Ecosystem change and stability over multiple decades in the
... change. We show conclusively that local knowledge is essential for understanding the cause and potential futures of ecosystems at the wider pan-Arctic scale. This study also develops a platform and new geo-referenced baseline against which future projections of climate-driven ecosystem change can be ...
... change. We show conclusively that local knowledge is essential for understanding the cause and potential futures of ecosystems at the wider pan-Arctic scale. This study also develops a platform and new geo-referenced baseline against which future projections of climate-driven ecosystem change can be ...
Knowing in context An exploration of the interface of marine
... science-based ecological criteria for the identification of EBSAs: uniqueness, aggregation, fitness consequences, resilience, and naturalness [14]. The first three criteria are considered the main dimensions for defining EBSAs while resilience and naturalness are secondary. Each of these is a continuum ...
... science-based ecological criteria for the identification of EBSAs: uniqueness, aggregation, fitness consequences, resilience, and naturalness [14]. The first three criteria are considered the main dimensions for defining EBSAs while resilience and naturalness are secondary. Each of these is a continuum ...
Plants & Ecology Range margins and refugia Johan Dahlberg
... spatial and temporal variations in the environmental conditions. Therefore, many different shapes of the abundance structure may occur due to the sensitivity of species to specific environmental conditions. The optimum response surface model has several assumptions which may be violated. For exampl ...
... spatial and temporal variations in the environmental conditions. Therefore, many different shapes of the abundance structure may occur due to the sensitivity of species to specific environmental conditions. The optimum response surface model has several assumptions which may be violated. For exampl ...
Responses of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to
... distributions extending northward (Parmesan 2006). Advances in phenology and poleward extensions of distributions are not necessarily problematic, but there are increased risks of consequential pestilence in ecosystems where insect herbivores are more diverse and more metabolically active as a resul ...
... distributions extending northward (Parmesan 2006). Advances in phenology and poleward extensions of distributions are not necessarily problematic, but there are increased risks of consequential pestilence in ecosystems where insect herbivores are more diverse and more metabolically active as a resul ...
Dear Colleague
... 130. How do disturbances influence population dynamics of species with different lifehistory strategies? 131. How does isolation affect population dynamics and persistence? 132. How are population dynamics and evolutionary dynamics linked? 133. Do most organisms live near their physiological limits? ...
... 130. How do disturbances influence population dynamics of species with different lifehistory strategies? 131. How does isolation affect population dynamics and persistence? 132. How are population dynamics and evolutionary dynamics linked? 133. Do most organisms live near their physiological limits? ...
from pik-potsdam.de - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
... populations (persistence, acclimation, genetic variability, dispersal, fragmentation, plant/animal interaction, species richness, conservation), potential response of vegetation (ecotonal shift – area, physiography – changes in the composition, structural changes), phenology, growth and productivity ...
... populations (persistence, acclimation, genetic variability, dispersal, fragmentation, plant/animal interaction, species richness, conservation), potential response of vegetation (ecotonal shift – area, physiography – changes in the composition, structural changes), phenology, growth and productivity ...
From water quality to climate change
... river flow and river basin management? • What are the impacts on biogeochemical cycles and contaminant cycling? • What are the impacts to ecological functioning, biodiversity, fish dynamics and stocks. ...
... river flow and river basin management? • What are the impacts on biogeochemical cycles and contaminant cycling? • What are the impacts to ecological functioning, biodiversity, fish dynamics and stocks. ...
Strasbourg, 22 May 2002
... before focusing on the potential vulnerability of Bern Convention species. The ecological traits of species which influence their sensitivity to climate change are considered for specific case studies, and to provide a framework for how species will be threatened both directly by climate change, and ...
... before focusing on the potential vulnerability of Bern Convention species. The ecological traits of species which influence their sensitivity to climate change are considered for specific case studies, and to provide a framework for how species will be threatened both directly by climate change, and ...
16. A Reflexive Methodology of Intervention
... In former chapters of this book we outlined new heuristic ways to understand work, organization and reorganization in terms of sustainability. We proposed criteria for to evaluate the sustainability of work systems, and described some principles that should characterize what we call Sustainable Work ...
... In former chapters of this book we outlined new heuristic ways to understand work, organization and reorganization in terms of sustainability. We proposed criteria for to evaluate the sustainability of work systems, and described some principles that should characterize what we call Sustainable Work ...
Environmental Science
... Recognize and explain that the amount of life any environment can support is limited by the available energy, water, oxygen, and minerals, and by the ability of ecosystems to recycle organic materials from the remains of dead organisms. Describe how the chemical elements that make up the molecules o ...
... Recognize and explain that the amount of life any environment can support is limited by the available energy, water, oxygen, and minerals, and by the ability of ecosystems to recycle organic materials from the remains of dead organisms. Describe how the chemical elements that make up the molecules o ...
Biodiversity Climate Change impacts report card technical paper 15
... and ecosystem diversity (CBD 1992). Genetic diversity is the variation in DNA sequence that is heritable from generation to generation and is manifested as variation in organismal form and function. Its loss reduces individual fitness, population viability and species persistence in the short term t ...
... and ecosystem diversity (CBD 1992). Genetic diversity is the variation in DNA sequence that is heritable from generation to generation and is manifested as variation in organismal form and function. Its loss reduces individual fitness, population viability and species persistence in the short term t ...
National education policy constructions of the `knowledge economy
... governments have begun the process of restructuring their national education systems and redesigning the interface between universities and business. These observations and predictions are hardly novel. In the mid-1980s, Charles Handy charted the future of work in a book of the same title. Among oth ...
... governments have begun the process of restructuring their national education systems and redesigning the interface between universities and business. These observations and predictions are hardly novel. In the mid-1980s, Charles Handy charted the future of work in a book of the same title. Among oth ...
Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth A. Lynch Employment 2005
... Lynch, E.A., S.C. Hotchkiss, and R. Calcote. 2011. Charcoal signatures defined by multivariate analysis of charcoal records from ten lakes in northwest Wisconsin (USA) Quaternary Research 75:125-137. Hotchkiss, S.C., R. Calcote, E.A. Lynch, C. Yanger* (In review) The paleoecology of landscapes: Usin ...
... Lynch, E.A., S.C. Hotchkiss, and R. Calcote. 2011. Charcoal signatures defined by multivariate analysis of charcoal records from ten lakes in northwest Wisconsin (USA) Quaternary Research 75:125-137. Hotchkiss, S.C., R. Calcote, E.A. Lynch, C. Yanger* (In review) The paleoecology of landscapes: Usin ...
chapters 1 - AP Environmental Science
... Chapter 1 An Intro. To Environmental Science Case Study: N/A Essential Questions 1. What is environment? 2. Why are natural resources important to human life? 3. How does the scientific method work and operate? 4. What are some pressures on the global environment? 5. What is sustainability and susta ...
... Chapter 1 An Intro. To Environmental Science Case Study: N/A Essential Questions 1. What is environment? 2. Why are natural resources important to human life? 3. How does the scientific method work and operate? 4. What are some pressures on the global environment? 5. What is sustainability and susta ...
Globalization of Knowledge (Forschungsperspektiven 2010+)
... which will lead in time to dramatic increase in the durability and transportability of knowledge. The globalization of science in the sense of an exchange of systems of theoretical knowledge across the wider Mediterranean world, on the one side, and East Asia, on the other side, goes at least back ...
... which will lead in time to dramatic increase in the durability and transportability of knowledge. The globalization of science in the sense of an exchange of systems of theoretical knowledge across the wider Mediterranean world, on the one side, and East Asia, on the other side, goes at least back ...
climate change change in mammal status increase in atmospheric
... Changing climates may have direct impacts on floristics, structure, phenology and the relative extent of vegetation. 3. Increase in atmospheric CO2 --> vegetation change PLAUSIBILITY: high. IMPACT: moderate-high. Maybe a subset of 2. World-wide increase in “woodiness” of savannas is at least partly ...
... Changing climates may have direct impacts on floristics, structure, phenology and the relative extent of vegetation. 3. Increase in atmospheric CO2 --> vegetation change PLAUSIBILITY: high. IMPACT: moderate-high. Maybe a subset of 2. World-wide increase in “woodiness” of savannas is at least partly ...
The Known and Potential Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity
... demographic, phenological, and genetic. Each of these classes can cause population expansions or contractions depending on the ecology of particular species. To demonstrate the range of potential climate effects, we present case studies for deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), moose (Alces alces), Eastern ...
... demographic, phenological, and genetic. Each of these classes can cause population expansions or contractions depending on the ecology of particular species. To demonstrate the range of potential climate effects, we present case studies for deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), moose (Alces alces), Eastern ...
The Known and Potential Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity
... demographic, phenological, and genetic. Each of these classes can cause population expansions or contractions depending on the ecology of particular species. To demonstrate the range of potential climate effects, we present case studies for deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), moose (Alces alces), Eastern ...
... demographic, phenological, and genetic. Each of these classes can cause population expansions or contractions depending on the ecology of particular species. To demonstrate the range of potential climate effects, we present case studies for deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), moose (Alces alces), Eastern ...
On foes and flows: Water conflict and cooperation in the Nile River
... potential. Despite its downstream position, Egypt has been by far the dominating country in the other two dimensions and has shaped the discourse and actions on water allocation in the Nile River Basin. This status of Egypt can be mainly traced back to the extensive external support Egypt enjoyed hi ...
... potential. Despite its downstream position, Egypt has been by far the dominating country in the other two dimensions and has shaped the discourse and actions on water allocation in the Nile River Basin. This status of Egypt can be mainly traced back to the extensive external support Egypt enjoyed hi ...
Environmental Ethics - Religion and Nature
... sideration, that is, have their interests considered or protected in some way. It also implicitly demands justification for claims limiting moral consideration to individuals or groups that are less than wholes. Indeed, much environmental ethics is engaged in the effort to determine the extent and na ...
... sideration, that is, have their interests considered or protected in some way. It also implicitly demands justification for claims limiting moral consideration to individuals or groups that are less than wholes. Indeed, much environmental ethics is engaged in the effort to determine the extent and na ...
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... The word ‘ontology’ refers to the study of being. It is derived from the Greek words ‘onto’ (being) and ’logos’ (science, discourse). This literal definition is, however, too wide to be of use to substantive enquiries. Indeed, philosophers realised over two thousand years ago that ‘being’ is at once ...
... The word ‘ontology’ refers to the study of being. It is derived from the Greek words ‘onto’ (being) and ’logos’ (science, discourse). This literal definition is, however, too wide to be of use to substantive enquiries. Indeed, philosophers realised over two thousand years ago that ‘being’ is at once ...
- Wiley Online Library
... rainy season precipitation on juvenile survival, which was consistent with an effect of precipitation on food availability during the breeding season. We used these relationships, and climate projections of significantly warmer and slightly drier winter weather by the year 2100, to project a signifi ...
... rainy season precipitation on juvenile survival, which was consistent with an effect of precipitation on food availability during the breeding season. We used these relationships, and climate projections of significantly warmer and slightly drier winter weather by the year 2100, to project a signifi ...
For a development-led green economy
... There are at least four key elements that need to be addressed for a successful transition. First, identifying new sources of funding that can be directly applied to transitional efforts in developing countries; second, creating an enabling environment that is conducive to private investment that wi ...
... There are at least four key elements that need to be addressed for a successful transition. First, identifying new sources of funding that can be directly applied to transitional efforts in developing countries; second, creating an enabling environment that is conducive to private investment that wi ...
Exam 1 Review Questions
... 4. The primary reason for the existence of a wetland is usually either a) local climate or b) local topography and soils. Can you give an example of two wetlands, one formed primarily by local climate and one formed primarily by local topography and soils (describe each wetland). Explain what it is ...
... 4. The primary reason for the existence of a wetland is usually either a) local climate or b) local topography and soils. Can you give an example of two wetlands, one formed primarily by local climate and one formed primarily by local topography and soils (describe each wetland). Explain what it is ...