Sentences with phrase «local microclimate»
A "local microclimate" refers to the unique weather conditions found in a specific small area, like a park or a neighborhood. It can differ from the surrounding region due to factors such as nearby buildings, vegetation, or bodies of water. Full definition
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local wildlife, the change in the global average is an absolutely useless measure.
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For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local wildlife, the change in the global average is an absolutely useless measure.
This strong degree of correlation indicates that regional climate patterns, not local microclimates, are the primary control of glacier annual balance in the North Cascades.
Moreover, the presence of forest may modify local microclimate (evapotranspiration, rainfall generation, exclusion of invading grasses, shading of soil surface, and seedlings) sufficiently to favor the persistence of forest («microclimatic inertia»).
And as reported in the discussion on the coral adaptive bleaching hypothesis, coral are always shifting and shuffling their symbionts to maximize photosynthesis to best adapt to changing local microclimates.
This demonstrates that it is regional climate changes from year to year that control glacier mass balance, not local microclimates.
(2) If the heat island profile is that variable because of local microclimate, then it would seem that an unusually persistent «wind snap» towards the fjord for a week or two could easily create a large apparent monthly anomaly.
It is possible that any of these changes (or others) could have altered the local microclimate at these stations (a problem we discuss in this essay), or introduced some instrumental biases.
Chop down a forest or over graze the land and that impacts on the local microclimate.
As the larvae develop into mature polyps, coral typically keep the symbiont types best suited to the local microclimate and expel the others.
High - elevation sites lacking morning sunlight may be less temperature sensitive due to the local microclimate.