Sentences with phrase «effects on abundance»

They argue that coral reef managers may be able to take advantage of shocks like tropical storms, periods of cloudy weather or even strong seasonal effects on abundance to restore coral cover on degraded reefs.

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There is an abundance of academic literature on the psychological and behavioural effects of visual pornography — albeit with little consensus on results — but virtually no research on the impacts of the written word.

Research carried out on tomato plots on the effects of weed control on surface - dwelling arthropod species found the abundance of species is clearly influenced by weed biomass.

What hasn't been shown is their potential abundance and the related effect high lionfish numbers may have on the «economically important» reef fishes.

The researchers, whose work has been published in the Scientific Reports journal, have proven that flamingos promote bacterial activity triggering cascading effects on prokaryotic (bacterial) abundance and viruses.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

«Our analysis allows us to track species» abundances in response to edge effects to predict the impact on biodiversity caused by forest loss and fragmentation,» adds Dr Pfeifer.

Scientists often measure the effects of temperature on insects to predict how climate change will affect their distribution and abundance, but a Dartmouth study shows for the first time that insects» fear of their predators, in addition to temperature, ultimately limits how fast they grow.

But recent work my laboratory at Cornell University conducted with researchers at King's College London compared nearly 500 twin pairs, a sample size sufficient to show a marked genetic effect on the relative abundance of a specific set of gut microbes.

The documented effects of pollution on reef fishes suggest the potential for feed - back loops, with altered fish behaviour and abundances detrimentally affecting reef health.

Effect of Rds abundance on cone outer segment morphogenesis, photoreceptor gene expression, and outer limiting membrane integrity.

Teel said their study and future efforts would focus on the development of clearer comparisons for Rhipicephalus ticks to provide ways to hypothesize specific cause - effect relationships, test tick abundance patterns and pathogen prevalence in the field, and simulate how these patterns might be interrupted to achieve tick suppression or eradication.

Because kefir also offers an abundance of calcium and magnesium, which are also important minerals for a healthy nervous system, kefir in the diet can have a particularly profound calming effect on the nerves.

However, the two prebiotics seemed to have different effects on bifidobacterial abundance.

Agricultural abundance make us live as Neanderthal nowadays and the pharmaceutical industry tries to correct the effect of this Neanderthal diet on Homo Sapiens.

Special effects are in abundance, but none of them are very well - produced, much like the film on the whole.

That's nothing compared to today's biggest films and the costs are believable based on the abundance of production design and visual effects.

The dialogue sounds fine and the scenes on the river provide an abundance of surround sound and subwoofer effects.

An abundance of research has been carried out on the effects of colour on the brain.

(Mitson, R.B. and Knudsen H.P., Causes and effects of underwater noise on fish abundance estimation.

During her performance on the 25th of November in Upstream Gallery during Amsterdam Art Weekend, her music will be about the contemporary abundance of information in the media, and about her personal experience with its effects.

His specific research interests include: processes that cause population abundances to fluctuate over time; predicting the extinction risk of rare species; patterns of individual growth in fluctuating environments and how they affect population growth rates; and the effects of current - driven dispersal on marine fish species.

Atmospheric concentrations of OH affect the atmospheric lifetimes of greenhouse gases, their abundance, and, ultimately, the effect they have on climate.

Given our very short and spotty data on the relative abundance (or importance) of the majority of these aerosols, and given our very poor understanding of the direct, indirect, and side effects of the majority of these aerosols, any numbers that anyone generates about their abundance, importance, or total radiative forcing are going to be a SWAG.

If our climate continues to warm at today's rate, scientists expect North Sea plankton that respond to temperature cues to bloom even earlier in the coming decades.7 With a growing mismatch in life cycles among various species of plankton, as well as further climate - induced shifts in their abundance and distribution, effects on the North Sea ecosystem — including cod — are projected to be considerable.7, 8

Multidecadal North Atlantic climate variability and its effect on North American salmon abundance.

To put it in the cautious words of a researcher: «[Humpback] whales feed almost exclusively on krill in the Antarctic and it's unknown what effect an expanding krill fishery in conjunction with climate warming might be having on the abundance of krill.»

Changing water temperature also has an effect on the reproduction of cetaceans and pinnipeds, indirectly through prey abundance, either through extending the time between individual breeding attempts, or by reducing breeding condition of the mother (Whitehead, 1997).

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More importantly, however, it will be crucial to determine (1) how this functional locus interacts with the allelic expression imbalance markers downstream (and which the actual locus conferring allelic expression imbalance is, see in what follows)(2), what the relative contribution to a net effect on serotonin transporter gene expression is in vivo and (3) how (if at all) this translates into protein abundance and actual genetically determined differential functioning of the serotonergic synapse.

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