Sentences with phrase «as tundra»

* At higher projected rates of warming, areas such as the tundra and the Amazon rainforest face a high risk of «abrupt and irreversible» changes in their ecosystems.

Sea ice is melting, which is opening up the Northwest Passage and other routes to shipping, and as the tundra also warms, the Arctic becomes more accessible to development and human population growth, which will affect the people who already live there, particularly indigenous populations.

As the tundra and other regions of permafrost thaw, they will spew more gas into the atmosphere, adding to the warming effect of human emissions.

And, finally, as the tundra burns off it exposes the real carbon sink, the permafrost, immediately beneath.

Tipping points occur because of amplifying feedbacks... Climate - related feedbacks include loss of Arctic sea ice, melting ice sheets and glaciers, and release of frozen methane as tundra melts.

As the tundra melts, methane, a strong greenhouse gas, is released, causing more warming.

According to the IPCC's Table 4.1 (cited three times in the excerpt above), the Malcolm paper, which discusses vegetation only, estimates that different kinds of ecosystems — such as tundra, scrubland, and deciduous forest — could lose between 2 and 47 % of their current area.

Scientists look at a warming Arctic and see a shift from white to green, as tundra gives way to new plant life.

Safety is also a strong selling point, as Tundra is the first full - size pickup to have stability control, front side airbags, front seat knee airbags and rollover - sensing side - curtain airbags standard across the model line.

Safety is also a strong selling point, as the Tundra is the first full - size pickup to have stability control, front side airbags, front seat knee airbags and rollover - sensing side - curtain airbags standard across the model line.

The 2016 Toyota Tacoma follows the same path as the Tundra, relying on years of experience with a proven platform to achieve the highest U.S. News numbers for reliability.

For as good as the Tundra was in the dirt, the Chevy was just a little better.

It isn't quite as inexpensive as the Tundra, but the full - size 2018 RAM 1500 stands out as among the cheapest American trucks to insure.

The three - bench, V -8-powered Sequoia is built on the same line as the Tundra full - size pickup at the Princeton, IN, plant.

Unfortunately, the emotional landscape of MacLean's stoic main character, Qalli, is often as blank as the tundra.

Other fun facts: The United States has a wider array of ecological regions, such as tundra and desert, than any other country, and the world's richest collections of freshwater mussels and salamanders.

I liked the 2016 F150s exterior styling, but the interior seemed like it was a never ending sea of buttons and quality didn't seem to be quite as good as the Tundras.

Not exact matches

With a 5 - star rating on Amazon and a 4.5 - star rating on Chewy.com, these Orijen Tundra Freeze - Dried Cat Treats are popular among cats as well as their owners.

suggests that feeding your cat Orijen Tundra Freeze - Dried Cat Treats offers nearly the same nutritional benefit as feeding him fresh bites of meat because they are freeze - dried, not cooked.

Lactococcus lactis is happiest at around 70 degrees, but as long as your house isn't a freezing tundra or tropical rainforest, you should be okay.

The simulation was calibrated by using satellite observations, which have long showed increased greening across much of the Arctic since the early 1980s (including tundra sites such as those in eastern Russia, above).

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

Inland dwellers took advantage of caribou feeding on tundra mosses, lichens, and plants too tough for humans to stomach (though predigested vegetation in the animals» paunches became dinner as well).

As melting has progressed in the Arctic, large holes and landslides have popped up across the tundra.

«How drowsy microbes in Arctic tundra change to methane - makers as permafrost thaws.»

«Representation,» for example, is one large - scale strategy, focused on preserving representative areas of every identifiable ecosystem, such as savannah, tropical moist forest, tundra, desert, coral reef.

For millions of years, our ancestors relied on innovation and cooperation to get enough food, to help care for one another's children, and to survive in hostile environments, such as deserts, tundras, and jungles.

New research shows that as taller shrubs expand into the tundra, nutrients in their leaf litter will either promote or reduce the nitrogen fixation, depending upon which shrub species that will dominate.

Potentially catastrophic amounts of methane lie trapped as so - called burning ices, or methane hydrates, in the permafrost beneath arctic tundra — as much as 10,000,000 teragrams still trapped compared with just 5,000 teragrams in the atmosphere today, according to Simpson.

It stood out as a small mound on the otherwise rolling landscape of arctic tundra.

The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree - line or timberline.

Freshwater flux from Greenland is composed of melt runoff from ice and tundra runoff as well as ice discharge («calving» of icebergs).

Another recent study also pointed to ponds in the Arctic tundra as a possible important source of methane (ClimateWire, Nov. 22).

«As the nutrients start cycling faster and the vegetation starts growing faster, that should stimulate all the vegetation on the tundra.

We're seeing areas of formerly treeless, windswept tundra transition into shrub vegetation as the climate warms and different things grow.

As the sun peeks over the horizon at the Tutakoke River field camp in Alaska's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, chambers dot a field used to study how a warmer Arctic is affecting migratory animals and the tundra plants they feed on.

The study has important implications for predicting which arctic plant species will dominate as the climate warms, as well as how much carbon tundra ecosystems can store.

«A tree in the tundra is not the same as a tree in the rainforest.»

In the future, enhanced N2O emissions from natural soil such as sub-Arctic tundra might mask the isotope effect caused by mitigation actions derived from agriculture.

«For example, Arctic foxes depend on young geese as food; reindeer food intake is facilitated by geese grazing the tundra.»

Even though the historical milking grounds have not been in active use for about 100 years, they are still easily recognized in as distinct, oval - shaped meadows amidst a mostly shrubby tundra vegetation.

RICHLAND, Wash. — As the Arctic warms, tons of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into the powerful greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, but scientists know little about how that transition takes place.

Spending the night in snow tunnels may help them survive the freezing nights in the Arctic tundra, even though it would also make them vulnerable to burrowing predators, such as short tailed shrew, and could potentially leave them in an ice tomb.

Study reveals clues to how drowsy microbes in Arctic tundra change to methane - makers as permafrost thaws

Suddenly, it was possible to scan the overall composition of habitats as diverse as stagnant bogs and frozen tundra, producing a detailed portrait of the microbial life they held.

As the premafrost melts in the arctic tundra then does that mean a likely increase in methane production destined for the atmosphere?

More moose are loose and on the move as they invade previously uninhabitable areas of the Alaskan tundra, according to a new study that revealed how global warming continues to change our ecosystem.

The highlands in the Nordic countries were classified as a separate oroarctic tundra type.

The technology brings together the power of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which yields a remarkable peek into molecular interactions, and the ability to re-create the extreme conditions found on the tundra, in the deep ocean, or underground — conditions relevant to some of the biggest questions that scientists at DOE laboratories such as PNNL ask.

Revived woolly mammoths, for example, should be able to convert parts of the northern boreal forest and tundra into «mammoth steppe» grasslands, as they once did.