Sentences with phrase «affect species interactions»

Exactly how sea - ice decline might affect species interactions in this and other types of food webs on land in the Arctic is a question that deserves greater attention,» Post said.

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Besides affecting the species themselves, such changes could have wider effects by limiting the movement of nutrients and altering ecological interactions.

«And because species are interconnected through multiple interactions, an impact on one species can affect others as well.

Several species of protozoa reside in the human gut, and some of them are prevalent in patients with gastrointestinal disease, suggesting that similar host - parasite interactions could affect human health.

Scientists have long studied how the interaction between species affects overall populations in ecosystems.

Processes such as species interactions, local adaptation and interactions with the physical landscape likely affect the responses researchers observed.

Track a Tree will provide insights into the seasonal timing of U.K. woodland species, and how future changes in climate may affect the interactions between trees and flowering plants

«We wanted to understand the role of species colonization history in regulating the interaction between the rapidly - evolving bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW - 25 and competing species and how that affected P. fluorescens adaptive radiation in the ecosystem,» said Jiaqi Tan, a research scientist in Georgia Tech's School of Biological Sciences.

The framework provides a clearer understanding of how habitat loss, land fragmentation and human interactions affect species survival.

The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species affect responses to climate change.

The world of forest ants may provide a macrocosm of the complex reactions and interactions among species affected by global climate change, according to a research project involving Bowling Green State University biologist Dr. Shannon Pelini.

«All of these interactions among species — and how those interactions will shift due to climate change — will affect how we manage these sites,» said Hille Ris Lambers.

An evolutionary ecologist by training, I study how species adapt to their environment and how this affects inter-species interactions and evolutionary diversification.

How does this interact with changes in weather and climate?How do different species respond, and how does this affect the interactions between them?

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.

«We are studying how newly formed species interact when their range overlap after long periods of evolution in isolation, and how the climate affects these interactions.

White's cover illustration of a regal tiger pulls readers into a balanced discussion of human interaction with nature and how we affect endangered species.

Better understanding of the role of species interactions in affecting resilience to climate change

Studies that have explored species responses to biotic stimuli and interactions under ocean acidification conditions using laboratory experiments [25 — 28]-RRB- and field observations or manipulations around CO2 vents [29 — 32] provide some evidence that species interactions and community dynamics can be fundamentally affected.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.