Woodman, Peter N., Amy M. Todd, and Brian E. Staveley. NOTUS Electronics Ltd., St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, A1E 1W6; telephone (709) 753-0652. Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, A1B 3X9; telephone (709) 864-4317; telefax (709) 864-3018; Corresponding author: Dr. Brian E. Staveley; e-mail address: [email protected]

introduction: weather features and their variations have an important role in the yield of agricultural products, especially in rain-fed conditions. the main metrological variables that affected yields consist of precipitation, temperature, soil moisture and solar radiation. also, drought is one of the major constraints to production, especially the mid-season drought which occurs during the po...

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...

heavy metals such as cu(ii) and pb(ii) are among the hazardous pollutants that lead to severe ecological problems and have a toxic effect on living organisms. the removal of cu(ii) and pb(ii) by iranian bentonite experiment were conducted in single component and multi component systems. the bentonite from the birjand area was characterized by x-ray diffraction pattern and ftir spectroscopy. the...

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...