Sentences with phrase «because changing environmental conditions»

They disappeared at the end of the Devonian period, perhaps because they were left in the shade of taller, more robust trees, or because changing environmental conditions may have favored Archaeopteris, the ancestors of modern trees that appeared about 385 million years ago.

Not exact matches

«The microalgae communities are completely different from what I observed there in the 1990s due to the huge change in environmental conditions,» he says, explaining that the salinity of the groundwater - fed lake has increased threefold because of frequent drought.

Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

«Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.

«Correctly identifying an invasive species as either native or non-native is important for developing sound policy, management and scientific research programs, because effective responses depend on knowing whether the species» dominance is caused by ecological or evolutionary novelty, changes in environmental conditions that facilitate it or both,» Taylor said.

Because huge expanses of the deep ocean will be exposed to changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change (Mora et al., 2013; this study), the societal impacts of climate change in the deep sea will undoubtedly be widespread, complex and dynamic.

I think the answer to your question is that they can increase because of changing environmental conditions, and mosquitoes can be mobile.