One of the most significant consequences of global warming due to increase in greenhouse gases would be an increase in magnitude and frequency of extreme precipitation events. In the present study the trends in extreme rainfall indices for the period 1901-2000 were examined for 100 stations over India. The trends for the southwest monsoon season and annual period were calculated separately. The...

released board games based on The Walking Dead; one for the graphic novel series (Kirkman 2003) and one for its television adaptation (AMC 2010-present), respectively. Both games reference their core text in the artwork and style, and both develop from an explicit association with the requisite text of each medium. The game based on the comic, The Walking Dead – The Board Game (Z-Man) is a comp...

Poa botryoides (Trin. ex Griseb.) Kom. is a predominantly Siberian mountain-steppe species, occupying an intermediate position between P stepposa (Kryl.) Roshev. and attenuata Trin., from which it poorly isolated morphologically. A digital map of distribution was compiled, based on 143 localities, revealed herbarium materials reliable literary sources; the ecologo-climatic niche this species co...

North Africa experienced dramatic changes in hydrology and vegetation during the late Quaternary driven by insolation-induced shifts of the tropical rain belt and further modulated by millennial-scale droughts and vegetation-climate feedbacks. While most past proxy and modelling studies concentrated on the temporal and spatial dynamics of the last African humid period, little is known about the...

We study the temporal pattern of selected respiratory diseases and the influence of specific weather parameters on their morbidity in two eco-climatic zones in Nigeria for the period 19962006. Out of 2,056 and 2,647 cases of respiratory diseases (bronchial asthma, bronchopneumonia, lobar pneumonia, bronchiolitis, cardiac asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, sinusitis, tonsillitis and upper respirato...

Knowledge about the long-term influences of climate change on the amount of potential carbon (C) sequestration in forest ecosystems, including age-related dynamics, remains unclear. This study used two similar age-sequences of black locust forests (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) in the semi-arid and semi-humid zones of China's Loess Plateau to assess the variation in C stocks and age-related dynamics...

Forest cover is an important input variable for assessing changes to carbon stocks, climate and hydrological systems, biodiversity richness, and other sustainability science disciplines. Despite incremental improvements in our ability to quantify rates of forest clearing, there is still no definitive understanding on global trends. Without timely and accurate forest monitoring methods, policy r...

Mechanisms of runoff generation in the humid tropics are poorly understood, particularly context land-use/land cover change. This study analyzed results 124 storm hydrographs from three tropical catchments markedly different vegetation and land-use history central Panama during 2017 wet season: actively grazed pasture, young secondary succession, near-mature forest. We used electrical conductiv...