Sentences with phrase «ecological change»

Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self - esteem and self - awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.

These assessments highlight the vulnerabilities of calcifying organisms (e.g. review [15]-RRB- and consider the potential extent of ecological change [16].

Some Chinese may look to the U.S. as a beacon of car - endowed freedom, but to compare China's enthusiasm for development to that of the United States during the heady days of robber - baron capitalism (as we often do) doesn't fully do justice to the speed — and the consequent growing pains — of economic, industrial, and ecological change here.

The aim of the meeting was to review evidence related to the implications of global climate and ecological change on the communicable disease burden of Europe, assess the preparedness of health systems, develop scientific advice, identify research needs, and make recommendations to Member States.

[G] iven the rapid pace of ecological change in the Arctic, the long generation time, and the highly specialised nature of polar bears, it is unlikely that polar bears will survive as a species if the sea ice disappears completely.

Beautiful artists» book by John Cumming documenting social and ecological change across Scotland's Northern Isles»

Three tons of carbon dioxide per person per year is a means and a guide for healing and enduring ecological change and building a prosperous and enduring ecological civilization.

Hominids in arid environments, see Kaye E. Reed, «Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio - Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 32:289 - 322 (1997).

That it will cause ecological change is beyond doubt, but ecological change, slow or fast, is a reliable constant of the earth's climate and most species of flora and fauna have evolved to deal with this.

Based on the results from these experiments, we highlight significant ecologically - relevant climate impacts and the mechanisms that drive ecological change in three impacted regions: Eurasia, southeastern North America and eastern South America.

«The implications of this study are profound when you think about the potential for ecological change in mountainous environments in the West in the not too distant future,» said Molotch, an assistant professor in the geography department.

Large specialized carnivores don't do well with large - scale ecological change, especially if is rapid.

They are both staff scientists with the National Ecological Observatory Network, an initiative supported by the National Science Foundation that has a goal of creating a view of ecological change that spans the continent over the next three decades.

Earlier this fall, we visited the tundra as part of a massive new project which will monitor ecological change across all of the continent's major ecosystems.

I've had a great time learning from, and sometimes debating with, two smart people with very different areas of expertise and vantage points: the blogging meteorologist Eric Holthaus and Jacquelyn Gill, who studies past climates in the context of ecological change.

Critic Consensus: Plagues And Pleasures is a thoroughly engrossing account, both humorous and disheartening, of a once bustling community ravaged by ecological change and human greed.

Critics Consensus: Plagues And Pleasures is a thoroughly engrossing account, both humorous and disheartening, of a once bustling community ravaged by ecological change and human greed.

«Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self - esteem and self - awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change,» according to the American Art Therapy Association.

Come learn how drones are being used to detect environmental hazards such as gas leaks and airborne disease microbes, how planes equipped with sensors can tell us about ecological change and how DIY sensors placed in homes by journalists generate data and stories about the impact of heat waves.

«Ecological Change, Range Fluctuations and Review Population Dynamics during the Pleistocene» Current Biology 19, R584 — R594, July 28, 2009

These dramatic advances in spring flowering were successfully predicted by historical relationships between flowering and spring temperature spanning up to 161 years of ecological change.

Mountain ecosystems are some of the most vulnerable to ecological change.

«We can use these molecules to create predictive models and see how changes in the environment altered microbial growth patterns and then, in a feedback loop, how these growth patterns affect the environment — how they create a model of ecological change.»

In turn, this ecological change compensated for the genetic change and caused the average weight to remain constant.

«Model predictions, however, show that the rates we detected in the field are likely high enough to drive ecological change, such as reducing populations,» she said.

The scientists» analysis of more than 25,000 bones and 170,000 live animals showed that the distribution of species among the bones corresponded well to the living community, even through periods of rapid ecological change.

A review of the fossil record, they said, shows that rarity of previously abundant organisms is the only factor tied with certainty to the widespread ecological change observed across extinction boundaries, and because of this, the magnitude and extent of rarity may provide the best comparison of the current biotic crisis to those of the past.

Another dramatic ecological change is caused by the spread of impervious surfaces, such as paved roads and roofs.

Madhur Anand, Ph.D., is an associate professor of global ecological change at the University of Guelph and a Young Scientist of the World Economic Forum.

A landmark review of over 1000 papers documenting ecological change in the United States has found that a shifting climate is affecting agriculture, biodiversity, and land and water resources from the mountains of Alaska to the sands of Death Valley.

They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

Second, the time periods covered by the studies are too short to adequately track significant ecological change.

Howard Edward Daugherty, Man Induced Ecological Change in El Salvador.

Since technological and ecological changes are always taking place, any society in order to stay afloat must adopt novel ways of dealing with new circumstances.

Using video cameras, microphones, and sensors, it's documenting the ecological changes before, during, and after the Tidmarsh restoration.

Lambert and his colleagues think that Mystacodon may have started suction feeding in response to ecological changes.

In ponds dominated by female fish, the researchers observed more pronounced ecological changes, including fewer zooplankton and a greater abundance of algae, than in male dominated ponds.

Scott McWilliams, URI professor of natural resources science, says that spare capacity — the extent to which animals can modify their physiology to deal with ecological changes — varies from species to species, with some having great capacity to change while others do not.

«Our study is the first to demonstrate that for such invasions, complete extirpation is not necessary to minimize negative ecological changes within priority habitats.»

Now, researchers reporting April 21 in Current Biology suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird - like dinosaurs, and early modern birds with toothless beaks were able to survive on seeds when other food sources declined.

It further states that research on living resources in the Gulf show long term ecological changes in species diversity and a large scale, often rapid change, in the ecosystem's food - web that is both «difficult and impossible to reverse.»

The fair trade movement in the past two decades has helped to offset somewhat both the economic and ecological changes, especially for poorer farmers in developing countries.

«The atmospheric carbon dioxide observations are important because they show the combined effect of ecological changes over large regions,» says Graven.

Such analyses enable researchers to use data from leaf variation to predict whole - tree and ecosystem responses to ecological changes.

«If we hadn't continued this work over the decades, we would have no idea how long - lived these turtles are or how they respond to ecological changes,» said U-M biologist Christopher Dick, director of the E.S. George Reserve.

Jedediah Brodie, a scientist at the University of British Columbia and study co-author, said a next step of research is determining which ecological changes in the Arctic are completely a result of ice loss, as opposed to climate change factors such as temperature increases.

True, there have been ecological changes, and we spend a lot of money trying to get rid of aliens, but Britain appears virtually immune to extinctions from introduced species.

These species fell victim to changing climate and ecological changes.

Genomic changes can be reversed with subsequent gene drives, though the cassette encoding the guide RNAs and possibly cas9 will remain and any ecological changes resulting from the original genomic alteration will not necessarily be reversed.