Sentences with phrase «ecological changes»

A computer generated map predicts hot spots of ecological change in the year 2100.

It supports extensive ongoing research on ecological changes in its urban, suburban and rural areas in the context of global climate change.

Rising global temperature is causing major physical, chemical, and ecological changes across the planet.

The end result will be dramatic ecological changes, including widespread coastal flooding, reduced food production, and widespread species extinction.

These data may be combined with external datasets or data collected by primary investigators to support the study of continental - scale ecological change.

The projected rates of CO2 absorption in the future [88] suggest that ocean acidification represents a relatively slow driver of future ecological change.

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

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.

This collection explores the historical records of climate and ecological change associated with volcanic activity, as well as the factors that control the climate effects of an eruption.

«These smaller areas of forest can have continental - scale impacts, and we really need to be considering this when we're thinking about ecological changes,» said first author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and of biology.

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.

► Autonomous adaptation - Adaptation that does not constitute a conscious response to climatic stimuli but is triggered by ecological changes in natural systems and by market or welfare changes in human systems (also referred to as spontaneous adaptation).

«What I found most striking about this work,» comments lead author Dr Amanda Bates from the University of Southampton, «is that marine reserves have an important role to play in understanding ecological change in the absence of fishing — the knowledge that we have gained was only possible because the long - term data on fish species were available from a marine reserve.»

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.

Dr Tara Clark from the School of Earth Sciences said an integrated approach was essential to understanding past ecological changes on coral reefs before modern - day monitoring programs began.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

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.

Because of our work with partners such as the Friends of Ellisville Marsh, the Coastal Waterbird Program is able to focus on factors affecting reproductive success at local and larger scales, enabling us to consider regional ecological changes such as sea level rise.

AEM is designed to measure long - term ecological changes at local and regional scales across the full range of anthropogenic landscapes, from rural to urban, from floodplain to mountainous, and from pre-industrial to contemporary.

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.»

In cooperation with potentially affected stakeholders, Scientists from the University of Bremen have developed an ecosystem model that integrates the relevant environmental processes and examines ecological changes and their socio - economic implications.

However, heat can cut both ways; in lower latitudes, rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns appear to be pushing some species over the edge by causing ecological changes that stress them; massive die - offs are underway in the U.S. West and interior Alaska.

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

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

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.

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.

Ecological changes put into motion during a particularly cold or hot time can send ripples during the following seasons, researchers are finding.

«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.

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.

Jackson says that prior studies have concentrated on ecological changes closer to the poles, but the tropical changes might be more dramatic.

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.

The status of songbirds worldwide provides another barometer for measuring unsettling ecological changes in «The Messenger.»

Princen has also been known to reference scientific measuring systems, mapping, and amateur anthropology in his work, and his artistic practice has involved plotting ecological changes — water currents, wind patterns, and soil erosion, as well as the impacts of urban developments on the Dutch landscape.

Master printmaker Todd Anderson's practice involves long - term, team - based projects that investigate ecological changes to wilderness caused by global warming.

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.

It was agriculture that brought about the most profound ecological change since life on Earth first began.

Future coupling of demography with existing global land model predictions could enable assessment of these potentially important die - off responses [44], as well as implementation of more realistic reductions in tree loss to drive scenarios (i.e., enabling assessments of ecological changes less drastic or occurring on shorter time - scales than conversion from forest to grassland biomes).

37 Kaye E. Reed, «Early hominid evolution and ecological change throughout the African Plio - Pleistocene.»

The authors similarly surveyed on - line abstracts from which they extracted only papers suggesting ecological changes were driven by climate change.