Sentences with phrase «global patterns»

Climate is a major factor in controlling global patterns of vegetation structure and productivity, as well as plant and animal species composition.

Bold colors and global patterns work so well together for fall.

This page introduces global patterns of food and land availability as well as consumption through a number of well chosen graphics and maps.

Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data.

Bold colors and global patterns work so well together for fall.

They can also consider recycling in the context of how human activity uses energy and natural resources, and how these affect local and global environments, including their effect on global patterns of climate change.

Professor Solomon Hsiang and colleagues described in the journal Nature in 2011 how they had investigated whether anything linked «planetary - scale climate changes with global patterns of civil conflict».

In this synthetic Overview, we present newly gathered data that summarize how global patterns in coffee distribution and shade vegetation have changed and discuss implications for biodiversity, ecosystem services, and livelihoods.

Mann et al. (1998) reconstructed global patterns of annual surface temperature several centuries back in time.

MOC stands for Meridional Overturning Circulation, and although it refers to the same global pattern of ocean currents («conveyor belt») as the thermohaline circulation, this story shows why actually MOC is the more accurate name, as it is not just... Continue reading →

Mills et al. mapped global patterns of seasonal coat color change across eight species including hares, weasels, and foxes.

Before joining the Center she was a scientific researcher investigating global patterns of amphibian disease and the impacts of wildlife trade.

The hard part about all of this is that these studies are looking at global patterns of ocean acidification and we now know that local processes can be even more important in affecting ocean chemistry than global processes.

Our results for NZ follow the general global pattern of male - bias in the proportion of male births that has been observed in other temperate climates [13].

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

This was part of the broader global pattern: before the crisis, global trade had been expanding by more than 7 per cent a year — about twice as fast as the world economy.

To organize mankind on a uniform global pattern would eliminate one of the most enriching bases for human existence.

A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible of the impacts of climate change on crop productivity that could have consequences for food availability.

Co-author, Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland says global patterns of species richness will change significantly, with considerable regional variability.

In the most thorough study of its kind, scientists have now analyzed global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions and developed predictive models to help identify places where conservation interventions will provide the greatest benefits to threatened island biodiversity.

«Our observations and model help to understand the underlying structural differences between emergent global patterns of adoption spreading.

Famiglietti also noted that the study is the first to observe global patterns of wetting and drying on land, with wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier.

In order to analyse global patterns of forest fragmentation, a UFZ research group led by Prof. Andreas Huth used remote sensing data that quantify forest cover in the tropics in an extremely high resolution of 30 meters, resulting in more than 130 million forest fragments.

Griethuijsen, R., Eijck, M.W. van; Brok, Haste, H., P.J., Mansour, N. Boujaoude, S & Savran, A. Global patterns in students» views of science and Interest in science, International J. Science Education (under review), (2015)

They calculated a temporary global pattern of cooling over the next couple of years — and such a pattern in fact appeared.

E. 7.3 Describe how global patterns such as the jet stream and ocean currents influence local weather in measureable terms such as temperature, air pressure, wind direction and speed, and humidity and precipitation.

Individual decisions about how to direct capital to various energy projects — related to the collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.

Anthropogenic global patterns of plant species richness, species loss, invasions, crops and ornamental species, anthromes, and terrestrial biomes

A prerequisite was the growth of very large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, whose subsequent collapse created stadial conditions that disrupted global patterns of ocean and atmospheric circulation.

Harmonious hues and global patterns come together in this feather - and - down - filled pillow.

Every meteorologist trying to extend predictions must privately ache for the Pacific to settle in to its La Niña or El Niño pattern, given how hard forecasts become in the absence of those big influences on global patterns.

Current trends and projected climate changes in Montana are consistent with global patterns (Figure 1 - 1).

Mapping global patterns and incorporating the results in models was described as»... a daunting task... requires a large effort, but... feasible».

In the last ten years, scientists have developed «multi-resolution» models that can zoom in on a region while still looking at global patterns.

As we celebrate the three hundred year history as a city of journeymen, we recognize our own history in global patterns of geographic mobility.

At least over the oceans, the pre-industrial cloud conditions would have been considerably different from those of today; this implies that the aerosols we have been adding to the atmosphere may have had a significant effect on global patterns of cloud formation and rain.

The main exception to this global pattern has been Japan, where 10 - year bond yields have remained remarkably stable, generally trading in the range between 1.7 per cent and 1.8 per cent so far this year (Graph 8).