Sentences with phrase «higher elevations as»

The notion that we must stop the climate from changing, in order to preclude people from migrating northward or to higher elevations as climates in these places become more comfortable to inhabit, is fringe lunacy, at best.

Researchers also have found that many species are migrating to higher elevations as temperatures climb.

When I sent him your question, Werner A. Kurz, a leading Canadian scientist, wrote back that while the beetle is indeed native to the region, «it has experienced an expansion in range northward and to higher elevations as climate warming has allowed the species to occupy areas that were previously too cold.»

They discovered that those for 118 of the studied species — from the herblike three - horned bedstraw (Galium rotundifolium) to whitebeam trees (Sorbus aria)-- migrated to higher elevations as temperatures warmed.

Projecting forward, the research team anticipate that the ranges of many species will shift to higher elevations as changing environmental conditions envelop the landscapes of the Albertine Rift.

Melting is also moving to higher elevations as global temperatures warm.

«One general expectation is that tree ranges will gradually move toward higher elevations as mountain habitats get hotter,» said Michael Van Nuland, the project's lead researcher and a doctoral student in UT's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Not exact matches

As the US military's attention shifts back to great - power competition, particular focus is being paid to the potential for conflict in the extreme conditions found at northern latitudes and higher elevations.

Anyway Jonathan was a prime example of loyalty which sounds like royalty, but has nothing to do with Kings and Queens as loyalty is not high on their agenda, that can also be said for people in high places who lose their sense of direction through their elevation, ending up with their heads in the clouds as did Gods chosen Kings Saul and David.

Didn't come out as thick as yours, but I live at a very high elevation so I'm assuming that's why.

Because air pressure decreases as the elevation increases, many foods respond differently at high altitudes — and not just baked goods, but beans, stews, fried foods, pasta, etc..

choice of bird, as many populations are not migratory, and those that do winter in the northern tropics are found in lowlands and avoid higher elevations, where most coffee would be grown.

The Santa Cruz Mountains appellation was among the first to be defined by mountain topography, following the fog line along the coast to encompass the highest vineyards on the ridge tops as high as 2600 feet elevation.

As the conference title suggests, participants will learn about both high - elevation habitats and low - lying coastal islands that attract a suite of breeding, migrating, and wintering species — and thus also provide exciting birding opportunities.

«Her elevation to New York's highest court as the first African - American woman and Muslim was an inspiration to so many.

The highest elevation in the county is a U.S. Geological Survey benchmark known as «Bailey» at approximately 299 m (980 feet) above sea level in Mountain Lakes Park near the Connecticut state line.

«These proposed zoning changes will speed up the process for owners of Sandy - damaged buildings to obtain building permits for elevation and reconstruction and will reduce their vulnerability to future flood events, as well as protect property owners against higher flood insurance premiums,» said CARL WEISBROD, Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission.

Because many of the images overlapped and contained readily identifiable landmarks (such as footprints, labeled in leftmost image), the team could use sophisticated software to stitch 12 of the digital files together to create a single 45 - meter - long 3D model of the site (left and center; colors in center panel represent elevations from low [blue] to high [red]-RRB-.

We started out in the Andes Mountains, elevation 16,000 feet, to look for a lake that had been recorded in the 1880s as having the highest - altitude leech ever found.

In western Tibet, annual snowfall totals have risen steadily since the 1990s, especially at higher elevations, as strengthening westerly winds bring more precipitation.

While the altimeter data also showed that the liquid in some of the canyons around Ligeia Mare is at sea level — the same altitude as the liquid in the sea itself — in others it sits tens to hundreds of feet (tens of meters) higher in elevation.

The oldest sites tended to be those at higher elevations, probably because these were the first to become usable as the Pleistocene icecap retreated.

As a result, at higher elevations, the microbes and animals in the soil are becoming more diverse, with unknown consequences for the ecosystem.

Additionally, as the state's snowpack melts earlier because of warming, Cayan said, there is more runoff from higher elevation, which increases flooding.

In many cases, these so - called chaotic terrains also seem to be sources of fantastic floods (such as the Aram Chaos crater, upper left; relative elevations range from red [high] to low [blue]-RRB-.

The apparent decline is greatest around the ice sheet's edges, but it also is occurring in the high elevation interior known as the dry snow zone, where the reflectivity is effectively reset each winter by new snowfall.

In some instances, the tiny fungi and bacteria constrain where offspring can grow, but in higher elevations — where the species is headed as the climate warms — a less robust soil microbiome seems to create conditions where baby trees can thrive upslope.

There is a smooth ramp across the map going from higher to lower elevations, shown as a gradual transition in radar brightness up the ramp.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

Dozens of studies have already demonstrated that species are shifting their geographic ranges over time as the climate warms, towards cooler habitats at higher elevations and latitudes.

Winds at higher elevations, generally, are stronger and more consistent, even in wind - rich states such as Iowa and Texas.

NASA deliberately crashed the MESSENGER spacecraft into the planet last week; during its final year of life, the craft repeatedly skirted close to the surface, detecting magnetized terrain, such as over the volcanic plains shown in blue here (blue denotes low elevations and red, high elevations).

More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations.

But over the past 50 years, as trapping and high - elevation grazing were curtailed, wolverines stole down from Canada.

The oldest sites tended to be those at higher elevations, probably because these were the first to become usable as the Pleistocene...

When atazanavir was used with newer drugs, such as tenofovir or emtricitabine, the risk of birth defects remained higher, but there was no significant elevation in risk when atazanavir was used with older ARV drugs like zidovudine or lamivudine.

Compared with millet, barley is especially tolerant of cold and frost, making it ideal for high - elevation farming in Tibet, as Washington State University archaeologist Jade d'Alpoim Guedes pointed out in previous studies.

Over the past 100 years, small mammals in Yosemite, California, show range contraction at high elevations and range expansion lower down, as well as rearranged communities.

As their habitats heat up, pikas living at low elevations have one major shot at avoiding extinction: migrating to cooler, higher parts of the mountain.

Seems the bears snack on the fruits that are found at the foot of the mountains in spring and then make the climb to higher elevations to enjoy young leaves and buds and flowers, particularly as the season progresses.

Mission scientists speculate that perhaps methane in the atmosphere on Pluto behaves like water in the air on Earth, building up on the ground as frost at the highest (and coldest) elevations.

At higher elevations in Montana and Idaho, the shift was equally strong, with 75 and 78 percent of stations reporting a decrease in the percentage of precipitation falling as snow at 5,000 to 8,000 feet.

Also heavy precipitation has been associated with the lows, and higher elevations have seen heavy snowfalls as a result — especially in the mountain regions and Alps.

Snowpack accumulated at high elevations tends to be more stable and persist longer than at low elevations, largely as a result of colder temperatures at high elevations.

But on a planet with a warming climate, these same adaptations could spell the bird's doom: The ptarmigan's range is severely limited by its sole dependence on alpine habitat, which is shrinking as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, threatening to push the treeline — and the ptarmigan — to ever - higher elevations, until there's no more room to rise.

• At tree line, butterfly diversity is actually going up, as lower - elevation species react to the warming climate by moving upslope to higher, cooler elevations.

Collins A, Wilson T. Glaciated scoria cones as climate and erosion indicators: morphometric analysis of Erebus Volcanic Province, Antarctica, using high - resolution digital elevation data.

• Diversity among high - elevation butterflies is beginning to fall as temperatures become uncomfortably warm for them and, Shapiro says, «There is nowhere to go except heaven.»

The vast majority of water that enters Montana comes as rain or snow at higher elevations (MT DNRC 2014a, b, c, d; MT DNRC 2015).

Our lab examines basic and applied aspects of higher fungi, particularly in extreme environments such as the alpine life zone and high - elevation forests.