Climate change in Romania, will affect all sectors of the economy will lead to
changes in vegetation periods and displacement the line between woods and meadows.
Not exact matches
However, the
changes in climatic conditions arising from climate
change could represent a far more important factor here: i.e. temperatures that increasingly exceed the optimum level for plant growth, like those experienced this summer, shifts
in the
vegetation periods, and more frequent droughts.
Modelling indicated that the main reason for the
change was an increase
in vegetation across Europe and Asia during that
period (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo979).
In this study, researchers examined
vegetation change as a function of wildfire disturbance and climate
change over a 100 - year
period.
It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points
in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a
period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent,
vegetation changes etc..
This was a relatively stable climate (for several thousand years, 20,000 years ago), and a
period where we have reasonable estimates of the radiative forcing (albedo
changes from ice sheets and
vegetation changes, greenhouse gas concentrations (derived from ice cores) and an increase
in the atmospheric dust load) and temperature
changes.
However,
in this
period, the
vegetation in the region
changes — it flourishes.
The fires, which have increased 350 % over the same
period in 2009, have devastated large areas of some Cerrado national parks, threaten to cause large scale
changes to
vegetation cover and are being reflected
in a marked rise
in respiratory complaints
in the human population.
During a
period of rapid population growth, a lower heat capacity due to drying out of the soil and lost
vegetation, and an increase
in heat retaining surfaces, then homogenization more often amplifies those warming effects that is not indicative of climate
change.