Maps (pdf) and raster images (tif) of predicted rural land cover suitability under current (2010) conditions and future climate scenarios

This study projects land cover probabilities under climate change for corn (maize), soybeans, spring and winter wheat, winter wheat-soybean double cropping, cotton, grassland and forest across 16 central U.S. states at a high spatial resolution, while also taking into account the influence of soil characteristics and topography. The scenarios span three oceanic-atmospheric global circulation models, three Representative Concentration Pathways, and three time periods (2040, 2070, 2100). As climate change intensifies, the suitable area for all six crops display large northward shifts. Total suitable area for spring wheat, followed by corn and soybeans, diminish. Suitable area for winter wheat and for winter wheat-soybean double-cropping expand northward, while cotton suitability migrates to new, more northerly, locations. Suitability for forest intensifies in the south while yielding to crops in the north; grassland intensifies in the western Great Plains as crop suitability diminishes. To maintain current broad geographic patterns of land use, large changes in the thermal response of crops such as corn would be required. A transition from corn-soybean to winter wheat-soybean doubling cropping is an alternative adaptation.

(Table 1) Grain size composition of recent sediments from the eastern Barents Sea shelf

Based on materials on geomorphology, hydrology, lithology, and sedimentation dynamics obtained during cruises of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in the Barents Sea, the author prepared a number of charts on content of the main particle size facies in shelf surface sediments, as well as a chart of lithologic types of sediments in the Barents Sea. Factors of sedimentation control and basic features of distribution of sedimentary material over its bottom area are taken into consideration.

The Oxyrhynchus papyri /

Editors vary.

Serair ül-Kuran /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Duc on a Journey, fol. 168r, from Belle Heures du Duc de Berry

Limbourg Brothers; 9 3/8 in.x 5 ft. 6 59/64 in.; tempera and gold leaf on vellum

Venus Shooting an Arrow Through an Opening of the Tower: detail, from Le Roman de la Rose

Manuscript, French, 15C; tempera, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard

Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache (KV 54), excavated artifact, Floral Collar

Valley of the Kings (burial site), Egypt; 1 ft. 5 21/64 in.x 49 ft. 4 33/64 in.; papyrus, olive leaves, cornflowers, linen

Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache (KV 54), excavated artifact, Floral Collar

Valley of the Kings (burial site), Egypt; 1 ft. 3 3/4 in.x 6 11/16 in.; papyrus,olive & persea leaves, cornflowers,blue lotus petals Picris flowers, nightshade berries, faience & linen

Venus Shooting an Arrow Through an Opening of the Tower, from Le Roman de la Rose

Manuscript, French, 15C; 1 ft. 2 29/64 in.x 10 15/64 in.; tempera, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard

Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache (KV 54), excavated artifact, Floral Collar: detail

Valley of the Kings (burial site), Egypt; papyrus, olive leaves, cornflowers, linen

Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache (KV 54), excavated artifact, Floral Collar: detail

Valley of the Kings (burial site), Egypt; papyrus, olive leaves, cornflowers, linen

Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache (KV 54), excavated artifact, Floral Collar: back

Valley of the Kings (burial site), Egypt; 1 ft. 5 21/64 in.x 49 ft. 4 33/64 in.; papyrus, olive leaves, cornflowers, linen

Rime di Messer Giovanni Boccacci.

"Tavola de'manoscritti da cui sono tratte queste Rime": p. [203]-208.