This climatic analysis highlighted a significant increase in the mean annual temperature (slope: 0.03, P-value: <0.001) coupled with a significant decrease in the annual precipitation (slope: −1.63, P-value: 0.03) (Fig. 2).
Inselbergs embedded in mesic forests often harbor xeric plant communities and can be considered refugia for species adapted to drier climatic conditions, highlighting their importance for comparative studies across different biomes [ 2, 4].
A comparison of our results with other paleoclimatic records, mainly from southern Inner Mongolia, reveals similar climatic trends and highlights the asynchronous nature of the regional climatic transition to increased aridity, which was reflected by the activation of the Otindag sandy land and by the dominance of steppe landscapes.
Two Holocene records retrieved in the Aammiq and Chamsine/Anjar wetlands, respectively located at the foothills of Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountain, in the Southern Bekaa Valley, were analyzed to highlight climatic vs. anthropogenic influence on landscape patterns.
However, using the same data source, we could not highlight any climatic anomaly during September 2010, neither in the entire territory of Haiti nor when focusing on the Artibonite Basin.
Analyses of the associations between climatic anomalies and disease patterns highlight current vulnerability to climate variability.
These studies have highlighted that many climatic variables play a key role in dengue transmission.
These studies have highlighted that many climatic variables play a key role in dengue transmission as discussed above.
Although recent studies have highlighted latitudinal and climatic variations in contemporary influenza epidemics and pandemics (17 – 20 ), little is known about the role of climate in the severity or timing of the 1918 pandemic.
The maintenance of phenotypic diversity will be critical to enable the potential tracking of changing climatic conditions, and these correlates highlight the need to consider evolutionary mechanisms in management, even in widely distributed panmictic species.
