Sentences with phrase «diversity of changing environments»

An impressive site to witness, Colca Canyon is the world's second deepest canyon with a diversity of changing environments for its entire 100 km length.

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Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

But none of the alternative theories — for instance, that sex generates diversity to help cope with a changing environment — seem entirely adequate either, Crow adds.

If a dominant species can thrive in a warmer environment and wipe out other species, climate change could significantly reduce the diversity of species in our lakes as well.

But especially in such a rare coral species, a tiny boost of a few new individuals could make a big difference in their genetic diversity, allowing their populations to adapt and become more resilient to the changing environment in the oceans.»

«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

Emma Dunne, from the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: «This is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken on early tetrapod evolution, and uses many newly developed techniques for estimating diversity patterns of species from fossil records, allowing us greater insights into how early tetrapods responded to the changes in their environment.»

The observed variation in the fern diversity was compared with the variation in other groups of plants and in the environment, such as continental drift and climate changes.

The results show that changes in the environment strongly influence extinctions but surprisingly not the origination of new diversity.

A population with a greater amount of diversity should be more capable of surviving changes in its environment,» Warren said.

Recombination is largely responsible for generating human diversity, the novel configurations of the genome that enable the species to adapt and evolve in an ever - changing environment.

The thing that I find most interesting about the hominin fossil record is the diversity of adaptations that evolved to meet the challenges of changing environments after 3.0 myr.

cMOOCs provide diversity of approaches in a dynamic constantly changing learning environment requiring learners to take full control of their own learning.

The inquiring practitioners learn to use reading knowledge, practices and processes to serve the changing technological, diversity and reading education needs of dynamic local and global environments.

As such, the GCRA (Section 106) mandated that the CCSP prepare, not less frequently than every four years, a scientific assessment report, or National Assessment, of global climate change research that, among other things, analyzes the effects of global change on eight specific areas, including: «the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity.»

The multilateral treaty handling all aspects of biological diversity, including genetic resources, species and ecosystems, is one of the three U.N. conventions aimed at protecting the environment along with the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention to Combat Desertification.

«Whether through her work with the U.N. in Timor, here at home working with CREA, or now as Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, Minister McKenna demonstrates her diversity as a lawyer in her ability to move between commercial and trade law, as well as public policy.

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