Climatic events
Extreme Climatic Events Alter Aquatic Food Webs. A Synthesis of Evidence from a Mesocosm Drought Experiment
... Extreme climatic events are expected to increase in frequency and intensity under cli- mate ...extreme events on natural sys- tems: here, we synthesise research conducted in a stream mesocosms ...
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The impact of extreme climatic events on the ecology of grasslands : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... extreme climatic events? That i s, if the functional traits for tolerance are not present to tolerate a particular extreme event, will these communities be more prone to i nvasion from functional types ...
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Riverine fishers’ knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia
... past climatic events is a potentially valuable source of information on the intensity and timing of climate change and can provide additional information that has not been recorded by scientific research ...
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Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Consequences of extreme climatic events in the Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
... extreme climatic events ...flooding events have become more frequent, with birds in later years occupying territories at a higher elevation than those in earlier ...
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Land use/land cover change and extreme climatic events in the arid and semi-arid ecoregions of Mexico
... the events that affect a larger extent of this ecoregion ...extreme climatic events are affecting the ecoregion, droughts are the events that affect its largest extent ...
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The Effect of Extreme Climatic Events on Extreme Runoff in the Past 50 Years in the Manas River Basin, Xinjiang, China
... extreme climatic change features and effects on runoff in the Manas River basin, Xin- jiang, data were collected including daily mean temperature, daily highest and lowest tempera- tures, and daily precipitation ...
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Impacts of extreme climatic events on the energetics of long lived vertebrates: the case of the greater flamingo facing cold spells in the Camargue
... Beyond acute mortality, adverse environmental conditions such as cold spells have carryover effects on wild populations. Those effects are defined as non-fatal impacts on individuals during one period of the annual ...
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The impact of extreme climatic events on migration from two communities in Bangladesh
... extreme climatic events become more frequent and intense, inhabitants of disaster areas become more involved in international labour migration along with internal ...
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Stratification of surface waters during the last glacial millennial climatic events: a key factor in subsurface and deep-water mass dynamics
... abrupt climatic events with extrema known as Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger ...millennial events have been the subject of many paleoreconstructions and model ex- periments in the past decades, but ...
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Extreme pointer years in tree-ring records of Central Spain as evidence of climatic events and the eruption of the Huaynaputina Volcano (Peru, 1600 AD)
... the climatic interpretation is ...extreme climatic events has already been demonstrated (Kienast et ...Evident climatic interpreta- tions such as severe winter frosts, unusual summer droughts, ...
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North Atlantic abrupt climatic events of the last glacial period recorded in Ukrainian loess deposits
... European loess deposits have been investigated for many decades, and several synthetic studies have evidenced com- mon stratigraphic features: specific units, markers, horizon succession (Kukla, 1977; Lautridou et al., ...
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Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting: A case study in six regions of Uganda
... for climatic events like the onset of rainfall, floods, earthquakes, landslides, droughts and related famine, and tsunami ...weather events in the health sector ...
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Climatic reconstruction at the Sannai-Maruyama site between Bond events 4 and 3—implication for the collapse of the society at 4.2 ka event
... (the so-called cultural interruption). Archeological evi- dence showed that the number of Neolithic cultural sites and population dramatically decreased during this period (Chen et al. 2005). In addition, the Maqiao ...
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Evidence and Policy Lessons on the Links between Disaster Risk and Poverty in Latin America
... Regarding climatic events, floods cause the larger volumes of dwellings destroyed and affected (66% in the first case and almost 93% in the second), and slides cause the largest number of deaths ...these ...
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Impact of past and on-going changes on climate and weather on vector-borne diseases transmission: a look at the evidence
... Other climatic events were also found to be related to dengue cases, with mixed impact of increased temper- atures and rainfall, due for example to the El Nino phases in Colombia enhancing dengue ...
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Effects of Climate Change and Drought-Stress on Plant Physiology
... extreme climatic events is growing (Beniston and Stephenson ...of events such as the 2003 European heatwave (Schär et ...longer-term climatic reconstructions ...such climatic ...
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Influence of climatic elements and non-climatic factors on fishing activities in Lake Victoria, Kisumu County, Kenya
... A study carried out by Barber (2010) on the effect of rainfall as a component of climate change on estuarine fish production in Queensland, Australia showed that many commercially important fish species use estuarine ...
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... Short-lived, acute, climatic shocks, including extreme weather events such as floods and storms, have repeatedly wreaked great damage, injury, death, and disease. The impacts have usually been greatest in ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTIONS OVER WEST AFRICA FROM THREE IPCC SCENARIOS
... future climatic periods for December, January and February on one part and that of March to May on the other part under the three scenarios are presented in Figure ...
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Dry spell events in Brazil: historical analysis bin years of climatic contrast
... Meteorological forecasts are of great importance characterized by the need to use rainwater in activities such as agriculture and water resources. Known for extreme droughts and dry spells of shares (periods of drought ...
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