Island biogeography has greatly contributed to our understanding of the processes determining species' distributions. Previous research has focused on the effects of island geography (i.e., island area, elevation, and isolation) and current climate as drivers of island species richness and endemism. Here, we evaluate the potential additional effects of historical climate on breeding land bird r...

Hymenocrater calycinus (Boiss.) Benth. is endemic to Iran and it is growing natural habitats in the north east of Iran.  In traditional medicine, this plant use for flu treatment, diuretic, antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant. In order, this plant know ecological characteristic for introduce and dense cultivation on farm land and then use in medical industries. Such as this plant natural ...

This paper presents a multiproxy high-resolution study of the past 2600 years for Seebergsee, a small Swiss lake with varved sediments at the present tree-line ecotone. The laminae were identiŽ ed as varves by a numerical analysis of diatom counts in the thin-sections. The hypothesis of two diatom blooms per year was corroborated by the Pb and Cs chronology. A period of intensive pasturing duri...

Apple farming is an important activity and profession of farmer communities in the Himalayan states of India. At present, the traditional apple farming is under stress due to changes in climate. The present study was undertaken in an Indian Himalayan state, Himachal Pradesh, with the major aim of studying perceptions of farmers on the effects of climate change on apple farming along the altitud...

I process satellite-generated data on terrain elevation and presence of water bodies to precisely estimate the amount of developable land in U.S. metropolitan areas. The data show that residential development is effectively curtailed by the presence of steep-sloped terrain. I also find that most areas in which housing supply is regarded as inelastic are severely land-constrained by their geogra...

Timely, high-quality data from remote sensing can benefi t the study of physical geography in many ways (Wolman, 2004). Rapid developments in remote sensing, particularly from satellite platforms, have generated much, often well-placed, enthusiasm about its potential as a powerful research tool (Skole, 2004). Indeed, remote sensing is viewed by many as having come of age (Tatem et al., 2008) an...

The Cree of Northern Ontario, Canada, have proved resilient and adaptable to social and environmental changes. However, the rapidity of climate change impacts in the Hudson Bay Lowlands of the Canadian sub-Arctic is challenging this resiliency. A collaborative project conducted with the Weenusk First Nation at Peawanuck and researchers at Lakehead University used the concept of wellbeing to exp...

1 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany 10 2 School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK 11 3 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA 12 4 Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, USA 13 5 Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 14 6 Swedens Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden 15 7 Max Planck Institute for Meteorolo...