Overall climatic effects on citrus fruit quality have been well-documented and are discussed by W. Reuther in his section on "Climate and Fruit Quality". These can be briefly summarized as higher sugar levels and lower acidity in humid areas with warm nights. Conversely, sugar levels tend to be lower and acidity higher in arid areas with cool nights. Such generalizations often vary when shorter...

Cutaneous myiasis is a parasitic disease secondary to the presence of the larvae of certain insects, particularly diptera, in the skin of man or vertebrates [1]. Human myiasis is a rare clinical condition, but more frequently seen in tropical and subtropical areas. Hot humid climate with inadequate sanitary conditions favor the development of this condition. Dermatitis, psychiatric illnesses, l...

Radiocarbon dating of Late deposits has shown that erosion of old organic materials and their redeposition in younger sediments ages that are too old. Also, the humid climate and leaching pedogenic environment of much of Tasmania translocation humic acids down profile through porous sediments. The humic acids may then be perched by impermeable clay or may be adsorbed/ absorbed by older clay and...

Abstract Green building has aspects which one is referred to the energy efficiency. Energy consumption mainly due mechanical ventilation (MV) therefore it key The utilization of hybrid (HV) by incorporating natural (NV) into system potential save energy. Humid tropics high temperature and humidity causing uncomfortable thermal condition. It poses a challenge utilize systems in this climate effe...

Kenyan farmers’ livelihoods are closely linked to climate conditions. Almost three-quarters of the labor force depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, and almost all farmers depend on timely and adequate rainfall for crop production and husbandry, as only 2 percent of cultivated area is equipped for irrigation. Thus, climate variability and change will have an increasing impact on agricult...

Climate variations and historical land use had a major impact on landscape development in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica). In southeast Brazil, rainforest expanded under warm-humid climate conditions in the late Holocene, but have been dramatically reduced in historical times. Nevertheless, the numerous remaining forest fragments are of outstanding biological richness. In our res...

—Approximately one-fifth (ten species) of the plant megafossils in the Chinle Formation in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona are the remains of ferns or fern-like leaves. Four of the species are assigned to living families, two are assigned to extinct families and the others are unassigned. The nearest living relatives and morphological features of these plants indicates that they lived u...

Vegetation change, whether it be of anthropogenic or climatic origin, can have dramatic effects on landscape form, processes and sediment yield. General conceptual models for relationships between climate, vegetation and sediment yield exist for whole landscapes, but no rigorous analysis of the effects of vegetation change on sediment transport, in the absence of overland flow, has been done fr...