Sentences with phrase «future species losses»

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.

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Crowley believes that gaining a better understanding of how animal mobility has been affected by the loss of species and habitat will be beneficial to current and future conservation efforts on the island.

«We're assuming that the distribution of the species in the future will be constrained by the loss of their habitat,» said James Hatten, a biogeographer at USGS and author of the research.

«We see a lot of species» distributions really start to wink out after about 50 years, but it is tricky to look at future predictions because we will have a lot of habitat loss predicted using our models,» McGuire said.

The loss of these populations might compromise species» ability to adapt to future warming.

One of the main challenges to the scientific community involved in biology conservation is to demonstrate that the loss and damage of habitats, ecological interactions and species generates a prejudice (present and future) that far exceeds the profits from the exploitation of natural resources and agricultural production.

The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].

The species is highly colonial, and the loss of a few key breeding colonies — now or in the future — could doom regional populations.

«We see a lot of species» distributions really start to wink out after about 50 years, but it is tricky to look at future predictions because we will have a lot of habitat loss predicted using our models,» McGuire said.

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species.»

Secretary Salazar has so far defended the Bush - era «threatened» designation, claiming that threats to the species are only of concern in the future — notwithstanding the fact that polar bears are already drowning and starving as a result of sea - ice loss, with many populations declining.

The biodiversity crisis — i.e. the rapid loss of species and the rapid degradation of ecosystems — is probably a greater threat than global climate change to the stability and prosperous future of mankind on Earth.

Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

Using modelling projections of species distributions for future climate scenarios, Thomas et al. (2004) show, for the year 2050 and for a mid-range climate change scenario, that species extinction in Mexico could sharply increase: mammals 8 % or 26 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), birds 5 % or 8 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), and butterflies 7 % or 19 % loss of species (with or without dispersal).