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    Applying science to pressing conservation needs for penguins 

    Waller, Lauren J.; Boersma, P. Dee; Borboroglu, J. P.G. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
    More than half of the world's 18 penguin species are declining. We, the Steering Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Penguin Specialist Group, determined that the ...
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    Reviewing evidence of marine ecosystem change off South Africa 

    Moloney, C. L.; Fennessy, S. T.; Gibbons, Mark J.; Roychoudhury, A.; Shillington, F. A.; von der Heyden, B. P.; Watermeyer, K. (National Inquiry Services Centre, 2013)
    Recent changes have been observed in South African marine ecosystems. The main pressures on these ecosystems are fishing, climate change, pollution, ocean acidification and mining. The best long-term datasets are for trends ...
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    Cross-species multiple environmental stress responses: An integrated approach to identify candidate genes for multiple stress tolerance in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and related model species 

    Woldesemayat, Adugna Abdi; Modise, David M.; Gemeildien, Junaid; Ndimba, Bongani K.; Christoffels, Alan (Public Library of Science, 2018)
    BACKGROUND Crop response to the changing climate and unpredictable effects of global warming with adverse conditions such as drought stress has brought concerns about food security to the fore; crop yield loss is a major ...
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    Climate change and its influence on the Karst groundwater recharge in the Jinci Spring Region, Northern China 

    Jia, Zhenxing; Zang, Hongfei; Zheng, Xiuqing; Xu, Yongxin (MDPI, 2017)
    Due to climate change and human activities over the last fifty years, the spring flow volume of karst groundwater has sharply diminished in China. Climate change is one of the critical factors that initiates a series of ...
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    Predominant atmospheric and oceanic patterns during coastal marine heatwaves 

    Schlegel, Robert W.; Oliver, Eric C. J.; Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah; Kruger, Andries (Frontiers Media, 2017)
    As the mean temperatures of the worlds oceans increase, it is predicted that marine heatwaves (MHWs) will occur more frequently and with increased severity. However, it has been shown that variables other than increases ...
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    Phenological shift in swarming patterns of Rhopilema nomadica in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea 

    Kuplik, Zafrir; Edelist, Dor; Guy-Haim, Tamar (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    Jellyfish (JF) swarms impact human wellbeing and marine ecosystems. Their global proliferation is a matter of concern and scientific debate, and the multitude of factors affecting (and affected by) their density and ...
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    Variation and change of upwelling dynamics detected in the world’s eastern boundary upwelling systems 

    Abrahams, A; Schlegel, R.W; Smit, A.J (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)
    Global increases in temperature are altering land-sea temperature gradients. Bakun (1990) hypothesized that changes within these gradients will directly affect atmospheric pressure cells associated with the development of ...
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    Towards a gender sensitive vulnerability assessment for climate change: Lambani, Limpopo Province, South Africa 

    Goldin, Jacqueline; Botha, Cobus; Koatla, Tabiso (SAGE, 2019)
    Women’s limited access to resources and decisionmaking processes increases their vulnerability to impacts of climate change. Despite their own vulnerability, women are often responsible for caring for close relatives, ...
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    Towards an ethnography of climate change variability: Perceptions and coping mechanisms of women and men from Lambani village, Limpopo province 

    Goldin, J.; Owen, G.; Lebese, A. (SAGE, 2017)
    Attention to gender and equity has lagged behind in climate change research, programming, national policy-making and in the international negotiations. Studies on climate change and gender links with climate change ...
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    Impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on renewable coastal resources and biodiversity in Nigeria 

    Amosu, Albert O.; Bashorun, O.W.; Babalola, O.O.; Olowu, Rasaq A.; Togunde, K.A. (Academic Journals, 2012)
    Climates related disaster is greatly human induced warming, leading to substantial fluctuations in earth temperature which is currently a global issue of environmental concern. Human proximity and pressure in and around ...
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