In this work we address the question of how certain climatic variables may be significant related to alterations of avian biodiversity in a semi-agricultural Natura wetland side in Northern Greece. In particular, we examine the interplay between temperature, relative humidity and three different bird biodiversity indexes, including Shannon Entropy, Simpson's dominance (evenness) index and the Berger-Parker index. By using different modeling approaches, parametric and nonparametric multivariate models, we make effort to get a consensus on the interrelationships between climate and avian biodiversity. In particular, we show that in most cases nonlinear models and surface-plot analysis methodology, are able to capture the relation of a considerable increase in the estimated biodiversity indexes with increased temperatures and rain levels. Thus, biodiversity is to a significant extent affected by the aforementioned climate factors at a proximate level involving synergies between the different climate factors. Revealing potential interrelationship between biodiversity and climate drivers although is a complex-even though challenging-task, contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms connecting climate change with ecosystem functioning. Moreover, a better understanding of biodiversity functioning in relation to climate is essential for biodiversity awareness and the design of effective biodiversity-related conservation management policies.
Las afectaciones ocasionadas por eventos hidrometeorológicos extremos de origen natural como sequías e inundaciones en las viviendas tradicionales en la provincia del Gran Chaco en Bolivia son frecuentes. En ellas inciden las técnicas de construcción usadas, los materiales de construcción empleados, la localización y el diseño de las viviendas, porque no resisten a las amenazas de dichos eventos extremos. Estos aspectos comprometen el hábitat de las poblaciones que las ocupan. Es por ello que esta investigación propone desarrollar desde las bases teóricas de la adaptación planificada como componente de la resiliencia urbano-territorial, la mejora de los sistemas socio- ambientales ante los efectos de los eventos hidrometeorológicos extremos a través de dichas viviendas tradicionales. Es desde la investigación cualitativa que se apoya esta pesquisa para reconocer variables y atributos apoyados desde los enfoques interdisciplinar y sistémico. Los mismos que permiten conectar la relación entre las afectaciones climáticas y los pueblos originarios, buscando desde la práctica social la mejora de las viviendas mediante soluciones ingeniería amparadas en un grupo de regulaciones territoriales en el ámbito rural, así como en la construcción de políticas públicas desde el ente regulador correspondiente.
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