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The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, [2] [3] with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. [4] [5] Later, German climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced ...
Evolutionary ecology. A phylogenetic tree of living things. Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. Conversely, it can be seen as an approach to the study of ...
History. The main path passing through the mountain has been known since around 1500. It was used in the past by hunters, shepherds, and later by the military. Already during the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, in July, a group of Austrian partisans led by Alfred von Vivenot hid on the mountain to evade the Prussians.
Name. The name Javořina/Javorina is derived from the Slavic word javor ('maple'). In Slovakia, there is another peak with the name Veľká Javorina, located in the Čergov mountains in eastern Slovakia, hence sometimes the distinguishing name Veľká Javorina Bielokarpatská is used.
1974–present. Known for. Contribution to environmental protection in the Czech Republic. Václav Havel and Jiří Löw at Nové Mlýny reservoirs in 1990. Jiří Löw (born 10 April 1948 in Prague) is a Czech urbanist, architect, academic and politician. He is one of the key figures in environmental protection in the Czech Republic.
Ecological study. In epidemiology, ecological studies are used to understand the relationship between outcome and exposure at a population level, where 'population' represents a group of individuals with a shared characteristic such as geography, ethnicity, socio-economic status of employment. [1] What differentiates ecological studies from ...
The standard map (also known as the Chirikov–Taylor map or as the Chirikov standard map) is an area-preserving chaotic map from a square with side onto itself. [1] It is constructed by a Poincaré's surface of section of the kicked rotator, and is defined by: where and are taken modulo . The properties of chaos of the standard map were ...
Volunteers at a community cleanup of Herbert Run, a tributary of the Patapsco River running through Arbutus, Maryland. The Patapsco River ( / pəˈtæpˌskoʊ / pə-TAP-skoh ⓘ) mainstem is a 39-mile (63 km) [1] river in central Maryland that flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The river's tidal portion forms the harbor for the city of Baltimore.