• Possible consequences of these effects include species decline and extinction and overall significant loss of biodiversity, change within ecosystems, increased prevalence of invasive species, loss of habitats, forests converting from carbon sinks to carbon sources, ocean acidification, disruption of the water cycle, increased occurrence and severity of natural disasters like wildfires and flooding, and lasting effects on species adaptation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Within the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, experts assessed the literature on the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. (wikipedia.org)
  • They also concluded that climate change would result in the extinction of many species and a reduction in the diversity of different types of ecosystems (p. 792). (wikipedia.org)
  • Comprehensive Analysis of Land Tenure Effects on the Structure and Services of Regional Forest Ecosystems. (routledge.com)
  • With responses varying so widely depending on land-level changes, mobility of flora and fauna, and shore type, the findings show not only that the interactions of extreme events with armored beaches can produce surprising ecological outcomes -- but also suggest that landscape alteration, including armoring, can leave lasting footprints in coastal ecosystems. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Among other topics related to forest ecology, Dr. Blanco has studied the influence of climate variations on tree growth and estimated the possible ecological consequences of climate change in forest ecosystems. (intechopen.com)
  • He has also co-authored the first book dedicated exclusively to the use of hybrid ecological models in forest management, entitled 'Forecasting Forest Futures" (Earthscan, London), edited three books on Climate Change effects, mitigation and adaptation (InTech, Rijeka), and three more on Forest Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Tropical Forests (InTech, Rijeka). (intechopen.com)
  • When looking at terrestrial ecosystems over the last few decades, the direct and indirect effects of human activity have affected both important ecosystem functions and the vegetation. (uib.no)
  • Since then she has been diligently following her passion: studying atmospheric deposition and its effects on alpine lakes and surrounding ecosystems. (usgs.gov)
  • The Western Mountain Initiative's primary objective is to understand and predict the responses of Western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change, emphasizing sensitivities, thresholds, and resilience. (usgs.gov)
  • Her work on nitrogen biogeochemistry, mountain ecosystems, and adaptation to and effects of climate change is internationally recognized as innovative, groundbreaking, and authoritative. (usgs.gov)
  • Our work shows that dealing with invasive species now will make our ecosystems more climate resilient," says Bradley. (umass.edu)
  • Traditional ways guided Tribes when gathering and retaining knowledge required for a thorough understanding of a variety of new and changing ecosystems. (bia.gov)
  • It is necessary for the functionality of ecosystems, is key for the survival of wild animals and plant species and is crucial to ensuring genetic diversity and adapting to climate change across all biomes and spatial scales. (cms.int)
  • Winter is a key driver of ecological processes in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in higher latitudes. (bvsalud.org)
  • We call for a renewed research direction focusing on multiple stressor effects on winter ecology and evolution to fully understand, and predict, how ecosystems will fare under changing winters. (bvsalud.org)
  • The MaCoBioS project aims to propose cost-effective mitigation and adaptation nature-based solutions to tackle the effects of climate change by disentangling the relationship between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services in marine coastal ecosystems under complex combinations of stressors. (lu.se)
  • The project uses the ecological condition of ecosystems as a cornerstone. (lu.se)
  • The absorption of climate change effects by marine coastal ecosystems is directly linked to their ecological condition and their level of biodiversity and adaptive capacity. (lu.se)
  • MaCoBioS is a EU funded (Horizon 2020) project whose main objective is to ensure efficient and integrated management and conservation strategies for European marine coastal ecosystems to face climate change. (lu.se)
  • MaCoBioS assembles a multidisciplinary team of experts to fill the lack of knowledge on the impacts of climate on the most important marine coastal ecosystems (seagrass beds, coral reefs, mangroves, coralligenous and calcareous bio-concretion assemblages, salt marshes and kelp forests). (lu.se)
  • Our findings also improve understanding of urgent issues associated with changing environmental conditions (e.g., climate change, loss of natural habitats), a theoretical understanding that can be applied and tested in many specific ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • Through negatively affecting generalist mutualists which provide resilience and stability to interaction networks, local-scale climate impacts may precipitate community-wide extinction cascades. (pucv.cl)
  • Resilience can be defined as the capacity of socio-ecological systems to absorb stress and maintain essential functions and adapt, reorganize, and evolve into more desirable configurations that improve the sustainability of the system, leaving it better prepared for future shocks. (rug.nl)
  • It is a key tool for the safeguard and management of habitats, biodiversity and ecosystem functions such as migration, hydrology, nutrient cycling, pollination, seed dispersal, food security, climate resilience and disease resistance. (cms.int)
  • Disasters and climate change erode resilience, increasing the vulnerability of communities to predation by armed groups and manipulation by elites. (nupi.no)
  • Preventive responses - including environmental peacebuilding - can strengthen the resilience of internally displaced persons (IDPs), local communities and state institutions to climate peace and security risks. (nupi.no)
  • It aims at building health systems' resilience in the face of climate change by providing a systematic agenda for mainstreaming the public health response to climate change within the health sector and other relevant sectors. (who.int)
  • Expert in: climate change and resilience, adaptation, politics of loss and damage, extreme weather events, climate change impacts on vulnerable groups. (lu.se)
  • These findings, Higuera says, emphasize that predicting future wildfire frequency shouldn't hinge on the direct impacts of climate change alone. (esa.org)
  • I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. (repec.org)
  • and the impacts of climate change beyond 2100. (repec.org)
  • Governments, civil society, regional and international partners should give high priority to gender-differentiated data and analyses, in view of the impacts of climate change on women, girls and female-headed households. (nupi.no)
  • Understanding the differing impacts of climate change on men and women, boys and girls, is key to successful responses. (nupi.no)
  • The impacts of climate change on human health are complex and are expected to vary according to geographic location, socioeconomic conditions and ecological settings. (who.int)
  • In 2012, she was also elected President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world's largest professional society for the science of ecology. (usgs.gov)
  • Adaptation refers to adjustments in ecological, social, or economic systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli and their effects or impacts. (rug.nl)
  • Given the speed of change and the intensifying climate impacts we are starting to see the limits of relatively minor, incremental changes to existing systems and the need for transformative approaches to adaptation. (rug.nl)
  • evaluating different global adaptation and mitigation strategies to specific stressors such as lockdown measures to the covid-19 pandemic and links to global climate mitigation targets. (rug.nl)
  • Climate Change Research and Technology for Adaptation and Mi. (intechopen.com)
  • Kelp are valuable in forming habitats for fish and invertebrates and are crucial for adaptation to climate change by creating coastal defenses and in providing key functions, such as carbon sequestration and food provision. (bvsalud.org)
  • We are facing a scientific revolution in the understanding of how human impacts on biodiversity affect ecosystem services - evolutionary studies can contribute to understanding not only changes in species composition but also how species adaptation affects important ecosystem services," says Mikael Pontarp. (lu.se)
  • Over just a few generations, the genetic composition of species can change in response to environmental changes, altering not only the overall species composition but also the adaptation of individual species. (lu.se)
  • Following the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, efforts have been intensified throughout the United Nations system to provide Member States with an improved understanding of the mechanisms of global climate change and its consequences for the environment and sustainable development, and with methodology for assessment, mitigation and adaptation. (who.int)
  • Expert in: sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. (lu.se)
  • Ecological factors such as spatial habitat complexity and diet can explain variation in visual morphology, but few studies have sought to determine whether visual specialisation can occur among populations of the same species. (biologists.com)
  • some species are being forced out of their habitats (possibly to extinction) because of changing conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Studying the association between Earth climate and extinctions over the past 520 million years, scientists from the University of York write, "The global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new 'mass extinction event', where over 50 percent of animal and plant species would be wiped out. (wikipedia.org)
  • The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Like individual species, interactions are threatened by drivers of biodiversity loss, among which climate change operates at a broader scale and can exacerbate the effects of land-use change, overharvesting, and invasive species. (pucv.cl)
  • We urge future studies to assess climate change effects on interaction networks rather than on singular species or pairwise partnerships. (pucv.cl)
  • This can alter the goods and services that coral reefs provide by changing the species compositions of fish and potentially reducing reef fisheries productivity, and consequently harming reef-dependent people. (thefishsite.com)
  • Ecologists increasingly suspect that climate change will directly impact species physiology, demography, and phenology, but also indirectly affect these measures via changes to the surrounding community. (usgs.gov)
  • Doing so is important because altered competitive pressures can reduce or magnify the direct responses of a focal species to climate change. (usgs.gov)
  • Here, we examine the effects of changing rainfall on three rare annual plant species in the presence and absence of competition on the California Channel Islands. (usgs.gov)
  • Competition did affect how our third focal species responded to precipitation change, but this effect only approached significance, and whether it truly resulted from competitor response to precipitation change was unclear. (usgs.gov)
  • Our work suggests that even when competitors respond to climate change, these responses may have little effect on the focal species. (usgs.gov)
  • Ultimately, the strength of the indirect effect depends on how strongly climate change alters competition, and how sensitive focal species are to changes in competition. (usgs.gov)
  • That vegetation responds to these factors is visible, for instance, in plant migrations or changes in the abundances of individual species. (uib.no)
  • A climate overshoot that creates warmer oceans with lower oxygen levels will reduce the suitable habitat for many marine species long after COâ‚‚ levels have peaked and declined. (theconversation.com)
  • AMHERST, Mass. - New research, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, finds that the ecological effect of invasive species alone is comparable to the combined effects of invasives plus warming temperatures, drought or nitrogen deposition. (umass.edu)
  • This suggests that a critical preparation for climate change is to manage invasive species at the local level. (umass.edu)
  • Scientists have previously identified invasive species, drought and an altered nitrogen cycle, driven in part by the widespread use of synthetic fertilizers, as among the most serious planetary challenges, with global climate change topping the list. (umass.edu)
  • From this earlier work, the researchers found 458 cases that reported on the ecological effects of invasive species combined with drought, nitrogen or global warming. (umass.edu)
  • Instead, the combined effects weren't all that much more than the impact of invasive species alone. (umass.edu)
  • Organizations like the Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Network , which is a consortium of scientists and natural resource managers dedicated to sharing information and best practices about dealing with invasives, are already implementing a whole range of proactive practices to deal with invasive species. (umass.edu)
  • Ecological Connectivity is the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on Earth. (cms.int)
  • Landscape transformation, invasive organisms, climate change and other human-induced changes lead to altered population sizes and species composition - changes in biodiversity - which in turn can negatively affect functions such as carbon capture, pollination and pest control. (lu.se)
  • In line with our initial idea, our model includes several ecological interactions including (1) within-trophic-level competitive interactions for resources, (2) between-trophic-level antagonistic and mutualistic interactions, and (3) the way in which species interacts with the abiotic environments. (lu.se)
  • Vegetation plays a major role in determining the flammability of an ecosystem, he says, potentially dampening or amplifying the impacts that climate change has on fire frequencies. (esa.org)
  • Considerations of Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management. (routledge.com)
  • Alice joined Forest Research in 2022, her work involves using spatial analysis to assess ecological connectivity and land management effects on forests and the ecosystem services they provide. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • Land use change is particularly important in tropical forests, as this ecosystem type is still heavily affected by deforestation for timber extraction, agricultural land creation of urban expansion. (intechopen.com)
  • Therefore, keeping ecosystem services when changing the use of the tropical lands is a major challenge in tropical regions. (intechopen.com)
  • The Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2019 revealed that maintaining and designing connectivity are essential for the functioning of many ecological systems and processes and highlighted how mainstreaming connectivity into economic growth and development is essential to achieve the 2030 Agenda. (cms.int)
  • The connectivity of urban green spaces promotes their ecological functionality and the ecosystem services associated with it. (cms.int)
  • This is a fundamental change as it affects agriculture, ecosystem services, risks for natural disasters, economy etc. (lu.se)
  • Indeed, the range, quality and quantity of services provided by an ecosystem is dependent on its ecological condition. (lu.se)
  • Our research thus improves our general understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underpin the eco-evolutionary processes that drive ecosystem dynamics including population sizes, traits evolution and diversification. (lu.se)
  • The aim of the research group is to advance the scientific understanding of how human activities, such as habitat loss, habitat conversion, and climate change, affect biodiversity and how this feeds back on the generation of ecosystem services, like pollination or biological control. (lu.se)
  • In the context of climate protection goals and increased demand for climate-friendly products, our Product Carbon Footprint service offers you the opportunity to examine processes in terms of climate impact and to pinpoint optimization potential. (tuv.com)
  • The climate system encompasses the global atmosphere, oceans, land surface, cryosphere (snow, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets), vegetation and various biogeochemical processes such as the carbon and nitrogen cycles. (lu.se)
  • Reconstruction of past climates, beyond the period in time for which there are direct measurements is one means to better understand basic climate processes and how the climate system responds to forcing. (lu.se)
  • The climate we experience results from and is mediated by the action of a host of processes in the atmosphere, soils, oceans, and snow and ice components. (lu.se)
  • Knowledge about these and other processes is crucial for our understanding of climate variability and change both on global and regional scales, and to develop climate models for projections of future climates. (lu.se)
  • The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • Research trying to understand why these changes occur and what we can do about them has mainly focused on ecological processes. (lu.se)
  • The loss in ecological diversity further exacerbates the effects of climate change and the inability of older persons to engage in decision-making processes prior to expropriation. (lu.se)
  • Addressing this gap, this research project builds on the political ecology approach that frames environmental and ecological changes as an outcome of political processes and empirically focuses on Syria with putting particular attention on the Kurdish-dominated Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES, used interchangeably with Rojava). (lu.se)
  • Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. (skepticalscience.com)
  • A framework promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been widely adopted for vulnerability assessments (Figure S7 in File S1). (thefishsite.com)
  • In 1993 WHO was requested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to contribute to its second assessment report by providing a chapter on "Human population health" based on the work of IPCC Working Group II (on impact assessment). (who.int)
  • Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a rise in global temperatures that will cause an increase in the intensity and frequency of heat waves and the incidence of extreme weather conditions, such as flooding and droughts. (who.int)
  • In this case, a warmer climate was likely more favorable for fire occurrence, but the development of deciduous trees on the landscape offset this direct climatic effect. (esa.org)
  • Coral reefs are one of the most productive and biologically diverse aquatic environments on Earth, yet they are also one of the most ecologically sensitive to climatic change, are currently undergoing large-scale changes. (thefishsite.com)
  • Exposure is the degree to which a system is stressed by climate, such as the magnitude, frequency, and duration of a climatic event such as temperature anomalies or extreme weather events. (thefishsite.com)
  • Climatic conditions in the study site have changed considerably since Malmer's investigation in 1954. (uib.no)
  • These effects of climatic characteristics on food security are often more apparent in rural areas than in urban areas. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • While it is well known that climate change has increased average temperatures, it is less clear how temperature variability has altered with climate change. (mpg.de)
  • We describe, for the first time, changes in temperature variability across the globe. (mpg.de)
  • They also used a new mathematical technique to describe how temperature changes from day to night, and winter to summer, thus characterizing the variability of temperature over the globe. (mpg.de)
  • Many of these rural old people still work, and do so outside the formal sector, and are particularly susceptible to the effects of climate variability and change. (lu.se)
  • Few studies have reported on climate change and the rural aged and there is a research gap as regards rural elderly peoples' perception of climate variability impact on them. (lu.se)
  • Since little is known about their perception of climate variability impacts and implications on the rural aged especially in relation to their livelihood activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, this chapter. (lu.se)
  • It was discovered that the ageds' experiences of climate variability impact relate to the prevailing climate variability characteristic of each ecological zones. (lu.se)
  • Traditional ecological knowledge is a cumulative body of knowledge and beliefs, handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and with their environment. (bia.gov)
  • Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is inclusive of a comprehensive familiarity and knowledge of fire's biogeochemical cycling, the scale of effects on ensuing forest population dynamics, and the ability to recognize and forecast future forest implications. (bia.gov)
  • Braids of Truth," published on June 19, 2014, is an exploration of traditional ecological knowledge, climate change and collaboration challenges. (bia.gov)
  • A short introduction to the 3-part series "Braids of Truth" an exploration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Climate Change and Collaboration Challenges. (bia.gov)
  • At Sakari Farms, Spring Alaska Schreiner maintains a seed bank, has launched a community kitchen, and teaches Native American youth traditional ecological knowledge. (civileats.com)
  • At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods -foods consumed before European colonialization-and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. (civileats.com)
  • The farm is not a nonprofit organization, so Schreiner depends largely on small one-off grants, crowdfunding, and limited wholesale revenue to finance Sakari's many efforts-all of which center on traditional ecological knowledge. (civileats.com)
  • Joshua E. Cinner et al, James Cook University, Australia, use an empirical case study of 12 coastal communities and associated coral reefs in Kenya to assess and compare five key ecological and social components of the vulnerability of coastal social-ecological systems to temperature induced coral mortality. (thefishsite.com)
  • working with local stakeholders in very different social-ecological systems and adopting strategies in response to climate threats, such as new types of urban design. (rug.nl)
  • We used a small Australian freshwater fish (the western rainbowfish, Melanotaenia australis ) to determine whether populations showed variation in eye size and eye position, and whether this variation could be explained by environmental (light availability, turbidity) and ecological (predation risk, habitat complexity, invertebrate abundance) variables. (biologists.com)
  • Climate change is affecting coral reefs through alterations in the long-term mean environmental conditions, inter-annual cycles, and seasonality, and the frequency of extreme climate events. (thefishsite.com)
  • Vulnerability, in the context of social and environmental change, is defined as the state of susceptibility to harm from perturbations. (thefishsite.com)
  • Knowledge about how vulnerable a system is, and the specific conditions that make it vulnerable, can help to provide a foundation for developing key actions that minimize the impacts of environmental change on people. (thefishsite.com)
  • For fishing communities, exposure captures how much the resource they depend on will be affected by environmental change. (thefishsite.com)
  • Sensitivity, in the context of environmental change, is the susceptibility of a defined component of the system to harm, resulting from exposure to stresses. (thefishsite.com)
  • Economy-wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise ," Environmental & Resource Economics , Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 37(3), pages 549-571, July. (repec.org)
  • Life Cycle Assessments and Carbon Footprint reports enable you to identify the current and potential environmental impact of your products as well as the effects of impact reduction measures. (tuv.com)
  • Climate change and more than a century of fire exclusion and wildfire suppression have led to contemporary wildfires with more severe environmental impacts and human smoke exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • Environmental conditions are changing all the time, and basically no biological communities can remain unaffected by this. (uib.no)
  • The majority of the time, invasions and environmental change together didn't make each other worse. (umass.edu)
  • and changes in the volume of sediments due to water variations are evidence of such environmental pressure. (forumfed.org)
  • The two reports have been instrumental in focusing the global climate change debate more closely on the consequences for human health and on the environmental effects of greatest importance to sustainable development, as witnessed by growing interest of the international research community in human health and related issues. (who.int)
  • The 60th session of the Regional Committee in resolution EM/RC60/R.5 endorsed the regional strategy on health and the environment, and identified action on protecting health from climate change as one of the seven environmental health priorities in the Region. (who.int)
  • Economy-Wide Estimates Of The Implications Of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise ," Working Papers FNU-38, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Jan 2004. (repec.org)
  • Together with WMO and UNEP, WHO produced a thorough assessment of the potential effects of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion on human health and contributed to a chapter on human health implications of climate change in the second assessment report of IPCC. (who.int)
  • We research how these human-mediated historical ecological, evolutionary, and genetic changes have facilitated insect pest outbreaks in agricultural systems. (uvm.edu)
  • Climate Change Ecology , 2 , Article 100044. (pucv.cl)
  • The research group Aquatic Ecology studies, among other things, climate change effects on aquatic systems, regime shifts in shallow lakes, dispersal, and migration of aquatic organisms, population genetics, predator-prey interactions, effects of pesticides and endocrine disruptors and sustainable fisheries. (lu.se)
  • The conceptual framework of vulnerability to climate change provides a basis for operationalizing and assessing the vulnerability of linked social and ecological systems. (thefishsite.com)
  • Here, we outline a framework for understanding the different effects of anthropogenic stressors in winter compared to other seasons and discuss the primary mechanisms that will alter ecological responses of organisms (microbes, animals and plants). (bvsalud.org)
  • The proposed framework for action on climate change and health is primarily intended for health sector officials, professionals and managers in the Region. (who.int)
  • Subsequently, the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean adopted resolution EM/RC55/R.8, which endorsed a regional framework for health sector action to protect health from climate change (3) . (who.int)
  • Working Papers FNU-116, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Sep 2006. (repec.org)
  • Global Estimates Of The Impact Of A Collapse Of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: An Application Of Fund ," Working Papers FNU-78, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Jul 2005. (repec.org)
  • Choosing climate and environmentally friendly products is increasingly important to consumers, more than half of whom consider a company's sustainability philosophy when making purchasing decisions. (tuv.com)
  • More and more companies are including this step in their sustainability strategy in order to create transparency, discover optimization potential for the future and earn the designation "climate neutral" through compensation of greenhouse gases. (tuv.com)
  • Furthermore, climate change strongly links to other global grand challenges, such as poverty reduction, protection of biodiversity, economic growth and the overall pursuant of sustainability. (lu.se)
  • This reality, this approach to sustainability which takes into account absolute planetary limits, is not reflected in the very technical approach to sustainability and climate change being pursued at the moment. (lu.se)
  • Sustainability has evolved from simply meaning "the ability to be maintained over a period of time" to "the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an ecological balance. (cdc.gov)
  • Our experts prepare Life Cycle Assessments for you in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14040 and 14044 as a neutral third party. (tuv.com)
  • Life Cycle Assessments serve as the most important tool for process optimization, resulting in a more ecological, sustainable production method. (tuv.com)
  • We also argue the importance of incorporating the interactions of anthropogenic stressors with winter into ecological risk assessments, management and conservation efforts. (bvsalud.org)
  • He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Ecological Modelling and the International Journal of Forestry Research , and is also associate editor of Ecoscience . (routledge.com)
  • Climate Change Modelling and Policy Working Papers 12047, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). (repec.org)
  • All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Change (IPCC), WMO and UNEP on issues related to climate and human health. (who.int)
  • Through related activities, the "climate agenda" will contribute to the work of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and that of IPCC. (who.int)
  • Lennart Olsson was coordinating lead author for the chapter on land degradation in the special IPCC report on Climate Change and Land. (lu.se)
  • Higuera thinks this research has implications for predictions of modern-day changes in fire regimes based on climate change. (esa.org)
  • ARCWEB is a research project aiming to investigate the oligotrophication-induced taxonomic and biochemical changes in basal resources of Arctic/alpine lakes in Sweden, and the consequences of these changes for consumers at multiple trophic levels. (slu.se)
  • As expected, we saw high mortality of intertidal life on beaches and rocky shores, but the ecological recovery at some of our sandy beach sites was remarkable," said Jenifer Dugan, an associate research biologist at MSI. (sciencedaily.com)
  • With joint support from Chile's Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico and the U.S. National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research program, the scientists were already knee-deep in a collaborative study of how sandy beaches in Santa Barbara and south central Chile respond, ecologically, to human-made armoring such as seawalls and rocky revetments. (sciencedaily.com)
  • At our roots Skeptical Science is about cognition of the results of climate science research in the minds of the entire human population. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Consensus messaging in climate change communication: Metacognition as moderator variable in the gateway belief model explores consensus messaging and where it leads to unknowns, leading to key research questions: is the efficacy of consensus messaging dependent on contextual conditions and if so, how? (skepticalscience.com)
  • The monthly journal is dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the science of climate change, its impacts and wider implications for the economy, society and policy. (mpg.de)
  • Only 14 estimates of the total damage cost of climate change have been published, a research effort that is in sharp contrast to the urgency of the public debate and the proposed expenditure on greenhouse gas emission reduction. (repec.org)
  • He is currently collaborating with research teams from Canada, Taiwan, USA, Spain, Cuba, and China in using ecological models to explore the effects of climate change, atmospheric pollution and alternative forest practices in natural and planted forest in boreal, temperate and tropical forests. (intechopen.com)
  • This brief book, by showcasing different research work done in tropical countries, provides a first introduction on this topic, discussing issues such as biodiversity loss, changes in local weather or nutrient cycling patterns, and economic activities around tropical forests, and tools to detect and quantify the importance of land use change. (intechopen.com)
  • She is the recipient of the 2012 NPS Intermountain Region Regional Director's Natural Resource Award for "research in air quality, nutrient cycling and climate change that applies locally and internationally, for work that has been instrumental in applying research findings to challenges in NPS management. (usgs.gov)
  • This 11 volume set is a compilation of important research on climate change. (novapublishers.com)
  • Many have assumed that climate change would consistently amplify the negative effects of invasives-but, until now, there was no research to test that assumption. (umass.edu)
  • This research was supported by grants from the Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey's Northeast Climate Adaption Center, the National Science Foundation, Belmont Forum and BIODIVERSA and the BiodivScen ERANet COFUND program. (umass.edu)
  • Studies into past climates, today's climate, and alternative future climates are research areas, which complement each other and together underline comprehensive understanding of the climate system. (lu.se)
  • The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the number of wildfires. (esa.org)
  • However, climate change is making weather-related events more severe, and disasters like the California wildfires and Hurricanes Sandy, Irma, Harvey, Michael, and Florence have significantly affected middle- and high-income households and communities. (russellsage.org)
  • Increasing global temperature, more frequent occurrence of extreme weather, and rising sea level are examples of the most impactful effects of climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • We've had a long discussion about changes in the mean temperature. (mpg.de)
  • It's less clear if the variation in temperature has changed. (mpg.de)
  • Wang is first author of a paper, titled "Recent Geographic Convergence in Diurnal and Annual Temperature Cycling Flattens Global Thermal Profiles," that was published last Sunday (Sept. 28) in the online edition of Nature Climate Change. (mpg.de)
  • The scientists then estimated global changes in the magnitudes of diurnal and annual temperature cycles from 1975-2013. (mpg.de)
  • Our analyses can therefore indicate that the main changes have occurred along the gradients of moisture, temperature, light and nutrients. (uib.no)
  • Understanding how both cloud cover and temperature work to promote coral bleaching provides valuable insight into how reefs will change over various climate scenarios. (theconversation.com)
  • The effects of the resulting stronger greenhouse effect are already manifesting themselves in increased global temperature, melting sea ice and glaciers, rising sea levels, and other trends. (lu.se)
  • In addition, CDC is supporting statistical modeling work to explore the effects of climate features on fungi, their habitats, seasonality, and fungal infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Ecological interactions are the backbone of biodiversity. (pucv.cl)
  • However, a warmer and drier climate may impose local effects on plants and animals, disrupting their interactions before noticeable changes in distribution are observed. (pucv.cl)
  • We used a mutualistic trio from the temperate forests of South America to theoretically illustrate how climate change can disrupt ecological interactions, based on our current knowledge on this system. (pucv.cl)
  • Negative interactions (i.e. antagonism related abiotic or biotic interactions) have the opposite effect. (lu.se)
  • However, not enough attention has been paid to the differentiated effects of the conflict-environment interactions for different minority groups within the country. (lu.se)
  • Featuring contributions from experts on the three main forest types-boreal, temperate, and tropical-this book presents in-depth coverage of important issues in ecological forest management and includes case studies addressing ecological and socioeconomic issues. (routledge.com)
  • With shifting temperatures, fungi may be evolving (changing and adapting) to live in warmer conditions, including the human body. (cdc.gov)
  • He realized that existing climate measures did not provide enough information to predict the life history responses, such as hatching, hibernation, or flowering of organisms. (mpg.de)
  • Governments and their regional and international partners should adopt climate-sensitive responses to regional and sub-national conflicts by combining hard security (including tackling regional small arms transfers) with critical development needs, governance reforms and political dialogues that address conflict drivers - including those affected by climate change. (nupi.no)
  • This is a comprehensive assessment of ecological forest management. (routledge.com)
  • Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. (credoreference.com)
  • In addition to the above-mentioned chapter (the report was published in 1996), the WHO, WMO and UNEP assessment resulted in a more extensive document, entitled "Climate change and human health: an assessment prepared by a task group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme" (document WHO/EHG/96.7). (who.int)
  • In this context, the effects of climate change on quality of land, sustainable food production and agricultural activities has a significant impact on older persons in rural areas. (lu.se)
  • The planning and deployment of infrastructures need to consider their ecological footprints by maintaining the connections among the different elements of the landscape. (cms.int)
  • In fact, no country has achieved sustained decoupling of GDP growth from increased ecological footprints. (lu.se)
  • And even this depoliticised, technocratic approach seems to be more than the current global order can handle ( for example, the outcome of the COP 25 in Madrid ), despite the imminent existential threat of catastrophic climate change. (lu.se)
  • It has been a familiar buzz word ever since - no doubt triggered by a major recession and fueled by a decade in which many Americans woke to the existential threat of climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Studies underline that these changes are predominantly caused by our way of living - how we travel, supply energy, produce goods, the food we eat, how we live - as these involve the use of fossil fuels and land use change, with concomitant emissions of greenhouse gases into the climate system. (lu.se)
  • Assessing Abundance, Biomass, and Complexity in the Context of Ecological Forest Management. (routledge.com)
  • Despite existing discussions on the connections between climate change, conflict, and migration in the Syrian context, insufficient attention has been given to the distinct effects of the conflict-environment nexus on various groups within Syria, particularly the Kurds in the north and east. (lu.se)
  • Most importantly, our work emphasizes the need to consider the multiple drivers of fire regimes when anticipating their response to climate change. (esa.org)
  • WHO can also offer support in facilitating partnerships and accessing financial resources and funding mechanisms in order to augment the health sector response to climate change. (who.int)
  • The pre-session of the 61st Regional Committee also discussed the public health response to climate change and air pollution in the Region. (who.int)
  • We can connect you to ecological scientists who are available for interviews and for providing on-call expertise to members of the media. (esa.org)
  • Realizing their unique opportunity, the scientists quickly changed gears and within days were back on the beaches to reassess their study sites in the catastrophe's aftermath. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Scientists collect water and sediment samples to study how the oceans and climate are changing. (theconversation.com)
  • Elders, scientists, and cultural leaders discuss the effects of climate change on the earth, culture and peoples and the differences between western science and traditional ecological principles. (bia.gov)
  • The Ecological Forest Management Handbook provides a comprehensive summary of interrelated topics in the field, including management concepts, forest models, and ecological indicators. (routledge.com)
  • Climate change poses serious, yet preventable, effects on human health and exacerbates morbidity and mortality, especially among vulnerable populations (the poor, the elderly, children, women and outdoor workers). (who.int)
  • There is an increasing need to evaluate the links between the social and ecological dimensions of human vulnerability to climate change. (thefishsite.com)
  • Consequently, evaluating the links between the social and ecological and dimensions of vulnerability to climate change is a priority for reducing difficultto- reverse impacts on coral reefs and increasing human food security. (thefishsite.com)
  • Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions. (routledge.com)
  • Each sports results important to climate science communicators but differing in paths and challenges to practical applicability. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Women in agriculture, particularly those in rural areas, face adverse challenges to their livelihoods due to climate change effects and its consequences on food and economic security. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • and 4) the capacity of people to cope with and adapt to these changes. (thefishsite.com)
  • Seasonally dry forests in Washington, Oregon, and California can benefit from ecological restoration as a way to adapt forests to climate change and reduce smoke impacts on affected communities. (cdc.gov)
  • The oceans are rapidly warming and Canada's marine protections must be able to adapt quickly to meet these changes. (theconversation.com)
  • Despite this change, the authors observed an increase in fire frequency, a pattern they attribute to the high flammability of the dense coniferous forests. (esa.org)
  • Forests are valued not only for their economic potential, but also for the biodiversity they contain, the ecological services they provide, and the recreational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities they provide. (routledge.com)
  • If more of the world's climate becomes like that in tropical zones, it could potentially affect crops, insects, malaria transmission, and even confuse migration patterns of birds and mammals worldwide. (mpg.de)
  • A set of metrics termed soundscape power was computed and visualized to examine the patterns of daily and seasonal change in the soundscape. (researchgate.net)
  • Along with the energy-efficiency improvement, we separately implement five different policies: carbon taxes, energy production taxes, an emissions trading system, and changes in consumption patterns (away from energy and toward services consumption). (repec.org)
  • Changing rainfall and seasonal patterns can sometimes fuel and compound violent conflict over limited or unevenly distributed resources. (nupi.no)
  • Shifting temperatures and weather patterns over time may lead to changes in the environment and fungal habitats. (cdc.gov)
  • Long timeframes also make it difficult to separate the influence of changing temperatures and weather patterns from other factors. (cdc.gov)
  • The effects of changing weather patterns may cause people to migrate (move from one region or part of the world to another) because of unlivable environments. (cdc.gov)
  • An increasingly critical aspect of sustaining coral reefs and the livelihoods of dependent people is understanding the vulnerability of particular reefs and their associated human communities to climate change impacts. (thefishsite.com)
  • To date, most of the work on the SDGs have focused almost exclusively on the meeting of minimum requirements and needs and almost not at all on any upper limits, except when dealing with ecological concerns, and then to a very limited extent, in the form of emission caps or the phasing out of fossil fuels, for example. (lu.se)
  • While not being a new conservation topic, ecological connectivity has not been effectively reflected or implemented in the global biodiversity strategy that concluded in 2020. (cms.int)
  • These estimates show that climate change initially improves economic welfare. (repec.org)
  • Still, the impact of climate change over a century is comparable to economic growth over a few years. (repec.org)
  • The Economic Effects of Climate Change ," Journal of Economic Perspectives , American Economic Association, vol. 23(2), pages 29-51, Spring. (repec.org)
  • Climate and Scale in Economic Growth ," CID Working Papers 48A, Center for International Development at Harvard University. (repec.org)
  • Climate and scale in economic growth ," CSAE Working Paper Series 2000-13, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. (repec.org)
  • Climate change disproportionately affects women, placing them further along the societal and economic margins. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Governments, civil society, regional organisations and international partners should support programmes that strengthen regional early warning and prevention mechanisms - such as those of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILLS) - including through enhanced cooperation, information sharing, joint analyses, planning and actions on climate peace and security risks. (nupi.no)
  • the widened beaches quickly saw the return of plants and animals that had vanished due to the effects of coastal armoring. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The world is subject to climate change impacts such as increasing frequency of extreme weather events and other external stressors. (rug.nl)
  • However, our knowledge of the combined effects of these stressors is limited. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, human-induced climate change and other anthropogenic stressors are impacting organisms in winter in unpredictable ways. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this paper, we show that global change experiments investigating multiple stressors have predominantly been conducted during summer months. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, effects of anthropogenic stressors sometimes differ between winter and other seasons, necessitating comprehensive investigations. (bvsalud.org)
  • The SEGS Lab (Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation Lab) examines population dynamics within pest-crop agroecosystems, including the potential effects of climate change. (uvm.edu)
  • From a welfare perspective, the impact of climate change is problematic because population is endogenous, and because policy analyses should separate impatience, risk aversion, and inequity aversion between and within countries. (repec.org)
  • Quantitative data were obtained through structured questionnaire administered to an aged male and an aged female population available in selected houses (the aged are people 60 years and over in age) in selected rural communities in selected ecological zones of Nigeria. (lu.se)
  • Acknowledging Turkey's ageing population, the report highlights the nexus between the rights of older persons and climate change. (lu.se)
  • The 136th session of the Executive Board endorsed the WHO global workplan on climate change and health 2014-2019. (who.int)
  • Climate resilient and biodiverse cities, interdisciplinary. (uvm.edu)
  • Low-income households and communities are typically more susceptible to the effects of disasters than are their middle-class counterparts. (russellsage.org)
  • The magnitude and direction of land-level change brought the greatest impact, drowning beaches especially where the tsunami exacerbated earthquake-induced subsidence -- and widening and flattening beaches where the earthquake brought uplift. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This is an underappreciated human impact on coastlines around the world, and with climate change squeezing beaches further, it's a very serious issue to consider. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Climate and Energy Campaigner Thandile Chinyavanhu told Daily Maverick that as the potential of the agricultural industry shrinks due to climate change impact, increased job losses are felt by women. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • A scholar who has closely followed reforms that MBS has made to Wahhabism, an austere form of Islam, explains the changes taking place in the Saudi kingdom and their impact. (theconversation.com)
  • It is challenging to assess the direct impact of climate on fungal diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Although the impact of climate on fungal infections is not fully understood, there are several ways that changes in the environment can lead to changes in fungi, where fungi live, and how fungi interact with humans, animals, and plants. (cdc.gov)
  • It is important to better understand the impact of a changing climate on fungal diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Development Goals including its contribution to the poverty cycle, disease concentration in vulnerable populations and those with poor access to services, and a detrimental impact on education through missed school days and cognitive effects of chronic anaemia. (who.int)
  • This means that planning decisions related to climate change issues should take cognizance of the views of the aged populations especially of those residing in rural areas as they are the most affected by the impact. (lu.se)
  • Expert in: High-impact climate actions, from personal to policy levels. (lu.se)
  • The Impact of Climate Change on the Rights of Older Persons in Turkey. (lu.se)
  • The RWI Turkey Programme supported an innovative publication by Senex entitled The Impact of Climate Change on the Rights of Older Persons in Turkey. (lu.se)
  • however, over the past decades several studies have reported considerable changes in vegetation even in these habitats. (uib.no)
  • Finally, the predicted climate change may expand the ecological zones hospitable to Anopheles mosquitoes and therefore receptive to the establishment of malaria transmission. (who.int)
  • Last week, French energy giant Total, one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, announced that it has withdrawn from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) because of a "misalignment" between the organization's public positions and those expressed in Total's climate ambition statement announced in May. (berkeley.edu)
  • Philip Higuera of Montana State University and his colleagues show that although changing temperatures and moisture levels set the stage for changes in wildfire frequency, they can often be trumped by changes in the distribution and abundance of plants. (esa.org)
  • Using meter-long samples, called sediment cores, Higuera and his colleagues measured changes in the abundance of preserved plant parts, such as pollen, to determine the types of vegetation that dominated the landscape during different time periods in the past. (esa.org)
  • Mechanistic studies have documented extinctions due to recent climate change: McLaughlin et al. (wikipedia.org)
  • Climate affects vegetation, vegetation affects fire, and both fire and vegetation respond to climate change," he says. (esa.org)
  • Climate is only one control of fire regimes, and if you only considered climate when predicting fire under climate-change scenarios, you would have a good chance of being wrong," he says. (esa.org)