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... (Eds). (2010) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan, London. Ericksen, P.J. (2008) Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research. Global Environmental ... food Distributing & retailing food Consuming food FOOD UTILISATION FOOD ACCESS FOOD AVAILABILITY Food system ACTIVITIES Food security i.e. stability over t...

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... settlements. Studies of environmental change and transformation are, therefore, critical for risk assessment and reducing uncertainties. While much of the world has been captivated by global warming ... accurate predictions of climate and environmental change can be achieved, a fact that has had important implications for both seeking legitimacy for E.S. research and for co...

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... considerable demand for expansion of area under small-farm cultivation for staple crops. Farming for profit, particularly production for international markets, may therefore become more concentrated ... distress in susceptible individuals who breathe them. Because cooking or other means of food preparation do not kill seafood biotoxins, it is essential to identify contaminated s...

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... Perspectives on Global Environmental Change 72 the plants to withstand grazing and to provide ground for selective grazing. In arid and semi-arid North Africa regions where available forage species ... where overgrazing accounts for 70 % of land degradation (Le Houerou, 2000). The food commodity crisis of 2008 brought-up awareness of the serious threat to food security in...

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... 5); therefore we may regard the bioSi and uranium variations as paleoproxy records having the same degree of response to global climate changes. International Perspectives on Global Environmental ... 0012-821X International Perspectives on Global Environmental Change 138 of sediments from the two great Asian lakes (Hovsgol for Ti/Ca and Br; Baikal for diatoms and Br...

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... biomass within a forest stand can be transformed into litterfall. Those are: 390 to 830 (520 on average) nests/ha/year for needles, 980 to 2900 (1460 on average) nests/ha/year for twigs, and 4100 ... hardwood forest? Microbial Ecology, 57, 728-739 Hobara, S.; Osono, T.; Koba, K.; Tokuchi, N.; Fujiwara, S.; Kameda, K. (2001). Forest floor quality and N transformations in a temperate f...

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... were log transformed and plotted against the independent variable, latitude for northern sites, southern sites, and all sites for X. viriduloumbrina; and for northern sites only for A. centrifuga. ... against increasing environmental stresses such as light exposure, water potential changes, microbial and herbivore interactions, and other changes associated with changes in enviro...

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... rooting systems as well as different responses to various environmental factors along environmental gradients (Gauch, 1982). For instance, potassium, phosphorus and sodium gradients may not necessarily ... function of numerous environmental factors, and that it is practically impossible for any scientific research to exhaustively and concurrently incorporate all environmental...

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