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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Climate Change scenario"”.
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Marine Microbial Communities in Health and Disease: an Exploration of Marine Bacterial Associations Across Space, Time, and Potential Roles Against Pathogens in the Context of the Current Global Climate Change Scenario
Among the most critically threatened ecosystems worldwide, coral reefs are currently facing an unprecedented decline. This is particularly evident throughout the Caribbean Sea, where the synergistic action of natural and anthropogenic stressors resulted in phase shifts in the composition of the …
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Modeling land surface processes of the midwestern United States : predicting soil moisture under a warmer climate
… to quantify the response of soil moisture to climate change in the midwestern United States. To assess this response, a dynamic global vegetation model, Integrated Biosphere Simulator, was coupled to Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3- IBIS). IBIS has several key advantages over the …
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Quantifying the effects of an increasingly warmer climate with a view to improving the resilience of Great Britain's railway network: Is a new stressing regime the answer?
… warmer and summers hotter than the baseline climate. It is believed that Great Britain can continue to operate with a stress free (rail) temperature of 27°C under future climate scenarios, provided the acceptable operating range is narrowed upwards towards 27°C and that the quality of track, …
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Physiological tolerances of high temperatures in Fynbos birds: implications for climate change
Climate change is a reality. Numerous biological systems have already responded to changes in climate, with range shifts towards higher latitudes and altitudes being one of the most common responses to climate warming. Bioclimatic envelope modelling provides a useful method for predicting a …
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Genetic analysis of agronomic and enological traits in grapevine
… potential for producing high-quality wines in a climate change scenario, asegregating F1 population with 151 progeny derived from a cross between Graciano x Tempranillo was studied for14 agronomic traits, 11 enological traits and 5 seed traits for three consecutive years. All traits presented …
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Characteristics of precipitation: CloudSat observations and model predictions of the current and future climate
… of precipitation as they are predicted to change in a typical climate change scenario and as they exist now and how well model reproduces those observations. The first part of this study examines the controls on global precipitation evident in a transient carbon dioxide doubling experiment …
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Examining the Effectiveness of Early Warning System for Disaster Management in Tanzania: A Case Study of Management of Floods in Kinondoni Municipality
… issue and discussion worldwide. With the current climate change scenario and various studies in the past related to climate change has shown that flood frequency has increased leaving people in the flood plains more vulnerable. People in the river/stream bank due to lack/inadequate of EWS and also …
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Climate change and hazardous convective weather in the United States: Insights from high-resolution dynamical downscaling
<p>Global climate model (GCM) projections increasingly suggest that large-scale environmental conditions favorable for hazardous convective weather (HCW) may increase in frequency in the future due to anthropogenic climate change. However, this storm environment-based approach is undoubtedly …
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Viticultural techniques of canopy management to mitigate the effects of global warming
… and fruit quality. In particular, within the climate change scenario, their effectiveness of delaying grape technological ripening and improving the anthocyanins-to-sugar ratio was the main priority of the research. All the trials were conducted under field conditions. The three main cultural …
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A agricultura familiar do Seridó potiguar: vulnerabilidade, percepção e adaptação às mudanças climáticas
… e its consequences. The effects of the semiarid climate, together with other biophysics, social and political-economic factors, impair the agricultural production, generating a situation of food insecurity and poverty in the rural areas. With the occurrence of climate change, natural resources of …
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Preserving Biodiversity for a Climate Change Future: A Resilience Assessment of Three Bay Area Species--Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise), Arctostaphylos canescens (Hoary Manzanita), and Arctostaphylos virgata (Marin Manzanita)
<p> Anthropogenic climate change is an undeniable threat to the future of the natural world and human civilization. These shifts will have profound impacts on vegetation, especially for species endemic to isolated regions or sensitive to climate change factors. However, species resilience can …
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Conceptualising and quantifying the nonlinear, chaotic climate: implications for climate model experimental design
Uncertainty in climate system initial conditions (ICs) is known to limit the predictability of future atmospheric states. On weather time scales (i.e. hours to days), the separation between two atmospheric model trajectories, initially "indistinguishable" (compared to unavoidable uncertainties) …
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Exploring the Interaction of Forest Management and Climate in the Community Land Model
… pressures from humans through deforestation, changes in land use, and anthropogenic climate change. Managed forests play an important role in supplying forest products to the global population, necessitating the need to predict how forests will respond to climate change and how this will …
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Impacts of climate and land use change on fish species distributions in the central United States
… of management and conservation strategies under scenarios of environmental change. Modeling efforts for fish species have largely focused on cold-water, commercial, and recreationally-valued species, even though warm-water, non-game species have important roles in ecosystem services and …
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The Thermal Ecology of Sceloporus occidentalis
… assessing the possible impacts of the changing climate becomes more and more urgent. Ectotherms are excellent indicators of potential climatic ramifications on biodiversity because of their heavy reliance on the environment for their thermoregulation. Studies have historically looked at thermal …
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Advancing Water Security and Environmental Sustainability Through Evaluation of Water Use From the Field to State-Wide Scale
… shortages can result from population growth, climate change, inadequate water management policies, and the improper use of available technologies. The existing data and research on water use associated with water management policy structures are limited. Many states in the US follow strict …
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Integrated modelling of Global Change impacts in the German Elbe River Basin
… this study is to investigate the environmental change in the German part of the Elbe river basin, whereby the focus is on two water related problems: having too little water and having water of poor quality. The Elbe region is representative of humid to semi-humid landscapes in central Europe, …
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Evaluating the interactions of crop management, carbon cycling, and climate using Earth system modeling and remote sensing
… large impacts on carbon (C) cycling and climate at the global scale. Improvements in crop management practices, such as conservation tillage or 'no-till' (NT), have been proposed as climate change mitigation measures because such practices may alter C cycles through increased …
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Sustainable management of semi-arid African savannas under environmental and political change
… influence of external forces, i.e. environmental change and land reform, on the use of savanna vegetation and on the ecosystem response to this land use is assessed. Based on this I identify conditions and strategies that facilitate a sustainable use of semi-arid savanna rangelands in a changing …
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