Many organisms live in environments which temperatures differ substantially from those measured by standard weather stations. The last decade has witnessed a paradigm shift efforts to quantify these differences and understand their ecological, functional evolutionary implications. This renewed interest microclimate ecology been accompanied the development of various compact temperature sensors ...

How to deploy passive building design strategy adaptive to climate change scenarios at urban neighbourhood level is currently not well understood. A microclimate change outdoor and indoor coupled simulation assessment framework for passive building adaptation design in an urban neighborhood context is proposed. Based on computational modelling, it was developed to investigate summer overheating...

Mosquito behaviours including the degree to which they bite Background inside houses or outside is a crucial determinant of human exposure to malaria. Whilst seasonality in mosquito vector abundance is well documented, much less is known about the impact of climate on mosquito behaviour. We investigated how variations in household microclimate affect outdoor-biting by malaria vectors, and . Ano...

Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to favor species adapted to warmer conditions and/or reduce the abundance of cold-adapted organisms (i.e., "thermophilization" of communities). Lack of community responses to increased temperature, however, has also been reported for several taxa and regions, suggesting that "climatic lags" may be frequent. He...

The vasomotor response to cold may compromise the capacity for microclimate cooling (MCC) to reduce thermoregulatory strain. This study examined the hypothesis that intermittent, regional MCC (IRC) would abate this response and improve heat loss when compared with constant MCC (CC) during exercise heat stress. In addition, the relative effectiveness of four different IRC regimens was compared. ...

this paper is a part of study about the impact of the microclimate on the space use and the user’s behaviours. the purpose of our study is to get an in-depth understanding of how people use out door public spaces in different climatic conditions, how their behaviour and perception of the space change with the climatic variations. we have employed a multi-method approach which combines a “qualit...

abstract urban expansion, pollution augmentation, and extention of major industrial activities in metropolitan areas impacted local climates of major cities. transforming big cities into heat islands is one of the most prominent results of such a micro-climate change. in this study, variation of precipitation, temperature and some other important climatic parameters including relative humidity,...