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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… caused by ocean warming and expansion and the melting of land-based glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to … on climate change has focused on specific themes such as land surface temperatures, melting ice caps in Greenland and … of ground heat with implications for permafrost degradation (Lawrence et al., 2008). The exceptional nature …
Guidelines for species conservation planning - version 1.0
… “15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce degradation of natural habitat, halt the loss of … to biodiversity are due to human activities. These include land use changes affecting habitats and ecosystems, hunting … carry on an undisturbed existence through a proposed major land use change, such as through infra- structure …
Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… back ‘upstream’ and finds an anthropocentric reason – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced … systems � Dams � Water management changes � Habitat loss/degradation � Pollution � Highly pathogenic avian influenza, … of infection between livestock, people and wildlife. Local land use changes are also expected to exert temperature and …