Search Results - "Torres, Roger R"

Extinction risk of narrowly distributed species of seed plants in Brazil due to habitat loss and climate change by da Silva, José Maria Cardoso, Rapini, Alessandro, Barbosa, Luis Cláudio F, Torres, Roger R

“…In a world where changes in land cover and climate happen faster than ever due to the expansion of human activities, narrowly distributed species are predicted…”
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Missing data estimation in extreme rainfall indices for the Metropolitan area of Cali - Colombia: An approach based on artificial neural networks by Ocampo-Marulanda, Camilo, Cerón, Wilmar L., Avila-Diaz, Alvaro, Canchala, Teresita, Alfonso-Morales, Wilfredo, Kayano, Mary T., Torres, Roger R.

“…Changes observed in the current climate and projected for the future significantly concern researchers, decision-makers, and the general public. Climate…”
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Heat stress vulnerability and risk at the (super) local scale in six Brazilian capitals by Lapola, David M., Braga, Diego R., Di Giulio, Gabriela M., Torres, Roger R., Vasconcellos, Maria P.

“…Brazilian cities host 86% of the country’s population and have been more intensely hit by rising temperatures than the average of cities across the world over…”
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Assessing drought in the drylands of northeast Brazil under regional warming exceeding 4 °C by Marengo, Jose A., Cunha, Ana Paula M. A., Nobre, Carlos A., Ribeiro Neto, Germano G., Magalhaes, Antonio R., Torres, Roger R., Sampaio, Gilvan, Alexandre, Felipe, Alves, Lincoln M., Cuartas, Luz A., Deusdará, Karinne R. L., Álvala, Regina C. S.

“…Historically, during periods of extreme drought, food security in the drylands of the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil (NEB) is under severe risk due to…”
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A climate‐change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Brazil's protected areas by Lapola, David M., Silva, José Maria C. da, Braga, Diego R., Carpigiani, Larissa, Ogawa, Fernanda, Torres, Roger R., Barbosa, Luis C. F., Ometto, Jean P. H. B., Joly, Carlos A.

“…Brazil hosts the largest expanse of tropical ecosystems within protected areas (PAs), which shelter biodiversity and support traditional human populations. We…”
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Socio-climatic hotspots in Brazil by Torres, Roger R., Lapola, David M., Marengo, Jose A., Lombardo, Magda A.

“…Brazil suffers yearly from extreme weather and climate events, which can be exacerbated in a warmer climate. Although several studies have analyzed the…”
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Future change of climate in South America in the late twenty-first century: intercomparison of scenarios from three regional climate models by Marengo, Jose A, Ambrizzi, Tercio, da Rocha, Rosmeri P, Alves, Lincoln M, Cuadra, Santiago V, Valverde, Maria C, Torres, Roger R, Santos, Daniel C, Ferraz, Simone E. T

“…Regional climate change projections for the last half of the twenty-first century have been produced for South America, as part of the CREAS (Cenarios…”
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Socio-climatic hotspots in Brazil: how do changes driven by the new set of IPCC climatic projections affect their relevance for policy? by Filho, João Paulo Darela, Lapola, David M., Torres, Roger R., Lemos, Maria Carmen

“…This paper updates the SCVI (Socio-Climatic Vulnerability Index) maps developed by Torres et al. ( 2012 ) for Brazil, by using the new Coupled Model…”
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Regional climate change scenarios in the Brazilian Pantanal watershed by Marengo, Jose A., Alves, Lincoln M., Torres, Roger R.

“…In the Brazilian Pantanal, hydrometeorological conditions exhibit a large interannual variability. This variability includes the seasonality of floods and…”
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