The current study evaluates the regional climate model REMO (v2015) and its new version REMO-iMOVE, including interactive vegetation and plant functional types (PFTs), over two Central Asian domains for the period of 2000–2015 at two different horizontal resolutions (0.44° and 0.11°). Various statistical metrices along with mean bias patterns for precipitation, temperature, and leaf area index have been used for the model eval...

Choices of adaption strategies to climate change are often based on the knowledge summarized in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) Assessment Reports. For climate impact research, precipitation is of high relevance and often used as a criterion for climate model evaluation. Therefore, we assess simulated precipitation of 24 models of Phase 3 and 26 models of Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Proj...

Relatively little attention has been directed towards understanding the impacts of human disturbance on evolutionary processes that produce and maintain biodiversity. Here, we examine the influence of anthropogenic habitat changes on traits typically associated with natural and sexual selection in the little greenbul ( Andropadus virens ), an African rainforest bird species. Using satellite remote‐sensing and field survey data...