Sentences with phrase «habitat as a result of climate change»

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

In addition to the raging wildfires, the Pacific Northwest lowlands are experiencing devastation in mountain pond habitats as a result of climate change.

Models used in that study show that more than half those birds could lose up to 50 percent of their habitat as a result of climate change by 2080.

Not exact matches

Piping plovers, a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.

Piping plovers (adult pictured), a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

The species would be assessed to identify which are suffering as a result of various extinction pressures: agricultural expansion and / or intensification; habitat changes; and climate change, among others.

But the climate change still had a deep impact on anthropoid evolution, because habitat fragmentation and an increased level of allopatric speciation took place as a result.

Environment Canada research estimates that, in addition to the impacts of climate change and habitat loss, 130 to 433 million birds a year die as a result of people.

Mountain - dwelling animals and plants are already seeing their habitats shift and shrink as a result of climate - change - induced temperature increases, which force many species to move upslope.

Marine animals are altering their diets and natural habitat range as a result of climate change.

Loss of habitat and the presence of barriers to species movement increase the risk of extinctions as a result of climate change.

But changes to their sea ice habitat are already being seen as a result of climate change.»

«The results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.»

However, we demonstrated that there is specialisation of the coral host to particular reef environments, with each strain of coral host associating only with particular types of symbiotic algae... the results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.

It's rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that's exactly what has happened with Nissan's new TV ad for it's all - electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age - old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change.

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).