Sentences with phrase «climate change effects»

The variable nature of climate change effects on pulse crops is leading to a variety of research approaches to enhance their versatility.

However, there is a wide range of response to CO2, even in the absence of climate change effects on the carbon cycle.

Scientists are also turning their attention to studying how resilient some corals may be to the threats posed to them by climate change effects, and how quickly they can recover.

By 2050, heat waves, floods and other climate change effects won't be the only worry.

The 1 % mistakenly think that they will be saved from climate change effects but they don't know climate change will not spare anyone.

The average anthropogenic climate change effect is not negligible, but nor is it large, although a small shift in the mean can lead to very large percentage changes in extremes.

The ability of terrestrial vegetation to both take up and release carbon and water makes understanding climate change effects on plant function critical.

This means that I can't interpret climate change effects on past reptiles from the fossils alone.

I also hope that this research can be a model for future studies that continue to investigate climate change effects over time and space using the fossil record.

An all - hands approach will be necessary to address the interdisciplinary and site - specific implications of the interacting climate change effects that have been touched on in this chapter.

Through her travels, she has seen climate change effects first hand and taken up the cause.

If they put their vast resources to work in creating ways they can adapt to and possibly mitigate climate change effects, results might occur faster than projected.

Regulation of pollutants often treats their air quality and climate change effects separately, but a unified approach may produce better results.

Climate change effects nearly every other sector of society.

Research priorities in the IRRI - China collaboration include China's national program on breeding super hybrid rice, improving the grain quality of inbred rice lines, and addressing the challenges of climate change effects in farming through climate - smart technologies.

As with grains, no Montana - specific, peer - reviewed literature exists regarding climate change effects for any of these crops.

Dec. 28, 2017 - To address future climate change effects on water resources, scientists at five UC campuses, and Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories will study California's water systems, from the headwaters in the Sierra Nevada, through rivers, reservoirs and groundwater in the Central...

A dismissed lawsuit to strengthen the dam because of climate change effects predicted catastrophic flooding

Investments for infrastructures and networks, refining and distribution must account for unavoidable climate change effects such as future sea level rise.

With all the discussion about global climate change effects, new research shows that another kind of climate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought events — the microclimate.

«It's a fantastic model for studying climate change effects,» Jutfelt said.

«Thus, if climate change effects are anticipated, or detected in basin - wide storm statistics, sensible policy decisions should depend on the projected overall shift in the probability of damage rather than on a high - threshold criterion for trend emergence.»

He said the idea to pack the water, conceived some few years back through his interaction with the charity, was necessitated by the fact that the accumulated ice was melting away into the sea and going waste due to climate change effects while some people were in need of water.

In a paper, recently published in the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Frangopol and Dong propose a framework to aid the optimal adaptation of residential buildings considering climate change effects in a life - cycle context.

I have been doing a lot of work on how climate change effects wind patterns in the United States in the last year of my undergraduate.

Organic farming does not always benefit the environment in the ways people expect, and may not avert climate change effects, scientists say.

«Many real climate change effects exist and require urgent attention; focusing on near - impossible Gulf Stream failure is an unproductive distraction.»

Sea urchins growth is both boosted and slowed by different climate change effects, according to Australian research.

Studies of potential climate change effects (e.g., changes in temperature, circulation, or the abundance of other chemicals) allow for much less ambiguity in accurately attributing any observed changes in the ozone layer to their appropriate cause.

The Cardiff researchers think that this annual gulp of biomass keeps insect populations high and might be crucial in making stream ecosystems more able to withstand climate change effects.

We want to impress on decision makers the urgency of taking action now to protect against climate change effects in future.»

Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields.

The results demonstrate that behaviors, such as eating and mating, are extremely sensitive to thermal change, especially compared to sprinting speed, a physiological trait used by most studies to measure climate change effects.

The authors emphasize that these hotspots for evolutionary rescue are not magic fortresses that will prevent climate change effects on wild animals.

In a new study in Environmental Research Letters, a team of hydrologists that includes University of Utah professor Paul Brooks answers that question by simulating isolated climate change effects on Rocky Mountain stream systems, varying the type of precipitation (rain vs. snow) and the amount of energy (temperature) in the system.

The preceding discussion of the climate - forage connection is not comprehensive, but reflects a diversity of research approaches to detect climate change effects on livestock feed quality and quantity, as well as the shortage of Montana - specific publications.

Thus, even if specific climate change effects on pollinators in Montana do materialize (or have already), they may be difficult to distinguish from non-local stressors.

We focus instead on one major insect pest --- wheat stem sawfly (Cephus cinctus Norton)-- on Montana's dominant crop, wheat, to illustrate the mechanisms and principles involved in assessing climate change effects on agricultural pests and their impacts on crop yield or quality.

Estimating climate change effects on net primary production of rangelands in the United States.