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Christina M. Botai, Joel O. Botai, Jaco P. De Wit, Katlego P. Ncongwane and Abiodun M. Adeola
Drought is a creeping phenomenon whose effects evolve with time, yet the start and end is often only clear in the hindsight. The present study assessed drought conditions using two categories of drought indicators computed from precipitation data sets me...
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Christian Tulungen and Soni M. Pradhanang
A combination of annual peak water demand due to seasonal population spikes along with small and shallow aquifers has prompted an assessment of the region?s watersheds as operating at a net water deficit. This study uses the Soil and Water Assessment Too...
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Evdokia Tapoglou, Anthi Eirini Vozinaki and Ioannis Tsanis
Frequency analysis on extreme hydrological and meteorological events under the effect of climate change is performed in the island of Crete. Data from Regional Climate Model simulations (RCMs) that follow three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP2...
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Meng Li, Ronghao Chu, Qian Yu, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Shuren Chou and Shuanghe Shen
This study evaluates the performance of structural, chlorophyll-based, and photochemical indices to detect maize water status and to assess production based on five years of field experiments (2013?2017) during the primary growth stages. We employed thre...
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Feng Huang, Bo Yan, Xiao Zhang, Dayong Zhao, Lidan Guo, Yuankun Wang and Ziqiang Xia
Impacted by ongoing climate change and anthropogenic activities, large seasonal lakes experience water regime evolution, which raises challenges for the management of water resources and environment. The water regime evolution refers to the spatial and t...
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Cem Polat Cetinkaya and Mert Can Gunacti
Dry periods and drought are inherent natural occurrences. However, due to the increasing pressures of global warming and climate change, these events have become more frequent and severe on a global scale. These phenomena can be traced with various indic...
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Johanna Engström, Keighobad Jafarzadegan and Hamid Moradkhani
Droughts are among the costliest natural hazards in the U.S. and globally. The severity of the hazard is closely related to a region?s ability to cope and recover from the event, an ability that depends on the region?s sensitivity and adaptive capacity. ...
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Zhenan Li, Tianyu Zhang, Minyi Zhu, Chengyong Li, Bin Li, Xiujuan Lu, Jianhua Wang, Liangquan Jia, Hengnian Qi, Xiaomin Wang and Guangwu Zhao
Seed physical properties are stable and visualized, and believed to be reference indicators for screening high-vigor seeds. However, the detailed relationship between seed vigor and its physical properties is not fully understood in rice. To elucidate th...
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Alice Nyawira Kimaru, John Mwangi Gathenya and Charles K. Cheruiyot
Temporal variability analysis of rainfall and river discharges is useful in determining the likelihood of the occurrence of extreme events such as drought or flooding for the purposes of developing policies to mitigate their effects. This study investiga...
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Milica Stojanovic, Anita Drumond, Raquel Nieto and Luis Gimeno
The climate in Central Europe (CEU) during the 20th century is characterized by an overall temperature increase. Severe and prolonged drought events began occurring towards the end and these have continued into the 21st century. This study aims to analyz...
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Robert Luetkemeier, Lina Stein, Lukas Drees and Stefan Liehr
Drought is one of the major threats to societies in Sub-Saharan Africa, as the majority of the population highly depends on rain-fed subsistence agriculture and traditional water supply systems. Hot-spot areas of potential drought impact need to be ident...
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Sara Masia, Janez Su?nik, Serena Marras, Simone Mereu, Donatella Spano and Antonio Trabucco
Climate change in Mediterranean countries is anticipated to have a strong impact on water availability by exacerbating drought conditions and water scarcity. In this context, efficient irrigation practices are becoming essential for sustaining crop produ...
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Sara Masia, Janez Su?nik, Serena Marras, Simone Mereu, Donatella Spano and Antonio Trabucco
Climate change in Mediterranean countries is anticipated to have a strong impact on water availability by exacerbating drought conditions and water scarcity. In this context, efficient irrigation practices are becoming essential for sustaining crop produ...
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Peter Helman and Rodger Tomlinson
On the east Australian coast, climate change is expressed as a slowly rising sea level. Analysis of records, dating back over two centuries, also shows oscillating multidecadal ?storm? and ?drought? dominated climate periods that are distinct from long-t...
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Peter Helman and Rodger Tomlinson
On the east Australian coast, climate change is expressed as a slowly rising sea level. Analysis of records, dating back over two centuries, also shows oscillating multidecadal ?storm? and ?drought? dominated climate periods that are distinct from long-t...
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Peter Helman and Rodger Tomlinson
On the east Australian coast, climate change is expressed as a slowly rising sea level. Analysis of records, dating back over two centuries, also shows oscillating multidecadal ?storm? and ?drought? dominated climate periods that are distinct from long-t...
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Filippo Bussotti and Martina Pollastrini
The concern for the fate of forest ecosystems under climate change demands the development of a prompt and effective system for detecting the impacts of pressure factors, such as rising temperatures, drought conditions, and extreme climatic events. In on...
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Éva Salamon-Albert, Péter Lorincz, Gábor Pauler, Dénes Bartha and Ferenc Horváth
In order to develop adequate adaptation measures for environmental vulnerability, we need detailed knowledge on the climatic performance of forest ecosystems. In this study, we aim to explore climate function variability of lowland beech forest distribut...
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Feng Zhou, Wanshun Zhang, Xin Liu, Anna Jiang, Gang Chen, Ao Li and Hong Peng
Terraces play a crucial role in regulating the water cycle. The management and restoration of, and the conservation strategies and plans for basins rely heavily on the assessment of alterations in hydrological characteristics, whether natural or man-made...
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Elena Kalmykova and Sergei Lazarev
Purpose of the study: to substantiate the prospects of using various species, varieties and forms of the genus Robinia in protective afforestation and landscaping of settlements in dry-steppe and semi-desert zones of southern Russia. It is established th...
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