Sentences with phrase «by human disturbances»

Recoveries are strongly influenced by human disturbances such as overfishing and water pollution.

Wild species are threatened with extinction as their habitats are destroyed by human disturbance.

Furthermore, when infanticide does occur, it is strongly correlated with trauma caused by human disturbance.

The study highlights the challenges faced by this species as its living area becomes ever more fragmented by human disturbance.

While both the gibbons and their habitat are now protected under Chinese law, they are still potentially threatened by human disturbance, and by a lack of connected forest habitat to allow expansion of their population.

Antarctica is often thought of as a pristine land untouched by human disturbance.

Not exact matches

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In a British suburb in central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human trafficking.

Hence, a neuronal occasion in the human brain prehends the very minute disturbances of the electromagnetic field occasioned by other neuronal occasions in its immediate past, since these «minor» disturbances are absolutely essential for its own reaction (self - constitution).

Moreover, «the poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected» by environmental disturbances created by other human beings, especially the wealthy, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu claims.

Given Aquinas's description of sin as a «disturbance of the divine order meriting punishment,» the presence of eternally sinning human beings indicates an eternally disturbed divine order, in which God «is forever unappeased by the punishment of the wicked.»

The disturbance was so small, it would warp the 25 trillion miles to the nearest star system by just the width of a human hair — but LIGO saw it.

Her current work examines which bee species are most vulnerable to human disturbance, and explores in more detail whether both rare native bees and efficient pollination services can be restored by increasing the diversity of flowering plants.

In a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombs.

There maybe a simple objective way of assessing whether human impacts qualify as new era or epoch: By measuring the volume of crust material disturbance caused by humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impacBy measuring the volume of crust material disturbance caused by humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impacby humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impact.

I'd definately include gas and oil by volume, and maybe soil erosion from agriculture as part of the human volume disturbance.

So by the sheer volume of crust disturbance and relayering of materials, humans have undoubtdly earned a geological epoch or era status.

Typically, a snow lair provides good shelter, but poor snow conditions expose pups to predation, harsh climate and disturbance by humans, elevate the risk of mortality, and may hamper growth.

Obesity in these mice resembles several important clinical features of human obesity such as weight gain and disturbance of metabolism, and this mouse model was ideal for unraveling any underlying biological mechanisms of pancreas cancer that are put in motion by obesity.

Even if animals in the area are being affected by radiation in the area, the effects of this contamination are overshadowed by the fact that this area is now essentially a wildlife reserve relatively free of human disturbances.

The results show this complex interaction chain is maintained by the relative lack of human disturbance in the better protected parts of the atoll, whereas in regions where native trees have been replaced by human - propagated palm trees, the chain readily breaks down.

The film consists of six supernatural tales, Disturbance, The Hike, Bryan's Daughter, The Book, Naked and Paralysis, linked together by a demon who is intent on collecting human souls.

The Let»em Rest, Let»em Nest program was created by Audubon South Carolina and the Charleston Animal Society in efforts to decrease human - caused disturbance to declining migrating and nesting coastal birds and promote responsible dog ownership on the beach.

Like humans with an injury, dogs with hip dysplasia may compensate for the loss of rear end motion and the pain involved in weight - bearing exercise by shifting balance, a disturbance that can cause spinal problems.

chondrodysplasia: any growth plate (cartilage) disturbance resulting in canine dwarfism; in human pathology, it has a different meaning: enchondromatosis, a rare disorder marked by enlarged cartilage and tumors in joints.

Previously it was used as a nesting site by Laughing Gulls, but due to increased human disturbance they abandoned nesting in 1990 and moved to a nearby caye.

James's imaginative universe embraces scenes of disturbance and confrontation with security forces; scantily clad women with their cats, taking tea and smoking by a poolside or in a landscape at sunset; fighter planes with human features....

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

Changing water levels, direct disturbance by humans, and development have diminished breeding populations.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

Key uncertainties involve: 1) the degree to which increases in evapotranspiration versus permafrost thaw are leading to drier landscapes; 2) the degree to which it is these drier landscapes associated with permafrost thaw, versus more severe fire weather associated with climate change, that is leading to more wildfire; 3) the degree to which the costs of the maintenance of infrastructure are associated with permafrost thaw caused by climate change versus disturbance of permafrost due to other human activities; and 4) the degree to which climate change is causing Alaska to be a sink versus a source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Emphasis on marine ecological theories, processes, and methods necessary to distinguish the ecological impacts caused by human activities from those caused by natural disturbance and other processes.

Regarding the other half of the warming, what fraction of that is due to regional to super regional scale surface / near surface waste heat, albedo / vegetation modification, and, disturbances to boundary layer laminar flows by human made structures and tree plantings?

So, any disturbances in climate / temperature independent CO2 fluxes (like human emissions), will be compensated, because atmospheric CO2 is determined by climate.

In this vein, Steffen and colleagues (2011) showed 12 plots of growth in the human population and economy paired with 12 plots showing dramatic growth in the amount of disturbance to natural processes caused by human activity.

Nonlinear interactions between the climate and biogeochemical systems could amplify (positive feedbacks) or attenuate (negative feedbacks) the disturbances produced by human activities.