What is the difference between variability and fluctuation in climate science?

Please explain and compare the following terms: variability and fluctuation.

11 December 2013 237 5 View

What is the difference between stability and sustainability in ecology?

Please explain and compare the following terms: stability and sustainability.

11 December 2013 15,597 3 View

What is the difference between contamination and pollution in soil health?

Please explain and compare the following terms: contamination and pollution.

11 December 2013 1,545 30 View

How can we quantify the effect of seasonal high temperature on crop production and food security?

Agricultural production will be affected by the severity of climate change and global warming. Moreover, the temperature and seasonal rainfall patterns vary from year-to-year and during the...

10 November 2013 2,761 3 View

What is the difference between adapting to climate variability and to climate change?

Can you let me know more about adapting to climate variability and to climate change?

10 November 2013 6,602 17 View

What is the difference between mitigation and adaptation in climate change?

I'd like to know the difference and definition of "Adaptation" and "Mitigation" due to climate science and crop science.

10 November 2013 3,323 17 View

Will increased atmospheric CO2 increase food production?

Plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 but other environmental factors interact with CO2 to determine total production of crops at the global scale.

09 October 2013 6,108 16 View

What are the best options to improve the sustainable intensification of agriculture?

09 October 2013 1,361 10 View

What are the spatial analysis methods that can be used on studying temperature effect on agriculture?"

Impacts of climate change on crop productivity evaluated by Crop yield analysis, spatial analysis, and agricultural systems analysis according to Smit, Ludlow, and Brklacich (1988). I would like...

09 October 2013 2,727 9 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

What are the harmful effects of these extreme rainfall on the health of newborns? What are the reasons for that?

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places.

01 March 2021 5,647 4 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

Could the "incoming radiation (net radiation)" values be negative?

Could the "incoming solar radiation" values be negative? What is the difference between "global solar radiation" and "incoming solar radiation"? Which one might be measured negative values?

21 February 2021 7,726 9 View

Is the box plot of climatic indices better illustrate from daily data or annual data?

Hello, I hope you have a good time. I work on a research project about temperature indices. Due to the high number of indices, I only work on tables and maps on an annual time scale. In other...

19 February 2021 9,742 2 View

Where can I find raw quantitative datasets on ecosystem services?

I'm an Undergraduate student on the search for a research topic which has to involve any ecosystem service(s) and a response to environmental change. I'm looking for raw quantitative data sets (I...

19 February 2021 5,911 2 View

Historical wind data/map?

Hello All, I am looking for the historical wind data/map (mainly the year 2020-2021). I would like to look at the wind value and direction for the specifics locations within the US for the...

18 February 2021 9,543 4 View