Sensitivity to climate change for two reptiles at the Mojave
... shift in rainfall resulted in conditions that were rare or non-existent across the greater Joshua Tree National Park landscape and so the temperature or precipitation alone shifted models yielded unrealistic estimates of how climate change may impact these species. Therefore I only considered the mo ...
... shift in rainfall resulted in conditions that were rare or non-existent across the greater Joshua Tree National Park landscape and so the temperature or precipitation alone shifted models yielded unrealistic estimates of how climate change may impact these species. Therefore I only considered the mo ...
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... trophic mismatches. For example, in pollination mutualisms, the pollinator benefits from pollen and nectar food resources and the plant benefits by being pollinated and increasing its reproductive success. Under average climate conditions, without climate change associated warming, flowering time in ...
... trophic mismatches. For example, in pollination mutualisms, the pollinator benefits from pollen and nectar food resources and the plant benefits by being pollinated and increasing its reproductive success. Under average climate conditions, without climate change associated warming, flowering time in ...
Climate change and mammals: evolutionary
... identified as the causal mechanism producing the observed change; (ii) whether the change is adaptive; and (iii) the relative influences of evolution and/or phenotypic plasticity underlying the change. The available data for mammals are scant. We found twelve studies that report changes in phenology ...
... identified as the causal mechanism producing the observed change; (ii) whether the change is adaptive; and (iii) the relative influences of evolution and/or phenotypic plasticity underlying the change. The available data for mammals are scant. We found twelve studies that report changes in phenology ...
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... climate system is warming, and this is affecting both average air and ocean temperatures, thus causing widespread snow and ice melts and average sea levels to rise. Global warming is also expected to affect both ecosystems and socio-economic systems to varying degrees, even though the impacts on nat ...
... climate system is warming, and this is affecting both average air and ocean temperatures, thus causing widespread snow and ice melts and average sea levels to rise. Global warming is also expected to affect both ecosystems and socio-economic systems to varying degrees, even though the impacts on nat ...
From mitigation to creativity: the agency of museums and science
... from a critique of what the museum does to that of an institution’s emergent possibilities. Because the liquid institution can no longer be reduced to a fixed and closed hierarchy of functional interdependencies, an organization, and indeed audiences, can be thought of in terms of their capacities, ...
... from a critique of what the museum does to that of an institution’s emergent possibilities. Because the liquid institution can no longer be reduced to a fixed and closed hierarchy of functional interdependencies, an organization, and indeed audiences, can be thought of in terms of their capacities, ...
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... approaches in terms of best practice fisheries management that will be beneficial in both the present and the future, and that should be implemented regardless of possible climate change impacts. ...
... approaches in terms of best practice fisheries management that will be beneficial in both the present and the future, and that should be implemented regardless of possible climate change impacts. ...
EU cities and regions leading the way against climate change
... Senator of the City of Rostock (Germany), Presidents of Climate Alliance An international climate agreement can only be successful if all levels of government work closely together. The over 1,700 member cities of Climate Alliance show in their everyday work that local authorities hold the solutions ...
... Senator of the City of Rostock (Germany), Presidents of Climate Alliance An international climate agreement can only be successful if all levels of government work closely together. The over 1,700 member cities of Climate Alliance show in their everyday work that local authorities hold the solutions ...
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... reduce, keeping agricultural practices an genetic materials constant, Arabica coffee yields and quality in the main coffee producing countries. Ovalle-Rivera et al. (2015) estimated that the acreage with aptitude for growing Arabica coffee would be reduced for all producing countries by 2050, moving ...
... reduce, keeping agricultural practices an genetic materials constant, Arabica coffee yields and quality in the main coffee producing countries. Ovalle-Rivera et al. (2015) estimated that the acreage with aptitude for growing Arabica coffee would be reduced for all producing countries by 2050, moving ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... activities or natural variations. It is one of the most outstanding challenges facing the global community and as such has been given different definitions by different authors according to their perceptions and the way it affects them. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2007) def ...
... activities or natural variations. It is one of the most outstanding challenges facing the global community and as such has been given different definitions by different authors according to their perceptions and the way it affects them. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2007) def ...
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in
... discursive absence from previous speeches was far from trivial, and has numerous implications: by not confronting climate issues explicitly, it was argued that opportunities for further scientific research and policy action were severely limited.3 The discursive silence from the Obama Administration ...
... discursive absence from previous speeches was far from trivial, and has numerous implications: by not confronting climate issues explicitly, it was argued that opportunities for further scientific research and policy action were severely limited.3 The discursive silence from the Obama Administration ...
International climate policy after Copenhagen: towards a ‘building blocks’ approach: Working Paper No. 21 (303 kB) (opens in new window)
... such a treaty in any case. Either way, they prefer to build elements of global climate policy from the bottom up, by taking action at the domestic level. Major emerging economies such as China have similar concerns about sovereignty, but join the G-77 bloc of developing countries in demanding a lega ...
... such a treaty in any case. Either way, they prefer to build elements of global climate policy from the bottom up, by taking action at the domestic level. Major emerging economies such as China have similar concerns about sovereignty, but join the G-77 bloc of developing countries in demanding a lega ...
Cross-pressuring conservative Catholics? Effects of Pope Francis
... 66.3 %), Bnot occurring^ (coded as 1; 7.9 %), or Bmost scientists are unsure whether global warming is occurring or not^ (coded as 2; 20.2 %). The three items were standardized and averaged to form an index to measure individuals’ overall acknowledge of and concerns with climate change (Cronbach’s a ...
... 66.3 %), Bnot occurring^ (coded as 1; 7.9 %), or Bmost scientists are unsure whether global warming is occurring or not^ (coded as 2; 20.2 %). The three items were standardized and averaged to form an index to measure individuals’ overall acknowledge of and concerns with climate change (Cronbach’s a ...
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... students background on climate change. There are a number of things that can alter the global temperature: changes in the sun’s activity, distance of the sun’s orbit from earth, volcanic eruptions, greenhouse gas emissions (including aerosols, which can provide a cooling effect). However, we know fr ...
... students background on climate change. There are a number of things that can alter the global temperature: changes in the sun’s activity, distance of the sun’s orbit from earth, volcanic eruptions, greenhouse gas emissions (including aerosols, which can provide a cooling effect). However, we know fr ...
The Ethical Responsibility of the Loss and Damage Mechanism: a
... horizon. In places like the Carterets in Papua New Guinea, the damage is such that internal movement is already occurring. But there are places which are losing habitable land will force ...
... horizon. In places like the Carterets in Papua New Guinea, the damage is such that internal movement is already occurring. But there are places which are losing habitable land will force ...
Explaining Ocean Warming - Observatoire Océanologique de
... (for a synthesis, see Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2014; Pörtner et al., 2014; Howes et al., 2015). Due to a domino effect, key human sectors are now at threat, especially fisheries, aquaculture, coastal risks management, health and coastal tourism (for a synthesis, see Weatherdon et al., 2015). Severe im ...
... (for a synthesis, see Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2014; Pörtner et al., 2014; Howes et al., 2015). Due to a domino effect, key human sectors are now at threat, especially fisheries, aquaculture, coastal risks management, health and coastal tourism (for a synthesis, see Weatherdon et al., 2015). Severe im ...
Attitudes toward global warming, climate change and
... Abstract A representative longitudinal sample of 16 to 17 year olds drawn from schools across Queensland shows young Australians to be strongly supportive of action to prevent the impact of human induced global warming and more likely than the OECD country average to favour practices that promote su ...
... Abstract A representative longitudinal sample of 16 to 17 year olds drawn from schools across Queensland shows young Australians to be strongly supportive of action to prevent the impact of human induced global warming and more likely than the OECD country average to favour practices that promote su ...
Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global
... unit area. The heat capacity is obtained such that the correlation coefficient between T^ ENSO (t) and T GLOBAL (t) is maximum based on de‐trended data from 1950 through 2000. The results in this study are largely insensitive to the choice of b, or computed values of C. 3.3. Volcanic Signal [8] The ...
... unit area. The heat capacity is obtained such that the correlation coefficient between T^ ENSO (t) and T GLOBAL (t) is maximum based on de‐trended data from 1950 through 2000. The results in this study are largely insensitive to the choice of b, or computed values of C. 3.3. Volcanic Signal [8] The ...
Adaptation strategies to increase human resilience against climate
... A previous impact assessment conducted for the purpose of developing the first National Communication of Sudan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) considered vulnerability only to changes in annual average precipitation and temperature (Ministry of Environment and P ...
... A previous impact assessment conducted for the purpose of developing the first National Communication of Sudan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) considered vulnerability only to changes in annual average precipitation and temperature (Ministry of Environment and P ...
Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate
... simulations with combined changes in anthropogenic and natural forcings are likely to better capture the observed trends over the 20th century. We have confidence in the results because they are very similar for all the models, despite differences in the model formulations and differences in the rep ...
... simulations with combined changes in anthropogenic and natural forcings are likely to better capture the observed trends over the 20th century. We have confidence in the results because they are very similar for all the models, despite differences in the model formulations and differences in the rep ...
Dealing with the uncertainties of climate engineering
... extreme weather phenomena such as storms or droughts that are attributable to climate change. The severity of these weather events threaten crop yields and thus the food supply, which results in an enhanced pressure on the government to decide on the deployment of a CE technique such as stratospheri ...
... extreme weather phenomena such as storms or droughts that are attributable to climate change. The severity of these weather events threaten crop yields and thus the food supply, which results in an enhanced pressure on the government to decide on the deployment of a CE technique such as stratospheri ...
Climate variability and change and their health effects in small
... variability. Climate change projections increase the level of concern because models suggest that small island states will experience not only warmer temperatures, but also increased climate variability.The consequences of increased climate variability are likely to be related to changes in rainfall ...
... variability. Climate change projections increase the level of concern because models suggest that small island states will experience not only warmer temperatures, but also increased climate variability.The consequences of increased climate variability are likely to be related to changes in rainfall ...
Corporate ppt template - Global Carbon Project
... Changes in land surface characteristics – albedo – moisture availability (roots, canopy) – aerodynamic roughness ...
... Changes in land surface characteristics – albedo – moisture availability (roots, canopy) – aerodynamic roughness ...