Sentences with phrase «landscape scale changes»

This landscape scale changes from forest decline will affect hydologic dynamics at the top of watersheds.

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The energy landscape is changing from centralized, large - scale power generation to a network of often independently owned and operated power producers.

Symptomatic of a broader shift internationally, the crypto landscape in Dublin has changed rapidly, and with an enthusiasm perhaps disproportionate to the city's scale.

Natural England commissioned report NECR149 «The role of landscape and site scale characteristics in making species populations resilient to climate change and extreme events» http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5849831096451072 BASC white paper «The role of shooting in landscape - scale land management» http://basc.org.uk/business-intelligence-unit/what-we-do/white-papers/

Until now, those landscape changes have never been studied on a national or international scale, Schimel said, adding that research suggesting a climate impact, either global or local, is «kind of a new thing.»

The resulting large - scale changes to the landscape have diminished the natural resources and impacted vegetation and wildlife populations.

Similar large - scale landscape changes are evident across the Arctic including in Alaska, Siberia and Scandinavia, the researchers wrote in a paper published in the journal

Large - scale landscape change — loss of wildflower - rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

The study also shows that the scale of landscape variation, in comparison with a species» dispersal distance, changes how much biodiversity can emerge.

I was not aware when I started, because it changes how you perceive a human body or an actor — the scale, the relationship between the landscape.

Any larger - scale environmental changes can be achieved once the staff have the necessary knowledge and understanding to make informed judgements on the purchase of equipment and landscaping, if necessary over a period of several years, once a play policy has been agreed and a proper action plan has been devised.

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policy.

The collage process allows me to reorient the foreground, midground, mountain, and sky organization characteristic of landscape painting and reconceive it as a dynamic that changes at every scale of time and place.

Bridging three generations and shaped by distinctive historic events, the large - scale tableaux of Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas open compelling perspectives on Black culture and representation in an ever changing social and political landscape.

Sometimes dubbed India's Damien Hirst, Subodh Gupta is one of India's leading contemporary artists, who creates mainly large - scale sculptures and installations (from stainless steel Indian kitchenware and other found objects) that address the country's changing social landscape.

Looking for more subtle ways to respond to the changing political and economic landscape of India, Sheela Gowda moved away from painting into large - scale installation work in the early 1990s.

Natural, large - scale climate patterns like the PDO and El Niño - La Niña are superimposed on global warming caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and landscape changes like deforestation.

The problem is really that SW assume that all climatic fluctuations in the 17th to the 19th centuries to solar activity, and hence neglect factors (natural forcings) such as landscape changes (that the North America and Europe underwent large - scale de-forestation), volcanism (see IPCC TAR Fig 6 - 8), and internal variations due to chaotic dynamics.

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

Unfortunately, «large scale systematic biases» from urbanization and landscape changes are precisely what's at issue and BEST's slicing methodology does not directly bear on this problem.

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

After reading «Landscapes and Cycles: an Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism», I am convinced that Jim Steele's view of climate change caused by multiple factors, including naturally occurring cycles between warmth and cold in the world's oceans and changes in land use on a local scale, are a much more realistic explanation than the prevailing hypothesis.

Interaction of fire, climate and vegetation change at a large landscape scale in the Big Woods of Minnesota, USA

Similar large - scale landscape changes are evident across the Arctic including in Alaska, Siberia and Scandinavia, the researchers wrote in a paper published in the journal Geology in early February.

The effects of land - use change on species through landscape fragmentation at the regional scale may further exacerbate impacts from climate change (Holman et al., 2005a; Del Barrio et al., 2006; Harrison et al., 2006; Rounsevell et al., 2006).

Attempts to extend current global models to coastal ecosystems may yield spurious results, unless these models capture other relevant processes, such as regional watershed processes and changes in landscapes at the ecosystem level, which are not tractable at the global scale.

Our paper explores how these changes appear when seen locally, on a more modest scale, amid the familiar landscapes of England,» explained Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, one of the authors of the study.

Big - data architecture that scales efficiently, both horizontally, and vertically, and self - optimizes to meet growing enterprise data volumes and the dynamically changing litigation landscape inside large organizations.

You're reading this because your ancestors survived a brutal competition of sexual politics, this involves deceit and perceiving deceit, and this makes it an extremely non-trivial task to change minds at scale reliably in a competitive landscape.

As consumers were ready to upgrade from their Galaxy S3s, the mobile landscape had dramatically changed — HTC was building beautiful phones completely out of metal with scaled - back software, LG had its revitalized G series, Motorola was back with a fresh take on smartphone design and software, and a cavalry of small manufacturers was pushing everyone to do better.

The crypto landscape in Dublin has changed rapidly, and with an enthusiasm perhaps disproportionate to the city's scale.

The changing landscape of real estate technology is something investors should think about on a bigger, broader scale: how are new innovations, new startups, and new technologies changing how we do real estate on a grand scale?