Abstract: The last IPCC report predicts warmer and drier conditions for the future European climate and the Mediterranean basin could be highly sensible to future climatic change. In order to investigate how the forecast more stressing factors could affect Mediterranean shrubland ecosystems

This paper uses a palaeoecological approach to examine the impact of drier climatic conditions of the Early–Mid-Holocene (ca 8000–4000 years ago) upon Amazonia’s forests and their fire regimes. Palaeovegetation (pollen data) and palaeofire (charcoal) records are synthesized from 20 sites within

and warmer conditions

The last IPCC report predicts warmer and drier conditions for the future European cli mate (Kundzewicz et al. 2001). In particular, the Southern part of the continent will exper

Abstract: This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of a paper drier operating on solar-heated hot water. A small-scale prototype of a flat tank paper drier was built and tested in a variety of conditions and with a variety of handmade paper types. The tests showed consistent

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Western European summers become more continental in simulations for the 21st century. Anomalously large summer warming over the Mediterranean area in concert with drier soils and a reduced surface pressure can explain this change. The warming is enhanced due to soil moisture depletion which limits

ABSTRACT In the present study, a solar drier is designed and fabricated with evacuated tube collectors and its performance is studied for drying ginger under the meteorological condition of Thanjavur district, Tamilnadu, India. Ginger is also dried separately by natural sun drying and is compared

The Amazonian region, located in the north of South America has been modified by weathering processes since the late Cretaceous. During this time, the climate has changed from seasonally humid to tropically humid with rainforest vegetation, with shorter periods of drier conditions and savannah

Abstract The preference of wetland angiosperms for waterlogged soils has been explained by several hypotheses: (1) wetland species are adapted to waterlogging and sensitive to drought; (2) wetland species are tolerant to drought, but inferior competitors at drier conditions; (3) wetland species