Sentences with phrase «adapt to our changing environmental»

The DNA blueprints for each cell is written in a common chemical language capable of adapting to changing environmental conditions.

«Our studies clearly show that widespread species have a much more diverse intraspecific gene pool than species that are adapted to a specific habitat,» explains Dr. Jan Christian Habel of the Technical University in Munich, and he continues, «Once these animals — due to the fragmentation of their habitats — lose the opportunity to maintain this genetic diversity by means of exchange, they will no longer be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions in the future.»

And we learn which strategies plants use to adapt to changing environmental conditions.»

This very limited view of humanity causes environmentalism to conceive of people as helpless without it: unable to adapt to changing environmental conditions, incapable of overcoming their dependency on natural processes, and driven by material instincts to consume until everything is gone or the waste overwhelms the consumer.

We have the right incentives to learn and to adapt to our changing environmental conditions.

Not exact matches

Most likely finding changes in base species that are adapting to their surroungings due to environmental chagnes.

Could God have created life that is able to adapt to environmental change?

«[We have] the ability to adapt and change to not only customer demands, but the environmental changes in the market,» he declares.

In a bid to tackle climate change and other environmental challenges, the company recently adapted its sustainability policy to include Meat Free Monday / Meatless Monday.

Helping farming communities build capacity and adapt to social, economic and environmental changes

Incorporate new knowledge as the basis for management that adapts over time to address changing social, technological, and environmental conditions.

«We can adapt to the environmental aspects of climate change.

An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

Tyler has been adapting this technology for his own environmental monitoring in places ranging from Chile's Atacama Desert to Switzerland, ramping up the sampling speed and resolution in order to measure small temperature changes in lakes, streams, and the atmosphere.

An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

'' So this process is very useful because you can adapt to these huge seasonal changes in environmental color and continue to see and discriminate between colors accurately.»

Even an ecosystem with 100 species may be less resilient than one with only 10, says Ives, if those 100 species can't adapt to environmental change.

The difference is that farmers can do things to adapt to the changing climate, and hopefully alleviate the impacts on their crops,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

«Selective - breeding programmes may effectively reduce the capacity of corals to adapt to future changes in environmental conditions by narrowing genetic variation,» says David Miller, a coral biologist at James Cook University in Townsville.

It has been speculated that such heterogeneous production of signaling molecules could be advantageous for the whole population because it allows for a division of labor between signal producers and non-producers, or because the creation of phenotypic diversification provides greater evolutionary flexibility and enables populations to adapt more rapidly to environmental change.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

«Adapting to climate change will bring new environmental problems.»

«This gene could be a particularly valuable tool as climate change shifts our growing seasons and we are forced to develop plants that can adapt to those environmental changes,» Bradford said.

Adapting to climate change could have profound environmental repercussions, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia.

All the green growing things on this earth evolved over millennia, adapting in response to changing environmental conditions.

In the report, Gracia, Sabaté and Nadal highlight that management strategies adapted to environmental changes are crucial to the conservation of Iberian forests and the resources they provide to society.

Said Tim McClanahan, WCS Senior Conservation Zoologist and lead author of the study: «Northern Mozambique Quirimbas reefs have a variety of refugia, environmental variability, and high diversity that give these reefs a high potential to adapt to rapid climate change.

«Genome of Leishmania reveals how this parasite adapts to environmental changes: Scientists demonstrate that Leishmania adaptation results from frequent and reversible chromosomal amplifications.»

In a report, authors highlight that management strategies adapted to environmental changes are crucial to the conservation of Iberian forests.

«Species with smaller geographical ranges are naturally more sensitive to environmental change, and if the same community of species is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate.

He claims that this is «incontrovertible evidence» that birds» mating behaviour is not genetically fixed, and can adapt to environmental changes.

The hope is to use these genetic samples — kept at — 256 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 160 degrees Celsius) by vapor boiling off from liquid nitrogen — to create a baseline to find how species and populations are changing and adapting — or not — to environmental changes.

Organisms that have evolved in environments that have little if any change in environmental conditions, for example, may not be able to adapt well if currents increasingly mix warm surface waters down to the seafloor.

They have repeatedly adapted to environmental changes in the past by being flexible in their use of resources.

«Past warnings of potential environmental catastrophes have begun to be borne out,» the report concludes, criticising failures to adapt to climate change and tackle the growing demand for limited freshwater resources.

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

Mark Davis from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, points out that 86 per cent of the extinctions ascribed to invasive species occurred on islands, where endemic species have small populations and are poorly adapted for predators or environmental changes.

Maintaining and restoring healthy ecosystems plays a key role in adapting to and mitigating climate change through biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and sustainable land management and yields multiple environmental, economic and social benefits.

Besides endosymbiotic - based metabolism, the other great evolutionary innovation of the Eukaryotes that occured in the Proterozoic was the ability to reproduce sexually, making genetic diversity possible, and as a consequence, greatly enhanced the ability to adapt to and survive environmental changes.

In plants, these genes evolve constantly to adapt to environmental changes, which makes them incredibly difficult to study, but identifying more of them could open the door to a world of new pharmaceutical, agricultural and biotech applications.

Biological systems exist in a quasi-stable state that can evolve and adapt to environmental change, yet they are sufficiently robust to withstand stressful conditions and antagonistic interactions.

Our analyses reveal a robust species, resilient to environmental changes and adapted to its social lifestyle.

I'm interested in how species adapt to their environment and how this affects inter-species interactions and evolutionary diversification, particularly in the context of anthropogenic environmental changes.

The occasion of the conference provides an opportunity to place sustainable land management (SLM), land tenure, LDN, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a regional and global context, providing the means to enhance or adapted underlying theoretical paradigms, encourage the radical renewal of research methods and the validity of environmental change predictions, as well as to strengthen the integration between social and environmental branches of geography.

â $ œIt is well known that the immune system can detect and respond to pathogens, but these results highlight its capacity to sense and adapt to environmental changes, such as nutritional starvation, which cause cellular stress, â $ he says.

This process is usually driven by natural environmental changes but now there are rediculous amounts of toxic exposure and the ability of our intelligent genes to adapt intelligently is being tested.

Your circadian clock is an essential time - tracking system, which your body uses to anticipate environmental changes and adapt to the appropriate time of day.

People like to suggest there is something superior in the term, but it means only that we adapted with a biological change due to environmental stressors.

There is growing awareness that the profound environmental changes (eg, in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry ≈ 10000 y ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary time scale for the human genome to adapt (2 — 5).

The Workshop will seek to educate and empower young people on how to adapt and manage the exposure and impacts of climate change, environmental pollution and the loss of natural resources through capacity building.