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Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change [PDF]
, 2019 Terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) is the basis of vegetation growth and food production globally1 and plays a critical role in regulating atmospheric CO2 through its impact on ecosystem carbon balance.
Christoffersen, Bradley O +7 more
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Journal of Environmental Geography, 2020 The article discusses the causes and effects of the plague which is said to have spread over many Polish towns in 1507. The focus is on its possible causes, related to the occurrence of droughts and floods in Central Europe in the late 15th and early ...
Związek Tomasz
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Drought events and their effects on vegetation productivity in China [PDF]
, 2016 Many parts of the world have experienced frequent and severe droughts during the last few decades. Most previous studies examined the effects of specific drought events on vegetation productivity.
Belward A. S. +9 more
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Pacific Ocean Forcing and Atmospheric Variability are the Dominant Causes of Spatially Widespread Droughts in the Contiguous United States [PDF]
, 2019 The contributions of oceanic and atmospheric variability to spatially widespread summer droughts in the contiguous United States (hereafter, pan-CONUS droughts) are investigated using 16-member ensembles of the Community Climate Model version 3 (CCM3 ...
Baek, Seung H. +4 more
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Earth's Future, 2022 For many years now, studies on climate change impacts on continental hydrology have suffered from conflicting results between different approaches. On the one hand, studies relying on widely used, simple metrics of land water availability, such as the ...
Alexis Berg
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Intensification of fire regimes and forest loss in the Território Indígena do Xingu
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 The contemporary fire regime of southern Amazonian forests has been dominated by interactions between droughts and sources of fire ignition associated with deforestation and slash-and-burn agriculture.
Divino V Silvério +9 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Poverty involves both low income levels and high income uncertainty. Do both these dimensions of being poor capture attention in ways that distort decision-making and trap people in poverty? We examine these issues using real-life shocks faced by farmers in Brazil: random payday variation affecting income levels, and rainfall shocks that affect income ...
Lichand, Guilherme, Mani, Anandi
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2015 Although a good agricultural-yielding region when adequate rainfall is available the Little Karoo is plagued by regular, recurring and sometimes devastating droughts.
Wessel Visser
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Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 An increase in the frequency of extremely hot and dry events has been experienced over the past few decades in South America, and particularly in Brazil. Regional climate change projections indicate a future aggravation of this trend.
João L Geirinhas +5 more
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Pacific Southwest United States Holocene Droughts and Pluvials Inferred From Sediment δ18O (calcite) and Grain Size Data (Lake Elsinore, California) [PDF]
, 2019 Records of past climate can inform us on the natural range and mechanisms of climate change. In the arid Pacific southwestern United States (PSW), which includes southern California, there exist a variety of Holocene records that can be used to infer ...
Anderson, Michael A. +6 more
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