Sentences with phrase «caused dieback»

The Quarry is a particularly hazardous spot for female mission blues to lay their eggs due to a fungal pathogen that has devastated the lupines and caused the dieback of leaves and flower stalks.

Further research suggested that a fungus was causing the dieback.

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Ash dieback is a serious disease of ash trees which causes leaf loss and crown dieback, and usually kills affected trees.

The fungus which causes Chalara dieback of ash trees has the potential to defend itself against virus attacks, research by British scientists has shown.

In fact, marine heatwaves experienced in Australia have already caused massive dieback of these important marine primary producers, threatening the socioeconomic benefits provided by coastal ecosystems.

Forest dieback is a major result of a potential shift to a perpetually positive IPO which is represented in some models and the methodology of this re-estimate of carbon budgets relies on recent cooling that was caused by shifts in SO2 emissions from the western hemisphere to the eastern in the 2000's.

«Forest trees can be long - lived organisms, and it is possible that «demographic inertia» (inertia caused by long lifespans and slow community turnover) in the forest system may delay any forest dieback.

Under climate change, increased water stress, increased peak summer heat stress causing increased mortality, vulnerability to disease and subsequent fire, as well as decreased reproduction rates could lead to large - scale dieback of the boreal forests (77, 86), with transitions to open woodlands or grasslands.

But then, their computer predicted, warmer temperatures and water stress would cause a huge dieback of the Amazon forest, which would stop absorbing carbon and start emitting it as a result.

A dangerous mix of human - caused devastation and cyclic drought could start a vicious circle of forest dieback in the Amazon.