Sentences with phrase «environmental disturbances»

«In the current environment of human - caused environmental disturbance and degradation, the discovery of four previously unknown species that are relatively large in size is phenomenal,» he said.

Examples of environmental disturbances include:

Fire occurrence and fire landscapes, unlike other environmental disturbances, can be effectively managed to result in landscapes that either welcome, or discourage, subsequent fires and can offer a comparatively low - cost means of curbing greenhouse - gas emissions in the short and medium term.

This tiny organism (2 -10 microns in size) has survived major environmental disturbances, pollution, you name it - it's vitality and strength are astounding.

Other disciplines such as ecology, conservation, and physiology will benefit from a more objectively based species circumscription, enabling us to interpret distribution and ecological patterns more precisely, while more accurately monitoring environmental disturbance and climate change.

Relative to cutthroat trout, rainbow trout prefer these climate - induced changes, and tolerate greater environmental disturbance.

«Because the tropics are relatively stable weather wise, tropical birds aren't able to handle environmental disturbances as easily, physiologically or behaviorally, as temperate - zone birds.

But such particles are sensitive to environmental disturbances like heat and vibration, which cause them to «decohere,» or be robbed of their extraordinary computing powers.

The framework involves an algorithm that samples alternate paths, as well as comparison metrics that let a vehicle decide when it makes sense to switch paths based on new information collected about environmental disturbances.

Second, the TMT engineering team has been measuring the response of the telescope and its many control systems to all possible environmental disturbances.

[18][23] Large - scale environmental disturbances have offered important insights concerning mechanisms and ecosystem resilience.

With the environmental disasters taking place in cities across the country from Santa Barbara, CA to Houston, TX to Santa Rosa, CA, city leaders and community stakeholders are beginning to recognize the vital need to think, plan, and act to improve their resilience in the face of future environmental disturbances.

Those same areas are also especially susceptible to other environmental disturbances, like nutrients from agricultural runoff, which can create oxygen - depleted «dead zones» where most marine life can't survive.

So let's just cut to the chase: As with most major environmental disturbances (or upheavals), ocean acidification is, and will be, bad for people too.

Variation in insect diet has implications for numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including effects of environmental disturbance, the stability of networks of interacting species and the top - down effects of predators being controlled by the level of herbivore diet specialization.

In a second course, students study how an environmental disturbance affects a particular community and how geographic and cultural factors affect the population's ability to deal with it.

Managing fish in human - altered rivers is a challenge because their food webs are sensitive to environmental disturbance.

Environmental disturbance is also limited during the building process and by the choice of the building site.

What is more, booming economies often come with dams, bridges and other environmental disturbances that could facilitate the spread of exotics.

While peat bogs now serve as some of the world's biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, scientists worry that environmental disturbances — the drying effects of climate change, land - clearing and drainage, wildfires and other human activities — could cause the underlying organic matter to decompose and release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

In a study published today in the journal Nature, the researchers refer to this alternative model as «piggyback - the - winner,» and it could have implications for phage - based medicine and ecosystem resilience in the face of environmental disturbances that promote microbial blooms.

Luckily, the observatory has microphone sensors placed around it to pick up environmental disturbances.

Lack of experience in first time mothers and environmental disturbances may cause a hamster to eat its new borns.

The green roof will also decrease the «heat island» effect, which is a term used to describe the temperature spike in urban areas compared to nearby rural areas due to environmental disturbances and pollution.

Biofilms rapidly reorganize in response to environmental disturbance and are likely to be both indicators and drivers of community level change in response to ocean acidification.