K. Hakeem – Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems (2015)

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Автор: K. Hakeem
Название книги: Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Экология
Страницы: 696
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The environment is constantly changing due to our unsustainable activities. The challenge we are facing currently is to predict how future agriculture will respond to the changing environment. A rise in global mean temperature will mean increase in the melting of mountain glaciers, the permafrost soil zone, and the polar ice caps, posing a common global threat. The climate change impacts on soil structure constitute a more complex process. The direct impact will be on the degradation of aggregates in the soil due to raindrops, surface runoff, and leaching, especially during heavy rains, thunderstorms, the increasing in flood frequencies which are the typical characteristics of climate change. The indirect influences will originate from the changes in the vegetation patterns and land-use practices.