Abstract. Climate change is expected to have detrimental consequences on fragile ecosystems, threatening biodiversity, as well food security of millions people. Trees are likely play a central role in mitigating these impacts. The microclimatic conditions below tree canopies usually differ substantially from the ambient macroclimate vegetation can buffer temperature changes and variability. coo...

The article presents a program of scientific and practical research on the assessment “green” technologies in wooden low-rise housing construction field energy efficiency resource conservation. objects are two identical experimental buildings built 2020 Murmansk Petrozavodsk using different various thermal insulation materials. Attention is focused assessing factors affecting class internal mic...

Abstract Work describes an approach to complex thermal analysis of buses salons starting from engine heat radiation and with its further distribution along the internal bus volume. Provided workflow chain in article could be used as base for any type climate investigation next optimization events. Heat materials conductivity parameters was proceeded using Ansys Fluent Steady State Thermal addon...

1. The role played by Atta species as ecosystem engineers remains poorly investigated despite previous evidence that their nests can impact plant assemblages. 2. In a large remnant of Atlantic forest, we compared forest structure at 36 Atta cephalotes nests to control sites and assessed shifts in microclimate along transects from nests up to 24 m into the forest (11 representative colonies). 3....

Cultivar selection, planting geometry, and plant population are the key factors determining grain sorghum yields in water deficit areas. The objective of this study was to investigate whether clump geometry (three plants clustered) improves microclimate within crop canopy when plants are grown under varying water levels. In a 2-yr sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) greenhouse study, plants wer...

higher in the winter months, when the horse’s thicker coat makes an ideal microclimate for the louse. Reports from the USA (Jones and DiPietro 1996) and Canada (Wright 1999) state that infestations of domestic horses with lice are rare; this could be due to management practices, such as combing and clipping, or because of the use of broad-spectrum ectoparasiticides. However, lice are apparently...

Problems such as natural ventilation, pollutant dispersion, changes in wind environments, and urban heat islands are gaining increasing prominence in both public concern and research. In response urban microclimate modelling researchers are continually striving to develop new strategies to rapidly and inexpensively generate more accurate results. Numerical modelling is a common way to address t...

The microclimate of a naturally ventilated plastic house was simulated for 23 days using the Gembloux Greenhouse Dynamic Model (GGDM). Improved calculations of natural ventilation #ux and stomatal resistance of vegetation were introduced, based on experimental equations from previous research. A linear non-dimensional ventilation function was developed and compared with those obtained by other ...

We measured microclimate, field metabolic rates (FMRs), water flux, and activity patterns of telemetered box turtles (Terrapene carolina) in South Carolina from September 1987 to October 1988. Turtles were inactive for most of the winter and were active only sporadically during the rest of the year. Using the doubly labeled water method, we found that water flux averaged 8.8, 18.9, and 26.4 mL ...

Since 2006, year-round measurements of climatic parameters of characteristic ecosystems of James Ross Island, such as (1) coastal vegetation oases, (2) volcanic mesas have been performed by automatic weather stations. Simultaneously, prospection, classification and mapping of vegetation cover have been made annually within the period of Czech Antarctic expeditions lasting from January to March....