Rising temperatures are likely to increase the risk of drought across the globe over the next century. Boreal forests are particularly vulnerable to drought because temperatures within these biomes are projected to warm the fastest. Warm and dry conditions can reduce tree growth, particularly in...

Bouchard Gérard, Brard Patrick and Lavoie Yolande. ? FONEM : a Phonetic Transcription for the Automatic Reconstitution of Saguenay Families. The new FONEM system re-transcribes the phonetic structure of proper names. It neither over-simplifies this structure (as older codes did), nor does it...

SUMMARY The phonetic code for family names developed by L. Henry and the weighting system devised by H.B. Newcombe enable research workers, from now on, to use data processing for family reconstruction when parish-registers of good quality are available. The first three parts of a much more...