying the contributions of anthropoge ...
... Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were able to conclude that ‘‘most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations’’ (Mitchell et al. 2001). Quantifying the contributions of anthropoge ...
Situation Analysis on Climate Change - 400 Bad Request
... is supported by the Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation, the Netherlands. Ecosystems for Life will develop, through dialogue and research, longer-term relationships between various stakeholder groups within and between the countries. It will develop a common understanding to ...
... is supported by the Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation, the Netherlands. Ecosystems for Life will develop, through dialogue and research, longer-term relationships between various stakeholder groups within and between the countries. It will develop a common understanding to ...
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... changing food and feed demand. FAO estimates that, to satisfy the growing demand driven by population growth and diet changes, food production will have to increase by at least 60 percent in the next decades. According to the United Nations (2015), there are still 836 million people in the world liv ...
... changing food and feed demand. FAO estimates that, to satisfy the growing demand driven by population growth and diet changes, food production will have to increase by at least 60 percent in the next decades. According to the United Nations (2015), there are still 836 million people in the world liv ...