Sentences with phrase «local habitats change»

«We literally put heaters around the forest floor and warmed the ant communities up to see what would happen so we could more precisely ask how extinction and colonization and occupancy of these local habitats change,» Pelini said.

Not exact matches

«What our results then mean is that if we keep splitting natural habitats into smaller and smaller pieces, we may not only lose a lot of species from the resultant fragments, but also change the structure and functioning of local food webs.»

Planting trees has the potential to restore degraded land, provide habitat for species, and combat climate change, all while benefiting local communities.

Lets see understanding the habitat and behavior of polar bears with the fact of there is local changes consistent with AGW and that mainstream scientists --

As the climate changes species will no longer suit their habitats, and those that can not move will be forced into at least local extinction.

Key elements include curbing human carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, improved control of local pollution sources, reducing coastal habitat destruction, and better preparing coastal human communities to withstand the amount of ocean acidification and climate change that is unavoidable.

Tree planting has multiple benefits: It creates productive habitat for biodiversity, strengthens relations among our partners and local communities, helps safeguard watersheds, and sequesters carbon to mitigate climate change.

Future changes in air temperature and precipitation are also projected to change stream temperature, which will impact the health and habitats of local ecosystems — more than many people realize.

Students in Laurie Solchenberger's class at Lincoln Elementary School worked with local Madison Audubon Society's education specialist, Carolyn Byers, and implemented a series of Climate Change lessons on climate changes, its causes, habitats impacted, and on possible solutions.

Organisms throughout the world, regardless of habitat, suffered similar rates of extinction, suggesting that the cause of the event was a global, not local, occurrence, and that it was a sudden event, not a gradual change.

Your support helps us fight habitat loss and climate change, working with local communities to conserve forests and prosper.

Thus, it is essential to consider the conditions in study species» habitats when applying global change scenarios to experimental designs, and in assessing how local baseline levels of temperature, pH / pCO2 and carbonate mineral saturation may change in a future ocean [24,26,39].

(03/23/2011) Local climate shifts caused by deforestation and land cover change are causing insects to migrate to higher — and cooler — habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Biotropica.