Sentences with phrase «affects plant reproduction»
Altering blooming time often affects plant reproduction and survival, but the mechanisms behind these changes are not well understood.
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«Paleontologists have come up with various kill scenarios for mass extinctions, but plant life may not be affected by dying suddenly as much as through interrupting one part of the life cycle, such as reproduction, over a long period of time, causing the population to dwindle and potentially disappear,» said co-author Cindy Looy, a UC Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology.
The first experiment, using pines, was designed to find out whether high levels of UV - B could cause malformed pollen grains in today's seed plants similar to those described by Foster, and whether these malformations could affect reproduction.
The dodo and the Carolina parakeet were important dispersers of seeds, and their loss has permanently affected forest structure in their habitats; rare insects are often highly specific pollinators whose loss affects the reproduction and survival of other plants.
«Large - scale environmental variation affects reproduction and survival of plants.»
Intertidal plants and animals, such as mangroves and barnacles, are adapted to withstand high temperature, and unless the 1.5 °C increase affects reproduction, it will have no effect.