Dynamic models for range expansion provide a promising tool for assessing species' capacity to respond to climate change by shifting their ranges to new areas. However, these models include a number of uncertainties which may affect how successfully they can be applied to climate change oriented conservation planning. We used RangeShifter, a novel dynamic and individual-based modelling platform...

The main aim of this research was to improve risk mapping of heavy metals by taking account of erosion effects. A new spatiotemporal index, namely the G2met index, is introduced, with integration of pre-existing methodologies (Hakanson, EPM, and G2). The G2met index is depicted as a series of risk maps for each heavy metal on a month-time step. The southern part of Cyprus Island was selected as...

Representativeness is a desirable trying to fill the gaps in current protected areas with additional areas only complementarity performed property of conservation networks. In this paper an attempt is made to assess the efficiency of current better than choosing areas at random. Both rarity and richness hotspots gave worse results. Opportunistic conservation networks in Portugal in representing...

As result of the “Global Land Cover Mapping at Finer Resolution” project led by National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC), one of the first global land cover datasets at 30-meters resolution (GlobeLand30) has been produced for the years 2000 and 2010. The first comprehensive accuracy assessment at a national level of these data (excluding some comparisons in China) has been performed on the Ita...

Worldwide, floods are the most common and widespread type of disaster during 21st century. These phenomena have caused human fatalities, destruction infrastructures properties, other significant impacts associated with socioeconomic activities. In this study, exposure infrastructure (social, industrial commercial, transportation) residential areas to in Greek territory was considered. To accomp...

Heat islands (HI) are a common anthropogenic phenomenon and defined as artificial surfaces (urban areas) that have higher average temperature than their surroundings (rural areas). The aim of this work was to determine the influence land use on spatial distribution intensity (HIi ) HI in Slovenia. MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) Corine Cover (CLC) databases were used perform analysis. With...