| Titre : | AMBIO 42(7) - NOV 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Eskil Mattsson, Auteur ;
Madelene Ostwald, Auteur ;
S. P. Nissanka, Auteur ;
Buddhi Marambe, Auteur
This paper explores the concept of homegardens and their potential functions as strategic elements in land-use planning, and adaptation and mitigation to climate change in Sri Lanka. The ancient and locally adapted agroforestry system of homegar[...]
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Bin Kang, Auteur
This paper examines the recent appearance of four migratory species in the Upper Mekong: Dasyatis laosensis, Anguilla bicolor, Anguilla marmorata, and Chitala ornata. Since 2006 these species have been continually sampled in an area below Jingho[...]
Article
Tica Novakov, Auteur ;
Hal Rosen, Auteur
A number of recent studies have suggested that black carbon (BC), the light-absorbing fraction of soot, is next to CO2 one of the strongest contributors to the global climate change. BC heats the air, darkens the snow and ice surfaces and could [...]
Article
Bogdan Cristescu, Auteur ;
Mark S. Boyce, Auteur
Ecologists are increasingly actively involved in conservation. We identify five key topics from a broad sweep of ecology that merit research attention to meet conservation needs. We examine questions from landscape ecology, behavioral ecology, e[...]
Article
Madhu Rao, Auteur ;
Saw Htun, Auteur ;
Steven G. Platt, Auteur ;
Robert Tizard, Auteur ;
Colin Poole, Auteur ;
Than Myint, Auteur ;
James E. M. Watson, Auteur
High levels of species richness and endemism make Myanmar a regional priority for conservation. However, decades of economic and political sanctions have resulted in low conservation investment to effectively tackle threats to biodiversity. Rece[...]
Article
Daniel C. Allen, Auteur ;
Heather S. Galbraith, Auteur ;
Caryn C. Vaughn, Auteur ;
Daniel E. Spooner, Auteur
Droughts often pose situations where stream water levels are lowest while human demand for water is highest. Here we present results of an observational study documenting changes in freshwater mussel communities in two southern US rivers during [...]
Article
Mauricio E. Arias, Auteur ;
Thomas A. Cochrane, Auteur ;
David Norton, Auteur ;
Timothy J. Killeen, Auteur ;
Puthea Khon, Auteur
The Tonle Sap is the largest wetland in Southeast Asia and one of the world's most productive inland fisheries. The Mekong River inundates the Tonle Sap every year, shaping a mosaic of natural and agricultural habitats. Ongoing hydropower develo[...]
Article
Sally Rangecroft, Auteur ;
Stephan Harrison, Auteur ;
Karen Anderson, Auteur ;
John Magrath, Auteur ;
Ana Paola Castel, Auteur ;
Paula Pacheco, Auteur
Climate change is projected to have a strongly negative effect on water supplies in the arid mountains of South America, significantly impacting millions of people. As one of the poorest countries in the region, Bolivia is particularly vulnerabl[...]
Article
Ingrid Oborn, Auteur ;
Jan Bengtsson, Auteur ;
Fredrik Hedenus, Auteur ;
Lotta Rydhmer, Auteur ;
Maria Stenstrom, Auteur ;
Katarina Vrede, Auteur ;
Charles Westin, Auteur ;
Ulf Magnusson, Auteur
To increase the awareness of society to the challenges of global food security, we developed five contrasting global and European scenarios for 2050 and used these to identify important issues for future agricultural research. Using a scenario d[...]
Article
Lena Maria Nilsson, Auteur ;
Georgia Destouni, Auteur ;
James Berner, Auteur ;
Alexey A. Dudarev, Auteur ;
Gert Mulvad, Auteur ;
Jon Oyvind Odland, Auteur ;
Alan Parkinson, Auteur ;
Constantine Tikhonov, Auteur ;
Arja Rautio, Auteur ;
Birgitta Evengard, Auteur
This perspective paper argues for an urgent need to monitor a set of 12 concrete, measurable indicators of food and water security in the Arctic over time. Such a quantitative indicator approach may be viewed as representing a reductionist rathe[...]
