Differences in life-history traits between tropical and temperate lineages are often attributed to differences in their climatic niche dynamics. For example, the more frequent appearance of migratory behaviour in temperate-breeding species than in species originally breeding in the tropics is believed to have resulted partly from tropical climatic stability and niche conservatism constraining t...

Calculations of energy efficiency of several AACbased building envelopes under different climatic conditions are presented. As thermal insulating materials, expanded polystyrene and hydrophobic and hydrophilic mineral wools are assumed. The computations are accomplished using computer code HEMOT developed at Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technica...

1. Climatic Adaptation of Plants in Boreal Zone 2. Trees and Shrubs 2.1. Regulation of the Annual Cycle 2.1.1. Phenology of Bud Burst 2.1.2. Phenology of Growth Cessation 2.2. Effects of Climatic Warming during Overwintering 2.2.1. Timing of Dehardening and Bud Burst 2.2.2. Timing of Growth Cessation and Hardening 2.3. Effects of Climatic Warming During Growing Season 3. Herbs and Grasses Gloss...

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 LIST OF TABLES 4 LIST OF FIGURES 5 INTRODUCTION 6 METHODS Data collection 8 Physical habitat analysis 10 Climatic Influence Analysis 12 Existing Habitat Analysis 13 RESULTS Physical habitat analysis 14 Climatic Influence Analysis 15 Existing Habitat Analysis 17 DISCUSSION Physical habitat analysis 17 Climatic Influence Analysis 21 Existing Habitat Analysis 22 Conservation ...

A comparison of climatic data for the eastern United States from the 1830’s and 1840’s with the currently valid climatic normals indicates a distinctly cooler and, in some areas, wetter climate in the first half of the last century. The recently appearing trend to cooler conditions noticed here and elsewhere could be indicative of a return to the climatic character of those earlier years.

Aim: Soil water is essential for the physiological processes of plant growth and fitness. Owing to the difficulty of assessing wide variations in soil water reserves, plant distribution models usually estimate available water for plants through such climatic proxies as precipitation data (P) or climatic water balance (P minus potential evapotranspiration). We evaluated the ability of simple cli...