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Sheep and goat organic meat production in the mediterranean region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
All animal livestock of the South Mediterranean Countries suffer from climatic condition of mild region characterised by moist winter and hot dry summer.
Znaïdi, Akram
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Evapotranspiration Mapping for Forest Management in California's Sierra Nevada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We assessed the response of densely forested watersheds with little apparent annual water limitation to forest disturbance and climate variability, by studying how past wildfires changed forest evapotranspiration, and what past evapotranspiration ...
Bales, Roger C   +3 more
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Desertification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3: Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas ...
Evans, J.   +13 more
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Homecoming of Brachiaria: improved hybrids prove useful for African animal agriculture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Species of the genus Brachiaria originate primarily from Africa, where they are constituents of natural grasslands. Due to their adaptation to acidic, low-fertility soils, millions of hectares of Brachiaria species have been sown as improved pastures in ...
Ghimire, Sita R.   +8 more
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Impact of Urban Growth on Surface Climate: A Case Study in Oran, Algeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We develop a land use map discriminating urban surfaces from other cover types over a semiarid region in North Africa and use it in a land surface model to assess the impact of urbanized land on surface energy, water and carbon balances.
Bounoua, Lahouari   +4 more
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Deliverable D2:Consolidation of needs of the european wasten management agencies and the regulator of the consortium: Work Package 1, Site-specific and palaeo environmental data. Modelling sequential biosphere systems under climate change for radioactive waste disposal. (BIOCLIM) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The nature of long-lived radioactive wastes is that they present a radiological hazard over a period of time that is extremely long compared with the timescale over which the engineered protection systems and institutional management of a disposal ...
Agüero Prieto, Almudena   +14 more
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From the Galalpagos to Tongariro: Recognizing and saving the most important places in the world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Protected areas are one of the less glamorous areas of international environmental law. They are commonly overshadowed by what are perceived as much more dramatic topics, which capture the public attention to a much greater degree.1 This is a highly ...
Gillespie, Alexander
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Effects of warmer and drier climate conditions on plant composition and biomass production in a Mediterranean shrubland community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The last IPCC report predicts warmer and drier conditions for the future European climate and the Mediterranean basin could be highly sensible to future climatic change.
Cesaraccio, Carla   +7 more
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Climate change compounding risks in North Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The impact of climate change on agriculture and poor groups' livelihoods are one of the greatest potential threats to development and a key challenge in climate change agenda.
Drine, Imed
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OPTIMIZATION OF GREEN ROOF INSTALLATIONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Le coperture a verde pensile sono impianti vegetali realizzati sui tetti degli edifici mediante l'uso di una serie di stratigrafie specifiche. \uc9 stato dimostrato che i tetti verdi forniscono benefici ecologici, economici e sociali, ma l'applicazione ...
Savi, Tadeja
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