Yet Western Australia offers an astonishing variety of landscapes, climate, flora, fauna, food, wine and people.
In many pastoral regions and landscapes, climate variability and change are already having considerable impacts on livestock production, evidenced by reduced feed intakes, reduced growth rate, increased frequency of abortion, decreased birth rate and increased mortality rates within livestock (Bidoli et al. 2013; Masuku et al. 2014; Senbeta 2009).
Major changes to landscapes, climate, and mammalian faunas occurred at the regional scale in western North America during the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) between ~17 and 14 Ma, but few studies have looked at how the MCO affected basin-scale environments.
In order to refine this model for applicability in other landscapes, climate variables such as precipitation and temperature, but also infrastructure data such as logging roads and settlements, may be included, if data is available at an appropriate level of detail.
The large continental islands of Melanesia have widely varied landscapes, climates, and soil types; moreover, their rugged terrain has facilitated social isolation.
But in a continent of hugely varied landscapes, climates, soil types and agricultural systems it is inevitable that a one-size-fits-all reform will be resisted, especially from politicians under pressure from farmers who'll lose support to which they have become accustomed.
But more than that, Los Angeles, like Zumthor, has cultivated its own idiosyncratic take on Modernism, steeped in locale: in landscape, climate, sunlight, space.
He described Yosemite as "one of the most marvelous places in America," and was stirred by the blend of landscape, climate and way of life.
Marked differences exist between north and south, not only in physical landscape, climate, and vegetation but also in the social organization, religion, literacy, and agricultural practices of the people.
Although horses did not figure prominently in his book, Filson described in glowing terms the landscape, climate, and natural resources of what are now the eastern and central parts of the state.
The patios, cloisters, and oases of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions, the romantic naturalistic parks of Europe, China, and eastern North America, the esoteric garden abstractions of Japan all of these different approaches to design were inspired partly by the particular qualities of the landscape climate in which they developed.
