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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Climatic Extremes"”.
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Essays in Climatic Extremes, Agriculture and Natural Resources
… assessments are carried out of changes in extremes of rainfall. These putative changes are then assessed in relation to certain larger scale climatological phenomena which presumably impact hydrologic extremes, based on hypotheses presented in the literature. The second part of the …
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Evaluating Adaptive Capacity to Climatic Extremes in Rural Zambia
… strengthen their adaptive capacity to weather extremes. After reviewing the literature on how climatic extremes impact welfare in the first chapter, the second chapter uses a systematic review of randomized and non-randomized studies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy interventions in …
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Conquest and change : Mongol herding in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia
… Xilingol herders recognised the impact of climatic extremes, environmental change, and the potential to increase their standard of living. However, their interpretations differed in several crucial ways. Notably, herders did not perceive the climate as a series of recurrent natural …
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Characterization of UHPFRC Materials for Bridge Construction: An Opportunity to Offset the Need for Prestressing in Bridge Decks
… materials of their original design, or due to climatic extremes that cause the concrete materials to fail (Mermigas 2018). This is especially true for structures such as bridges which are continuously exposed to variations of the environment including temperature, moisture, and road de-icing …
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Changes in Wetland Conditions and Wetland Plant Communities in the Prairie Pothole Region After 50 Years
… the most abundant species within wetland zones. Climatic extremes greatly impacted wetland size, depths, and specific conductivity for Crystal Springs and Cottonwood whereas wetlands at Mt. Moriah were less impacted, appearing more resilient. Climatic extremes in combination with invasive plant …
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USE OF CELLULAR CONCRETE FOR AIR CONVECTION EMBANKMENT TO PROTECT PERMAFROST FOUNDATION IN COLD REGIONS
… settlement, and pavement distresses caused by climatic extremes in permafrost regions for over three decades. However, the desired crushed rocks needed for ACE are not readily available in many areas of interior Alaska. Burdened by the need to ship suitable rocks to remote locations, the cost …
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The Influence of Weather and Geographic Location on Reproduction and Nightly Activity of Bats in Missouri
… cooler springs. The inevitable escalation of climatic extremes may cause Midwestern bat species to experience environmental stressors in different ways. These data provide regional managers with better tools to address seasonal Indiana bat survey guidelines and potentially inform seasonal …
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Paleoenvironment reconstruction in extreme climates using organic geochemical investigations
… tools, a set of unique locations situated in climatic extremes have been investigated. During the Early Cenozoic the planet was much warmer than today. In addition to this higher background temperature a series of rapid warming events occurred termed hyperthermals. The largest of these, the …
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Climate change in experimental ecology - The impact of warming and drought on key European tree, heath, and grassland species
… mean air temperatures will be accompanied by climatic extremes such as drought. The frequency and magnitude of those extreme weather events are expected to increase in the future. Additionally, climatic extremes may have stronger effects on plants than a gradual temperature shift. Therefore, …
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Plant growth responses to winter climate change: from amongand within-species variation to plant-soil interactions
… as a single response unit under different climatic extremes. Plant-soil interactions were also explored to gain a more complete understanding of factors directly impacting plant responses to winter warming. Three in situ experiments, simulating winter warming for different durations and at …
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Functional anatomy, osteogenesis and bone microstructure of the appendicular system of African mole-rats (Rodentia: Ctenohystrica: Bathyergidae)
… been associated to a life protected from both climatic extremes and predation, as well as to intergenerational transfer of information, communal care of young and shared foraging endeavors in social species. For these reasons, bathyergids represent a unique animal model to explore their …