PAGES Focus 4: Past Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions (PHAROS) Workshop

Climate-human-environment interactions: resolving our past

The paper reviews how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time, and in the future. It focuses on data sources for environmental change at local/regional and regional/global spatial scales, and shows the scope and limitations of each. It reviews alternative methods for learning from the past, including the increasing use of simulation models. Th...

ESF Workshop ‘Proteomics: Focus on Protein Interactions’

Approximately 70 scientists met, from May 11–13 2001, in Villa Mondragone in the hills south of Rome to discuss strategies to describe the complete protein interaction network inside a cell. Very few of the participants still needed to be convinced that this is an essential step if we want to try to interpret the functional information contained in genomic databases. This was well accepted befo...

Climate change, biotic interactions and ecosystem services.

Climate change is real. The wrangling debates are over, and we now need to move onto a predictive ecology that will allow managers of landscapes and policy makers to adapt to the likely changes in biodiversity over the coming decades. There is ample evidence that ecological responses are already occurring at the individual species (population) level. The challenge is how to synthesize the growi...

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Climate-human-environment interactions

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract The paper reviews how we can learn from the past about climate-human-interactions at the present time, and in the future. It focuses on data sources for environmental change at local and regional/global spatial scales, ...