3 results match your criteria: "Earth and Environmental Science University of Birmingham Birmingham UK.[Affiliation]"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how human activities, particularly forestry and land-use changes, have transformed temperate and boreal forests, affecting their age structure and ecological dynamics.
- It utilizes an empirical model based on 77 protected forest landscapes to estimate how these forests would function without human interference, highlighting a significant reduction in natural disturbance intervals.
- Results indicate that human actions have led to younger forests and decreased carbon turnover rates, which disrupt the natural balance of these ecosystems.
Methane (CH) is a powerful greenhouse gas with ongoing efforts aiming to quantify and map emissions from natural and managed ecosystems. Wetlands play a significant role in the global CH budget, but uncertainties in their total emissions remain large, due to a combined lack of CH data and fuzzy boundaries between mapped ecosystem categories. European floodplain meadows are anthropogenic ecosystems that originated due to traditional management for hay cropping.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModelling serial clustering and inter-annual variability of European winter windstorms based on large-scale drivers.
Int J Climatol
June 2018
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science University of Birmingham Birmingham UK.
Winter windstorms are known to be among the most dangerous and loss intensive natural hazards in Europe. In order to gain a better understanding of their variability and driving mechanisms, this study analyses the temporal variability which is often referred to as serial or seasonal clustering. This is realized by developing a statistical model relating the winter storm counts to known teleconnection patterns affecting European weather and climate conditions (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF