Sentences with phrase «as species adapt»

As TreeHugger has long documented, changing food availability due to climate change as species adapt to a warming world at different rates, threatens many more species than boreal ducks.

The answer is simple... the Climate theorists seem to have forgotten that as a species we adapt and evolve.

There will be «winners» and «losers» as species adapt to a changing climate.

And that is scrambling the delicate balance of many ecosystems, as some species adapt to the change and others don't.

Major climatic events such as ice ages ought to leave their imprint on life as species adapt to the new conditions.

This so - called evolutionary arms race (also known as the Red Queen hypothesis) can be tracked over the eons as each species adapts new strategies to outwit their predators — and / or their own prey — making the dynamic a two - way street.

The aim of their investigation was to explore how cranial size changed as our species adapted to an increasingly complex social environment between 1.9 million and 10,000 years ago.

Kilpatrick explained that the effects of climate change are expected to be seen at the edges of species» geographic ranges, as species adapted to warm climates move further north and cold - adapted species retreat from the southern parts of their ranges.

Recognizing a crisis of representation as our species adapts to life in the current day, her book About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, and perception.

Recognizing a crisis of representation as our species adapts to life in the Anthropocene, her book About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, and perception.

Not exact matches

Evolution is simply the observed changes in species over time as they adapt and improve to survive.

1) Evolution specifically prefers species that are well adapted to their environment, and typically over long periods of time the more well - adapted species will eradicate the others, as they can more easily eat / reproduce / survive (and there are ALWAYS finite resources).

Mutation does occur randomly but species adapt to outside pressures such as changes in their environment.

Evolution was the natural result that God gave species in order to help them adapt to the environment around them as needed.

Certainly, such as species evolving to adapt to their environments.

If we start with consciousness as a blank slate that then evolves (whether as an individual or as a species) to adapt to the necessities of its self - preservation (as an individual or as a species), we will never get to an argument for the goodness of fidelity, fecundity, etc..

with each new change in any strain of virus or bacteria that is that organism adapting to its» enviroment, over time that whole species changes as the ones adapted survive and pass on their traits to the next generation.

It adapts, and I do believe Christians can see and believe in adaptation as it occurs every day, but is entirely different from billions or millions of years of one species evolving into another, with a supposed start of a non-living or non-traceable thing.

Maybe not — we can't know, with the lack of research into this matter — but since we've had 100 or so years to adapt as a species to this new sleep pattern, we can and should ask how successful it's been for us: Has sleeping become more healthy over this time?

Our ancestors, going back to the genus Australopithecus, used infant carriers to adapt carrying strategies for infants who could not effectively cling and to reduce the energetic costs of carrying as a bipedal species.

Only the most generalist species remain in the smaller fragments, she added, such as the white - eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) or the nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which are able to adapt to disturbed environments because they do not need such large areas to find food.

Kelly Pennington, who studies invasive species at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, says the work could inform global policies, and be adapted to the regional or state level as well.

As climate change affects the ecology of the Pacific Ocean, many marine species will suffer, while two new reports indicate that certain fish and whales may successfully adapt.

The changes likely occurred as a result of a crocodilian - type lifestyle wherein aquatically adapted species floated and foraged on the surface — a lifestyle that both preceded, and prepared species for, subsequent colonization of the terrestrial realm.

«Since our results showed that the effects of drought on yield production varied with species and soil texture as well as drought timing, this study underscores the need to prioritize the selection and development of drought - resistant legume species adapted to the drought - prone regions of the world,» Wang said.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

As green areas are reduced, wild species gradually disappear, and urban - adapted species dominate the territory.

Boston lies in zone 6, but the Arboretum constantly tests species that are adapted to warmer areas, such as some hardy types of camellias.

Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats — so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species.

The new technique could be adapted to study the wanderings of other threatened species, such as salmon and monarch butterflies.

After all, Miller notes, the species currently lacks much genetic diversity to help it adapt to changing conditions as well as facing unprecedented threats such as heavy metal pollution accumulating in the Arctic.

Two species of finch in the Galápagos Islands diverged in beak shape as they adapted to different food sources.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

This could help the species adapt and become more resilient to threats such as climate change.

As two species spend time apart adapting to separate environments, many changes accumulate in the species» DNA.

«The findings are important because they tell us more about the different species» ability to adapt to environmental challenges such as Chernobyl and Fukushima,» said Galván.

These changes come about as the better - adapted strains take over, spreading at the expense of less - well - adapted strains within a particular host species.

Although Lucy had a brain and body the size of a large chimp — and probably slept in a tree nest — she walked fully upright and her species may already have lost its agility in trees as it adapted to life on the ground.

They are therefore probably better adapted to ocean acidification than other fish species such as the cod that spawns near the surface,» Clemmesen said.

The Turkana basin, home to many major fossil discoveries, may have acted as a species factory, generating early humans adapted to a drier climate

This is good news for annual species, like the field mustard, that can adapt relatively quickly to climate changes, but portends poorly for longer - lived plants, such as California's redwoods, that may not be able to change fast enough to keep up.

They may be viewed by some as an invasive species or a commonplace pest of public parks, but a new study from the University of Exeter has shown that grey squirrels are actually quick learners capable of adapting tactics to improve efficiency and reap the best rewards.

In his paper, Shapira proposes that animals and a set of core bacteria — or in general, a host with its core microbiota — evolve together, adapting as they can to changing conditions and perhaps, over time, becoming new species.

We imagine that such a variety of proteins can make it easier for cod as a species to adapt to a new environment, but we can't say anything definite about this yet,» comments Tørresen.

The researchers suggest that these commercial movements might help these species adapt as the climate changes.

Because the newly created genetic resource is so broad, representing distantly related rice species that have evolved in habitats throughout Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia, it enables researchers to zero - in on valuable sequences that have been preserved as the plants adapted to different growing conditions.

But the skull of a previously unknown species of whale suggests alternatively that they started filter feeding by adapting teeth to act as sieves.

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed mechanisms to adapt to periods of inadequate water, and as any gardener can tell you, some species are better able to handle drought than others.

Many were unable to adapt, and entire species — known as megafauna — died out as a result.

As recently as the last glacial period, local climates and whole biomes shifted substantially — and in short order, forcing many species to move, adapt or die ouAs recently as the last glacial period, local climates and whole biomes shifted substantially — and in short order, forcing many species to move, adapt or die ouas the last glacial period, local climates and whole biomes shifted substantially — and in short order, forcing many species to move, adapt or die out.