Search Results - "Climatic Change"

Biodiversity and ecological long-term plots in Southern Patagonia to support sustainable land management: The case of PEBANPA network by Peri, Pablo Luis, Lencinas, María Vanessa, Bousson, Jeffrey, Lasagno, Romina Gisele, Soler Esteban, Rosina Matilde, Bahamonde, Héctor Alejandro, Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José

“…The PEBANPA Network helps southern Patagonia address the challenges of unsustainable land management and climate change through monitoring ecosystem function and services. …”
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Straw mulching increases soil health in the inter-row of citrus orchards from Mediterranean flat lands by Visconti, Fernando, Peiró, Enrique, Pesce, Simone, Balugani, Enrico, Baixauli, Carlos, De-Paz, José M.

“…In the present scenario of global warming, the soil on the inter-rows of citrus orchards should be recovered for organic carbon trapping with benefits for climate change mitigation and for adaptation through soil health enhancement. …”
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Reduction of Genetic Variation When Far From the Niche Centroid: Prediction for Mangrove Species by Ochoa Zavala, Maried, Osorio Olvera, Luis, Cerón Souza, Ivania, Rivera Ocasio, Elsie, Jiménez Lobato, Vania, Núñez Farfán, Juan

“…This shows that this approach is a potentially powerful tool in the conservation and management of this species, including for modelling changes in the face of climate change.…”
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Insects raised on food waste : a new source of feed and food? by Henriksson, Elisabet

“…An increasing global population demands an increase in food production, while human impact on the planet necessarily must be decreased to decelerate climate change. Resources currently lost as food waste could potentially be utilized to increase world food production amount and efficiency by feeding it to insects. …”

Tillväxt hos inhemska trädslag i Borneo by Bonnerup, Filip, Vesterlund, Simon

“…This results in these systems losing their potential to bind parts of the carbon dioxide that is causing the ongoing climate change. When working with reforestation of degraded tropical forests, with the goal of reintroducing the ecosystem services that have been lost, exotic tree species such as Eucalyptus and Acacia are often used. …”
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Why fast growing broadleaves? : a study of forest owners´ tree species choice after storm damages in southern Sweden by Engelmann, Veronika

“…The so called borealization of southern Sweden has resulted in several negative consequences such as a decline of biodiversity, a complete change of the landscape picture with decreased recreational and cultural values and increased risk for damages caused by storm and pests. Climate change is predicted to result in more unsuitable conditions for spruce which increases the risks for damages from storm and pests, with great economic losses for the individual forest owner and the whole society as a consequence. …”

Can Science Contribute to Smallholder Management of Complex Systems? Lessons from Agroecological Intensification of Multi-Strata Coffee with Banana by Staver, Charles, Siles, P., Bustamante, O., Castellon, N., Cerdan, C., Garming, H., Burkhardt, J.

“…Finally, complexity should be addressed through scenario building under variable and uncertain futures resulting from different combinations of climate change, prices for commodities, energy and inputs and investments in social capital, governance and innovation.…”
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Manual de capacitación en análisis espacial de diversidad y distribución de plantas by Scheldeman, Xavier, Zonneveld, Maarten van, Bioversity International

“…Antes de utilizar el manual, el usuario debe descargar los datos relevantes para cada ejercicio, disponibles aquí abajo: single file 2.1 Importing observation data5.2 Diversity - Phenotypic data2.2 Importing climate data5.3 Diversity - Molecular marker data3.1 Basic elements5.4 Conservation strategies3.2 Export to Google Earth6.1 Realized niche4.1 Quality control – Administrative units6.2 Potential distribution4.2 Quality control – Atypical points6.3 Climate change5.1 Species diversity6.4 Gap analysis El manual se puede usar para auto aprendizaje o para eventos de formación, sean éstos cursos cortos o seminarios para aprender sobre los fundamentos del análisis espacial. …”
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Crop wild relatives: Reprinted from Geneflow 2006 by Crop Wild Relatives

“…The increasing genetic uniformity of crop varieties, combined with the effects of climate change, makes crops more vulnerable to stress. …”
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Effectiveness of communication channels on level of awareness and determinants of adoption of improved common bean technologies among smallholder farmers in Tanzania by Lugamara, C.B., Urassa, J.K., Nguezet, P.M.D., Masso, C.

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Evaluating policy-relevant research: lessons from a series of theory-based outcomes assessments by Belcher, B., Suryadarma, D., Halimanjaya, A.

“…This paper presents a theory-based research evaluation approach that was developed and tested on four policy-relevant research activities: a long-term forest management research programme in the Congo Basin; a large research programme on forests and climate change; a multi-country research project on sustainable wetlands management, and; a research project of the furniture value chain in one district in Indonesia. …”
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Combining local knowledge and soil science for integrated soil health assessments in conservation agriculture systems by Hermans, T.D.G., Dougill, Andrew J., Whitfield, S., Peacock, C.L., Eze, S., Thierfelder, Christian L.

“…The challenges of soil degradation and climate change have led to the emergence of Conservation Agriculture (CA) as a sustainable alternative to tillage-based agriculture systems. …”
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Prediction of sediment yield in a data-scarce river catchment at the sub-basin scale using gridded precipitation datasets by Ijaz, M. A., Ashraf, M., Hamid, S., Niaz, Y., Waqas, M. M., Tariq, M. A. U. R., Saifullah, M., Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif, Tahir, A. A., Ikram, K., Shafeeque, M., Ng, A.W.M.

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Genomic surveillance of Rift Valley fever virus: From sequencing to lineage assignment by Juma, John, Fonseca, V., Konongoi, Samson L., Heusden, P. van, Roesel, Kristina, Sang, R., Bett, Bernard K., Christoffels, A., Oliveira, T. de, Oyola, Samuel O.

“…Genetic evolution of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) in Africa has been shaped mainly by environmental changes such as abnormal rainfall patterns and climate change that has occurred over the last few decades. …”
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Understanding human-water feedbacks of interventions in agricultural systems with agent based models: A review by Alam, Mohammad Faiz, McClain, M., Sikka, Alok, Pande, S.

“…Increased variability of the water cycle manifested by climate change is a growing global threat to agriculture with strong implications for food and livelihood security. …”
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The world’s largest potato cryobank at the International Potato Center (CIP) – Status quo, protocol improvement through large-scale experiments and long-term viability monitoring by Vollmer, R., Villagaray, R., Castro, M., Cardenas, J., Pineda, S., Espirilla, J., Anglin, Noelle L., Ellis, David, Azevedo, V.C.R.

“…The need for the secure conservation of genetic resources collections ex situ is critical, due to rapid and extreme climatic changes which are threatening and reducing biodiversity in their natural environments. …”
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A simplified approach for producing Tier 2 enteric-methane emission factors based on East African smallholder farm data by Ndung'u, Phyllis W., Toit, C.J.L. du, Takahashi, T., Robertson-Dean, M., Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Merbold, Lutz, Goopy, John P.

“…Reducing enteric methane emissions from livestock is a promising pathway to reduce the effects of climate change, and, hence, the need to produce accurate emission estimates as a benchmark to measure the effectiveness of mitigation options. …”
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Growth, Productivity, Biomass and Carbon Stock in Eucalyptus saligna and Grevillea robusta Plantations in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo by Kasekete, D.K., Ligot, G., Mweru, J.-P.M., Drouet, T., Rousseau, M., Moango, A., Bourland, N.

“…The study also assesses the carbon stock and long-term CO2 fixation in the biomass of the studied plantations to deduce their contribution to climate change mitigation. Non-destructive inventories were carried out during three consecutive years in 20 E. saligna and 12 G. robusta plantations in Sake and Kirumba. …”
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Transforming Agrifood Systems in West and Central Africa Initiative (TAFS-WCA): Baseline report of the TAFS-WCA by Arouna, A., Yergo, Wilfried, Aboudou, R., Ouédraogo, M., Abdoulaye, Tahirou

“…It should also be noted that in the face of climate change, 26% of producers have access to information on weather forecasts (for today, 24 hours and/or next 2-3 days), 20% to forecasts of extreme events (drought, flood, strong wind, etc.), and 19% to information on seasonal forecasts (weather for the following 2-3 months). …”
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Establishing optimal planting windows for contrasting sorghum cultivars across diverse agro-ecologies of north-eastern Nigeria: a modelling approach by Akinseye, Folorunso M., Ajeigbe, Hakeem A., Kamara, A., Omotayo, A.O., Tofa, A., Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…In the context of climate change, the sowing date and cultivar choice can influence the productivity of sorghum, especially where production is constrained by low soil fertility and early terminal drought across the challenging agro-ecologies of north-eastern Nigeria. …”
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