Abstract Purpose of Review Climate change affects populations of forest insect pests in a
number of ways. We reviewed the most recent literature (2013–2017) on this subject …

Indices for climate variability and extremes have been used for a long time, often by
assessing days with temperature or precipitation observations above or below specific …

Drought draws together contributions from over 75 leading international researchers in the
field to present the most comprehensive body of research on the physical and social …

Climatology is, to a large degree, the study of the statistics of our climate. The powerful tools
of mathematical statistics therefore find wide application in climatological research. The …

A new global dataset of derived indicators has been compiled to clarify whether frequency
and/or severity of climatic extremes changed during the second half of the 20th century. This …

This paper reviews observed (1900-2000) and possible future (2000-2100) continent-wide
changes in temperature and rainfall for Africa. For the historic period we draw upon a new …

Ecological disturbances exert an influence on the emergence and proliferation of malaria
and zoonotic parasitic diseases, including, Leishmaniasis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis …

Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that mean
global warming was 0.6±0.2° C during the 20th century and cited anthropogenic increases …

Studies from a variety of disciplines document recent change in the northern high-latitude
environment. Prompted by predictions of an amplified response of the Arctic to enhanced …

We review the surface air temperature record of the past 150 years, considering the
homogeneity of the basic data and the standard errors of estimation of the average …