First, the summers have become warmer, while the winters became colder; second, there exists a significant decreasing trend of the daily maximum and minimum temperature during the cool season and an increasing trend during the warm season ( Ben-Gai et al. 1999 ).
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Poleward range expansion without a southern contraction in the ground beetle Agonum viridicupreum (Coleoptera, Carabidae).
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While the linear trend in annual precipitation for the entire 20th century for the Calabria region is almost zero, a pronounced trend exists for the period from 1951 to 2000 with a decrease in precipitation by about 20% in the annual mean with a decrease in summer precipitation of about 40% ( Schönwiese and Janoschitz 2008 ).