Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify regions of faunal stability or high species turnover. An alternative approach is to adopt an evolutionary timescale and ask ultimately what ...

Human populations are not uniformly distributed on Earth's landmasses. The spatial distribution of the global human population at any time shows large variations over a wide range of spatial scales. Understanding this distribution is fundamental to understanding the relationships between humans and the environment. The recent availability of moderate resolution population data and higher resolu...

This paper presents a novel plume experiment which dimensions are not the typical ones. The presented experiment is very interesting and original because it is between the laboratory and the real geophysical situations. It is clearly stated by the authors that they experimental results agree with the classical model of Morton et al. (1956). The paper studies the heat instabilities of the plume ...

The stability of a potentially unstable rock mass strongly depends on the discontinuity pattern and the face topography. Basic geological analysis could provide useful structural information but suffers from the lack of information on discontinuities at depth. Of major importance is the persistence of discontinuities inside the mass. Several geophysical methods (seismic, electric and electromag...

[1] Quantifying the spatial configuration of hydraulic conductivity (K) in heterogeneous geological environments is essential for accurate predictions of contaminant transport, but is difficult because of the inherent limitations in resolution and coverage associated with traditional hydrological measurements. To address this issue, we consider crosshole and surface‐based electrical resistivity...