Sentences with phrase «changing climatic conditions not»

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Barry Sinervo, a reptile and ecology expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved with the recent study, pointed to some of his own research, such as a study published in Science in May 2010 that examined extinction rates in lizards alongside changing climatic conditions.

Particularly worrisome is the accelerated downward trend in the last few years, signaling that some populations just may not be able to cope with fast - changing climatic conditions heaped on top of other existing pressures.

In some conditions, saturation can occur while holding temperatures steady, but the climate response can still change the fluxes — this won't generally add a significant net flux where optical thickness has brought the net flux to zero, but it can change the net flux at TOA even if the effect of optical thickness has been saturated at TOA, and the climatic response could «unsaturate» the effect at TOA by creating a thinner layer of different temperature.

Since the recommended minimum period for climatic significance is 30 years, we should trust only those climate models that satisfy both these conditions — have not been changed for 30 years — make successful predictions.

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

stability — that is, that conditions in a region are not altered frequently by some important extrinsic challenge, such as rapid local climatic changes.

So the climate has in one sense actually changed and we are now entering a new series of climatic conditions that we just haven't seen before.»

Preferred habitat: edges of forests, lowland areas, fields, thickets; requires deep, moist, but well - drained bottomlands + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: evergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay loam, well drained + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 8 to 15 feet + + + + Wildlife value: Seeds attract American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Bluebird, Mickingbird; it is a butterfly nectar and larval food plant + + + + Note: plant will reseed itself prolifically with the help of robins; do not be surprised if a small number of your cherry laurel population die during changing climatic conditions