Sentences with phrase «found species loss»

The researchers also found species loss could be offset by maintaining areas of forest that contain distinctly different populations of plants and animals that, while different, complement and help sustain each other.

Not exact matches

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

By measuring the loss of a core tranche of dominant species of large and medium - sized mammals and birds, and using the results as a bellwether, the researchers found that for every 10 % of forest loss, one to two major species are wiped out.

Global simulations conducted by the team found that microbial responses to enhanced root activity under rising CO2, while depending on plant species, climate and soil mineralogy, led to a loss of global soil carbon stocks that counteracted the additional carbon storage resulting from increased plant growth in many regions of the world.

The researchers found that a total of 177 species of large mammals disappeared during this period — a massive loss.

He used it to find out which species died out when and how their loss affected the rest of the ecological network.

A study published in this month's Ecology Letters finds that rarer species were more likely to disappear, leading to loss of frog biodiversity in Central America.

A meta - analysis of ecosystems finds that species losses in any given place do not yet translate to large changes in the number of different species in that place.

The Review is a super refined weekly web publication curated by subject matter experts from Yale who summarize important research articles from leading natural and social science journals with the hope that people can make more informed decisions using latest research results.The Review launched this week and covers a wide range of topics, like this brief about climate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity loss.

In a new study of biodiversity loss in a salt marsh, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they find that it's not just the total number of species preserved that matters, it's the number of key species.

Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in France.

They found that biodiversity hotspots — those that have seen habitat loss in the past but have a lot of species only found in that area — are threatened, showing high levels of biodiversity decline.

A weight - loss probiotic isn't a simple next step, as the researchers found when they isolated 39 of the beneficial Bacteroidetes species.

Indeed, the findings of this study have important implications for today's concern about the loss in diversity of bees, a pivotal species for agriculture and biodiversity.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

Overall, within species, we found that most successive time - periods of DNA gain or loss showed no statistical significant association with DNA turnover from the previous time - period.

During the past years, scientists have found out how ocean acidification — in some cases combined to other factors such as rise in temperatures, eutrophication or loss of oxygen — affects isolated species.

Now, a new dataset hosted by the Museum is helping researchers around the world find and predict patterns of species loss, and reveal what we can do to stop it.

They compared the modern rate of species loss to the natural rates of species extinction before human activities dominated Earth, and found that people are actively participating in «a global spasm of biodiversity loss.»

As with trees, species losses occur gradually as habitats change, the researchers found.

It has become too easy to find weight loss supplements containing this tamarind species native to Asia, Australia, and southern Africa.

Research has shown that to be successful in finding your lost pet, or reuniting a found pet, it is critical to employ techniques that are both species - specific, and behavior - specific, and you need to take into consideration why he left, his temperament (or personality), the circumstances surrounding his loss, and the human factor.

The findings, they say, gave then a baseline for how a healthy dog microbiome should behave, and suggested dogs may be better subjects for research into human weight loss than other species that have been used for that purpose.

«We hope visitors will come away with a greater understanding and appreciation of the world - renowned floral diversity found in California's many unique ecosystems — as well as an understanding of how climate change and increasing habitat loss are threatening Nature's fragile native plant communities and species,» the photographers say.

The scale of loss is shown by comparing surveys carried out in the Netherlands between 1912 and 1954, when an average of 71 species of fungus was found per foray, with the period between 1973 and 1982, when a matched series of 15 surveys could turn up only 38 species per foray.

A team from the US reports in the journal Ecological Economics that they went beyond simple analysis of canopy loss in the Ecuadorian region of the Amazon basin to find out what compensation payments to landowners did for the diversity of species in the forests.

As in studies in the South African Cape, we found that species losses were disproportionately clustered in montane areas as opposed to lowlands [19].

A 2015 study found that humans activities are driving species loss at a rate 100 times faster than historical baseline levels — which the researchers behind the study characterized as...

If it lands on zero, we find significant loss of species, ecosystems, and cultural landmarks like Venice.

That old phrase tossed out by parents at fearful children about spiders, «They're more afraid of you than you are of them,» has never been more true, at least according to researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) who have found that spiders, like many other animal species, are suffering from habitat loss and human encroachment.

«We found many lowland species are being hit hard by the combination of warmer temperatures and habitat loss.»