Sentences with phrase «cascading effects on ecosystems»

As behaviorally modern Homo sapiens spread out of Africa more than 50 000 years ago, their advanced hunter - gatherer societies helped to cause the extinction of more than half of Earth's mammalian megafauna, yielding trophic cascading effects on ecosystems coupled with the direct effects of landscape burning to enhance hunting and foraging success.

Global climate change produces cascading effects on ecosystems.

«Colonization by shrubs, for example willows, would have a cascade effect on the ecosystems in Svalbard as there are only very fragmented populations of shrubs [there] today,» Alsos says.

Not exact matches

These are top predators with long lifespans — and their loss could have cascading effects on the whole ocean ecosystem.

A symposium focusing on climate's effects on predators — causing cascading effects on whole ecosystems — will take place on Tuesday, August 12th during the Ecological Society of America's 99th Annual Meeting, held this year in Sacramento, California.

Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

Such a sudden and rapid depletion of salamander species, especially ones with dense populations such as the eastern newt, could have «cascading effects» in affected ecosystems, says Michael Lannoo, a herpetologist at Indiana University and expert on amphibian declines.

Predation risk has strong effects on organismal physiology that can cascade to impact ecosystem structure and function.

Loss of the habitat and nutrients provided by kelp forests leads to profound cascade effects on the marine ecosystem.

Finally, the impacts of climate change on plant growth could alter ecological interactions among species with potential cascading effects on food webs; integrating changes in suitable plant growing days and NPP within recently developed General Ecosystem Models [40] could provide some insights into the magnitude of these changes.

My impression from looking at the conference material is that it was indeed more or less what you would expect four years on from the 2001 IPCC report, with two very large exceptions: The potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (= 5 meter sea level rise) and ocean acidification (= partial ocean ecosystem collapse with a subsequent cascade of potential side effects that practically defy description).