The world’s warm deserts are predicted to experience disproportionately large temperature increases due to climate change, yet the impacts on global desert biodiversity remain poorly understood. Because species in warm deserts live close to their physio
Owing to increasing population pressures and existing climate risks, urban areas play a critical role in the mitigation and adaptation to climate change; in terms of driving emissions and providing testbeds for the implementation of climate adaptation technologies and infrastructure31. Urban greening stra...
4.1. A new map of World Ecosystems We developed a new World Ecosystems map and associated global data layers on climate, landforms, and vegetation/land cover. These high-resolution (250 m), open-data products are globally consistent and replicable. They are consistent with IPCC and FAO developm...
change, many of the world's major countries have signed the Paris Agreement. The temperature goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and ideally 1.5 °C, which will help us avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. ...
Earth vegetation plays an essential role in the study of global climate change influencing terrestrial CO22 flux exchange and variability through plant respiration and photosynthesis [1,2]. Vegetation monitoring can be achieved through the evaluation of biophysical variables such as LAI (Leaf Area Index...
The temporal evolution of the climate also might be a factor to consider while estimating the degradation rates of PV modules. In ref. [12] the decrease of the Performance Ratio due to climate change effect is already reported. Hereby, the annual degradation rates are simulated for the PV mod...
change, many of the world's major countries have signed the Paris Agreement. The temperature goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and ideally 1.5 °C, which will help us avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. ...
This is especially true for soil organic carbon (SOC) in the framework of food security and climate change. The GlobalSoilMap consortium was established in response to such a soaring demand for up-to-date and relevant soil information. The majority of the data needed to produce GlobalSoilMap ...
Changes in cloudiness can cause sudden variations in PV production and their correct prediction is therefore necessary, but persistence forecasts have no ability to produce valuable information about change. Due to this inability, a persistence forecast is also somewhat insufficient as a benchmark when...
For the climate change scenario (2050s and 2070s), a sharp decline in the species distribution area was observed for all RCPs (when compared with the current estimate of 8638.01 km 2 ), which ranged from 2102.90 (RCP 2.6_70) to 5494.23 km 2 (RCP 8.5_70). The model output revealed ...