Sentences with phrase «animals responding to changes»

And without leaving the classroom students can experience plants and animals responding to changes in the environment as day turns to night.

«I'm interested in how the environment is changing, how animals respond to those changes, and the potential for acclimatization to those conditions, particularly across generations and in different life stages,» said Putnam, assistant professor in the URI Department of Biological Sciences, who joined the faculty in January.

Not exact matches

During your visit to Moose Hill's trails children will look for signs of the season and discover the delight of a walk in the woods as you observe how the plants and animals respond to seasonal weather changes.

«That lick transfers bacteria that live in animals» mouths, and the exposure to the bacteria may change the way the child's immune system responds to other allergens.»

This approach could also tell conservationists how other animals and species might respond to future environmental changes and stressors.

There is no doubt that some animals respond to the environment via epigenetic mechanisms, he says, but these mechanisms have evolved via genetic changes.

By describing the structure of these webs, scientists can predict how plants and animals living in an ecosystem will respond to change.

Dr Ellis says the impact on different sexes should be properly assessed in all aquatic animals to accurately predict how populations will respond to climate change.

They don't know how the animals are responding to global warming, where they're feeding, how their icy habitat has been affected or how the ecosystem's food web has changed.

More precisely monitoring dolphins with seafloor recordings could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long - term effects of climate change.

Previous studies have identified neurons that only fire up when an animal points its head in a certain direction — some for east, others for south, for example — but reports of neurons that respond to changes in an animal's speed are sparse and largely anecdotal, says Jeffrey Taube, a neuroscientist at Dartmouth College who was not involved in the work.

The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how plants and animals will respond to global climate change and highlight the need to slow and prevent further warming.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

With mere fragments of DNA, the scientists can reconstruct entire genomes of these animals to better understand how species respond to rapid changes in the environment

Warren Porter, a zoologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said the paper was «an important reminder of how non-linear animal processes can substantially respond to even subtle changes in the environment.»

It's given scientists around the world critical cybertools to catalog and analyze how plants and animals have responded to changes in global climate going back 5 million years.

That's partly because different plants and animals will respond differently to threats like disease, pests, or climate change, but also because if one plant or animal falls victim to such challenges, others will be there to fill the hole left behind, helping to prevent the entire system from collapsing.

We congratulate the Kunming activists for their success and we will continue our efforts to encourage greater awareness of animal welfare issues, support capacity building, assist in lobbying activities aimed at policy change, respond to distress calls and monitor developments as the Chinese animal protection movement grows.

This paper discusses how companion animals» respond to the loss of a conspecific through owner reported behavioural changes.

Lives forever changed / individual animals helped: We are so grateful for the support of the Petfinder Foundation, which enabled our team to respond quickly to the needs of our Lake County neighbors and their pets.

The change is one that has been sought for years by some animal advocates, who said the ASPCA's small enforcement staff couldn't handle the volume of abuse reports and was taking weeks or months to respond to calls regular police could probably get to in hours.

It's hard to know how to respond to the letter written by Napa County Public Works Director Steve Lederer («No - kill shelter initiative discussed,» March 31) which criticizes an initiative now being circulated that would mandate changes at the county animal shelter.

Understanding how individuals respond to environmental change is essential if we want to predict how animals will react to global warming and other human - driven habitat shifts.

However, paleoclimate data are used as a foundation for climate scientists by providing crucial information such as rates of past climate change and how vegetation and animal populations responded to the change.

If we are to understand how these animals will respond to future change, a starting point like this is really important.»

Living things seem to be responding to change in climate where the air temperature affects the lives of animals and plants.

Seals, walrus and polar bears are much more flexible and resilent to changes in habitat conditions than most modern biologists give them credit for and consequently, it will be fascinating to see how the ice will change over the coming months and how the animals will respond.

We've written plenty of times about how animals and plants are already responding to climate changes — flowering earlier, migrating later, etc — but it seems humans are already doing this too.

The finding is certainly interesting — most of all, because it counters some conventional wisdom on how animals respond to climate change.