Sentences with phrase «disrupt animal communities»

Changes in that signature can indicate how an environmental threat — such as the gradual effects of climate change or increasing levels of human noise pollution — disrupt animal communities.

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Studies of germ - free rodents and other animals on gut - disrupting antibiotics show that changing microbial communities can impair memory and cause anxiety - like behaviours.

If the damage is severe enough, they say the loss of rainforest could cause the release of large volumes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and could also disrupt plant and animal communities in one of the world's most biodiversity - rich regions, as outlined in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In general, our work suggests that animals might use more sophisticated techniques for attacking and disrupting rival microbial communities than is currently appreciated.