Current relative drought vulnerability for grassland
Drought Risk and Drought Response in Morocco: Vulnerability, Risk Perceptions and Drought Coping Among Rainfed Cereal Farmers
... Introduction Drought concerns us when it compromises the long-term productivity and welfare of ...same drought event, however, can affect households differently due to differences in portfolios of ...
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A forest vulnerability index based on drought and high temperatures
... peak vulnerability will likely change outside of the study area because LST and WB relations will vary with local ...forest vulnerability to climate change more glob- ...Earth, relative to changes ...
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Vulnerability to Drought and Food Price Shocks:Evidence from Ethiopia
... quantify vulnerability to poverty in ...sensitive current poverty estimates are to shocks that are prevalent in the ...households. Vulnerability to poverty is much higher than poverty in rural areas ...
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Extreme events as sources of health vulnerability: Drought as an example
... 2.1. Trends in extreme weather and climate events The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX; IPCC, 2012 ) and the IPCC Working Group II ...
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Severe effects of long-term drought on calcareous grassland seed banks
... to relative abundance and vegetation data to relative ...The relative vegetation cover was calculated fi rst by summing the cover class data of each species per block of each precipitation treatment, ...
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Soil multifunctionality and drought resistance are determined by plant structural traits in restoring grassland
... the relative importance of different plant traits for soil functions and of the mechanisms by which traits influence soil properties in the real ...to drought. These hypotheses were tested in a 3-yr ...
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Soil multifunctionality and drought resistance are determined by plant structural traits in restoring grassland
... the relative importance of different plant traits for soil functions and of the mechanisms by which traits influence soil properties in the real ...to drought. These hypotheses were tested in a 3-yr ...
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Less to lose? Drought impact and vulnerability assessment in disadvantaged regions
... inclusive drought risk mitigation, multiscale, systemic approaches to drought vulnerability and risk assessment should be further reinforced on a global ...for drought vulnerability ...
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Irrigators\u27 Vulnerability to Drought in the Flathead River Basin, Montana
... in drought vulnerability between irrigators on the FIP and those located in Flathead County may be explained, in part, by the changing vulnerability context in these two areas of the ...on. ...
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A New Framework to Assess Relative Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate Change
... locally. Further ground research is needed to confirm that this is indeed the case. Admittedly, there are several shortcomings to the pro- posed approach. Historical data were used to assess expo- sure to hazards, as ...
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Plant functional groups mediate drought resistance and recovery in a multi-site grassland experiment
... ecosystem vulnerability to precipitation extremes in terrestrial systems (Beier et ...summer drought across eight permanent grasslands demonstrated differences in the drought responses of aboveground ...
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Application of the force-field technique to drought vulnerability analysis: A phenomenological approach
... of drought events. The current study ends with those forces that need to be monitored in order to reach a desired change, all from the researcher’s lived ...
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Modelling predicts that heat stress, not drought, will increase vulnerability of wheat in Europe
... SI.1), relative yield losses from drought were predicted to be smaller in the future than at present even for currently grown wheat ...severe drought stress by maturing ...
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Vulnerability of Grassland Systems in Europe to Climate Change
... extremes Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity and its adaptive ...
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Methods for evaluating social vulnerability to drought
... Social vulnerability to drought is complex but is reflected by the social capacity to anticipate, cope with and respond to ...social vulnerability evaluating the natural resource structure, the ...
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The relative tolerance of mesic grassland species to defoliation and competition.
... determine how Increaser and Decreaser grass species common in mesic grasslands 11.. tolerate defoliation and competition.[r] ...
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Grassland biodiversity restoration increases resistance of carbon fluxes to drought
... Bloor, J.M.G. & Bardgett, R.D. (2012) Stability of above-ground and below-ground processes to extreme drought in model grassland ecosystems: Interactions with plant species diversity and soil nitrogen ...
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Estimating drought risk across Europe from reported drought impacts, drought indices, and vulnerability factors
... combined drought monitoring indices, such as the US Drought Mon- itor (Svoboda et ...one vulnerability fac- tor, suggesting that these can improve the predictability of annual drought impact ...
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Relative vulnerability of female turtles to road mortality
... mortality may deplete females from populations thereby causing male-biased sex ratios in freshwater turtle popula- tions surrounded by a high density of roads. Moreover, the contribution of year to variation in sex ratio ...
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The impact of drought on household vulnerability: The case of rural Malawi
... welfare transfers, especially in the form of direct food transfer, should be promoted as a short term intervention to help poor households to be able to smooth their consumption in the face of drought. However, ...
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