Quality, quantity, and cost of feed resources available for beef production vary from one region of the country to another and within regions, depending upon climatic factors and natural resources available in specific production situations. Diversity among breeds can be exploited by crossbreeding to optimize performance levels and to match genetic resources with the climatic environment, feed ...

We modelled the ecoclimatic niche of Culicoides imicola, a major arthropod vector of midge-borne viral pathogens affecting ruminants and equids, at fine scale and on a global extent, so as to provide insight into current and future risks of disease epizootics, and increase current knowledge of the species' ecology. Based on the known distribution and ecology of C. imicola, the species' response...

As the main part in terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation is the result of long-term effect by variety natural factors of a region. In the same climatic regions, the heterogeneity of natural conditions is small and the vegetation also has certain homogeneity. These provide us a appropriate selection to analyze the vegetation change according to unique phonological characteristics of different regi...

We show that the diverse ecoregions of Madagascar share one distinctive climatic feature: unpredictable intra- or interannual precipitation compared with other regions with comparable rainfall. Climatic unpredictability is associated with unpredictable patterns of fruiting and flowering. It is argued that these features have shaped the evolution of distinctive characteristics in the mammalian f...

The main issues about relation between climate and relief in the Romanian geomorphological literature follow three directions of research: the description of Pleistocene glacial and Pleistocene-Holocene periglacial landforms in the Carpathians; the direct analysis of climate?s role in landform development; the integration of separate works and findings in a synthetic morphodynamic system applic...

Abstract This study extracted 16 climatic data variables including annual temperature, freeze thaw, precipitation, and snowfall conditions from the Long-term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program database to evaluate regionalization for pavement infrastructure. The effect significance of climate change were firstly evaluated using time as only predictor t-test. It was found that both temperature ...