Category Archives: Modelling
Recent research may require adjusted thinking on the topic of greenhouse gases and climate change
Climate change and the continual rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are well established in the environmental policy agenda. However, although the general scientific evidence for climate change is now rarely refuted, the issue continues to be a very large, … Continue reading
New Indicator of Climate Change’s Impact on Bird Populations
To date, few indicators have been developed that summarise the impacts of climate change on multiple species over large areas of land. Such an indicator is much desired by policy-makers, who want to be able to see the potential impacts … Continue reading
UK Climate Change Projections 2009
Today (18th June) the UK Climate Projections 2009 report (UKCP09) was launched by Hilary Benn MP (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). The primarily Defra-funded report allows us to understand how the UK’s climate (temperature, rainfall, sea-level, … Continue reading
New Model Sheds Light on Mosquito Spread in a Changing Climate
A new study, published online in the British Ecological Society journal, Functional Ecology, uses an innovative model to predict the spread of human disease vectors in a changing climate. Warren Porter, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed a unique … Continue reading
Better Habitat Networks in Europe Will Benefit People and Wildlife
Conservationists and policy makers are conscious that many species ranges’ may shift because of climate change, in fact many species have already begun to do so, (although this wasn’t detected convincingly in the recent Countryside Survey Report for the UK). … Continue reading
Increase In Tropical Rainfall May Be Greater Than Predicted
Research published this week in Science suggests that an increase in tropical rainfall events, due to climate change, could be greater than predicted by models to date. A team of researchers from the UK and the US analysed satellite data … Continue reading
BES Facilitates ‘Knowledge Transfer’ Between Science and Policy
The BES, together with Defra, Natural England, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Woodland Trust, today held a workshop in Reading to explore the use of models, experiments and other techniques in assessing the possible future impacts of climate … Continue reading
Parliamentary Links Day: Science in an Uncertain World
Yesterday, the BES policy team attended the Parliamentary Links Day today at Portcullis House, Westminster, hosted by the Royal Society for Chemistry. Politicians and leading scientists gave talks throughout the day, followed by the opportunity to interact with them afterwards … Continue reading
Soil Biodiversity Integral to Carbon Cycling
The respiration of soil is a key function in the carbon cycle, moving carbon from the ground to the atmosphere. Peatland across Northern Europe occupies somewhere in the region of 3.5 million km2 and holds one third of the world’s … Continue reading
Modelling the Health Impacts of Climate Change
A new report suggests that more needs to be done to adapt systems models to adequately reflect the dangers posed to human health by climate change. Most research on the impacts of climate change has focused on the environmental consequences, … Continue reading