Sentences with phrase «local extinction by»

Having variants of two novelty - seeking genes might help some warblers survive by making migration more attractive to them than to peers who risk local extinction by staying put, a study has found.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

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In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400 of the older catholic feeling for the corporate ministry of the local church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and birth but through a kind of rebirth in the solemn rededication of ordination in the descent of the Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the apostles.

The study projected that as many as 20 percent of lizard species worldwide could go extinct by 2080, and local extinctions — the disappearance of a population in one particular geographic location — could reach as high as 40 percent.

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

Among other examples of local and regional tipping points are the rapid collapse of coral reefs in the face of rising ocean acidity and the transformation of ecosystems by the extinction of a dominant species, or the introduction of a new one.

A corridor that is doing its job pushes back the probability of a local extinction — of island species winking out — just as trapped miners can be kept alive by tubes of air snaked from the surface.

A first - of - its - kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the local extinction of a dominant tree species, with likely cascading effects for other forest life.

However, the results showed that local extinctions varied by region and were almost twice as common among tropical species as among temperate species.

The new study, by Professor John J. Wiens from the University of Arizona, used these range - shift studies to show that local extinctions have already happened in the warmest parts of the ranges of more than 450 plant and animal species.

[14 — 17] Actually, Nico Dauphiné and Robert J. Cooper take its already - tenuous claims one step further, citing Hawkins» work (actually a 2004 conference paper that summarizes his dissertation [18]-RRB- as evidence that «the continuous predation pressure exerted by exotic predators in exponentially high densities can and has resulted in numerous local extinctions of continental land birds.»

Felines accompanying their human companions have gone on to prey on the local wildlife, and they have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.Jan 29, 2013 How many birds are killed by cats every year?

I'd say it'd be more apocalyptic (as per Dr. Venkman's «dogs and cats, living together» dictum) if the animals were migrating to environments * more * likely to result in their extinction;) Having said that, I acknowledge that a common view is that humanity is doing exactly that — not a physical migration, but an enforced anthropogenic man - handling of the entire biosphere towards a bad neighborhood in Earth's «state space», where we risk being stabbed by shadowy tipping points, mugged by run - away processes and distressed at the sight of an anoxic ocean vomiting over the local fauna.

Led by global paper giants APP and APRIL, the pulp, paper and palm oil industries are driving Riau's Sumatran tigers and elephants to local extinction in just a few years by destroying their habitat, the study found.

After all, this is the same bunch of guys and gals seeking to bring a rare breed of British sheep (the Bowmont) back from the brink of extinction, by developing a local market for their superfine wool.