Sentences with phrase «forests over thousands of years»

The simulator lets scientists project how changing climate conditions will impact forests over thousands of years.

Not exact matches

This answer from genetics matches up well with ecological modeling of the abundance of passenger pigeon food — acorns, beechnuts and other forest mast — in North America over the last few thousand years.

Instead, the scientists believe, Madagascar was covered by a patchwork of forests, enabling the mouse lemurs to slowly disperse over tens of thousands of years between different areas.

«The human body evolved to be quite self - sufficient over thousands of years in the forest without any medicine,» adds Page.

Ever wondered why, each year, thousands of surf holiday makers choose a surf camp in the French forest for their surfing holidays over an all - inclusive hotel with pool?

Give us a call, and come check out the magic as we glide over the seaweeds and giant kelp forest, and go back in time to see the geology and animal life as it was thousands of years ago.

Conceived as a public art project in Norway, Paterson has planted one thousand trees in a forest outside of Oslo, which will grow over the next hundred years before being cut down and providing the paper for an anthology of books that will be printed and read in the year 2114.

She explains: «UK forests have been shaped by human processes over thousands of years and include ancient woodlands, timber forestry, wildlife reserves and protected Areas of Outstanding Natural.

Then suddenly, in the last ten thousand years — a mere 0.4 % eye blink of time — our population increased over 1000 times, we decimated the earth's stocks of non-renewable resources, we cut down over 90 % of the planet's forests, we fished her oceans to the edge of extinction, and we live in a near - constant state of conflict with each other.

As they gazed out over the great island that had lost its forests two thousand years ago, and looked out over the sea whose wild tuna fish populations have been diminished by 96 %, and enjoyed the fresh air that now contained 385 ppm of CO2, and maybe more, and at night looked at the stars through a thinned ozone layer they must wonder what went wrong.

Coastal mangrove forests can contain much more carbon per unit area than their terrestrial counterparts: This coastal «blue» carbon has been deposited on every tide over thousands of years and is stored in deep peat soils.

Is it not obvious that around the world during a major climatic shift with large areas of ice receding and forest growing over thousands of years, you are going to get a mix of proxy temperature records!!