Promising environmental mechanisms to control malaria are presently underutilized. Water level fluctuations to interrupt larval development have recently been studied and proposed as a low-impact malaria intervention in Ethiopia. One impediment to implementing such new environmental policies is t...
Reis, J.
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Culver, T.B.
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Block, Paul J.
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[Evaluating the impact and uncertainty of reservoir operation for malaria control as the climate changes in Ethiopia]
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Evaluating the impact and uncertainty of reservoir operation for malaria control as the climate changes in Ethiopia
Nitrification, a key process in the global nitrogen cycle that
generates nitrate through microbial activity, may enhance losses
of fertilizer nitrogen by leaching and denitrification. Certain
plants can suppress soil-nitrification by releasing inhibitors from
roots, a phenomenon termed biological...
Subbaraoa, Guntur V.
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Nakahara, K.
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Hurtado, MP
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Ono, H
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Moreta Mejia, DE
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Salcedo, AF
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Yoshihashi, AT
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Ishikawa, T.
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Ishitani, Manabu
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Ohnishi, M
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Yoshida, M
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Rondón, Marco Antonio
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Lascano, Carlos E.
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Berry, W.L.
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Ito, O.
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[Evidence for biological nitrification inhibition in Brachiaria pastures]
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Evidence for biological nitrification inhibition in Brachiaria pastures
The increasing use of multi-member climate model ensembles for making future climate impact assessments presents both opportunities for understanding uncertainties, and challenges for interpreting the results. We outline current approaches to assessing uncertainties in climate impacts, statistica...
Falloon, P.
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Dessai, S.
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Hoang L
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Johnson J
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Köhler, Ann-Kristin
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[Ensembles and uncertainty in climate change impacts]
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Ensembles and uncertainty in climate change impacts
Partly due to severe lack of instrumental climate data, the drivers of the African climate, their interactions and impacts are poorly understood. The paper demonstrates the prospects and applications of dendroecological and stable isotope techniques, such as to reconstruct climate variability, tr...
Gebrekirstos, Aster
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Bräuning, A.
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Sass-Klassen U
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Mbow C
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[Opportunities and applications of dendrochronology in Africa]
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Opportunities and applications of dendrochronology in Africa
As satellite technology develops, satellite rainfall estimates are likely to become ever more important in the world of food security. It is therefore vital to be able to identify the uncertainty of such estimates and for end users to be able to use this information in a meaningful way. This pape...
Greatrex H
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Grimes D
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Wheeler, Tim
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[Advances in the Stochastic Modeling of Satellite-Derived Rainfall Estimates Using a Sparse Calibration Dataset]
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Advances in the Stochastic Modeling of Satellite-Derived Rainfall Estimates Using a Sparse Calibration Dataset
Grosjean, Godefroy
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Fuss, Sabine
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Koch, Nicolas
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Bodirsky, Benjamin L.
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Cara, Stéphane de
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Acworth, William
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[Options to overcome the barriers to pricing European agricultural emissions]
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Options to overcome the barriers to pricing European agricultural emissions
This paper investigates how climate change can affect agricultural production and proposes some adaptation measures that could be undertaken to mitigate the negative effects of climate change while enhancing the positive ones. The paper stresses the importance of planned adaptation measures and h...
Water, energy and labour scarcity, increasing cost of production, diminishing farm profits and uncertain weather events are major challenges faced by the farmers under intensive tillage based conventional rice–wheat (RW) production system of Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) in South Asia. To address th...
Jat, Kumar Raj
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Sapkota, Tek Bahadur
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Singh RG
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Kumar, M.
,
Gupta RK
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[Seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat rotation of Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Yield trends and economic profitability]
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Seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat rotation of Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Yield trends and economic profitability
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) pose threats to conservation and public health. Here, we apply the definition of EIDs used in the medical and veterinary fields to botany and highlight a series of emerging plant diseases. We include EIDs of cultivated and wild plants, some of which are of sign...
We model future changes in land biogeochemistry and biogeography across East Africa. East Africa is one of few tropical regions where general circulation model (GCM) future climate projections exhibit a robust response of strong future warming and general annual-mean rainfall increases. Eighteen ...
Doherty, R.M.
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Stich, S.
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Smith, B.
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Lewis, S.L.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[A green future for East Africa: implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2 content on regional carbon cycling and biogeography]
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A green future for East Africa: implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2 content on regional carbon cycling and biogeography