Water shortage is the primary limiting factor for crop production and long-term agricultural sustainability of the North China Plain. Forage cultivation emerged recently in this region. A fiver-year field experiment studies were conducted at Yucheng Integrated Experiment Station to quantify the water requirement and water use efficiency of seven forage varieties under climate variability, that ...

The impact of environmental and meteorological conditions when dealing with sport performance has been demonstrated by several studies carried out in recent years. Among the variables greatest effect are temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind direction speed. This research focused on analyzing forecasting patterns occurring Enoshima Bay (Japan). In particular, objective this study was to pr...

Given the significant influence of seasonality patterns on many aspects of modern human and non-human primate tropical ecology (Foley 1993; Jablonski et al. 2000), it is reasonable to assume that factors associated with seasonality provided key selective forces in the evolution of the human lineage in Equatorial Africa. Reconstructing the climatic and ecological context of early hominin innovat...

I test for macroscale intraspecific variation of abundance, mortality, and regeneration of four eastern US tree species (Tsuga canadensis,Betula lenta,Liriodendron tulipifera, and Quercus prinus) by splitting them into three climatic zones based on plant hardiness zones (PHZs). The primary goals of the analysis are to assess the differences in environmental heterogeneity and demographic respons...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: erosion landscape evolution specific stream power cosmogenic radionuclides paleoclimate climate-tectonic feedback processes The tectonic and climatic boundary conditions of the broken foreland and the orogen interior of the southern Central Andes of northwestern Argentina cause strong contrasts in elevation, rainfall, and surface-process regimes. The climatic gra...

     Periodic vegetation patterns (PVPs) are striking features of many global drylands. Although they have attracted wide research study, resulting in many hypotheses, their origin and controlling factors remain unresolved. Theoretical works dominate a large literature seeking to account for the occurrence and properties of PVPs, especially banded vegetation patterns (‘tiger bush’). In light of...