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... Litter decomposition processes are regulated by three driving variables: physico-chemical climate, litter quality and decomposer organisms [...] ...
Walter Leal Filho; Franziska Wolf; Stefano Moncada; Amanda Lange Salvia; Abdul-Lateef Babatunde Balogun; Constantina Skanavis; Aristea Kounani; Patrick D. Nunn
... Many climate change responses focus on form rather than substance. As a result, they invariably look at the consequences but ignore the drivers of climate change. Since past approaches towards climate change adaptation have had limited success, the most effective and sustainable way to minimize future climate change impacts on humanity is through transformative adaptation (TA). This paper defines ...
climaticfactors, etc ; Quercus; cold; death; drought; germination; mortality; risk; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Traits enabling seeds to survive post‐dispersal desiccation and subsequently germinate are important aspects of plant regeneration for species with desiccation‐sensitive seeds. However, how desiccation and germination‐related traits co‐vary and relate to patterns of climate variation are unknown. We investigated physiological traits related to desiccation and germination of desiccation‐sensitive s ...
climaticfactors, etc ; altitude; catenas; ecosystems; landscapes; meadows; mountains; temperature; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Understanding the trend of vegetation change and its reaction to climate variation is important for revealing the mechanism of ecosystem behavior. However, current research rarely systematically analyzes the time effects of climate variation on vegetation dynamics (time-lag and time-accumulation effects), especially in arid and semi-arid mountainous terrain. The typical mountainous terrain—the Qil ...
climaticfactors, etc ; coral reefs; corals; macroalgae; models; observational studies; Seychelles; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Climate‐induced coral bleaching events are a leading threat to coral reef ecosystems and can result in coral–macroalgal regime shifts that are difficult to reverse. It is unclear how different factors causally influence regime shift or recovery trajectories after a bleaching event. Here, we use structural causal modeling (SCM) and its application of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to determine how ...
climaticfactors, etc ; climate change; food industry; markets; models; ocean acidification; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Climate change will impose high costs on different societal actors, including firms and organizations, forcing them to adapt to this new situation. Although the relevance of implementing adaptation strategies is widely recognized, studies on firms' adaptation to climate change are still in their infancy, especially regarding small and medium enterprises. Following a multi-stage approach, we analyz ...
climaticfactors, etc ; Drosophila melanogaster; adults; chemical ecology; data collection; genetically modified organisms; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The cuticle of all insects is covered with hydrocarbons which have multiple functions. Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) basically serve to protect insects against environmental harm and reduce dehydration. In many species, some CHCs also act as pheromones. CHCs have been intensively studied in Drosophila species and more especially in D. melanogaster. In this species, flies produce about 40 CHCs form ...
climaticfactors, etc ; Anthropocene epoch; acidification; carbon; eutrophication; humans; paleoecology; peatlands; vegetation; Poland; Show all 10 Subjects
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... In the time of the global climate crisis, it is vital to protect and restore peatlands to maintain their functioning as carbon sinks. Otherwise, their transformations may trigger a shift to a carbon source state and further contribute to global warming. In this study, we focused on eutrophication, which resulted in the transition from rich fen to poor fen conditions on the Kazanie fen (central Gre ...
climaticfactors, etc ; dendroclimatology; forests; latewood; porosity; reforestation; temperature; wood; woody plants; Brazil; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Seasonal climate can influence the radial growth of woody species, resulting in physical indications of regional environmental events that are identifiable through dendrochronological analysis. The objective of this work was to investigate the dendroclimatological potential of the Paratecoma peroba occurring in the last remnant of seasonal semideciduous forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and to cha ...
Luis B. Epele; Marta G. Grech; Emilio A. Williams-Subiza; Cristina Stenert; Kyle McLean; Hamish S. Greig; Leonardo Maltchik; Mateus Marques Pires; Matthew S. Bird; Aurelie Boissezon; Dani Boix; Eliane Demierre; Patricia E. García; Stephanie Gascón; Michael Jeffries; Jamie M. Kneitel; Olga Loskutova; Luz M. Manzo; Gabriela Mataloni; Musa C. Mlambo; Beat Oertli; Jordi Sala; Erica E. Scheibler; Haitao Wu; Scott A. Wissinger; Darold P. Batzer
climaticfactors, etc ; climate change; data collection; latitude; macroinvertebrates; species diversity; temperature; wetlands; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Climate change is rapidly driving global biodiversity declines. How wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages are responding is unclear, a concern given their vital function in these ecosystems. Using a data set from 769 minimally impacted depressional wetlands across the globe (467 temporary and 302 permanent), we evaluated how temperature and precipitation (average, range, variability) affects the r ...
climaticfactors, etc ; annuals; buildings; cold zones; energy conservation; energy efficiency; optical properties; windows; Show all 8 Subjects
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... In this paper, a systematic analysis is presented to determine optimal optical properties of smart glazing to minimize energy demand for perimeter office spaces. The optimization analysis considers the impacts of design and operation conditions of commercial buildings including size and orientation of windows as well as the climate characteristics of the buildings. In addition, daylighting benefit ...
climaticfactors, etc ; Asians; artificial intelligence; microbial communities; microplastics; ocean warming; pollutants; prediction; risk; wills; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Microplastic (MP) contamination has become an increasingly serious environmental problem. However, the risks of MP contamination in complex global climatic and geographic scenarios remain unclear. We established a multifeature superposition analysis boosting (MFAB) machine learning (ML) approach to address the above knowledge gap. MFAB-ML identified and predicted the importance, interaction networ ...
climaticfactors, etc ; catenas; evaporation; hydrologic models; mountains; rain; runoff; snow; snowmelt; snowpack; summer; watersheds; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Snow-affected mountainous areas are highly vulnerable to climate changes in arid and semi-arid regions. Previous studies have put more emphasis on runoff, however, research about snow hydrological processes is still insufficient. Based on the optimization of calibration strategies, this study aims to provide a more realistic simulation of snow hydrology by coupling both a lumped rainfall-runoff mo ...
climaticfactors, etc ; bioenergy; carbon; energy; issues and policy; models; solar energy; viability; wind power; Pakistan; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Around the globe, all developing and developed economies focus on renewable energy sources for clean and sustainable economic growth and aim to decrease carbon emission to improve the climatic condition. This study aims to evaluate the feasible renewable energy source in Pakistan and study the criteria based on the investigation of wind energy, biomass energy, geothermal and solar energy, and thei ...
Zabihollah Charrahy; Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi‐Ershadi; Mohammad Reza Shirzadi; Amir Ahmad Akhavan; Yavar Rassi; Seyedeh Zohreh Hosseini; Nathaniel J. Webb; Ubydul Haque; Faramarz Bozorg Omid; Ahmad Ali Hanafi‐Bojd
climaticfactors, etc ; climate change; cutaneous leishmaniasis; models; people; prediction; spatial data; vector-borne diseases; Iran; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is an important vector‐borne disease with an incidence of 15.8 cases per 100,000 people in Iran in 2019. Despite all efforts to control the disease, ZCL has expanded into new areas during the last decades. The aim of this study was to predict the best ecological niches for both vectors and reservoirs of ZCL under climate change scenarios in Iran. Several onli ...
climaticfactors, etc ; altitude; climate change; ecosystems; extinction; heat tolerance; highlands; landscapes; population dynamics; probability; vertebrates; Show all 11 Subjects
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... AIM: Climate change is driving species to migrate to novel areas as current environments become unsuitable. As a result, species distributions have shifted uphill in montane ecosystems globally. Heterogeneous dispersal rates among shifting species could result in complex changes to community assemblages. For example, interspecific differences in dispersal ability could lead to the disruption, or c ...
climaticfactors, etc ; aerosols; air pollution; forest land; heat island; landscapes; statistical analysis; surface temperature; winter; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Urban heat island (UHI) and air pollution are common environmental problems in urban areas. However, there is no comprehensive analysis of influencing factors and their interactions on land surface temperature (LST) and aerosol optical depth (AOD). To propose strategies to comprehensively mitigate LST and AOD by optimizing the landscape pattern, we used a series of statistical analysis methods to ...
climaticfactors, etc ; Pinus tabuliformis; biotic factors; dendroecology; drought; plant competition; stand density; tree growth; trees; China; Show all 10 Subjects
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... As climate changes, understanding tree responses to climate is important to predict tree growth, and plant competition as a nonnegligible biotic factor plays a key role in such responses. However, few studies have investigated how competition affects the response of Pinus tabulaeformis plantations to climate. In our study, we investigated nine 29-year-old P. tabulaeformis plantation plots (three d ...
... This study aims to evaluate the climate- and human-induced impacts on two contrasting river basins in India, specifically, the Ganges and the Godavari. Monthly discharge simulations from global hydrological models (GHMs), run with and without human influence using CMIP5 projections under the framework of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project, are utilized to address the scientifi ...
climaticfactors, etc ; Salix; bioaccumulation factor; growth performance; heavy metals; models; photosynthesis; phytoaccumulation; pollution; soil remediation; toxicity; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Climate-induced flooding makes soil more vulnerable to heavy metal contamination, posing challenges for soil remediation. Salix has the potential to cope with flooding stress and environmental contamination, but its effectiveness in flooded soils with multiple heavy metals has not yet been well assessed. Thus, the present work tested fifteen Salix clones grown in multimetal (Cd, Zn and Pb) contami ...