Given the environmental and energy crises, European directives are targeting building efficiency. Architects must improve thermal performance of their designs to approach Nearly-Zero Energy Building (NZEB) standards. Energy-efficient experimental buildings from 1970s often held up as inspiring examples energy-conscious architectural design. However, lack quantitative data about performance, mea...

Over 50% of the total energy consumed by buildings in a hot and dry climate goes toward cooling regime during harsh months. Non-residential buildings, especially houses worship, need tremendous amount to create comfortable environment for worshipers. Today, mosques are regarded as energy-hungry whereas past, they were designed according sustainable vernacular architecture. This study was aimed ...

Ecoregion classification systems are increasingly used for policy and management decisions, particularly among conservation and natural resource managers. A number of ecoregion classification systems are currently available, with each system defining ecoregions using different classification methods and different types of data. As a result, each classification system describes a unique set of e...

Phenotypic plasticity has been proposed as an important adaptive strategy for clonal plants in heterogeneous habitats. Increased phenotypic plasticity can be especially beneficial for invasive clonal plants, allowing them to colonize new environments even when genetic diversity is low. However, the relative importance of genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity for invasion success remains l...

richness and composition in the four river valleys of Central Nepal i.e. two from Manaslu Conservation Area (MCA) and two from Sagarmatha region. Topographical, bioclimatic and measured variables were used to analyze their effects on the vascular plant diversity along elevation and land use gradients. Altogether, 148 plots were established at five elevation levels between 2,200 m and 3,800 m ab...

Bioclimatic models are widely used to investigate the impacts of climate change on species distributions. Range shifts are expected to occur as species track their current climate niche yet the potential for exploitation of new ecological opportunities that may arise as ecosystems and communities remodel is rarely considered. Here we show that grasswrens of the Amytornis textilis-modestus compl...

Bioclimatic models aimed assessing a species’ sensitivity to climate change incorporate mean shifts in climate variables; however the more acute threat to the persistence of species may result from increased frequency of extreme climatic events, including increased duration and severity of droughts. Here we assess climate-change sensitivity using niche modeling that unlike bioclimatic modeling ...

Stadiums in Indonesia often lack the link between design and climate, stadiums that have been present are prototypes of a stadium standard is applied internationally, one which Largest Stadium Bogor City, Padjajaran Stadium. This article aims to find describe aspects considered be developed into more line with local climate context (bioclimatic), especially Bogor, has tropical humid climate.The...