Sentences with phrase «ecological responses»

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has been monitoring the short term ecological response of environmental water since 2010.

Monitoring ecological response to Commonwealth environmental water delivered to the Lower Murray River in 2013 - 14 - Final Report

• The Publishers Weekly review comments, «This original and frightening ecological response to human activity dances tantalizingly on the edge of believability.

We identify mechanisms associated with ecological responses (i.e., GPP) in a given location by reviewing associated variables (e.g., temperature, precipitation, VPD, soil moisture).

the links between ecological responses to environmental flows and changes in condition, for example fish spawning and survival

Models like this one, which analyze population viability based on a variety of biological, environmental, and functional factors, can be used to predict ecological responses of fish populations.

Detect and quantify ecological responses to and interactions between climate, land use and biological invasions, which unfold over decades;

It challenges a longstanding model of the Arctic ecological response to global warming.

Citation: Garcia ES, Swann ALS, Villegas JC, Breshears DD, Law DJ, Saleska SR, et al. (2016) Synergistic Ecoclimate Teleconnections from Forest Loss in Different Regions Structure Global Ecological Responses.

Because any given tree loss event has the potential to affect ecoclimate teleconnections, and tree loss is occurring simultaneously in disparate regions, assessments are needed that account for concurrent tree loss events to assess whether ecological responses differ from those of individual loss events.

Ecological effects can vary among remote teleconnected locations [14] and can be highly sensitive to changing climate regimes [27], although mechanisms associated with given ecological responses have not generally been explicitly evaluated.

To address future challenges related to climate change and land use, it will be important to assess the local impacts of tree loss on climate, climatic and ecological consequences, as well as the mechanisms that drive ecological responses in remote teleconnected areas.

We argue that our finding can be interpreted as evidence of a slow ecological response of constituent plants in such a harsh environment.

In her paper Impacts of Extreme Weather and Climate on Terrestrial Biota2 Parmesan wrote, «Here, evidence is brought forward that extreme weather events can be implicated as mechanistic drivers of broad ecological responses to climatic trends.

In turn, such increased tree mortality can trigger ecological responses, including changes in plant community composition (e.g., from sensitive to less - sensitive species) and range contractions or expansions [2].

Therefore, small changes in other environmental stressors, such as ocean acidification, may drive significant physiological and ecological responses [14,29,31,32].

«This original and frightening ecological response to human activity dances tantalizingly on the edge of believability.

Physio - ecological responses of Patagonian coastal marine phytoplankton in a scenario of global change: Role of acidification, nutrients and solar UVR.

Monitoring the ecological response to environmental water delivered in the lower Goulburn River during 2012 - 13 focused on:

Monitoring the ecological response to environmental water delivered in lower Broken Creek focused on:

Monitoring the ecological responses to Commonwealth environmental water delivered to the Lower Murray River in 2012 - 13 - Final Report

Long - Term Intervention Monitoring for the Ecological Responses to Commonwealth Environmental Water Delivered to the Lower Murray River Selected Area in 2014/15

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder engaged Charles Sturt University and partner agencies to monitor the ecological response to environmental water delivered to the Murrumbidgee River system during the 2013 - 14 water year.

Monitoring the ecological response of Commonwealth Environmental Water delivered in 2013 - 14 in the Gwydir River system

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office engaged University of New England to monitor the ecological response to environmental water delivered to the Gwydir River system during the 2013 - 14 water year.

Monitoring the ecological response of Commonwealth environmental water delivered in 2013 - 14 to the Murrumbidgee River system Final Report

Long - Term Intervention Monitoring of the Ecological Responses to Commonwealth Environmental Water Delivered to the Lower Murray River Selected Area in 2015/16

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office commissioned the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), Aquatic Sciences and partners to monitor the ecological response to environmental water delivered to the lower River Murray during the 2011 - 12 water year.

Monitoring of ecological responses to the delivery of Commonwealth environmental water in the lower River Murray, during 2011 - 12 - Final Report

After a decade with nine of the lowest arctic sea - ice minima on record, including the historically low minimum in 2012, we synthesize recent developments in the study of ecological responses to sea - ice decline.

Dr Sommer said it was important to conduct such studies to understand the stability of the species» environmental tolerances and the ecological drivers of biodiversity patterns so scientists could more accurately predict species» range shifts and ecological responses to climate change.

«There is a more positive metabolic response and ecological response, greater survivorship and growth if their parents have been preconditioned to future scenarios.»

Ecological responses to forest age, habitat, and host vary by mycorrhizal type in boreal peatlands — Peter G. Kennedy — Mycorrhiza

The intent is for that to be used as an ecological response model for assessing the effects of possible climate change scenarios.

Ecological responses to El Niño — induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests.

Why the lack of greater awareness to the intensifying biological and ecological responses to CC beyond scientists and environmentalists?

Ted Hinds, BS (Engineering Science), MS (Atmospheric Science), PhD (Physical Ecology, U. Washington, Seattle), Quantitative empirical analyses regarding climatological, meteorological, and ecological responses to environmental stresses, consultant for USA EPA research on global climate change program.

Lots of people think climate change and the ecological responses are 50 to 100 years away.

In summary, these results demonstrate the potential for synergies and sensitivities of ecological response to forest loss in disparate regions via ecoclimate teleconnections, which will need to be accounted for as global forest loss increases and climate dynamics are altered in response to land use and climate change.

The GPP response in SENA to remote regional forest loss demonstrates that ecological responses may differ depending on the location of forest loss and associated mechanisms of climate teleconnections.

How the myriad uncertainties in the physical climate system, and the human and ecological response to warming, can be incorporated into carbon pricing is a matter of research.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.