Sentences with phrase «larger terrestrial»

The mission is also focusing on larger terrestrial planets that have two to 10 Earth - masses, or 1.4 to 2.2 times its radius.

The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.

The largest terrestrial mammal 200 years from now could well be the domestic cow, Smith's research suggests.

The wildebeest migration is the largest terrestrial migration on the planet, and others of its kind have largely disappeared as humans have killed off animals or cut off their migration routes.

A scientist investigating coconut crabs in a remote Indian Ocean archipelago found evidence that the crabs, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrates, make terrifying sneak attacks on seabirds.

The monster in this horror - film scenario is a coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, which has a leg span wider than a meter and can weigh more than four kilograms.

The current extinction of many of Earth's large terrestrial carnivores has left some extant prey species lacking knowledge about contemporary predators, a situation roughly parallel to that 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, when naı̈ve animals first encountered colonizing human hunters.

While convergently evolving many features seen in large terrestrial mammals, such as upright, columnar limbs and barrel - shaped trunks, sauropods evolved some unique features, such as the extremely long necks and diminutive heads they are famous for.

Beyond wildlife concerns, Canada's boreal forest, which stretches from coast to coast, comprises perhaps the world's largest terrestrial storehouse of carbon dioxide, so it is critical to keep it intact to help mitigate global warming.

Another, a flattened invertebrate called an isopod, is the largest terrestrial isopod known in Europe.

If this trend continues into the future researchers warn, the largest terrestrial mammal in 200 years will be the domestic cow.

Olympus Mons soars 15 miles (24 km) above the surface, dwarfing the largest terrestrial volcano, Mauna Loa, which is just 6 miles (9 km) high, including the portion of the volcano that extends underwater to the sea floor.

Human migration out of Africa coincided with a dramatic reduction in the size of mammals, according to researchers who say in a couple hundred years the largest terrestrial mammal could be the domestic cow.

We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»

But in this age of space - based telescopes, you may have wondered how a ground - based observatory like TMT (or some of the other next - generation large terrestrial telescopes) will get past the challenges of being on the ground instead of up in orbit.

For 20 Million Years, the Diversity of Large Terrestrial Mammals Depended on Plant Growth (15/09/2016) For more than 20 million years, the ups and downs of diversity in terrestrial large mammals were determined by primary production, i.e. net production of plant biomass.

The volcano's last violent activity in 1991 was the 2nd largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century, and has created a magnificent crater lake as well as altering the entire landscape.

[56] Among these many spaces, some of the most notable are the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park, Spain's largest natural park and the second largest in Europe, the Sierra Nevada National Park, Doñana National Park and Natural Park, the Tabernas Desert, and the Cabo de Gata - Níjar Natural Park, the largest terrestrial - maritime reserve in the European Western Mediterranean Sea.

A Large Terrestrial Carbon Sink in North America Implied by Atmospheric and Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Data and Models, Science 282: 442 - 446, 1998.

(1) I don't think there are any known mechanisms that would explain having nearly so large terrestrial sink in N. America.

The existence of this oceanic carbon pump also raises questions about the need for a large terrestrial carbon sink in the Northern Hemisphere, as postulated by Tans et al. 3, to balance the present global carbon budget.

The team studying the data - drawn from expert fields across the globe - was attempting to assess the impact of climate change one of the planet's largest terrestrial stores of carbon.

LONDON, 13 April — Greenland — the largest terrestrial mass of ice in the northern hemisphere — may be melting a little faster than anyone had guessed.

Amazon forests represent the world's largest terrestrial biome and potentially the tropical ecosystem most vulnerable to abrupt change in response to future climate change in concert with agricultural development (e.g., Cox et al., 2000; Lenton et al., 2008; Zelazowski et al., 2011).

«Soil respiration, RS, the flux of microbially and plant - respired carbon dioxide (CO2) from the soil surface to the atmosphere, is the second - largest terrestrial carbon flux.

The world's soils act as the largest terrestrial carbon sink, reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

One of the largest terrestrial biomes, deserts cover 27.7 Mkm2, comprising extra-polar regions with mean annual precipitation < 250 mm and an unfavourable precipitation to potential evaporation ratio (Nicholson, 2002; Warner, 2004; Reid et al., 2005).

Not exact matches

[246][248] Tourism Landmarks, National Border, Region and Terrestrial plain of the 4th Republic of Ghana Coastal Plain Accra, Apam, Cape Coast, Elmina, Kakum National Park, Kokrobite, Nzulezo, Sekondi - Takoradi, Ada Foah The Gulf of Guinea coastal plain with the seat of government and capital city, several castles and forts and the best preserved rainforest in Ghana Ashanti - Kwahu Koforidua, Kumasi, Obuasi, Sunyani Forested hills and the ancient Kingdom of Ashanti Volta Basin Tamale massive and world's largest Lake Volta, the river system that feeds it and Ghana eastern border crossing Northern Plains Wa, Bolgatanga, Mole National Park Savanna plains and north Ghana trade route and border crossing

The second relationship, Cope's rule, holds that terrestrial mammals tend to evolve toward larger body sizes.

Take out the dinosaurs and in 10 or 15 million years mammals had evolved into all sorts of large forms and dominated terrestrial ecosystems.

Young's earlier research on Palmyra's terrestrial systems produced a large data set that predated the rat eradication.

In the late 1980s Philippe secured time on a large radio telescope near the Loire Valley and permission to use it as a transmitter of terrestrial signals rather than a receiver of celestial ones.

Some show no appreciable terrestrial climate change; others find cooling of up to 8 degrees and large changes in seasonality.

After the mass extinctions of the Cretaceous, many terrestrial ecosystems were dominated by large flightless birds.

«If insects were gone, you would break a large part of the terrestrial food chain,» says Wilson.

Today, there is no modern terrestrial ecosystem like that of ancient Abaco, with reptiles filling the roles of largest herbivore and carnivore.

To better understand the likelihood of such a scenario in the Earth - Moon system's origin, Richard C. Greenwood and colleagues analyzed the oxygen isotopic compositions of a large set of lunar and terrestrial samples.

Loss of large bodied terrestrial and aquatic fauna may have had a huge impact on systems and suggests many trophic cascades that formerly arose fromtop predators have vanished.

Now, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 million miles above the sun's surface — the equivalent of 12 solar radii.

These exoplanets — terrestrial and larger planets orbiting other stars — are detected with help from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which launched in March 2009 with the goal of using the transit technique to detect exoplanets.

Each odor - detecting neuron (referred to as olfactory sensory neuron from here on), chooses a single odorant receptor gene from a fairly large number of options that are split into class I (fish - like) and class II (terrestrial - specific) odorant receptors.

As no other taxonomic group contains terrestrial animals in the size classes of the large modern mammals, the functional loss of large mammals can rarely be compensated, leading to permanent ecosystem changes [49].

However, these valley networks are less developed than typical terrestrial drainage systems, with the Martian examples lacking small - scale streams feeding into the larger valleys.

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer han the Mercury to Sun distance) around 107 Piscium — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity technique of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Upsilon Andromedae A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Iota Persei as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

It has sometimes been argued that the earth's biosphere (in large part, the terrestrial biosphere) may have the capacity to sequestor much of the increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere associated with human fossil fuel burning.

So, if you take Pluto, Charon, and Triton, these are three of the 10 largest bodies in the Kuiper Belt and they are each very different from one another, just as the terrestrial planets — Venus, Earth and Mars, and Mercury — are very different.

It is also thought to have had the largest bite forces of all terrestrial animals — but until now scientists did not know just how strong its huge jaws were.