Sentences with phrase «adaptation potential of»

It is, thus, important to understand the drought adaptation potential of this species.

It outlines the mitiga - tion and adaptation potential of organic agriculture and addresses main opportunities, challenges, insti - tutional and policy aspects, thus placing this dis - cussion in a broader context, which also addresses consumer aspects and policies.

The main challenges to dealing appropriately with the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of organic agriculture, and agriculture in general, stem from

Not exact matches

This process does not search the full spectrum of potential G × M × E combinations forming the adaptation landscape.

Here we examine the potential value (relative to the conventional, broad adaptation approach) of exploiting specific adaptation arising from G × M × E.

The authors acknowledge limitations in the study, including the lack of data for some regions of the world, and the fact that adaptation mechanisms and potential changes to demographics have not been accounted for.

In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching «higher - order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.»

The future resiliency and potential for adaptation by these populations depend on a number of socioeconomic and geophysical factors.

IPCC has been established to assess scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

«A more complete understanding of the yeast adaptation response to extreme environments, such as microgravity, and the risks associated with potential infection is vital for long - term crew health and safety.

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

With food shortages and increased threats of climate change, interest in agroforestry is gathering for its potential to address various on - farm adaptation needs.

The scientists also acknowledged that long - term adaptation to climate change can greatly reduce impacts, but further research and evaluation is required to realise the potential of adaptation.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

«If efficacy of the mSMT pediatric adaptation is substantiated, there is not only the potential to drastically change the lives of children and adolescence with TBI, but clinical practice and policy as well,» remarked Dr. Chiaravalloti, director of neuropsychology, neuroscience and TBI research at Kessler Foundation, and director of the Northern New Jersey TBI Model System.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

This combination of uncertain projections, local and global effects, and potential for human adaptation makes it difficult to attribute current, much less future, changes and trends in Montana agriculture solely to climate change.

Vose et al. (2012) suggest four general types of adaptation options in managing forests for the potential impacts of climate change:

I am specifically interested in behavioral adaptations of herbivorous insects that may have adaptive functions in foraging, and have begun exploring nocturnal herbivory as one potential mechanism.

Early implementation of adaptation strategies, particularly in regard to enhancing resilience, has the potential to significantly reduce the negative impacts of climate change now and in the future.

Adaptation for both natural and human systems is increasingly important as a coping strategy due to the rate and scale of ongoing and potential future change.

In this thesis, responses to changes in seawater acidity in commercially important bivalve species were investigated with the aim of understanding their adaptation potential to OA.

Important features of XMRV biology include (1) tropism for a variety of cell lines, including prostate cancer DU145 and LNCaP cells [27], [43], [48], and human neural cell types [57], (2) adaptations that promote growth in prostate epithelium and human - derived prostate cancer cell lines including an androgen response element in the promoter region [58] and downregulation of APOBEC3G [59], and (3) cellular effects with potential oncogenic properties including increased tumor aggressiveness mediated by downregulation of p27 [60] and differential regulation of several microRNAs [61].

Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) conducted a one year CO2 selection experiment using the calcifying microalgae Emiliania huxleyi and uncovered an enormous potential for adaptation to rapidly changing environments in this important phytoplankton species.

With the completion and publication of multiple fully sequenced Woolly Mammoth genomes, the Church lab is discovering potential cold climate adaptations in different genes.

It supports the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention (HAP) model, which says consistent positive experiences and keeping a check on «wanting more» can keep us in the upper half of our «set range» of potential happiness.

And to muddy the waters a little more, you also have to factor in the potential for increasing the overall training load over the course of a training block by using techniques like ice baths and massages, even if they reduce the adaptations from a a single workout by a little bit (that would be a tough one to quantify).

Perhaps you can answer one question to which I've been unable to find an answer online, keto subreddits notwithstanding: during the first weeks of initial keto adaptation, are there any weight loss benefits specific to ketosis (i.e., beyond the potential advantages commonly associated with calorie restrictions and moderate / non-ketogenic low carb diets)?

The purpose of this manuscript is to discuss the mechanisms and potential benefits of blood flow restricted exercise on bone adaptation and provide rationale as to why low load resistance exercise to failure would be unlikely to produce these benefits.

However, coaches and competitors are encouraged to read the recent review on this topic by Trexler et al. [12] which covers not only the physiology of metabolic adaptation, but also potential methods to mitigate its negative effects.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

Collaborating with novelist and playwright Christine Angot, Denis initially approached the project as a potential adaptation of Roland Barthes» volume «A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.»

Not only this, but with the super-success of book - to - movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars — it was named the most profitable movie of 2014 — it's not surprising that his other works are finally garnering some potential movie buzz along with it.

Just a little while ago, Kick - Ass 2 and The Call star Morris Chestnut was a little vocal on Twitter and Facebook with implications that he might be up for the lead role in Marvel's potential adaptation of Black Panther.

Rife with potential, the film adaptation of Jo Nesbo's bestselling crime novel makes for frustrating viewing, even more so now that director Tomas Alfredson («Let the Right One In,» «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») recently revealed that 10 - 15 % of the...

And when the movie in question happens to be an adaptation of one of the most beloved children's novels of all time, the potential for disappointment looms especially large.

But when an obvious labor of love and / or passion project like the potential adaptation of Greg Sestero's tell - all memoir, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made,» comes across Franco's virtual desk, it's a near certainty Franco will bring A-level effort along with his A-level talent to the proceedings.

The wave of young adult novel adaptations that arrived in the wake of The Hunger Games is pretty much a graveyard, with more than a few potential franchises dying loudly and publicly.

In the meantime, you can see Neeson on the big screen in either the currently - playing Wrath of the Titans, this summer's Battleship board game move adaptation, the aforementioned second installment in the Taken franchise this fall - or (POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT) a certain upcoming, hotly - anticipated blockbuster that the actor was recently officially confirmed to appear in.

The big screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel stars Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba, a woman in Victorian England who becomes independently wealthy and draws three potential suitors - a sheep farmer (Matthias Shoenaerts), a wealthy older bachelor (Michael Sheen) and a classic bad boy (Tom Sturridge).

As crazy as it sounds, there actually appears to be a ton of potential for adaptations like Angry Birds and Warcraft, which makes you wonder what might come next.

Firstly, an article dating back to December 2011 revealed that Ullmann was scouting Ireland as a potential location for an adaptation of August Strindberg «s classic Swedish play «Froken Julie» (or «Miss Julie «-RRB--- a fascinating, controversial work exploring power, sexuality, class, identity, love and gender set in 1874 which will see Ullmann «use Irish actors as servants and British as the masters of the house.»

And since Forbes» Mark Hughes — who somehow got his hands on the script — is raving about what a strong adaptation this is and how it's «a potential tentpole picture capable of spinning off a whole expanded universe of franchises,» you have to wonder if maybe Warner Bros. didn't want this to look like Machete Kills In Space (which, if you'll recall, is a real movie that's actually happening).

Twists abound in a story that gets credit for jarring narrative directions, but this adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's «All You Zombies» remains limited in its potential, especially as it fails to evolve past its spiritual predecessors «Source Code» and «Looper.»

Rife with potential, the film adaptation of Jo Nesbø's bestselling crime novel makes for frustrating viewing, even more so now that director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) recently revealed that 10 - 15 percent of the script was never filmed.

One, because it should be towards the bottom of the list for potential big screen adaptations and second, there's honestly not much to adapt other than the idea of giant monsters smashing buildings, something that's already been done multiple times.

Carol, being called a 50's Brokeback Mountain, will not walk away emptied handed, and if we don't hear the names of Blanchett or Mara mentioned for Best Actress, then this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt has Palme d'Or potential according to our critics: we have 3 perfect scores so far and several four outta fives.