Sentences with phrase «changing climate conditions»

Our scientific research is focused on real market needs, increasing crop yields under changing climate conditions and rapid time to market.

This, they say, is a direct result of changing climate conditions in their natural habitats.

Many small businesses are not aware of the risks they face from changing climate conditions, and may not have plans in place to respond and recover from weather events.

The simulator lets scientists project how changing climate conditions will impact forests over thousands of years.

Changing climate conditions not only affect the plants themselves, but also other organisms that influence plant communities.

As public perceptions about changing climate conditions, natural resource management, and other environmental threats are debated, practitioners can attest to the impact such factors are having on their business.

We work to ensure that green infrastructure becomes the preferred mechanism by which water managers meet a range of water management goals for people and wildlife under changing climate conditions.

It will let the scientists mimic natural light and simulate a wide range of changing climate conditions.

This productivity is vulnerable to direct impacts on crops and livestock from changing climate conditions and extreme weather events and indirect impacts through increasing pressures from pests and pathogens.

A hardier corn plant could also bode well for well - established row crop areas, including portions of the U.S. Corn Belt, where changing climate conditions are producing environmental stressors such as prolonged drought.

In his 1864 book Man and Nature (original title: Man the Disturber of Nature's Harmonies), George Perkins Marsh catalogued numerous examples of changing climate conditions on losing forests and wrote, «When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold [humus] is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mold has been converted.

Optimum crop selections and rotation planning are not trivial to optimize under such changing climate conditions.

When changing climate conditions forced the semi-nomadic Chukchi to expand their hunting grounds or perish, they rose to the challenge by developing a sled dog capable of hauling light loads over vast expanses of frozen wasteland in sub-zero temperatures, with a minimum expenditure of energy.

These are some high - profile examples of how the extra warmth changes climate conditions and weather patterns:

Fostering a resilient community is about developing a community that can thrive despite the challenges brought to it by changing climate conditions and the consequences of depleting energy resources.

More importantly, he added, the study provides a foundation for monitoring and projecting how changing climate conditions may raise the chances of oxygen depletion, or hypoxia, in the future.

However, with the world's food produced and grown under changing climate conditions, depleting resources, and rising population, improved new varieties need to be developed and released faster.

Assertions that human - induced climate change could have played a significant role in shaping what unfolded last week run headlong into the overwhelming reality that the fast growth of southern populations vastly overwhelms any theorized contribution from changing climate conditions, Ashley said:

And since both sets of rocks contained palaeo - magnetic evidence of the north and south poles» periodical reversals, researchers were able to calibrate the evidence and arrive at an accurate calendar of changing climate conditions, every 405 millennia.

Whether it's water or communication systems, infrastructure is ill prepared to keep functioning under changing climate conditions

SEGA is a new genetics - based climate - change research platform that allows scientists to quantify the ecological and evolutionary responses of species exposed to changing climate conditions.

With rising populations and changing climate conditions, the need for resilient and reliable crops has never been greater.

«In many areas farmers are changing crops in order to adapt to changing climate conditions.

But there are also those species that will benefit from the changed climate conditions.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs also revealed a $ 10 million educational policy to help tribes adapt to changing climate conditions.

They previously used historic plant material in herbariums to study the development of photosynthesis and metabolism in plants over a longer period of time and thus were able to make predictions for the future under changed climate conditions.

That means the coral likely relies on microscopic symbiotic organisms called dinoflagellates to biosynthesize cysteine for it, making the coral particularly susceptible to changing climate conditions that endanger its tiny helpers.

This study of a common inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef is a rare optimistic contribution to our understanding of how a species can adapt to changing climate conditions.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and EMSL will provide proteomics expertise and capabilities to study soybean root hairs and their response to changing climate conditions.

We work to ensure that forests in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are managed to optimize carbon and sustain biodiversity under changing climate conditions.

In our university's press release, we emphasized that it is difficult to predict how long it will last given the changing climate conditions.

Committed companies of all sizes have worked for years to develop technological, organisational and financial solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to changing climate conditions.

Whether ocean circulation models... neither explicitly accounting for the energy input into the system nor providing for spatial variability in the mixing, have any physical relevance under changed climate conditions is at issue.»

For example, changing climate conditions may increase pest and pathogen outbreaks or allow an invasive species to move into an area that was previously inhospitable.

SEGA is a new genetics - based climate - change research platform that allows scientists to quantify the ecological and evolutionary responses of species exposed to changing climate conditions.

The bill would have required most major agencies in Texas to create a plan that included a «climate change vulnerability assessment» and review their programs and plan for how to complete their missions in light of changing climate conditions.

S&P analysts ranked nations» vulnerability to climate change after considering their dependence on at - risk agriculture, and their ability to adapt to changing climate conditions and recover from natural disaster damage.

There is a high rate of poverty, meaning efforts to end hunger and poverty are at risk if we don't take immediate action to adapt agricultural practices to changing climate conditions,» said Chola Chabala, a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Finance.

Bradley and two other Princeton scientists wanted to look at how changing climate conditions would effect the spread of weeds.

Beaches are natural buffers from us and rising sea levels — if left to their own devices, they will adjust to changing climate conditions and continue to protect our coasts.

Scientists at PNNL and EMSL will provide proteomics expertise to study soybean root hairs and their response to changing climate conditions to better understand the impacts of climate on plant root physiology.

As part of its broader climate change commitment, the company is working in a variety of ways to address the need to adapt to changing climate conditions.

As understanding of global change has evolved over the past decades, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision makers respond to changing climate conditions.

As a gardener, your CV must prove that you ensure that agriculture survives the various seasonal changes and adapts to changing climate conditions under your care.