Sentences with phrase «anthropogenic impacts»
The paradigm of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH can also help differentiate between primary drivers and symptoms.
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That place is a great high - level view of anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems.
However, this experiment didn't take anthropogenic impacts other than CO2 into account.
This is a good example of a mesoscale anthropogenic impact which has little or no direct connection to CO2.
Little do they realize that the basic thrust of my criticism of the I.P.C.C. draft was really to register a clear complaint that I.P.C.C. was being too wishy - washy and was not presenting its case for anthropogenic impact being the principal driver of global warming as clearly and forcefully as they could, and should.
While we agree with their findings, we warn that «passive» management, seeking purely to minimize anthropogenic impacts is likely to be insufficient, given the local and large - scale inevitable pressures created by an unabatedly expanding human population.
The management considerations by Pandolfi et al. focus on slowing the rate of climate change and reducing anthropogenic impacts such as fishing and coastal developments.
The IPCC emphasizes forcing estimates relative to 1750 since most of the important anthropogenic impacts are thought to have been small at that time (biomass burning may be an exception, but appears to have a relatively small net forcing).
While the outlook for reefs in the fact of today's rapid global warming is exceptionally serious, the authors provide remedial options for management interventions that will increase reef resilience, including: a) reduce the harvest of herbivorous fish to sustainable levels, b) protect sharks and other top predators, c) manage all aspects of water quality, and d) diminish direct anthropogenic impacts and stressors.
These results do not exonerate anthropogenic impacts, but highlight the significance of bottom - up oceanographic processes to marine organisms.
The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.
We know, for example, from the work of Santer et al. that the warming trend in the tropical Atlantic can not be explained without anthropogenic impacts on the climate.
[Response: Not all of the papers criticized by us in this piece express skepticism regarding anthropogenic impacts on climate (e.g. the Fan et al paper).
We can recognize the finite nature of the physical earth system, understand that there is a large anthropogenic impact in many facets of it, and even try to mitigate this impact, all without also needing to believe in finite limits to the growth of knowledge and technology.
«Protected species and habitats in the German Baltic Sea and in the North Sea and their sensitivities against anthropogenic impacts and climate change»
Due to their central geographic location the North Sea and Baltic Sea account to the marine areas with the highest anthropogenic impact in the world.
Habitat loss alone may be a good predictor of extinctions of threatened and endemic species in biodiversity hotspots, but this takes no account of pervasive synergistic effects of hunting, wildfires and other anthropogenic impacts on isolated populations which may lead to much higher extinction rates compared to predictions from unqualified SAR models alone.
Drawing a parallel with progress in understanding human perturbations to the carbon cycle, our approach in assessing anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH is to separate the regulation of pH in ocean surface waters into two modes — regulation in the pre-disturbance Holocene ocean and anthropogenic processes regulating pH — with the interplay between both components acting to regulate seawater pH in the Anthropocene.
And we've seen plenty of data - based, visual representations to the fact, but this series of luminescent maps showing anthropogenic impacts are some of the most stunning we've encountered.
The better we understand these natural processes, the better we can identify the anthropogenic impact on the climate system,» resumes Professor Latif.
Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of the paucity of high - resolution paleoclimatic evidence.
The current level of anthropogenic impact on the ES, and thus the risk to the stability of the ES, is assessed by comparison with the proposed PB (see the figure).
In the current era of the Anthropocene, virtually all ecosystems in the world are subject to some form of anthropogenic impact.
He has broad research interests in ecology and marine palaeoecology, with emphasis on the effects of anthropogenic impacts and climate change on the recent past history of modern coral reefs.
Here, we unite 30 consecutive years of watershed modeling, biogeochemical data, and comprehensive aerial surveys of Chesapeake Bay, United States to quantify the cascading effects of anthropogenic impacts on submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV), an ecologically and economically valuable habitat.
This suggests that hurricanes may indeed become more destructive (1) as tropical SSTs warm due to anthropogenic impacts.
On that issue, the potential complexities regarding phytoplankton community composition, ecological interactions, and anthropogenic impacts (such as changing iron supply, pollution, fishing) make definitive statements extremely uncertain (and I would guess one of the sources of humility in the reviewers that would allow them to acknowledge the possibility that the Boyce result was possible).
In addition the UK Met Office, in their 2016 Nature Geoscience paper, suggest that whilst an anthropogenic impact on the AMOC can not be excluded in the 21st Century, no such impact has been detected so far.
Shouldn't it be a priority to update the major proxy records to the end 20th century to clearly demonstrate the anthropogenic impact?