Unlike the ABM studies, the studies by Döll and Krol (2002), Krol and Bronstert (2007), Barbieri et al. (2010), Feng et al. (2010), and Marchiori and Schumacher (2011) are based on broad, regional-level assumptions regarding migration decisions.
Most importantly, we demonstrate enormous sensitivity to presumed constant regional vulnerability and underlying assumptions about adaptive capacity.
However, our data did not support this assumption, just as it did not support common assumptions about regional differences in plagiarism practices.
We found that none of these species is demographically viable at a regional scale under realistic assumptions, with estimated population declines of 3 29%/year and a likelihood of regional viability of 0 45% over the two years of study.
Eight scenarios with different combinations of SSPs and radiative forcing targets of RCPs are designed, to analyze the impacts of the global socioeconomic and emission assumptions on regional mitigations and land-use changes.
All other assumptions (no regional population growth; no threshold concentration for O3-related mortality; CRF value = RR 1.056 per 100 ppb O3) remained the same in mortality assessment M2 as for M1.
Although the estimated sample sizes are not adjusted for 5-year age group, sex, and regional characteristics, if all assumptions are met, the statistical power will be over 80% for each group, regarding person-year incidences in the intervention and control regions.
To remove our core assumption of regional implementation of like mitigation strategies, we simulated a community embedded within a region doing nothing to abate the epidemic, referred to as 'local-only mitigation'.
For countries with few data points, information borrowed from the regions provided likely trends, with the underlying assumptions that a) regional trends are better predictors than the available information at national level, and b) countries within the same region are similar in terms of energy access and cultural habits.
