Variations due to climate and geography constitute variation in different perception in culture and societies, population concentration, views on political debates such as the role of the Federal Government, abortion or labor and union rights and the like. In short all of this constitutes cultural ...
The Southern Ocean ecosystem remains largely unstudied in part for its remote- ness, extreme climate and strong seasonality. This lack of knowledge, some of it even on basic biological information, it is especially worrying due to ongoing climate-driven changes that the Southern Ocean ecosystem is...
Ethnographic information about how, when, and why people have used fire in a par- ticular place, as well as their observations and memories surrounding historic fire events, can reveal specifics about climate, vegetation, and historic parameters for a particular savanna re- gion. However, ...
Argentina (Fig.1). This region represents the southern frontier of the dispersion of Andean agropastoral economies with a southwards latitudinal pattern of decreasing agriculture importance between 32° and 34° S17,18,19,20. During the last ca. 2000 years, there is evidence of the use of do...
2.3. Climate The Boschberg has a steep rainfall gradient from south to north. Bestershoek, at the base of the Boschberg in the Boschberg Nature Reserve, receives 699 mm per annum (Van der Walt, 1972), while the south and south-east-facing sections of the Boschberg Nature Reserve receive...
In any case, an increase in the number of colonies of these bacteria would in turn enhance primary and secondary productivity in the area with a consequent increase in the number of intermediate hosts, which has been suggested for regions affected by oil spills, such as the Prestige spill [...
anomalies in summer temperature21, hence linking trends in the intensification of agricultural practices to internal adaptive responses to climate change. Figure 1 (a) Map of the southern Andes showing the study area (within the rectangle) and the locations of rodent sampling sites for bioavailable ...
while in Nyasaland in the 1930s there was an attempt to create a Tonga paramountcy and to restore the Ngoni king. The struggle for the recognition of the monarchy had anticolonial overtones. In general, the monarchies were most successful in the climate of indirect rule of the 1930s and ...
The stability of the 1960s encouraged international investment, and the South African economy became far more centralized and capital-intensive. Economic growth made possible unprecedented social engineering, and the politicalgeographyof South Africa was transformed as millions of people were removed from ...
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