Sentences with phrase «high latitudes remains»
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The most recent news making events are two: a challenge to the dates that have been assigned to Neanderthal remains closest to the time of their extinction; and a claim Neanderthals occupied a site in the Siberian far North, at much higher latitudes than previously thought possible.
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In contrast, during the summer at high latitudes, the troposphere warms significantly as a result of the long hours of daylight; however, owing to the oblique angle of the sunlight near the poles, the temperatures there remain relatively cool compared with middle latitudes.
A rise in mean temperature in high latitudes should increase the duration of the growing period and the productivity of these regions if light and nutrient conditions remain constant.
Nearly all fish and marine reptiles were driven to higher latitudes, and those creatures that remained were often smaller, making it easier for them to shed any heat from their bodies.
Biomes at the highest latitudes that have not already been converted to agriculture are likely to remain relatively unchanged in the future (Duraiappah et al., 2005).
During the mid-Cretaceous Period, 120 - 90 million years ago, fossil remains of plants and animals believed to inhabit warm environments, were found at much higher latitudes.
At the same time, fewer freezing days at higher latitudes could potentially accelerate carbon releases through microbial decomposition [38,39], and this excess carbon might not be sequestered by plants, as higher latitudes will remain limited by insufficient solar radiation (S6G — S6I Fig).
During this period the Northern Hemisphere remained ice - free, and paleobotanical studies show cool - temperate Pliocene floras at high latitudes on Greenland and the Arctic Archipelago.