scholarly journals New distributional record of Anthrenus dorsatus Mulsant & Rey, 1868 (Coleoptera, Dermestidae), Thessaloniki, Greece

Check List ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1077-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham J. Holloway ◽  
Dimitrios E. Bakaloudis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin

Anthrenus dorsatus Mulsant & Rey, 1868 has been recorded from North Africa, Malta, and Iberia. During a recent visit to Thessaloniki, Greece, several Anthrenus species were collected, including A. dorsatus. The previously known distribution of A. dorsatus suggested that this species was restricted to the western Mediterranean basin, possibly with a coastal bias. This record extends the known range of A. dorsatus farther east and providing more evidence of range expansion in the pimpinellae species group across Europe, possibly driven by global climate change.

scholarly journals New distributional record of Anthrenus dorsatus Mulsant & Rey, 1868 (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) on the island of Mallorca, Spain

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2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham J. Holloway ◽  
Christopher W. Foster ◽  
Amanda Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Species ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Species Group ◽  
A New Species

The carpet beetle Anthrenus dorsatus has previously been recorded from North Africa and Malta. During a recent visit to the island of Mallorca several Anthrenus species were collected which included a number of Anthrenus dorsatus specimens. This record adds a new species both to the island of Mallorca and to the Spanish checklist. These records extend our knowledge of the distribution of A. dorsatus and provide more evidence of range expansion in the pimpinellae species group across Europe, possibly because of global climate change.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Effect of Climate Change on Flood Flows of Kemer Ağva River, Antalya

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Tuğba ÖZKOCA
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Flood Flows ◽  
Flood Flow

The environment and atmosphere are largely polluted due to increased urbanization, especially greenhouse gases from industrial and residential areas, and the trend of warming air on a global scale is increasing. In the event that global climate change persists for many years, it is expected that there may be significant increases in the severity, frequency and activity of hydrological natural disasters such as floods caused by these events, as well as extreme weather events. In recent years, Turkey has seen an increase in summer temperatures caused by climate change, a decrease in winter precipitation, and sudden and heavy rains and flood. Especially in the Western Mediterranean basin, heavy rainfall and flood events have started to be seen frequently due to climatic changes. In this study, current flood flow rates in Antalya Kemer Agva Stream and flood flow rates of 2050, 2075 and 2100 projections of HadGEM2-ES, MPI-ESM-MR and CNRM CM 5.1 climate models outputs were determined according to RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios. With this study, it has been revealed that the flood flows in the Kemer Agva basin will increase in the period until 2050 compared to the current situation, and will decrease in the periods of 2075 and 2100.

scholarly journals Evolving mutation rate advances invasion speed of sexual species

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen M. P. Cobben ◽  
Alexander Kubisch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mutation Rate ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Mutation Rates ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Evolution Of Dispersal ◽  
Invasion Speed ◽  
Mutator Gene

AbstractMany species are shifting their ranges in response to global climate change. The evolution of dispersal during range expansion increases invasion speed, provided that a species can adapt sufficiently fast to novel local conditions. Mutation rates can evolve too, under conditions that favor an increased rate of adaptation. However, evolution at the mutator gene has thus far been deemed of minor importance in sexual populations due to its dependence on genetic hitchhiking with a beneficial mutation at a gene under selection, and thus its sensitivity to recombination. Here we use an individual-based model to show that the mutator gene and the gene under selection can be effectively linked at the population level during invasion. This causes the evolutionary increase of mutation rates in sexual populations, even if they are not linked at the individual level. The observed evolution of mutation rate is adaptive and clearly advances range expansion both through its effect on the evolution of dispersal rate, and the evolution of local adaptation. In addition, we observe the evolution of mutation rates in a spatially stable population under strong directional selection, but not when we add variance to the mean selection pressure. By this we extend the existing theory on the evolution of mutation rates, which is generally thought to be limited to asexual populations, with possibly far-reaching consequences concerning invasiveness and the rate at which species can adapt to novel environmental conditions as experienced under global climate change.

scholarly journals A 560 yr summer temperature reconstruction for the Western Mediterranean basin based on stable carbon isotopes from <i>Pinus nigra</i> ssp. <i>laricio</i> (Corsica/France)

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2111-2143 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Szymczak ◽  
M. M. Joachimski ◽  
A. Bräuning ◽  
T. Hetzer ◽  
J. Kuhlemann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Temperature Reconstruction ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Summer Temperature ◽  
Stable Carbon ◽  
Cloud Coverage ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Summer Temperature Reconstruction

Abstract. The Mediterranean is considered as an area which will be affected strongly by current climate change. However, temperature records for the past centuries which can contribute to a better understanding of future climate changes are still sparse for this region. We established a network of multi-century stable carbon isotope chronologies on Corsica to study long-term climate variation in the Western Mediterranean Basin. The chronologies show strong correlations with summer temperature and precipitation as well as summer cloud coverage. A summer temperature reconstruction (AD 1448–2008) reveals that the Little Ice Age was characterized by low, but not extremely low temperatures on Corsica. Relatively warm temperatures during the Maunder minimum may indicate a decoupling from climate cooling registered in northern latitudes. A comparison of the summer temperature reconstruction with a summer cloud coverage reconstruction indicates warm summers with reduced cloudiness during the periods AD 1480–1520 and 1950–2008 and cool and cloudy summers during AD 1580–1620 and 1820–1890. The distinct features of the reconstruction underline the uniqueness of the Corsican climate and highlight the necessity of a better temporal and spatial resolution of climate reconstructions for a more robust estimation of current climate change on a local scale.

Research in the cross-section of community psychology and global climate change: A call for action

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marci Culley ◽  
Holly Angelique ◽  
Courte Voorhees ◽  
Brian John Bishop ◽  
Peta Louise Dzidic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Cross
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