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Projection Method Description Strengths Weaknesses Luedeling et al. (2009a) (Luedeling et al., 2009b) probed decline in winter chilling hours in mountain oases of Oman. In the model adopted , measurements in oases and the high resolution record was used to calibrate the long term record of daily temperature . In order to model hourly temperature , minimum and maximum daily temperature were used because their occurred a substantial shift in the ratio of the difference between maximum and minimum temperature

geographic pattern of occurrence of any species across the landscape. This distribution of species is greatly influenced by geographic and environmental factors. To understand this spatial pattern of distribution we need to model the distribution. Species distribution models (SDMs) estimate the relationship between species records at sites and the environmental and/or spatial characteristics of those sites (Franklin, 2009). They are widely used for many purposes in biogeography, conservation biology

carried out the effects of climate variables on crop productivity using simulation crop models such as CERES-maize, CERES-rice or EPIC models (Lansigan et al. 2000; Rosenzweig et al., 2002; Tan and Shibasaki, 2003; Popova and Kercheva 2005; Tao et al., 2008; Yin et al. 2015,). Most of these studies estimate adversely harmful effects of climate change on agriculture in both developed and developing countries using crop models (process-based or statistical) with global climate model (GCM) outputs. A significant

These three studies investigated the effects of climate change, and in particular increased temperatures in intertidal zones. The study conducted by Bertness et al worked to quantify thermal stresses on rocky intertidal organisms. The species that was focused on was Semibalanus balanoides at sites north and south of Cape Cod. The team analyzed the relationship between thermal stress, population density and individual organism survival rates. While the study conducted by Bertness focused on increases

based on the interest of defining the discipline. Flood is therefore, known as the condition where the land is abnormally covered by water. In the recent past, there have been debates relating to land use and the changing system of floods as well as climate change as some of the factors contributing to flood in exception of the natural cause that have always been associated with floods (Abbott, 2012). The main focus in these debates have always been revolving around the risks associated with floods such

The Pueblo of Santa Clara was devastated by the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, which burned more than 156,000 acres of the reservation’s upland forest in the Santa Clara Canyon area. The fire impacted not only the ecological balance of the area, but also the spiritual balance of the tribe. Although this is not the first fire that has blackened tribal and neighboring lands in recent history, it was by far the most devastating. In addition to scorching nearly two thirds of the watershed that the people of

Climate Change will positively impact Canada 's Agriculture Thesis: Climate change will negatively impact Canada 's Agriculture due to heavy rainfall, droughts, irrigation problems, pesticide issues and not enough nutrients available? Intro Agriculture is highly dependent upon weather and climate in order to produce the food necessary to sustain human life. North America is the world’s largest and most productive supplier of food and fiber (3). Canada is the second largest country in the world

Climate change influences the global potential distribution of bluetongue virus: a disease of ruminants Abdallah M. Samy1,2, A. Townsend Peterson1, XXXX 1Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America 2Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt   Introduction: The global geographic distribution of arboviruses has received considerable attentions from

Climate Change: Man-Made, Unpredictable, Happening Climate change is the topic of a heated debate, but not for the reasons one might gather from the media. Religious groups, politicians and tycoons get a fair share of their air time and contribute to the popular impression that the facticity of global warming, its causes and implications are not yet settled. When we turn to the scientific community, however, the picture looks completely different. Very few people conducting research related to climate

The high-resolution transient climate change scenarios are now available from the CCCma website (http://www.cccma.ec.gc.ca). In this project, I used both transient climate change scenarios simulated by a General Circulation Models (GCM): CGCM4 (The Fourth Generation Coupled Global Climate Model) developed by the Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCMa) and the CRCM (Canadian Regional Climate Model). The recent comparison of scenarios derived from CGCM and CRCM by Price et al (2001)