Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Impact of Cyclone Sidr on Rural Communities: A Socio-Economic Analysis
Masudur Rahman, Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin, Md. Munsur Rahman, and Yokoyama Kohei (Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and others)
Chapter 2. Impact of the Leaf Beetle Herbivory on Ragweed
Koichi Tanaka (Division of Biodiversity, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan)
Chapter 3. Seed Dispersal Systems in the Regeneration of Semiarid Mediterranean Forests
Víctor M. Zapata, Vicente Martínez-López, Vicente Ramos and Francisco Robledano (Department of Ecology and Hidrology, Biology Faculty, University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain)
Chapter 4. Adaptive Forest Management Practices Promoting Resilience of Oak Forests to Future Climate Change
Sophan Chhin (Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
Chapter 5. Numerical Simulation of Technogenic and Climatic Influence on Permafrost
Mikhail Filimonov and Nataliia Vaganova (Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Chapter 6. Urban Heat Island and Mitigation Solutions Evaluation in Cold Climates, A Case of Montreal
Yupeng Wang and Hashem Akbari (School of Human Settlement and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, and others)
Chapter 7. Distribution Characteristics of Permafrost in Permafrost Degradation Regions of the Lesser Khingan Mountains, China
Wei Shan, Chunjiao Wang, Ying Guo, Zhaoguang Hu and Chengcheng Zhang (Institute of Cold Regions Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China)
Chapter 8. Metal and Metalloids in Sediments from the Estuary of the Nerbioi-Ibaizabal River (Bilbao, Basque Country): Evolution in Time (2005-2014)
A. Rodriguez-Iruretagoiena, S. Fdez-Ortiz de Vallejuelo, A. Gredilla, G. Arana, A. de Diego and J. M. Madariaga (Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Basque Country)
Chapter 9. Transitory Interruption of the Suess Effect During the 1990s: A 25-Year-Long Study Using Tree-Ring 13C Records from Spanish Forests
Ana Cabaneiro and Irene Fernandez (Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IIAG-CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Index