Two pairs of small stagnant ice bodies on the Hazen Plateau of northeastern Ellesmere Island, the St. Patrick Bay ice caps and the Murray and Simmons ice caps, are rapidly shrinking, and the remnants of the St. Patrick Bay ice caps are likely to disappear entirely within the next 5 years. Vertical aerial photographs of these Little Ice Age relics taken during August of 1959 show that the larger...

Glassy ejecta are associated to a limited number of impact craters, and yet hold key information about hypervelocity processes. Here we report on the discovery ∼650 km2 glass strewnfield in Central Depression Atacama Desert. These cm-sized splash-form objects, that refer as atacamaites, essentially composed dacitic formed by high-temperature melting local magmatic rocks, with addition variable ...

The Sundarbans Reserved Forest, and its surrounding buffer zone, is one of the most diverse and richest areas of natural resource in Bangladesh. It is a part of the largest mangrove forest in the world, with an area of about 10,000 km2, of which 6,000 km2 are in Bangladesh and about 4,000 km2 are part of India: it has been recognized as an internationally important World Heritage and Ramsar sit...

A new method for flood detection change detection and thresholding (CDAT) was used with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to delineate the extent of flooding for the Chobe floodplain in the Caprivi region of Namibia. This region experiences annual seasonal flooding and has seen a recent renewal of severe flooding after a long dry period in the 1990s. Flooding in this area has caused loss o...

In this paper, we analyse the effectiveness of flood management measures based on the concept known as “retaining water in the landscape”. The investigated measures include afforestation, micro-ponds and small-reservoirs. A comparative and model-based methodological approach has been developed and applied for three meso-scale catchments located in different European hydro-climatological regions...

Satellite data are used to determine the number of days having sea ice coverage in each year 1979-2013 and to map the trends in these ice-season lengths. Over the majority of the Arctic seasonal sea ice zone, the ice season shortened at an average rate of at least 5 days/decade between 1979 and 2013, and in a small area in the northeastern Barents Sea the rate of shortening reached over 65 days...

Little information exists on coyote (Canis latrans) space use and habitat selection in the southeastern United States and most studies conducted in the Southeast have been carried out within small study areas (e.g., ≤1,000 km2). Therefore, studying the placement, size, and habitat composition of coyote home ranges over broad geographic areas could provide relevant insights regarding how coyote ...

We expand a framework for estimating minimum area thresholds to elaborate biogeographic patterns between two groups of snakes (rattlesnakes and colubrid snakes) on islands in the western Gulf of California, Mexico. The minimum area thresholds for supporting single species versus coexistence of two or more species relate to hypotheses of the relative importance of energetic efficiency and compet...