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Climate Change and Biodiversity: A Global Web Forum |
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3/25/2009~~Please see ANNOUNCEMENT below!
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS, DISCUSSIONS and OPINIONS.
This educational web forum will serve as a depository of scientific publications as well as relevant discussions and opinions on climate change and its effect to biodiversity in the Global Level. We are welcoming universities and organizations to join this forum. We would like representatives from various organizations and institutions private or public to join as well as from the business or industrial sectors worldwide. Individuals representing various organizations which have environmental concerns are also welcomed. Individuals who care about climate change and biodiversity are also considered for membership. Let us all help make this web forum a success!!~Prof. Isidro T. Savillo, Founder~~
Let us all cooperate to establish successfully this Climate Change and Biodiversity Global Web Forum and soon be open for public use. Let us make this world a better place to live.
If you are interested to become a representative of your country, please send an email to:
climatechangebiod@yahoo.com
Each representative is welcome to talk about the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in his/her country or they may form groups to consolidate regional findings such as Ecological Impacts of Climate Change in Africa.
List of Representatives and Members from the following countries:
Albania:
Algeria:
Andorra:
Angola:
Antigua & Barbuda:
Argentina:
Armenia:
Australia:
Austria:
Azerbaijan:
Bahamas:
Bahrain:
Bangladesh:
Barbados:
Belarus:
Belgium:
Belize:
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Bhutan:
Bolivia:
Bosnia & Herzegovina:
Botswana:
Brazil:
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Bulgaria:
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Burma (Myanmar):
Burundi:
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Canada:
Cape Verde:
Central African Republic:
Chad:
Chile:
China:
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Costa Rica:
Cote d'Ivoire:
Croatia:
Cuba:
Cyprus:
Czech Republic:
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Dominica:
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Ecuador:
East Timor:
Egypt:
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Guatemala:
Guinea:
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Iran:
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Libya:
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Mali:
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Mexico:
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Monaco:
Mongolia:
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Morocco:
Mozambique:
Myanmar:
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Nauru:
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New Zealand:
Nicaragua:
Niger:
Nigeria:
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Northern Ireland:
Oman:
Pakistan:
Palau:
Panama:
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Paraguay:
Peru:
The Philippines:
Poland:
Portugal:
Qatar:
Romania:
Russia:
Rwanda:
St. Kitts & Nevis:
St. Lucia:
St. Vincent & The Grenadines:
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United States:
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Wanted the following Scientific Publications: (See Subpages Below)
That talks about a one degree increase in temperature.
Two degrees increase.
More than Two degrees increase.
One degree decrease.
Two degrees decrease.
More than two degrees decrease.
Relevant Fluctuations [increase and decrease] significantly different from the common "normal" days in temperatures within One Day
How do these changes in temperature affect biodiversity?
If you have verifiable PHOTOS on how the animals and plants "react" to the temperature changes and fluctuations , you are invited to post them on the Flickr Page of this Web Forum.
We need you to share your experiences to those who will be affected by temperatures beyond their normal body temperature for the first time or are forecasted to have one. What are the best remedies? precautions? How would one know that there are already signals for excessive heat in the environment? at home? How do the domestic animals react to it? wild life? What happens in the different biotas? wetlands? forest? marine parks? coastal ecosystem? We need you to share your experiences globally so as to educate everyone. With more scientific input from you as well as more honest data affecting your livelihood and culture we may redirect researches to the right course and find the proper means to live our contemporary lives.
Please SHARE your valid experiences as well as your discussions and opinions on particular subtopics that you will create about the Effects of Climate Change to Biodiversity. Share your weather diary! We will happy to know the extra ordinary changes that are happening in your area, whether you are in a small town in Madagascar or in a little nook in Iceland and how you feel about it!
Examine the temperatures of the world by visiting the following pages:
World Climate:Weather Rainfall and Temperature Data
and compare with the
Current World Temperatures
Current Temperatures in the U.S.A.
Current World Temperatures by Region/Country
Unexpectedly, in a very hot day the sky will turn dim and there will be a gush of rain. There will be thunderstorms but not all the time. How can one protect himself [as one of the important constituents of biodiversity] from this surprising situation especially if out in the field? And why is this happening? And for your other questions about the weather, we might as well kindly ask a team of meteorologists.
Trivia Question:
Are there animal and plant species which are considered as the most heat sensitive or the most heat tolerant? We need answers.
We need to protect and conserve our Wetlands.
When the heat is on everyone is thinking of cooling and often a dose of abundant cool or cold water is needed. Wetlands are the universal sources of potable water as well as indispensable for cooling and cleaning purposes. Without water life will be miserable and there will be drought. Advocate for wetland protection, preservation and conservation. To get the fullest activities on wetland conservations, researches and other concerns, become a member of the SWS Org USA.
Surprising excessive increase or decrease in temperature must be counteracted by cheap functional inventions. For instance, each time we go home and rest in the morning we are then distracted by the seeping heat that enters our room as we approached noontime. And the heat stored in our room would stay for long periods of time even later when the temperature outside has already subsided. Are there any cheap inventions that can sway away the heat being stored in our room for long periods of time besides the centralized airconditioner? One inventor who made a name for himself and whose invention is water related is Stephan Augustin with his water cone.
Notables in Climate Change and Biodiversity.
You can be one of the future list of great individuals who have been doing extraordinary achievements in climate change and biodiversity. Your numbers may instigate the formation of Who's Who in Climate Change and Biodiversity. As a member of the Distinguished Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute, I can nominate you and probably in the future request for this Who's Who category. Join this web forum and let everyone know who you are and what you are outstandingly doing.
Adaptation and Protection to Abrupt Climate Change.
One of the most interesting protection or adaptation in the broadest sense are those from the organisms of the wild. For instance like the phytons, their ability to move out of their hot niches have allowed them to coil their bodies in branches of trees growing in residential areas as their temporary abode. They behaved tame and appeared domesticated. This is the lowest form of protection they could ever get. But how about those organisms that are immobile? Could they have the quickest cellular adaptation so as to extend life? Did the target genes start to mutate so as to later offer them complete protection? Could these changes be detected even in minute phases? If so, these will defy organismal biology for one can bit by bit follow up the evolutionary genetic changes that are happening in the making of the "new" individual organism. But evolution takes years and this will be a tiring observation but once there are pertinent signals this is enough to say that the immobile organism is beginning to undergo genetic changes for adaptation purposes. A process we all will know as Molecular Adaptation in relation to Climate Change.
How about in areas with Extreme temperatures? Like the Deserts, the North and the South Poles? Are there changes in biodiversity kinds and numbers? Do they manifest weird behavior? How do they adapt or are they starting to move into other favorable locations and adopt? I'd seen the beautiful "hilly" and "wavy" landscape of the Sahara desert sands when I was flying towards Kano Airport from Rome. It was a great experience. Though at the top one could not appreciate desert biodiversity, I know that there are desert biologists who are active and are welcomed to share their findings with us. Will there be another "kangaroo rat" in the offing?
Sandstorms, Hurricanes, Typhoons, or even a Sirocco...
If one has the penchant of knowing the different winds of the world, it will open a wholesome experience of observing and knowing as well as fantasizing it into streams of arts like painting, writing [novels] or reading [poems].[ "Just like what the winds do to the cars of Oahu spraying it with sand, the same thing these desert winds did to her home. Minute particles of sands in the form of dust coming from the Sahara desert... could be seen under doorways, window crevices or in cemented paths."~From: the novel - "Yelwa-Yauri", by Isidro T. Savillo] Are there changes in the coming schedules of these winds? Is there a need to be extra prepared in case one has to be in that geographical area {characterized by these winds} even not considered as its season? How do biodiversity cope up with these changes? What is the fate of plants that roll with the winds like the tumbleweeds?
Biological Rhythm.
A violent tropical rain in a summer day had alerted a common toad to sound for mating but unfortunately the days after will just be like any other ordinary summer days. It is usually during the rainy season that one can hear loud, wide and prolonged choruses of these amphibians. To what extent the biological rhythm of both plants and animals have been affected by climate change? Are there changes in the fruiting ( in plants ) as well as mating ( in animals ) seasons? Or did the affected organisms skipped that phase and remained "unproductive" for that year?
What causes Climate Change at status quo and how can we stop [or limit?] such phenomenon? This is one of the most debatable topics. Were there large pilot experimental studies which can provide convincing data? If there are convincing specific answers to the causes and ways of stopping the occurrence of this present day phenomenon of climate change, it is important to read it here in this global web forum. This will subsequently, provide enormous enlightenment to the minds of the world. Or will it provide for another venue for musing?
Temperature rise by more than a degree or above the normal maximum will beckon for coral bleaching to start. This is due to the loss of temperature sensitive zooxanthellae associated with coral tissues. [Ecos 142. Apr -May2005] Besides corals, what other marine species are affected? In what way can corals and other marine species be protected when this situation happens? What types of research directions are needed in order to conserve marine biodiversty? In case the heat has reached 40 degrees centigrade or more in a geographical area, is it alright to take a swim in a nearby sea hoping to cool oneself? Otherwise, what then will be the best practical alternative?
Global Warming... Desertification ... Deserted ... Desert...
Will there come a time that a certain geographical area will be uninhabitable for one or more species including humans and will be deserted? What are the cues for this? How can this be prevented on a larger scale?
Tropical rainforest... fires... logging... Fragmented forest... ( to be continued)
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