Sentences with phrase «environmental variability»

The researchers looked at different types of fish community responses to both short - and long - term environmental variability.

Cabrol advocates making an unprecedentedly robust, high - resolution study of environmental variability on Mars by peppering its surface with weather stations.

Indicator species for interpreting environmental variability in the Antarctic coastal zone.

This shows that greater biological diversity can buffer ecosystems against environmental variability and may enhance long - term stability.

Others would be co-located with oceanographic observatories, such as the Northeast Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) buoys and the U.S. Integrated Observing System Pioneer array, to enable research on the influence of environmental variability on the occurrence of marine mammals and fish.

«If we know better how environmental variability affects the ability of animals to tolerate future environmental change, then we can think about it in a restoration and conservation context,» says Rivest.

She worked as a research fellow for the Blue whale study and the Centre for Whale Research (Australia) conducting ecological modelling, passive acoustic monitoring and habitat assessment for top predators (i.e. mainly marine mammals), and investigating biological responses to changes in habitat caused by natural and anthropogenic environmental variability.

Domack, E., A. Leventer, S. Root, J. Ring, E. Williams, D. Carlson, E. Hirshorn, W. Wright, R. Gilbert, and G. Burr, Marine sedimentary record of natural environmental variability and recent warming in the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives, E. Domack, et al., Editors.

b)» It is also a responsibility of universities to educate non-scientists about environmental variability in a way that will lead to better economic, social and political decision - making.»

Population independence and diversity underlies system - level buffering against environmental variability, termed the portfolio effect.

Climate change impacts in the deep ocean are less visible, but the longevity and slow pace of life in the deep makes that ecosystem uniquely sensitive to environmental variability.

In addition to environmental variability and lack of treaties, other factors leading to conflict include political and economic instability, and armed conflict, the analysis shows.

«A broad - scale perspective on long - term reef growth and environmental variability would allow us to better characterize the environmental thresholds leading to reef collapse and the conditions that facilitate survival,» Toth said.

They considered all the main issues affecting penguin populations including; terrestrial habitat degradation, marine pollution, fisheries bycatch and resource competition, environmental variability, climate change and toxic algal poisoning and disease.

Said Tim McClanahan, WCS Senior Conservation Zoologist and lead author of the study: «Northern Mozambique Quirimbas reefs have a variety of refugia, environmental variability, and high diversity that give these reefs a high potential to adapt to rapid climate change.

The advent of aDNA techniques and international research collaboration across disciplinary boundaries will most likely be able to shed new light on this fascinating topic at the interface of human history and environmental variability.

However, she said the relationship of these factors to environmental variability is poorly known.

It should also adopt a complementary and precautionary resource - based assessment of the vulnerability of critical resources (those affecting water, food, energy, and human and ecosystem health) to environmental variability and change of all types.

For orographic cumulus clouds, the G - 1 measurements will characterize in - cloud dynamics, microphysics, and aerosols, as well as the environmental variability around the clouds focusing on conditions upstream and downstream of clouds at multiple altitudes in the vicinity of the AMF1 site.

Ecophysiological process - Individual organisms respond to environmental variability, such as climate change, through ecophysiological processes which operate continuously, generally at a microscopic or sub-organ scale.

Environmental Variability and Climate Change.

Since 2009, US CLIVAR has collaborated with the OCB Program, whose mission is to study the impact of oceanic variability in the global carbon cycle in the face of environmental variability and change.