Using a largely temperate forest perspective, this article briefly reviews four often inter-related types of landscape change which can have significant impacts on tropical and temperate forest biodiversity: logging, fire, forest clearing, and plantation expansion.
This paper reviews the concept of irrigation efficiency in a temperate climate, considers the farmer perspectives, and supports using the 'pathway to efficiency' as a means to assist farmers and the water regulator in achieving better irrigation management and abstraction control.
Their natural differences of temperament, training and intellectual perspective are compounded by the fact that the most temperate among them often get swept up, intentionally or not, by the polarizing partisan tides of Washington.
Relative to South America's ecoregions, the temperate grasslands of the Pampas have been poorly studied from a phylogeographic perspective.
In a climate change perspective, these results suggest that changes in the trophic structure of lakes in temperate regions might be expected as a result of the warmer temperature and the potentially associated increases in salinity.
A more temperate discourse on the field of personalized genomics is offered in this New England Journal of Medicine perspective by FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, and NIH director and human-genomics pioneer Frances Collins, MD, PhD.
From a geographic perspective, the region is characterised by the lack of mountains or seaside providing a stable temperate climate with daylight hours of sunshine varying continuously throughout the year and typically no natural disasters.
We also show that warming reductions per unit afforested area are around three times higher in the tropics than in the boreal and northern temperate regions, suggesting that avoided deforestation and continued afforestation in the tropics are effective forest-management strategies from a climate perspective.
Tempted by temperate climes?
Climate: Temperate and damp.
