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CoastView Volume 2 - Remote Sensing Fundamentals
In the visible region on the electromagnetic spectrum, the three ... other. The healthy vegetation has the highest reflectance value while the severely stressed vegetation has the lowest reflectance value. Spectral Reflectance of Vegetation Over Different Wavelengths. ...
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Environmental Assessment of Multiple Small Hydropower
Development
An environmental impact statement was prepared to evaluate the impacts of the proposed ... Owens River Basin, California. The assessment of cumulative impacts focused on resident trout, riparian vegetation, aesthetics, recreation, and the local economy. The impacts to these resources were quantified ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
GCM-based climate scenarios, large shifts of vegetation boundaries into higher latitudes and elevations can be expected. The mix of species within a given vegetation class ... ) face such severe shortfalls that they are classified as either water-scarce or water-stressed; this number is expected to roughly double by 2025, in large part because of ...
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Global Forest Science - Press Release -
Drought, fires ahead for much of the West this summer
Instead of predictable slow melt that soaking into the ground and sustaining mountain vegetation, warm temperatures caused the snow to evaporate into thin air. This has scientists alarmed because ... has also created opportunistic conditions for native bark beetles to breed and feed. The water-stressed pines are unable to manufacture a gooey pitch, their only defense mechanism against the ...
globalforestscience.org
Needs
MOOSE NEED SECURITY. Although moose are adaptable and habituate quickly to people, they are less stressed when they have undisturbed places to rest and feed. These areas should be relatively free ... , birch, and poplar shrubs. Shallow snow not only allows moose to move easily to good vegetation, but also makes them less vulnerable to predation. These critical winter ranges are usually at ...
kachemaklandtrust.org
2007 IUCN Red List – Search
History: 1978 - Vulnerable as D. socotranus (Lucas and Synge 1978) 1997 - Vulnerable ( ... bottle-trees for which Soqotra is famous. On Soqotra it is widely distributed in several vegetation types but has a rather fragmented distribution; over large areas there are only isolated trees ...
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Climate Change Blog: January 2006 Monthly Archives
They stressed that climate change was undeniable, that avoiding "dangerous" climate change is vital but difficult, and ... and other terrestrial ecosystems as pressures increase for cropland and tree plantations to replace natural vegetation. This is particularly true in rainforests as Asian oil palm and to a lesser degree ...
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Climate-Related Core Issues - Ecosystems
The reindeer are stressed by numerous effects of global warming. Most worrisome is their increasing inability to obtain ... migrating reindeer, again decreasing their resilience. At the same time, other Arctic species and vegetation will be shifting ranges in response to climatic changes, introducing new competitors for the ...
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Global Warming in North America
C) increase in average nighttime temperatures from 1971 to 1998. 114. Alaska - Changing vegetation patterns. Comparison of photographs taken in 1948-50 to those taken in 1999-2000 of ... increased vegetation growth is attributed to increasing air temperatures in Alaska, on average 1.8°F (1°C) per decade over the last three decades. 115. Western Hudson Bay, Canada - Stressed Polar ...
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Colong Foundation for Wilderness
Sydney University reported on the shooting of horses in Guy Fawkes River National Park, he stressed that the "stark images of shot horses, and the emotive language used by some ... the funds should go to protecting AustraliaÂ’s unique biodiversity; our monotremes, marsupials and native vegetation? If we start using our precious environmental protection dollars to manage feral horses, what next ...
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