Sentences with phrase «increased human disturbance»
Previously it was used as a nesting site by Laughing Gulls, but due to increased human disturbance they abandoned nesting in 1990 and moved to a nearby caye.
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Her current work examines which bee species are most vulnerable to human disturbance, and explores in more detail whether both rare native bees and efficient pollination services can be restored by increasing the diversity of flowering plants.
In a recent study of human couples, social psychologist Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah observed minor withdrawal - like symptoms, such as irritability and sleep disturbances, along with an increase in cortisol in subjects after they were separated four to seven days.
And it's something that humans can actually help ecosystems like coral reefs to build up, Bozec says: «You can manage the reef at a local scale to try to give to the reef the best chance to recover when faced with these increasing disturbances.»
And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.
Key uncertainties involve: 1) the degree to which increases in evapotranspiration versus permafrost thaw are leading to drier landscapes; 2) the degree to which it is these drier landscapes associated with permafrost thaw, versus more severe fire weather associated with climate change, that is leading to more wildfire; 3) the degree to which the costs of the maintenance of infrastructure are associated with permafrost thaw caused by climate change versus disturbance of permafrost due to other human activities; and 4) the degree to which climate change is causing Alaska to be a sink versus a source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Also, the species has shown some susceptibility to human disturbance — a threat that may increase substantially with increased shipping and infrastructure at high latitudes.