Sentences with phrase «growing seasons shift»

Maintaining this level of productivity has been quite a challenge in recent years and is likely to become more difficult over the next few decades as weather patterns, available water and growing seasons shift further and threats of invasive weeds, pests and pathogens rise.

Not exact matches

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First of all, because lettuce growing has shifted back to California for the season.

The world's five million smallholder cocoa farmers — many of whom are already struggling with economic hardship — are also contending with the effects of climate change: hotter temperatures, unpredictable rainfall and a shift in growing seasons.

New coach Jason Kidd is experimenting with playing Antetokounmpo at point guard, an unprecedented shift for player who grew to 6»11 last season.

Although there was a general trend toward earlier flowering dates and a longer growing season, individual species» responses were distinct, and changes within a species in first, peak, and last flowering dates shifted independently of one other.

«This gene could be a particularly valuable tool as climate change shifts our growing seasons and we are forced to develop plants that can adapt to those environmental changes,» Bradford said.

Above - and below - normal temperature and precipitation years associated with natural climate oscillations may determine whether growing seasons lengthen, contract, or shift in time.

Negative: Combined with less available water from reduced and shortened snowpack, drier summers could reduce or shift growing season

I'm a defender of the Oscar season in general — it's a rare chance to shift the conversation away from superheroes and talking cartoon animals, and onto films made for actual grown - up human beings.

You do need to consider how long crops take to mature, whether they continue to grow after harvesting or whether you need to buy more seeds, and what season they can be grown in, because as soon as the season shifts your current crops will die off if they can't handle the new weather.

Warmer temperatures have already shifted the growing season in many parts of the globe.

HAPPI enables detailed analysis of the shifting distribution of extreme growing season temperatures and precipitation, highlighting widespread increases in extreme heat seasons and heightened skewness toward hot seasons in the tropics.

For the first time, wide - ranging impacts of changes in current climate have been documented: retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons, shift of species ranges, and health impacts due to a heatwave of unprecedented magnitude.

5.3.4 In Europe, wide ranging impacts of changes in current climate have been documented: retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons, shifts in the geographic spread of species, and health impacts due to an unprecedented heat wave.

Euskirchen, E. S., A. D. McGuire, D. W. Kicklighter, Q. Zhuang, J. S. Clein, R. J. Dargaville, D. G. Dye, J. S. Kimball, K. C. McDonald, J. M. Melillo, V. E. Romanovsky, and N. V. Smith, 2006: Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high - latitude ecosystems.

Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high - latitude ecosystems

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

The shifting shoulder seasons of fall and spring create ecological issues with mistiming of pollinators, changing growing seasons, and longer allergy seasons.

While there was a shift in the growing seasons of these plants, caribous were not adapting to these changes and were migrating into pastures that had passed their peak nutritional value.

UPI: Growing seasons in Earth's northern latitudes are shifting and vegetation increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, scientists say.

The world's five million smallholder cocoa farmers — many of whom are already struggling with economic hardship — are also contending with the effects of climate change: hotter temperatures, unpredictable rainfall and a shift in growing seasons.