Potential Impacts
Extreme temperature days and potential impacts in Southern Europe
... increases in 95th percentile temperatures were higher at higher latitudes. Where so- cial, infrastructure, and economic systems are not preconditioned to high temperature days and heat waves, the severity of increased ...
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Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean acidification and its potential impacts on marine ecosystems
... greatly impacts coral reefs and reef-building processes (Rudnick and Ferrari, 1999); a virulent disease known as white plague type II, which caused widespread mortality in most Caribbean coral species through ...
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Potential Impacts of Future Warming and Land Use Changes on Intra-Urban Heat Exposure in Houston, Texas.
... The combination of extreme heat and the UHI creates dangerous conditions for urban pop- ulations [13]. For example, between 35,000 and 70,000 and over 700 excess deaths have been attributed to heat during the 2003 ...
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Exploitation of rocky intertidal grazers : population status and potential impacts on community structure and functioning
... Hence, limpets are used as a model species in this work, as they represent an economically important resource and because they are considered key organ- isms whose role in structuring the rocky intertidal is widely ...
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Assessing the potential impacts of COVID-19 in Brasil: Mobility, Morbidity and Impact to the Health System
... of those resources across the national territory. The median for the 558 micro- regions is of 19 beds per 10,000, with the lower 5% having only 6 and the 95% percentile presenting 41 beds per 10, 000 people. This ...
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Potential impacts of climate change on insect communities: a transplant experiment.
... profound impacts on the distribution, abundance and ecology of all ...the potential effects of a warmer climate on insect community composition and ...
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Ciênc. saúde coletiva vol.19 número9
... of potential di- sasters. This paper examines the various potential impacts of disasters on health, the components of the health sector and their roles in emergency medical care and disaster ...
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Unveiling the conservation biogeography of a data-deficient endangered bird species under climate change.
... It remains a challenge to identify the geographical patterns and underlying environmental associations of species with unique ecological niches and distinct behaviors. This in turn hinders our understanding of the ...
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Análise do risco de ocorrência da monilíase em cacaueiro no Brasil face às mudanças climáticas globais
... the potential impacts of climate change on this disease, should this pathogen be introduced in ...increased potential for the establishment of quarantine ...
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Soil Respiration in Semiarid Temperate Grasslands under Various Land Management.
... the potential impacts of different land management practices (grazing, clipping and ungrazed enclosures) on soil respiration in a semiarid temperate steppe in northern ...
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An efficient technique for the captive breeding of an endangered freshwater fish Salaria fluviatilis (Pisces: Blenniidae), with a description of Its ontogeny
... by water resource development schemes on the con- servation of endangered fish species in the Guadiana River Basin in Portugal.. Potential impacts of gravel extrac-.[r] ...
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Application of LCA to solid waste management strategies
... Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a technique for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a system (product system or service system) by: (i) compiling an [r] ...
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Implications of Climate Change for Bird Conservation in the Southwestern U.S. under Three Alternative Futures.
... and potential for refugia ...the potential impacts of climate change for birds inhabiting the Rio Grande, we use maximum entropy methods (MaxEnt ...explore potential changes in suitable ...
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Combined assessment of climate change and socio-economic development as drivers of freshwater availability in the South of Portugal
... the potential impacts from climate change (CC) and socio-economic development (SED) on water resources is presented for a large aquifer in the south of Portugal, under large pressures from water consuming ...
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Can elevated air (CO2) conditions mitigate the predicted warming impact on the quality of coffee bean ?
... C) temperature range. This was the case of caffeic acid (decreased), total soluble solids, 3-CQA, 4-CQA, total CQAs, caffeine, trigonelline, and p-coumaric acid (increased), likely having potential impacts ...
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Anthropogenic impacts in the deep sea of the Azores : fishing and litter
... The deep sea was recognised as a potential source of rare metals since the 1960s (Mero, 1965). Yet, the first exploration and feasibility studies were only conducted in the 1980s on the East Pacific Rise (Crawford ...
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Hidrovia Tocantins-Araguaia: importância e impactos econômicos, sociais e ambientais...
... The present study aims to evaluate the perception of potential users of the Tocantins-Araguaia Waterway concerning the possibility of economic, social and environmental impacts in 7 mu[r] ...
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Impacts of climate change on the global potential distribution of two notorious invasive crayfishes
... Crayfishes are a taxonomic group with a disproportionally high ratio of invasive alien species, causing detrimental im- pacts on native biodiversity and ecosystem services (Gherardi & Holdich, 1999; Lodge et al., ...
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Sustainability of Biochar Systems
... its potential to stimulate decomposition of native soil organic matter, known as a “positive priming” effect, which could potentially offset carbon gains from biochar ...the potential to reduce native ...
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Changes of the potential distribution area of French Mediterranean forests under global warming
... are potential distribu- tions, which do not taken into account any history of species colonization nor human influences (Debussche et ...their potential areas ...
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