Sentences with phrase «affect plant and animal»

The team focuses on three mechanisms most probable to affect plant and animal habitats.

Forest fires can affect both plant and animal biodiversity.

Another way Obama can win green friends is to undo a Bush proposal, slated to take effect in December, to cut wildlife experts out of decisions affecting plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.

More worrying is how a warming planet is affecting plants and animals that have been subjected to less research.

Not exact matches

It not only affected man, but plants, animals and all of creation.

To think of the self relationally is to think of its very existence as affected or constituted by the world external to the body, that is, by other humans, by plants and other animals, by the earth, and by the sky.

When considering the protein source, for example, one must not only consider whether an animal - or plant - based protein will be used, but the specific organism from which it is derived (e.g., animal: chicken, beef, lamb, pork, etc.; fish: salmon, menhaden, etc.; plant: corn gluten meal, soybean meal, etc.), what part (s) of that organism will be included (e.g., plant: whole wheat vs. wheat germ vs. wheat bran; animal: entire animal vs. skeletal muscle vs. organ meats), and the form in which it will be added (animals: frozen, fresh, meal), all of which affect the diet in terms of cost, nutrient composition and stability, manufacturing requirements, and ingredient handling, transport, and storage.

The two villages already have formed their own committee to study environmental issues, such as how the projects affect animal and plant life.

«Once fires in this region burn deeply, all these other things start to happen, affecting plants, animals and local people,» Mack said.

Holzschuh went looking for research on this topic and found only 22 studies that tested how rock climbing might affect plants or animals.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

Land loss also affects marine plants and animals as well as how pollution is absorbed and broken down.

As the sun peeks over the horizon at the Tutakoke River field camp in Alaska's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, chambers dot a field used to study how a warmer Arctic is affecting migratory animals and the tundra plants they feed on.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Leaves and flowers are expected particularly early in the Pacific Northwest and mountainous western US, which could affect migratory animals that depend on plants for food (Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/10 / 10 / 104008).

«Climate change risk for half of plant and animal species in biodiversity hotspots: The Amazon, Miombo Woodlands in Southern Africa, and southwest Australia will be among the most affected places in the world, according to comprehensive new paper and report commissioned by WWF.»

Other studies have gauged how climate changes will affect migration, flowering, and other factors that could put plants and animals out of step with the world around them.

On one visit, he discovered that bears disturbed the nests, which led him to wonder exactly how this disturbance might affect other plants and animals in the meadow.

«Nonetheless, the differing growth patterns will affect the entire plant and animal world.

But now, the sky grows brighter when clouds roll in, possibly adversely affecting animals and plants

«Although plants can't hear, many animals that disperse seeds or pollinate flowers can hear, and are known to be affected by noise, resulting in indirect impacts on plants,» said Buxton.

Every year, Earth Day offers an opportunity to reflect on how this new natural order affects all of the organisms found here — plant, animal and human.

For my post-doctoral project, I decided to focus on the question, «to what extent can atmospheric pollutants, such as CO2 and ozone, exert a selective effect on woody plant species, and how are the resulting changes in the genetic composition of the plant community likely to affect the animals that feed on them?»

Climate change, including acidification of the oceans, will likely affect many of the plants and animals in our sea and oceans.

Many of the negative impacts of hydropower center on what the damming of rivers does to the native plants and animals in the waterways that are affected.

The use of genomic information affects not only humans, but also plants and animals.

Warming air temperatures, melting ice, and shifting currents are totally altering the ocean ecosystem, affecting the people, plants, and animals that call it home.

Pheromones are considered to be airborne chemical signaling molecules that are released by humans, animals, and plants into the environment and they can affect the physiology and or behavior of other members of the same species.

The ratio of plant to animal foods (a.k.a. the ratio of carbohydrates to protein) significantly affects the microbiome and is complex.

When we controlled for the effect of plant - based protein, there was no change in the association between protein intake and mortality, indicating that high levels of animal proteins promote mortality and not that plant - based proteins have a protective effect» and for people aged 66 +, all - cause mortality...... «was not affected by percent calories from fat, from carbohydrates, or from animal protein.»

Dr. Collin Campbell a pioneer in the plant based revolution brought this to life with his book the China Study, a book i would recommend to anyone who wants to see the research on animal foods and their many affects on our overall health.

Streams, and lakes could adversely affect the health of people, animal life, and plants.

As these foods gradually displaced the minimally processed wild plant and animal foods in hunter - gatherer diets, they adversely affected the following dietary indicators 1) glycemic load, 2), fatty acid composition, 3) macronutrient composition, 4) micronutrient density, 5) acid - base balance, 6) sodium - potassium ratio, and 7) fiber content.

Also, because of that Meteor, the life of the plants and animals in Wakanda is affected and how can we forget the heart - shaped flower or herb which gives the Black Panther his superpowers.

Littering not only diminishes the physical beauty of the world we live in, but it also poses some major problems for the people, plants and animals who are affected by it.

It is probably caused by a plant pigment and does not affect the health of the animal.»

First, there's the nearby lake and residences — potential sources of pollution that could affect nearby plant and animal life.

Bioavailability is affected by many factors, for example whether a protein is animal - based or plant - based and the temperature that the protein is cooked at.

The site contains plant images, pictures of affected animals, and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc).

Nearly half of the endangered plants and animals in the United States have been negatively affected by invasive species.

Nearly half of the endangered plants and animals in the United States have been negatively affected by non-native, invasive species.

The strongest concept covered is that animals, plants and other organisms interact within ecosystems and these relationships can affect the survival of multiple species.

These parts might not have very high human populations, but they tend to live near the shores, and the local plants and animals can be affected by these rapid changes.

The acidification of oceans may well be the most insidious and pervasive threat to life in the oceans everywhere, simply because so many different plants and animals that play key roles in ecosystems will likely be affected — coccolithophores, pteropods, corals, mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters, snails), echinoderms (urchins, seastars), arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp), etc., etc..

Several researchers have pointed to various other indicators as evidence of «global warming», e.g., Arctic sea ice records, ocean heat content measurements, or animal and plant migration patterns.However, all of these indicators are either too short to compare recent temperatures to temperatures before the 1950s, or else are affected by non-climatic biases.

The authors expect that an improved understanding will lead to more answers about how these plumes affect the ocean regions into which they flow and their potential effects on aquatic plants, animals, and climate.

What if such decreases mainly adversely affect plants, so important for humans and other animals?

Confronting Climate Change The NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index Climate change is affecting numerous plant and animal species right now.

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