Although Earth's climate history is best known through marine records, the corresponding continental climatic conditions drive the evolution of terrestrial life. Continental conditions during the latest Miocene are of particular interest because global faunal turnover is roughly synchronous with a period of global glaciation from ∼6.2-5.5 Ma and with the Messinian Salinity Crisis from ∼6.0-5.3 ...

desertification is a major problem in many countries. international efforts have been considered to combat and prevent this phenomenon. the most important cases of these measures are the united nations convention to combat desertification. in this study, imdpa model and gis were used to assess desertification phenomena in kashan plain. some indices of climate and water criteria were selected to...

Aridity and drought are two inevitable occurrences of the climate change in the region. So, any kinds of planning and futurism, without regard to them, lead to failure. Climate change cause drought phenomenon. The anomalies and irregularities in the precipitation mainly cause drought. Fars Province, one of the important centers of agriculture, population and industry in the country, with specif...

Aridity is a critical driver of the diversity and composition plant communities. However, how aridity influences phylogenetic structure functional groups (i.e. annual perennial species) far less understood than its effects on species richness. As perennials have to endure stressful conditions during summer drought, as opposed annuals that avoid it, they may be subjected stronger environmental f...

Quillaja saponaria is a sclerophyllus evergreen tree species distributed from 30° to 38° S in Central Chile. In this wide distribution it expected that the exhibits phenotypic plasticity morphology of leaves associated climate variation; however, information on topic still scarce. We studied leaf variation and its relationship with temperature, precipitation, aridity 85 stands Q. throughout nat...

Patterns of woody-plant mortality have been linked to global-scale environmental changes, such as extreme drought, heat stress, more frequent and intense fires, and episodic outbreaks of insects and pathogens. Although many studies have focussed on survival and mortality in response to specific physiological stresses, little attention has been paid to the role of genetic heritability of traits ...