Cooling requirements fueled the collapse of a desert bird community from climate change. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Climate change threatens global biodiversity by increasing extinction risk, yet few studies have uncovered a physiological basis of climate-driven species declines.
Beissinger, Steven R +4 more
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Potential distribution of three types of ephemeral plants under climate changes
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 BackgroundArid and semi-arid regions account for about 40% of the world’s land surface area, and are the most sensitive areas to climate change, leading to a dramatic expansion of arid regions in recent decades. Ephemeral plants are crucial herbs in this
Zhang Lan +10 more
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Boreal fire records in Northern Hemisphere ice cores: a review [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2016 Here, we review different attempts made since the early 1990s to reconstruct past forest fire activity using chemical signals recorded in ice cores extracted from the Greenland ice sheet and a few mid-northern latitude, high-elevation glaciers.
M. Legrand +12 more
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Life form classification and biological spectrum of Chiktan valley, North West Himalaya
Environment Conservation Journal, 2014 The life form classification and construction of biological spectrum of Chiktan valley of Kargil district in Ladakh region of North West Himalaya has been done after complete enumeration of floristic composition.
Anil K. Raina, Abdul Hamid
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Investigating the relation between built area, occupant number and energy consumption in first modern residential buildings (Case study: 1970s houses in the semi-arid climate of Shiraz, Iran) [PDF]
Desert, 2014 Energy consumption in the residential sector is a complex socio-technical problem that can be explained using acombination of physical, demographic and behavioural characteristics of a house and its occupants.
Zahra Barzegar, Sh. Heidari
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On the stability of the atmosphere-vegetation system in the Sahara/Sahel region [PDF]
, 1998 A conceptual model has been developed for the analysis of atmosphere-vegetation interaction in subtropical deserts. The model can exhibit multiple stable states-in the system: a "desert" equilibrium with low precipitation and absent vegetation and a ...
Brovkin, V. +3 more
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Spatial Homogenization Adjustment and Application of Weather Station Networks in Xinjiang, China
Atmosphere, 2022 In this study, we define the S0 value (buffer zone area centred on a meteorological station) and two inhomogeneity measurement parameters, the station domain area and station network density, for 89 weather stations in the Xinjiang region, and we ...
Liancheng Zhang +5 more
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Technical solutions to prevent heat stress induced crop growth reduction for three climatic regions in Mexico [PDF]
, 2008 In the last 15 years a significant increase in greenhouse area has occurred in Mexico, from a modest 50 hectares in 1990 to over 2,000 hectares in 2004. The rapid increase in greenhouse area is a result of an attractive export market, USA. Mexican summer
Henten, E.J., van +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 The ecological system of the desert/grassland biome transition zone is fragile and extremely sensitive to climate change and human activities. Analyzing the relationships between vegetation, climate factors (precipitation and temperature), and human ...
Shupu Wu +4 more
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Phylogenetic structure and formation mechanism of shrub communities in arid and semiarid areas of the Mongolian Plateau [PDF]
, 2019 The mechanisms of species coexistence within a community have always been the focus in ecological research. Community phylogenetic structure reflects the relationship of historical processes, regional environments, and interactions between species, and ...
Dong, Lei +9 more
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