scholarly journals Distribution and Important Areas for the Conservation of Amphibians in the Province of Seville, Spain: Identifying Priorities

Hydrobiology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Eduardo José Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
Rafael Carmona-González
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
The South ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status

Amphibians are among the most threatened vertebrates in the world due to habitat destruction, emerging diseases, and climate change, and therefore, it is of critical importance to identify the risk and conservation measures for their populations. In this work, we aimed to identify the status of amphibian distribution in the province of Seville, in the south of Spain. We additionally wanted to identify critical conservation areas and propose measures of conservation for the whole community as well as specific taxa. To do this, we mapped the distribution of amphibians using our own data and bibliography and translated it into a 10 × 10 km2 UTM grid. Our work has allowed us to identify several areas of importance for amphibians in the province and populations of some species that need special attention.

scholarly journals Global change affects differently at local scales animal populations: why Starlings still expands to the south while other temperate species go to the north?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Rodriguez ◽  
Giuseppe La Gioia ◽  
Patricia Le Quilliec ◽  
Damien Fourcy ◽  
Philippe Clergeau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Sturnus Vulgaris ◽  
European Starling ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
The World ◽  
Landscape Transformations

Global change, which regroups global warming, landscape transformations and other anthropic modifications of ecosystems, has effects on populations and communities and produces modifications in the expansion area of species. While some species disappear, other ones are beneficiated by the new conditions and some of them evolve in new adapted forms or leave their ancient distribution area. As climate change tends to increase the temperature in several regions of the world, some species have been seen to leave areas in equatorial regions in order to join colder areas either towards the north of the northern hemisphere or towards the south of the southern one. Many birds as have moved geographically in direction to the poles and in many cases they have anticipated their laying dates. Actually, two tit species that use to lay their eggs in a period that their fledging dates synchronize with the emerging dates of caterpillars are now evolving to reproductive in periods earlier than before the climate change. Several species are reacting like that and other ones are moving to the north in Europe for example. Nevertheless, and very curiously, European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, populations are behaving on the contrary: their laying dates are moving towards later spring and their distribution area is moving towards the south. In this study we explore and discuss about different factors that may explain this difference from other birds.

Women and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Laura McKinney ◽  
Arianna King
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
West African ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Disproportionate Burden ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract: This chapter aims to contribute to discussions concerning the global oppression of women by highlighting the ways in which the status of women intersects with climate change throughout the world. Empirical research shows that women’s representation in political organizations and their incorporation into decision-making processes are associated with lower contributions to climate change and overall improvements in sustainability across nations. These findings suggest that the status of women has a substantive bearing on the environmental and ecological future of the planet. Other research shows that women’s role as primary producers of food for the household results in a disproportionate burden of climate change for women, who leverage myriad strategies to adapt to changing conditions. In reviewing past qualitative and quantitative findings on climate change and women, the chapters focuses on the West African nation of Ghana, arguing that development and environmental policies would benefit from greater sensitivity to the ways in which climate change shapes women’s social, political, and economic opportunities. In doing so, the chapter utilizes ecofeminist theories to highlight critical links to achieving greater gender equality across social, political, economic, and environmental lines.

scholarly journals Environmental migrants and Canada's refugee policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Liberal Approach

Canada is among the world's foremost refugee resettlement countries and is signatory to international agreements that affirm its commitment to the protection of refugee rights. Asylum seekers come to Canada from around the globe. But as climate change continues to affect growing regions of the world -- threatening to create as many as 200 million environmental migrants by the year 2050 -- Canada has not yet begun to address the issue of climate change migration. In an era defined by a neo-liberal approach to migration issues, and until international actors determine the status of environmental migrants, Canada's policy response to the looming crisis may be conjectured from an historical review of its refugee policy. This provides an understanding of the various factors, both domestic and international, that may have the greatest influence on Canada's future refugee policy.

scholarly journals Ecuadorian Glass Frogs: Current state of knowledge, new research trends and conservation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego F Cisneros-Heredia ◽  
Roy W. McDiarmid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Species ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
New Research

Ecuador has the biggest number of amphibian species per unit of area in the world (427 species in 276,840 km2). Glass frogs (Centrolenidae), with 30 species, constitute 7.06 % of the Ecuadorian anurans. However, the current state of knowledge of this family in Ecuador is still very basic. Several species of glass frogs are currently undescribed, confused with previously described taxa, not yet reported from the country but present in local museum collections, not yet discovered in Ecuador, or even described under two different names. The genus Hyalinobatrachium is poorly known in the country (four species), but at least three undescribed taxa are present in the western lowlands of Ecuador. Among the genera Cochranella and Centrolene, at least 6 new species are known from tropical and subtropical areas in western and eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. Several characters such as the patterns of skin, eye, peritoneum and pericardium color, the prepollical spine, the nuptial pad, and the presence of the bulla are discussed, especially around its taxonomic potential. At least one undescribed taxon from western lowlands of Ecuador is critically endangered, if not extinct. In the last decade, conservative estimates indicate that at least 26 species of Ecuadorian amphibians have declined or gone extinct, two of them belong to the family Centrolenidae. The reasons for this crisis are not clear but have been related to habitat destruction, climate change, and fungal disease such as the chytridiomycosis.

scholarly journals Environmental migrants and Canada's refugee policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Liberal Approach

Canada is among the world's foremost refugee resettlement countries and is signatory to international agreements that affirm its commitment to the protection of refugee rights. Asylum seekers come to Canada from around the globe. But as climate change continues to affect growing regions of the world -- threatening to create as many as 200 million environmental migrants by the year 2050 -- Canada has not yet begun to address the issue of climate change migration. In an era defined by a neo-liberal approach to migration issues, and until international actors determine the status of environmental migrants, Canada's policy response to the looming crisis may be conjectured from an historical review of its refugee policy. This provides an understanding of the various factors, both domestic and international, that may have the greatest influence on Canada's future refugee policy.

scholarly journals The Vegetation of the South Shetland Islands and the Climatic Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jair Putzke ◽  
Antonio Batista Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Web ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
The World

Antarctica allows at the same time to study the effects of change on the environment with minimal anthropic interference and in the least modified conditions in the world regarding biodiversity and its relations. At the same time, it allows assessing its effects on an ecosystem of few species and with a food web that directly links the oceans to terrestrial organisms. The South Shetland Islands are located further north within Antarctic Maritime and are therefore more vulnerable to climate change. Part of the studies already carried out with vegetation in this archipelago are discussed with a focus on the effects already generated and on predictions about future changes in the structure and plant diversity of Antarctica.

Falling in Love with a Tree

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Belden C. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Falling In Love

Communication in its deepest form is rooted in a shared vulnerability. This is especially true of humans and the world of nature today. The threat of climate change and habitat destruction make us all increasingly vulnerable. The threat to natural wilderness forces us into the inner wilderness of the human psyche. There, the power of shared grief opens us to the possibility of loving the “others” and not simply using them as disposable things. The author speaks of a shared vulnerability as the basis for his communication with Grandfather, the cottonwood tree. He goes on to speak of four stages in the development of their relationship—moving from being a user to becoming an explorer to evolving into a celebrant and finally emerging as a lover.

scholarly journals Management of Leishmaniases in the Era of Climate Change in Morocco

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 1542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kahime Kholoud ◽  
Sereno Denis ◽  
Bounoua Lahouari ◽  
Moulay El Hidan ◽  
Bouhout Souad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
The World ◽  
Vector Borne

The proliferation of vector-borne diseases are predicted to increase in a changing climate and Leishmaniases, as a vector-borne diseases, are re-emerging diseases in several regions of the world. In Morocco, during the last decade, a sharp increase in cutaneous leishmaniases cases has been reported. Nevertheless, in Morocco, leishmaniases are a major public health problem, and little interest was given to climate change impacts on the distribution and spread of these diseases. As insect-borne diseases, the incidence and distribution of leishmaniases are influenced by environmental changes, but also by several socio-economic and cultural factors. From a biological point of view, environmental variables have effects on the survival of insect vectors and mammalian reservoirs, which, in turn, affects transmission. Here, we highlight the effects of climate change in Morocco and discuss its consequences on the epidemiology of leishmaniases to identify challenges and define targeted recommendations to fight this disease.

scholarly journals Environmental Migrants and Canada’s Refugee Policy

Refuge ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Liberal Approach

Canada is among the world’s foremost refugee resettlement countries and is signatory to international agreements that affirm its commitment to the protection of refugee rights. Asylum seekers come to Canada from around the globe. But as climate change continues to affect growing regions of the world—threatening to create as many as 200 million environmental migrants by the year 2050—Canada has not yet begun to address the issue of climate change migration. In an era defined by a neo-liberal approach to migration issues, and until international actors determine the status of environmental migrants, Canada’s policy response to the looming crisis may be conjectured from an historical review of its refugee policy. This provides an understanding of the various factors, both domestic and international, that may have the greatest influence on Canada’s future refugee policy.

scholarly journals Ecuadorian Glass Frogs: Current state of knowledge, new research trends and conservation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego F Cisneros-Heredia ◽  
Roy W. McDiarmid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Species ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
New Research

Ecuador has the biggest number of amphibian species per unit of area in the world (427 species in 276,840 km2). Glass frogs (Centrolenidae), with 30 species, constitute 7.06 % of the Ecuadorian anurans. However, the current state of knowledge of this family in Ecuador is still very basic. Several species of glass frogs are currently undescribed, confused with previously described taxa, not yet reported from the country but present in local museum collections, not yet discovered in Ecuador, or even described under two different names. The genus Hyalinobatrachium is poorly known in the country (four species), but at least three undescribed taxa are present in the western lowlands of Ecuador. Among the genera Cochranella and Centrolene, at least 6 new species are known from tropical and subtropical areas in western and eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. Several characters such as the patterns of skin, eye, peritoneum and pericardium color, the prepollical spine, the nuptial pad, and the presence of the bulla are discussed, especially around its taxonomic potential. At least one undescribed taxon from western lowlands of Ecuador is critically endangered, if not extinct. In the last decade, conservative estimates indicate that at least 26 species of Ecuadorian amphibians have declined or gone extinct, two of them belong to the family Centrolenidae. The reasons for this crisis are not clear but have been related to habitat destruction, climate change, and fungal disease such as the chytridiomycosis.

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