The extent of climate change effects ranges widely. In order to make comprehensive assessments of the impacts of climate change and to formulate adaptation policies, interdisciplinary research must be implemented under common future assumptions (hereafter common scenarios). In this paper, a common scenario for Japan is proposed using the latest climate and population projections. We used the climate projection of four climate models and three radiative forcing scenarios of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5).

In many regions of the world, soil erosion is one of the main land degradation processes that reduce the soil productivity by removing fertile topsoil layers, thus decreasing levels of organic matter and the nutrients. Therefore erosion researches constitute an important part of the research on the soils. The aim of this research is the determination of the relationship between land use/land cover and some erodibility indices in Madendere Watershed soils. Land use and land cover classes were generated from Geoeye-2013 image data classification.

Global environmental changes observed during recent decades are likely to have had an impact on the distribution of species. Currently, silver fir (Abies alba) is becoming established in the subalpine forests of the west central Alps at elevations higher than 2000 ma.s.l.; prior to the 1970s its upper altitudinal limit was 2000 m. Several hypotheses could explain this recent expansion of the upper tree-limit. Silver fir regeneration could be linked (1) to land-use changes or (2) to current climatic warming.

This Technical Note provides a guide for rounding numbers used in the agreement, narrative and tables of Watershed Work Plans and River Basin Reports. Rounded numbers improve appearance and creditability, and reduces errors and conflicts. Ideas presented herein and in the attachments can serve as a guide. However, they will not rule out the necessity for prudent judgment in each case. Therefore, in review of the examples attached, recognize that rodding of values for a particular Watershed Work Plan must be tailored for that particular plan.

In the conditions of the Republic of Belarus there was presented an evaluation of organic soil properties changing in the course of long-term agricultural use according to the data of a long-term field experiment founded in 1960 by the member of the Academy of Sciences S.G. Skoropanov and carried out by Polesye experimental station of Ameliorative Agriculture and Meadow Cultivation (Luninetsky district, Brest region).

The anthropocene is the age where human influences are determining the development of the planet’s ecosystems and thus the bio-physical basis of future human civilisations. Today China has become the world’s largest economy and its worst polluter with per capita greenhouse gas emissions surpassing the EU average, the world’s largest consumer of all kinds of resources.

The biomass of forest vegetation expands in all EU countries. This review analyses the long-term development of forest vegetation and, thereby, the sequestration of carbon in forest biomass in the EU, country by country. The sequestration estimates and their uncertainties are assessed focusing on the period 1990-2006. The most recent estimates are compared with those for earlier times. A case study from Finland is presented, which helps understand the causal mechanisms affecting long-term sequestration of carbon in forest vegetation on a centennial scale.