MEASURING RESILIENCE AND ASSESSING VULNERABILITY OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Measuring resilience and assessing vulnerability of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change in South America.

Climate change has been identified as the primary threat to the integrity and functioning of ecosystems in this century, although there is still much uncertainty about its effects and the degree of Polos vulnerability for different ecosystems to this threat.Here we propose a new methodological approach capable of measuring and mapping the resilienc

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The precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada: exploring national trends in health human resources (1991 to 2005)

Abstract Background Health Human Resource (HHR) ratios are one measure of workforce supply, and are often expressed as a ratio in the number of 2-Layer Standing Wooden Plaque health professionals to a sub-set of the population.In this study, we explore national trends in HHR among physical therapists (PTs) across Canada.Methods National population

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