Published in The Science of Nature
Wildlife populations can respond to changes in climate conditions by either adapting or moving to areas with preferred climate regimes. We studied nesting responses of two bird species, western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) and ash-throated flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens), to changing climate conditions (i.e., rising temperatures and increased drou...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
The Benue River Basin (BRB) is a major tributary of the Niger River Basin (NRB) and the second-largest river in Cameroon. It serves many water resource functions including irrigation, hydroelectricity production and navigation. Previous research has indicated that recent climate change (CC) has had significant impacts on local and regional hydrolog...
Published in Helgoland Marine Research
The Helgoland Roads time series is one of the longest and most detailed time series in the world. It comprises daily phytoplankton counts accompanied by physico-chemical measurements. As such, it provides valuable long-term record of changes and their underlying causes in the phytoplankton community around Helgoland. This work provides an updated c...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
A comprehensive analysis of glacier dynamic evolution is essential to understand the influence of global climate change at different time scales. In this paper, we derive surface velocity fields of Fedchenko and Grumm-Grzhimaylo glacier during four different periods in 2007–2008 with an efficient pixel-tracking (PT) method on ALOS/PALSAR imagery. T...
Published in Journal of Mountain Science
Reconstruction of the desert paleoclimate is important to understand the mechanisms that triggered and/or enhanced climate change. Through optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, grain size, magnetic susceptibility, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and geochemical indicators, we provide a well-dated record of a sedimentary outcrop on the sout...
The general public expects relevant, comprehensible and acceptable communication on climate change. Many efforts have been, and are still, being made to make the message clear and comprehensible. This paper focuses on the acceptability of the message by the receiver, to move from awareness of climate change to concrete action, which is seldom discu...
To mitigate the negative impacts of hydrocarbon fuels on climate change complementary decision tools should be considered when selecting or evaluating the performance of a certain production scheme. The exergy analysis can give valuable information on the management of the oil and gas reservoirs. It can also be used to calculate the CO2 footprint o...
Published in Nature
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks. Five book covers
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Published in Nature
Thomas Crowther wants to restore the planet, but first he needs to know how many trees, fungi, worms and microbes live on it. Thomas Crowther at his lab at ETH Zurich
