Rapid climate change represents one of the top threats to biodiversity, causing declines and extinctions of many species. Range shifts are a key response, but in many cases are incompatible with the current extent of protected areas. In this study we used ensemble species distribution models to identify range changes for 21 reptile and 16 amphibian species in Romania for the 2020s and 2050s tim...

(2005): The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation.In: Global Environmental Change Part A, vol. 15, no. 2: 151-163. Carter, T. (2007): Assessing the adaptive capacity of the finish environment and society under a climate change: FINADAPT. Summary for policy makers. Helsinki.: Integrated risk assessment of multi-hazards: A ne...

None (In the course of studies about fungi associated with pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) die-back disease in the Ghaen region of south Khorasan (Iran), one species of Geosmithia was found. The isolates were identified as Geosmithia lavendula (Raper & Fennel I) Pitt based on its morphological and molecular properties. The genus Geosmithia (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) is belonging to mitosporic filame...

1 School of Mathematics and System Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China 2 Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada A1B 3X5 3 School of Computing, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA 4 Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, The State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118, USA

Yingwei Tian 1,*, Biyang Wen 1, Hao Zhou 1, Caijun Wang 1, Jing Yang 1, Weimin Huang 2 1 School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; [email protected] (B.W.); [email protected] (H.Z.); [email protected] (C.W.); [email protected] (J.Y.) 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada; [email protected] * Correspon...

[1] The behavior of the coupled carbon cycle and physical climate system in a global warming scenario is studied using an Earth system model including the atmosphere, land, ocean, and the carbon cycle embedded in these components. A fully coupled carbon-climate simulation and several sensitivity runs were conducted for the period of 1860–2100 with prescribed IPCC-SRES-A1B emission scenario. Res...

1 State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China 2Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China 3 Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China 4 Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University...

The potential development of heat-related mortality in the 21th century for Vienna (Austria) was assessed by the use of two regional climate models based on the IPCC emissions scenarios A1B and B1. Heat stress was described with the human-biometeorological index PET (Physiologically Equivalent Temperature). Based on the relation between heat stress and mortality in 1970-2007, we developed two a...

We simulate pH-dependent growth of cyanobacteria with an ecosystem model for the central Baltic Sea. Four model components-a life cycle model of cyanobacteria, a biogeochemical model, a carbonate chemistry model and a water column model-are coupled via the framework for aquatic biogeochemical models. The coupled model is forced by the output of a regional climate model, based on the A1B emissio...

The objective of this study was to estimate the effects of beta-kappa-casein (CN) haplotypes on first-lactation milk production traits. The beta-kappa-CN haplotypes were deduced using information on beta- and kappa-CN genotypes of cows and their sires for 16,973 Finnish Ayrshire cows that had at least nine paternal half sibs. Effects of CN haplotypes on milk production traits were estimated for...