Sentences with phrase «ecosystems respond to climate change»

The findings offer insight and an alarm bell on how ecosystems respond to climate change and to unusual climate events, scientists said.

Understanding the importance of these indirect effects, in comparison to the direct effects, will improve our understanding of how ecosystems respond to climate change.

In the past glacial cycles organisms and ecosystems responded to climate change by shifting geographical ranges and when unable to shift local populations died and at times entire species became extinct.

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That is another reason for concern about the worldwide decline in biodiversity, he notes: «The loss of diversity is probably having adverse effects on stability and productivity and the ability of the ecosystem to respond to global climate change.»

Over time, Richardson hopes the resulting trove of color data will help scientists understand — and better predict — how ecosystems like the Harvard Forest respond to changes in the climate.

«Because symbioses are so common, understanding how symbiotic species interact and how they evolve will tell us a lot about ecosystems and how they will respond to climate change.»

The co-authors were «amazed» at this anatomy of the giant sequoia leaf that «indicates an ability to respond to local environmental signals» and furthers inquiry into the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.

«This is a species that has been logged historically and still is, so it certainly is important in terms of thinking about not only how our ecosystems are responding to changes in climate, but also in changes of the economics of forest management, as well,» Restaino said.

Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate - driven extinction, or to predict its consequences for ecosystems.

«If we are thinking about how we're going to restore ecosystems, or how they're going to respond to climate change,» UVM's Gotelli said, «we need to understand how they were organized before humans ever came on the scene.»

Studying how ecosystems respond and adapt to changes can help us understand what will happen in the face of species extinction due to human encroachment and climate change.

Two of NOAA's four mission goals are to «protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management,» and to «understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond.»

It also illustrates how the diverse ecosystem services rendered by the coasts are being subjected to increasing pressure, and profiles measures that will be necessary in the future to respond effectively to the threats from both climate change and natural disasters.

She has over a decade of experience developing new strategies to reduce the impacts of climate change on tropical marine ecosystems and developing tools and guidance to help managers and communities to respond.

Much is known regarding how forest ecosystems will respond to climate change, even amid the uncertainties.

How do polar marine ecosystems respond to rapid climate change?

«Translating these signals can lead to a quantitative understanding of how forest ecosystems respond to climate stress and climate change.»

This approach allowed the researchers to identify Earth ecosystems that responded quite sensitively to changes in climate parameters, as opposed to those that did not — deriving a «vegetation sensitivity index» across the planet.

Tom Burckhardt, Maya Lin, and Anicka Yi respond to climate change with their own ecosystems.

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.

The structure of terrestrial ecosystems, which respond on even longer time - scales, is determined by the integrated response to changes in climate and to the intermediate time - scale carbon - nutrient machinery.

The study shows that satellite observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are a useful tool toward understanding how semiarid ecosystems will respond to climate change in the future.

Carbon sinks (ecosystems which absorb CO2, like oceans and forests) respond to climate change in two different ways.

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

Adaptive responses to climate change in fisheries could include: management approaches and policies that maximize resilience of the exploited ecosystems, ensuring fishing and aquaculture communities have the opportunity and capacity to respond to new opportunities brought about by climate change, and the use of multi-sector adaptive strategies to reduce the consequence of negative impacts in any particular sector.

«One quarter of CO2 emissions are going to terrestrial ecosystems, but the details of those processes and how they will respond to a changing climate are inadequately understood, particularly for tropical forests,» Chambers said.

Future climate change impacts will depend on past and future socioeconomic development, which influences emissions of heat - trapping gases, the exposure and vulnerability of society and ecosystems, and societal capacity to respond.

Other uncertainties include imprecise understandings of how complex ecosystems will respond to climate - and non-climate-induced changes and the extent to which organisms may be able to adapt to a changing climate.

However, our grasp of how dryland ecosystem structure and function will respond to changing climate remains poor5.

At best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualistically).

The Arctic - Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) will study how forests, permafrost and other ecosystems are responding to rising temperatures in the Arctic, where climate change is unfolding faster than anywhere else on the planet.

The site, designed to exploit grasslands as models for understanding how ecosystems may respond to climate change, hosts a number of studies of the potential effects from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, elevated temperature, increased precipitation, and increased nitrogen deposition.

climate change is likely to impact on the way ecosystems respond to fire.

Indigenous traditional knowledge, land management and conservation practices will be crucial to responding to climate change, maintaining biological diversity and preserving important ecosystems.