Human activities and climate variability drive fast-paced change across the world's estuarine-coastal ecosystems

Human activities and climate variability drive fast-paced change across the world's estuarine-coastal ecosystems.

Time series of environmental measurements are essential for detecting, measuring and understanding changes in the Earth system and its biological communities. Observational series have accumulated over the past 2-5 decades from measurements across the world's estuaries, bays, lagoons, inland seas and shelf waters influenced by runoff. We synthesize information contained in these time series to ...

Estuarine Research Federation Biocomplexity in Responses of Estuarine Ecosystems to Climate Variability and Change

The purpose of this working paper is to provide brief background on climatic variability and changes that may be anticipated over the 21 century which may affect estuarine ecosystems, with emphasis on the United States. Perspectives on climate change are distilled from a number of international, national and regional assessments of the consequences of climate variability and change that have be...

Hydrological Response to Human Activities and Climate Change in the Ghaleh-Shahrokh Watershed

Determining the relative contributions of human activities and climate change to variations of runoff in basin is very important for sustainable management of water resources. In this study, seven methods were used to determine these relative contributions in the Ghaleh-Shahrokh watershed as the main upper catchment of Zayandeh-Roud River. These seven methods can be divided into two main catego...

Eccentricity-paced late Paleozoic climate change

Article history: Received 24 April 2011 Received in revised form 7 March 2012 Accepted 10 March 2012 Available online xxxx

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