Sentences with phrase «in migration patterns»

That's a dramatic change in the migration patterns.
Changes in migration patterns are occurring as populations become displaced due to weather - related impacts.
Students do their own analyses of the differences in weather conditions that cause the changes in migration patterns.

Not exact matches

A lot of people say so based on myths and anecdotes, but an authoritative background study for the Mowat Centre Report on EI by Day and Winer found that «there is no evidence in the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the employment insurance system has altered internal migration patterns in Canada in a substantial manner.»
The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.
The Ukrainian crisis has triggered a redirection of migration patterns in the post-Soviet space, affecting both host countries and suppliers alike.
Study after study after study has shown no significant pattern of wealthy people moving from high - tax to low - tax states, and no noticeable change in the net migration rates of high earners between US states in the wake of changes in their relative tax rates.
A close examination of the flu's pattern of spreading found that it did not in fact coincide with the main wild bird migration routes.
Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen
Furthermore, the changes to the landscape that have resulted from European settlement in Tasmania may have indirectly altered devil population dynamics and migration patterns, possibly creating conditions conducive for transmissible cancer emergence and spread.
A recent scientific paper looking at Latin America lists «similar patterns of ecosystem recovery following rural - urban migration» in Patagonia, northwest Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras and the montane deserts and Andean tundra ecosystems of Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.
They also discovered interesting patterns, such as how the birds fly up to six times as fast during their northward flight than they do in their southward migration.
She kept feeding the new data into mathematical models that factored in the animals» age, migration patterns and disease prevalence in the population, among other things.
The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five - year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from over 100,000 people across five continents.
The paper represents a «critical synthesis of the existing scientific support for the patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of phenological changes in bird migration,» according to the study.
The results are «clear - cut» and confirm the migration patterns researchers had supposed based on archeological evidence, says population geneticist Lounès Chikhi of the French national research agency CNRS in Toulouse, France.
Any massive, long - term changes in their numbers could alter fish migration patterns, growth rates, and mortality, as well as change the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
«We're interested in understanding the historical relationships between many different human populations, and the migration patterns that have led to the peopling of the world,» he says.
This is the first time such a «retirement» pattern has been seen in fish that make this river - to - ocean migration, according to University of Washington - led research published in July in the journal Ecology.
Previously documented migrations of West African farmers to East Africa around 2,000 years ago, and then to southern Africa around 1,500 years ago, reshaped Africans» genetics — and obscured ancient ancestry patterns — more than has been known, the researchers report online September 28 in Science.
Petrov examined historical data going back to 1969 and determined that there are ongoing changes in the distribution and migration patterns of the wild reindeer due to climate change and human pressure.
The researchers found distinct patterns in the warbler's migration habits.
These data were evaluated in light of climate change and human migration patterns over the same time frame.
«Our results clearly show that migration routes and patterns are dynamic and change when the environment surrounding the geese changes,» says Professor Jesper Madsen, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, one of the participants in the international study.
But now, particularly over the past 10 years, we see that more and more geese have changed their migration pattern and stay in Denmark throughout the winter,» explains researcher Kevin K. Clausen, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, who led the recent international investigation.
The correlation is very strong, says lead author Francois Balloux of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling in London, and the pattern matches human migration out of Africa, which scientists believe started some 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.
But another kind of DNA might help them in their work — ancient human DNA that details migration and population patterns from that time.
The Kuroshio Current, similar to the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic, is a crucial factor in fish migration patterns and can slow or speed international shipping in the Pacific Ocean.
«Undoubtedly, a number of factors played a role in the prevalence in different regions, such as different food and migration patterns,» explains Christina Warinner, the senior researcher on the University of Zurich's study.
Scientists have reconstructed the ancestry of Helicobacter pylori, bacteria that live in half the human guts on Earth, and it corresponds to patterns of human migration.
In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next centurIn the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next centurin the next century.
By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
The Apex Predators Program, located at the NEFSC's Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, collects basic demographic information about sharks and their life histories by conducting research on their distribution and migration patterns, age and growth, reproductive biology, and feeding ecology.
This pattern suggests that goats followed humans in their early migrations.
BETHESDA, MD — By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
Southwest Monarch Study The Southwest Monarch Study researches the migration patterns of monarch butterflies in Arizona and the western U.S. Volunteers can join the study by tagging monarchs in the southwest states and reporting sightings.
It seems likely, the researchers wrote, that it has to do with migration patterns and the pressures that came with the availability or lack of availability of different kinds of foods in certain environments.
Historical events that influenced the patterns of migration and mating among our ancestors are reflected in our DNA — in our genetic relationships with each other and in our genetic risks for disease.
This is because genetic patterns in Turkey and the Middle East were re-shaped by migrations from surrounding areas after the Early Neolithic.
More than 77,000 spit samples have been analyzed by a genealogy company to trace and understand migration patterns in the United States.
Scientists have discovered a gene in monarch butterflies that is responsible for their long distance migration pattern.
Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns will lead to relative changes in agricultural production, possibly spurring rural to urban migration, or migration across borders to seek more favorable conditions.
A study conducted at Northeastern University analyzed the migration and mobility patterns of notable intellectuals in North America over the last 2,000 years.
This means the Basque area was largely unaffected by subsequent migrations that shaped genetic patterns elsewhere in Europe.
Secondly, the existence of SE - NW clinal patterns in Europe may reflect the accumulation of small migrations entering the continent rather than a single migratory event [17].
− It is thrilling to investigate what has happened in our early history, a time for which we have no written material to rely on, and how we can explain todays genetic patterns based on population history and migration.
Locally, declining sea ice is affecting the feeding and migration patterns of polar bears, whales, walrus and seals, and the people who live in the Arctic and rely on seasonal ice for their livelihoods.
Journey North, an Internet project funded by the Annenberg / CPB Project, involves thousands of students in monitoring migration patterns of butterflies and other species, sharing the data they compile via the Internet.
Changes in test - score performance could be due to broader patterns of economic growth or varying rates of in - migration among states and countries.
Friend talked about what animals they saw in what ecosystem and why those animals might be there, tying that discussion to learning objectives about ecology, migration patterns, and so on.
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