Rural housing in the Andes of Peru is precarious and does not protect communities from the ravages of cold temperatures. This problem has justified the development of projects to improve thermal behavior; however, they have not been developed massively due to their high cost and technical requirement. This article analyzes the thermal behavior of t...
El clima se ha propuesto como uno de los posibles factores desencadenantes de la extinción de los Neandertales. Las oscilaciones rápidas y abruptas, registradas en diferentes registros climáticos del hemisferio norte, empujaron los ecosistemas hacia resultados catastróficos durante el Estadio Isotópico 3 (MIS3). En estas condiciones, la supervivenc...
Published in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
两栖动物是陆生脊椎中最受胁的类群, 中国两栖动物的受胁状态更为严峻。人类活动导致的环境变化深刻影响着物种的分布和种群动态。传统生态学认为大尺度上的物种分布格局主要受当前气候和物种扩散能力的影响。近几百年来, 人类活动的日益加剧, 其对物种分布的影响也日益加强。中国幅员辽阔, 自然环境类型多样, 同时人口众多。然而, 目前尚不知自然因素和人类活动是如何影响着中国两栖动物当前的分布格局？人类活动的影响是否已经超出了气候等自然环境因素的影响？我们通过三种方法收集了中国两栖动物的分布数据, 包括615篇文献, 网上公开数据和野外调查数据, 最终获得中国196种两栖动物的25826个分布点。并将这些数据用于预测两栖动物当前潜在分布区, 用实际分布点代表其当前实际分布区, 实际分布区和潜在分布区的比值来...
The environmental awareness of society has led to new visions about how to guide the economic model. Thus, compared to the linear economy («take-make-dispose»), a more competitive model is presented with a high environmental component translated into aspects such as sustainability, efficiency in the use of resources or its concern for climate chang...
Air quality in the Alto San Jorge region is being affected by mining, with environmental impacts associated to human health problems. The objective of the study was to analyze the environmental fragility of the ecosystems to identify and relate the effects on environmental health as a consequence of the emission of atmospheric pollutants. The metho...
This article revisits the 1871 epidemic that Buenos Aires suffered under the light of the history of disasters. An attempt will be made to provide a new look at the phenomenon and reflect on the environmental and pandemic present. The first objective is to characterize the climatic conditions of the city before and during the pathogenic scourge. Th...
The surface urban heat island is one of the main causes for the decrease in bioclimatic comfort in areas with heterogeneous surface patterns, especially in the summer. The municipality of Porto has characteristics of land use and roofing materials provide thermal and radiative properties that are widely disseminated. The present study seeks to infl...
Future projections are always rooted in the past. The projection reflects what we long to modify. Since the Industrial Revolution we have developed a voracious production system that breaks the harmony with the cycles of life. We have felt like egos isolated from nature focused on productive efficiency. The deterioration of our environment, climate...
The aim of this work is to propose and analyse factors for the construction of an index of vulnerability to contamination of urbanised coastal karst aquifers. Due to the high anthropic modifications of the territories, the city of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, was taken as the study area. Four factors were addressed: relief, climate, sea level ri...
Vitis vinifera is a variety of vine (grape plant), suitable for wine making, which has existed before mankind and has been linked to society for a long time. There are records of it uses in the bible and in ancient Rome, where a golden wine was made without distinguishing grape varieties. It is necessary to produce fruit of good quality, to produce...
