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Farmers’ perceptions of climate change, long-term variability and trends in rainfall in Apac district, northern Uganda
BackgroundClimate change poses severe threats to smallholder farmers' agricultural livelihoods and food security in Sub Saharan Africa. Understanding...
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Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short- and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa
Climate change and habitat loss present serious threats to nature. Yet, due to a lack of historical land-use data, the potential for land-use change...
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Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening
Vegetation greening has been suggested to be a dominant trend over recent decades, but severe pulses of tree mortality in forests after droughts and...
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Long-term vegetation responses to climate depend on the distinctive roles of rewilding and traditional grazing systems
ContextThe abandonment of traditional practices has transformed agro-pastoral systems, leading to a more frequent occurrence of passive rewilding of...
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Climate Variability and Change in Tropical South America
This chapter provides definitions of what climate variabilityClimate variability and change are and an overview of observed and projected changes in...
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Strategies in Agricultural Practices Under Climate Variability and Climate Change in India
World is facing the biggest environmental challenge that human species has ever seen. The Earth is warming from Arctic to Antarctic, affecting...
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Past Climate Variability in the Last Millennium
We review our knowledge of the climate variability in southern Africa over the past millennium, based on information provided by proxy data and by...
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Long-term stability of temperate Australian wet forest-moorland mosaics despite recurrent fires associated with late Holocene climate change
ContextThe primary factors(s) responsible for the maintenance of Alternative biome states (ABS) in world forest biomes remains unclear and debatable,...
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The Spatio-Temporal Variability of the Distribution of Climate Indicators of Thermal Agro-Climate Resources (the Ararat Valley and the Foothill Zone, Armenia)
AbstractIn this work, the characteristics of thermal agro-climate resources of the Ararat valley and the foothill zone are studied and calculated and...
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Variability in Tree-ring Width and NDVI Responses to Climate at a Landscape Level
Inter-annual climatically driven growth variability of above-ground biomass compartments (for example, tree stems and foliage) controls the intensity...
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Short-Term Variability, Long-Term Trends and Seasonal Aspects in the Darß-Zingst Bodden Chain
This chapter concentrates on one of the most eutrophicated inner coastal waters of the German Southern Baltic, the Darß-Zingst Bodden in contrat to...
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Climate variability, agricultural technologies adoption, and productivity in rural Nigeria: a plot-level analysis
BackgroundIncreasing agricultural productivity has long been touted as the main avenue to lifting the rural poor out of poverty and ensuring their...
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Long-term trends in yield variance of temperate managed grassland
The management of climate-resilient grassland systems is important for stable livestock fodder production. In the face of climate change, maintaining...
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Biodiversity mediates ecosystem sensitivity to climate variability
A rich body of evidence from local-scale experiments and observational studies has revealed stabilizing effects of biodiversity on ecosystem...
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Southern Africa Climate Over the Recent Decades: Description, Variability and Trends
South of 15°S, southern Africa has a subtropical climate, which is affected by temperate and tropical weather systems and comes under the influence...
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Identification and quantification of phosphate turnover indicators after long-term compost application – long-term and single season effects
Background and aimsSoil organic phosphorus (P org ) is of interest for plant nutrition because it can comprise between 20 and 80% of total soil...
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Interannual variability of secondary production: long-term study of subarctic population of Monoporeia affinis (Amphipoda)
The long-term dynamics of production of the glacial relict amphipod Monoporeia affinis was examined in a small subarctic lake. The aims of this study...
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Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability for Viticulturists in Uruguay
Uruguay has increased the intensity and frequency of hot weather extremes, while cold weather extremes have become less frequent. Rainfall patterns...
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Research Infrastructures as Anchor Points for Long-Term Environmental Observation
In this chapter, we highlight the importance and value of key Environmental Research Infrastructures, and how these can act as anchor points for...
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Long-term spatial variations in turbidity and temperature provide new insights into coral-algal states on extreme/marginal reefs
Globally, coral reefs are under threat, with many exhibiting degradation or a shift towards algal-dominated regimes following marine heat waves, and...
