Climate, water and vegetation
Assessing the impact of climate variability on catchment water balance and vegetation cover
... non-woody vegetation have unique advantages and disadvantages when competing for variable resources of water, nutrients, and light (Notaro, ...forest vegetation is less sen- sitive to drought than ...
16
Interannual Water-level Fluctuations and the Vegetation of Prairie Potholes: Potential Impacts of Climate Change
... Mean water depth and range of interannual water- level fluctuations over wet-dry cycles in precipitation are ma- jor drivers of vegetation zone formation in North American prairie ...interannual ...
12
Hydrological effects of climate variability and vegetation dynamics on annual fluvial water balance in global large river basins
... amongst climate, catchment characteristics and hydrological cycle (Yang et ...as water storage, are usually non- stationary due to climate change and human activities (Greve et ...in ...
14
Vegetation dynamics and climate seasonality jointly control the interannual catchment water balance in the Loess Plateau under the Budyko framework
... with vegetation dynam- ics and climate seasonality in some single basins were not significant in this ...tion, climate, and soil conditions will lead to specific hydro- logic partitioning at the ...
12
Holocene changes in African vegetation: tradeoff between climate and water availability
... past climate change is well documented in West Africa through instrumental records, modeling ac- tivities, and paleo-data, little is known about regional-scale ecosystem vulnerability and long-term impacts of ...
6
Water quantity investigation of simulated green roofs in a tropical climate: influence of vegetation composition
... Figure 1 - Average monthly rainfall in Cuiabá, Brazil (1989-2015) Source: Mestre Bombled meteorological station 2.2 Experimental designs Extensive green roof experimental modules were assembled using plastic trays (0.4 ...
13
A song of fire and water: will climate change interacting with fire affect the distribution of vegetation in the Australian Wet Tropics?
... data, vegetation type and site ...each vegetation type, with savanna sites slightly lower than Mareeba, then tall eucalypt forest and rain forest being most ...dissimilar. Vegetation type ...
439
CiteSeerX — Prediction of regional water balance components based on climate, soil, and vegetation parameters, with application to the Illinois River Basin
... water bodies). At discharge locations, recharge and infiltra- tion do not occur. Once the local instantaneous hydrologic fluxes are characterized, they are integrated over space and time to determine the ...
14
Influence of climate and vegetation on railway embankments
... ABSTRACT The serviceability and stability of old railway embankments formed from end tipped high plasticity clay fill is controlled by the seasonal variation of pore pressures within the slope, which is directly ...
6
Climate and Vegetation Regions of the World: Tropical Rainforests
... Version 1: December 2013 © Copyright My Cyberwall 2013 12 Emergent Layer This is the top layer and is above the upper canopy. Tall trees that need a lot of sunlight grow here up to 40 m, above the forest, although some ...
18
Impact of Holocene climate variability on Arctic vegetation
... and perhaps to west Greenland through the Transpolar Drift and East Greenland Current. Transport associated with the Beaufort Gyre could bring seeds to the CAA, and out flow from the Mackenzie and other riv- ers in Canada ...
16
The influence of vegetation dynamics on anthropogenic climate change
... Thus, climate change and weakening CO 2 fertilisation affect the terrestrial biosphere after the year ...the vegetation in the desert regions responds to the weakening of the CO 2 fer- ...further ...
11
Vegetation - water dynamics in the Australian landscape
... between climate, evapotranspiration and run-off and has proven to be a useful model for predicting catchment en- ergy and water ...of vegetation does not need to be explicitly considered within the ...
162
Linear root water uptake by vegetation
... by climate change and increasingly intense rainfall events (Dehn et ...of vegetation ranging from grass cover to more established shrubs and ...of vegetation within the framework of slope stability ...
15
A vital link: water and vegetation in the Anthropocene
... to vegetation architecture (Saatchi et ...plant water stress, NPP and associated ecosystem changes in a changing global climate are ...that vegetation plays a key role in generating ...
12
Plant functional diversity affects climate–vegetation interaction
... affect climate–vegetation interaction towards the end of the African Humid Period (AHP) in coupled land– atmosphere simulations using the Max Planck Institute Earth system model ...in vegetation ...
22
A Geobotanical Analysis Of Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation, Climate, And Substrate
... Simple linear regression was used to model NDVI as a function o f SWI. The 1 km NDVI data set was re-sampled, increasing the pixel size from 1 km to 12.5 km to match the pixel size o f the LST data set. Mixed ...
282
Modelling impacts of vegetation cover change on regional climate
... amplitude climate perturbations. Australia has a naturally highly variable climate strongly influenced by the ENSO cycle, which has a pronounced impact on temperature and rainfall extremes in eastern ...
14
Remote Sensing of Urban Climate and Vegetation in Los Angeles
... We used the pixel grid of the 18 m imagery to randomly generate polygon locations, setting a minimum inter-polygon distance of 400 m to evenly distribute them across the study area. Within each validation polygon, we ...
167
Predicting Pleistocene climate from vegetation in North America
... 2 climate would favor xeric species such as conifers, which have con- sistently low stomatal conductance, and herbaceous species, including grasses and ...reduced water use efficiency expected at the LGM ...
10