Sentences with phrase «ecosystem changes being seen»

Where to start on all the different ecosystem changes being seen around the world?

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Although European investors have, historically, been more risk - averse than Americans, that perception may be changing as more high - profile companies see successful exits, and their founders reinvest in the local startup ecosystem.

This has caused me to reflect more deeply on the changes we are seeing and how a new social buyer ecosystem is forming.

Just as I came to see my research as part of a larger scientific ecosystem, today I understand that scientific advancements are just one part of the needed response to climate change.

Based on how intact a given ecosystem is as well as how much climate change it is expected to endure, they suggest that the high latitudes and high altitudes are likely to see the most change.

Instead, Hull and her co-authors contend, the best way to see a mass extinction in real time is by studying changes in species and ecosystems.

«It's a hard question to answer, because it takes a long time to see how ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles change.»

Although the panel released few details, the statement said that those lower priorities include climate change and ecosystem research programs at USGS, which would see its budget drop by $ 101 million to $ 967 million; the Obama administration's request was $ 1.2 billion.

«By studying the past, with the ability to see a moment in time and changes through time, we are better able to understand ecosystems and the organisms that live in them today,» Olive said.

This october why not head to the wilds of far north queensland to discover the impact of climate change on this world heritage listed ecosystem and see how endemic animals of the area are adapting to a warming environment.

The game is said to feature a living, breathing ecosystem that will see players completing quests while hunting and slaying ferocious beasts across a variety of vast, ever - changing, types of terrain.

The future of gaming: «We're definitely seeing the market continue to change and grow, and clearly, the free - to - play model is dominating the ecosystem, which is great for us at Yodo1 and our development partners, because that's our space.

As Gary traveled the world as a photojournalist, he often photographed and wrote about scientists unlocking mysteries of the natural world and he began seeing a pattern: across disciplines, scientists were realizing that Earth's climate was changing and affecting the organisms and ecosystems that they were studying.

If anything, our projections for warming are higher than they used to be, and we're seeing discernible changes in ecosystems that we can link back to climate.»

Direct effects of increasing temperature on marine and freshwater ecosystems are already evident, with rapid poleward shifts in regions, such as the north - east Atlantic, where temperature change has been rapid (see Chapter 1).

The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five drivers of global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate change, land use change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use change — not climate change — is predicted to be the most important (Sala et al. 2000).

Now compound that stress on ecosystems by considering changes in climate at the same time, as well as changes in land use such as deforestation, and we see that ecosystems are experiencing several stresses at the same time.»

A range of impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems has been suggested under climate change (see, for example, Leemans and Eickhout, 2004), some of which are summarised in Table 9.1 (for further details see Chapter 4; Nkomo et al., 2006; Warren et al., 2006).

Changes in other ecosystems, such as grasslands, are also likely (for more detail, see assessments by Muriuki et al., 2005; Levy, 2006).

Mountain ecosystems appear to be undergoing significant observed changes (see Section 9.2.1.4), aspects of which are likely to be linked to complex climate - land interactions and which may continue under climate change (e.g., IPCC, 2007a).

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

Translating the above to climate science, if you tell me that in 100 years earth inhabited by your children is going to hell in a handbasket, because our most complicated models built with all those horrendously complicated equestions you can find in math, show that the global temperatures will be 10 deg higher and icecaps will melt, sea will invade land, plant / animal ecosystem will get whacked out of order causing food supply to be badly disrupted, then I, without much climate science expertise, can easily ask you the following questions and scrutinize the results: a) where can I see that your model's futuristic predictions about global temp, icecaps, eco system changes in the past have come true, even for much shorter periods of time, like say 20 years, before I take this for granted and make radical changes in my life?

And the concern is that the rate of change we're seeing in temperature is much too fast for these ecosystems to adapt.»

Prof Murray Roberts, who co-ordinates the Atlas project at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC News: «The changes we're seeing now in deep Atlantic currents could have massive effects on ocean ecosystems.

Dryland ecosystems comprise a substantial proportion of total land cover and constitute a significant component of global biogeochemical cycles1, 6, yet owing to strong limitations by water and nutrients7, 8, undisturbed drylands are typically thought to maintain relatively low annual rates of ecosystem processes — such as plant photosynthesis5 (but see refs 9, 10)-- and to harbour biological communities that change composition on relatively slow timescales11.

«It's a hard question to answer, because it takes a long time to see how ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles change.»

Extinction is an irreversible biological change that can fundamentally alter the ecosystem of which a lost species was a part, contributing to ecological state shifts as described in the last section and to depleting ecosystem services as described below (see Chapter 3, Boxes 3.1 and 3.2).

Adriano Santhiago de Oliveira, Director of the Environment Ministry's Department of Climate Change, told Ecosystem Marketplace that's because the ministry sees market mechanisms as a tool for Brazilian emitters to use domestically.

-- Responsibility Report 2004 Business for Social Responsibility «The global consequences of climate change — some of which we are seeing already — threaten to both disrupt natural ecosystem functions and jeopardize the natural capital that provides the economy's resource base.»

We're also seeing similarly dramatic changes in other aspects of climate and related effects on ecosystems, including the distribution of rainfall, storm activity, extinction of plant and animal species, and seasonal change.

In his effervescent LegalGeek talk, you'll see he's passionate about how the whole legal industry is changing; how the pace is accelerating; who the players in the whole legal ecosystem, legal mosaic (nicely woven, Mark) or tapestry (see how I did that?)

Because there aren't any accounts and no support for ecosystems like HomeKit, you can't share permission to use the smart plugs except through Alexa or Google Home voice control (we'll have to see if the HomeKit bridge changes that limitation).

This happens when there are rumors of positive changes coming to the Bitcoin ecosystem which see people try and get prepared and ready for a price jump, buying more coins.

A new rumor suggests that's just the start of a push to reestablish control over the Android ecosystem, and we could see the arrival of the next major Android release bring with it some big changes to the Nexus lineup.