Sentences with phrase «insect damage increase»

But it's too simplistic to rely on forests to continue removing carbon from the atmosphere, the study says, noting that forest carbon sequestration is reversible if drought, wildfire and insect damage increase.

Not exact matches

Climate change impact analyses typically project increasing pest survival and crop damage with increasing temperatures (e.g., NCA 2014a), and wheat stem sawfly (WSS) may well be generally consistent with that pattern, but the following caveats help to show why generalizations across all landscapes in Montana, for all insect pests, are risky.

Scientists studying leaf fossils found greatly increased signs of insect damage during the last great global warming event around 56 million years ago.

Coming with the kinsect, a large insect that follows the hunter to provide buffs to increase damage, this long spear is nice to have if a player decides to hunt alone.

Not exactly persuasive evidence that the damage insects do to crops will increase significantly.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

IPCC Deja Vu: Feedback Ignored, Error Published — Mar. 2014 A research paper doesn't talk about increased crop damage by insects.

Once the growing season ends, shorter, milder winters fail to kill dormant insects, increasing the risk of large, damaging infestations in subsequent seasons.

When a home is unoccupied for a long period of time, the possibility for damage increases as vacant homes have an increased potential for vandalism, fire, flooding from burst pipes, being infested with insects or other vermin and liability issues.