Sentences with phrase «environmental drivers in»

Glaum, P., Simao, M., Vaidya, C., Fitch, G., & Iulinao, B. (2017) Big city Bombus: using natural history and land - use history to find significant environmental drivers in bumble - bee declines in urban development.

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He says that the Christian view of bodily death is that it is entirely due to the disobedience of Adam and Eve, whereas we now know that death is a key driver of environmental adaptation in evolving life.

The May 10 EPA Merit Award ceremony in Boston's Faneuil Hall drew hundreds of attendees from environmental agencies and nonprofits organizations, including Wellfleet Bay supporters such as Bruce Beane, a volunteer driver.

Most scientists agree that the South Asian Monsoon is linked to the initial uplift, or birth of the Himalayas, but the timing and other environmental drivers at play are still in question.

Where other studies have linked weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly of Ohio State and now an associate professor of environmental and global health at the University of Florida.

The large areas where surveys documented declines in sardine and anchovy and increases in market squid and rockfish suggests that the drivers for this decadal trend is environmental.

«Our research points to the fact that changes in long - distance contact, socio - cultural interactions and population movements may be just as important, or more important, for innovation as environmental drivers,» says van Niekerk.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

The analysis of the drivers responsible for observed status and declines in pollinators was coordinated by Dr. Oliver Schweiger from the Helmholtz - Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ in Halle.

In trying to predict the impacts of environmental changes, it is crucial to look at multiple environmental drivers and how their co-occurrence and interactions are likely to shift geographically, Kroeker said.

Analysis of the policy drivers underlying the 2018 EPI rankings makes it clear that income is a major determinant of environmental success, said the researchers, noting that investments in safe drinking water and modern sanitation, in particular, translate quickly into improved environmental health results.

«What we're trying to understand in the extreme systems is, what are the environmental drivers that are motivating the composition and structure of the [microbial] community?»

In a telephone interview, Chatterjee said the primary drivers behind the program are both economic and environmental.

From the perspective of traffic safety, the ways in which the driver obtains environmental information that is relevant to the selection of the driving direction and speed can be a background factor in run - off - road accidents particularly among young and inexperienced drivers.

«There are many potential benefits to concentrating our environmental impact by intensifying drivers of land - use change, such as agriculture and forestry, in exchange for gazetting large remote undisturbed reserves.

Environmental drivers of heterogeneity in the trophic - functional structure of protozoan communities during an annual cycle in a coastal ecosystem.

The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change and one of the great drivers of biodiversity loss.

The lack of an additive or multiplicative effect when both stressors co-occurred was notable given the different mechanisms involved in sensory disruptions and highlights the importance of determining the combined effects of key drivers to aid in predicting community dynamics under future environmental scenarios.

«Temperature is widely recognized as a key environmental driver of reefs and temperature extremes are known to be one of the key stressors to coral reef communities around the world,» Ryan Lowe from the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute and School of Earth and Environment who led the research, said in a statement.

Further exploration of the behavioural and environmental drivers of these associations may help inform strategies addressing child obesity in Asia.

The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.

We also recently invested in the use of Telematics for our vehicle fleet, which has helped to improve the performance of all our drivers and reduce the environmental impact of our vehicles.

Before you question the environmental impact of this apparently antiquated setup, keep in mind the big Lexus V8 utilises both Otto and Atkinson combustion cycles - the latter familiar to drivers of the fuel - sipping hybrid models - improving efficiency.

It represents Volvo's commitment to maximising driving pleasure while minimising both cost of ownership for the driver and environmental impact and maintaining its lead in hybrid powertrain innovation.

The Sports Coupé's design, technology and equipment meet the discerning requirements of young drivers looking for an athletic car that gives an involving drive, while at the same time delivering the hallmark Mercedes quality standards in terms of safety, comfort, environmental compatibility and functionality.

Initially, one of the large drivers in the general consumer market was a growing concern among consumers about environmental issues.

A late - comer to the pursuit of tourism as a primary driver for the island's economy, St. Kitts is uniquely positioned in the Caribbean to be able to structure their developing tourism product along the principles of environmental sustainability.

But, as Mendelson writes, that would miss the wider point revealed when putting this species» interruped story in wider context of Earth's unfolding «Anthropocene» — a span, duration as yet unknown, in which humans are the dominant driver of environmental change.

Kroko discusses the environmental and economic drivers of the unrest in a broader context that includes President Obama's stated pursuit of sustainable economic growth.

A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of Defense.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

Complex environmental drivers of immunity and resistance in malaria mosquitoes.

This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.

«Many other important impacts of climate change are difficult to quantify for a given change in global average temperature, in part because temperature is not the only driver of change for some impacts; multiple environmental and other human factors come into play.»

Gore, who is pushing his environmental agenda in his newest book, «The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,» acknowledged «there are some things I miss about» politics.

Anthropogenic climate change and land use change in the form of agricultural expansion («habitat conversion» — a sweet description for deforestation) act as synergistic drivers of biodiversity loss — in a Costa Rican environmental experiment — literally drying out the... Continue reading →

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

In doing so, we can turn what has historically been a major driver of environmental harm into a resilient and sustainable source of income for Ghanaian farmers.

For high - mileage drivers and those who don't plug in, the PHEV Outlander won't save much fuel or money and Mitsubishi is being laudably honest about guiding such drivers into a diesel, but for some folk, this ordinary looking SUV is a weighty but worthy answer to more environmental travel.

«Temperature is widely recognised as a key environmental driver of reefs and temperature extremes are known to be one of the key stressors to coral reef communities around the world,» Lowe said in a statement.

And herein lies the problem, this article fails to discuss what is driving the rampant «resource» exploitation namely economic growth which in turn is acting as a driver of environmental degradation.

«It is not about building a barrier and stopping people coming into the protected area but addressing the drivers of deforestation by working with communities to create alternative livelihoods,» says Toby Janson - Smith, Senior Director for Climate and Land Use: Markets and Policy at Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business.

In addition, ocean acidification is co-occurring with other drivers of environmental change (including warming, eutrophication, hypoxia, eutrophication, pollution [12]-RRB-, yet the interactive effects and relative importance of multiple stressors on species physiology, life history and ecology, as well as species — environment interactions and ecosystem function remain poorly understood [13 — 17].

Second, we argue for the primacy of urbanization as a driver of change in demographics, resource consumption, and ideation and, in turn, develop a qualitative model of how changes in those factors drive environmental impacts, harming and then potentially helping nature in a broadly predictable way.

How buildings are used, in energy terms, is becoming a crucial issue: energy costs are rising; various policy drivers (such as display energy certificates) mean that there is increasing awareness of the environmental impact of the built environment; and the pricing and rationing from the CRC (carbon reduction commitment) will begin to bite over the next few years.

Teen drivers train in one of our hybrid gas - electric vehicles, within a program designed to teach safe driving techniques and environmental responsibility.

Students will demonstrate competence in 20 standards, including content on Georgia driving laws, vehicle operation and management, handling intersections, communication with other drivers, effects of drugs and alcohol, the effects of aggressive driving and fatigue, handling environmental variation, and emergency response.

The back of its drivers are exposed to the open air, which means headphone audio leaks out and environmental sounds leak in.

Others in the industry have argued that Tesla's Autopilot system is in fact Level 3 technology, which would allow the driver to «cede full control of all safety - critical functions under certain traffic or environmental conditions.»

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