Altitude comprises a suite of highly auto-correlated characteristics (climate, vegetation, litter, soil chemistry, soil microbiology, snow cover) that influence litter decomposition.
Describing the relationships between broad-scale patterns of natural regeneration, landscape characteristics, climate and current and historical land use could assist in the development of regional revegetation strategies.
The grazing behavior and the diet selection of goats are affected by numerous factors associated with animal characteristics, climate conditions and rangeland features as well as their interactions.
To illustrate the complexity of ecological restoration, we discuss the potential links between China's ongoing large-scale ecological restoration practices and the resulting changes of natural factors such as landscape characteristics, climate, and vegetation communities.
The indicator set is designed for gathering information on the definition (spatial boundaries, constituent cities, population, economy), biophysical characteristics (climate, population density, building floor area), and metabolic flows (water, waste, materials, and all types of energy) of megacities.
The complexity of interactions between catchment characteristics, climate, tectonics, internal system feedbacks, and environmental processes on field alluvial fans means that it is difficult to isolate individual variables in a field setting; therefore, the controlled conditions afforded by experimental models has provided a novel technique to overcome some of these complexities.
Its characteristic climate is tropical, and a long wet season occurs between June and November.
Because of the unique characteristics of climate change, applying EBPH to climate change and its health impacts poses special challenges.
Hypothesized interactions between urban form characteristics and climate factors were tested and interpreted graphically.
Though the basins are comparable in extent, they differ in respect of terrain characteristics and climate.
This option has the advantage that using hypothetical catchment characteristics (other climate, sewer network, etc).
