German municipalities are facing increasing challenges in terms of climate adaptation, not least because complex climate information is often difficult to translate into locally actionable knowledge. Although climate indices developed by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) provide a standardized and widely used framework for describing climate variability, they are originally defined primarily from...

Aligned with the Green Deal strategy to reduce the impacts of climate change on the agri-food sector, this study assessed the potential of a commercial biostimulant based on Ascophyllum nodosum extract to improve olive tolerance to drought. Potted plants of Olea europaea (cultivars Arbequina and Galega) were pre-treated with the extract or water. One group was maintained at 100% field capacity and another under water-deficit (...

Europe has recently experienced a series of hot and dry summers. Previous case studies indicate that, for a given atmospheric circulation, heatwave temperatures may increase by 1.5–3 K per degree of global warming, but the magnitude of this amplification varies substantially across regions and events, and its underlying mechanisms remain insufficiently constrained. Here, we investigate this variability using circulation-nudged...

Aim We investigate the distribution of dispersal modes — endozoochory (via animal ingestion), synzoochory (via animal seed accumulation) and anemochory (via wind)—and seed mass of woody plants across Brazilian ecosystems, testing whether their relative abundance in local plant communities could be predicted by climate, edaphic factors and dispersal agents (e.g., the main vectors moving seeds). We expected climate to be the mai...

Soil microbiomes are critical for ecosystem functioning, yet the global influences of climate and agricultural practices on their diversity and structure remain incompletely characterized. Here we analyzed 1921 soil samples from 33 countries worldwide across diverse biomes to assess how climate gradients and agricultural inputs, including pesticides and fertilizers, shape prokaryotic and fungal communities. We found that micro...

Formaldehyde (FA) is a high-priority indoor pollutant with proven adverse effects on human health. Recent preliminary evidence has demonstrated that epiphytic Tillandsia plants can uptake airborne pollutants directly from the gas-phase. This study aims to further investigate on the phytoremediation potential of two Tillandsia species, T. velutina and T . ionantha , specifically focusing on their efficiency in removing FA. To c...

Ongoing climate change is leading to considerable alterations of the mean climate, the day‐to‐day weather and their variability. This poses substantial challenges for stakeholders and increases the urgency to develop adequate adaptation and mitigation strategies. In order to represent the local changes in climate across different regions as accurately as possible, and provide useful and usable information for stakeholders, we...

Wide-area maritime surveillance is an increasingly important focus for countries with large Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), such as Portugal, which are responsible for monitoring and protecting these zones and their resources. Passive acoustic autonomous buoy networks equipped with hydrophones are a promising approach for wide-area maritime surveillance. However, achieving a discrete, low-cost system introduces many technical...

In recent years, there has been an increasing need for climate information across diverse sectors of society. This demand has arisen from the necessity to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate variability and change. Likewise, this period has seen a significant increase in our understanding of the physical processes and mechanisms that drive precipitation and its variability across different regions of Africa. By levera...