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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Changes in surface hydrology, soil moisture and gross primary production in the Amazon during the 2015/2016 El Niño

  <p>The 2015/2016 El Ni&ntilde;o event caused severe changes in precipitation across the tropics. This impacted surface hydrology, such as river run-off and soil moisture availability, thereby<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Amazon_El-Nino.pdf"

  • 08/10/2018

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  • • Amazon
    • El Nino
    • Rivers
    • Hydrology
    • Droughts
    • Soil Capability
    • Climate Change
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Forest Fires

• Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world

  <p>Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth&#39;s surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider

  • 23/05/2016

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  • • Forest Fires
    • Global Warming
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Europe
    • Australia
    • Shifting Cultivation
    • Statistics
    • Land Use
    • Deforestation

• Electric light, particularly at night, disrupts human circadian rhythmicity: is that a problem?

  Over the past 3 billion years, an endogenous circadian rhythmicity has developed in almost all life forms in which daily oscillations in physiology occur. This allows for anticipation of sunrise and sunset.

  • 16/03/2015

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  • • Electricity
    • Health Effects
    • Research