Sentences with phrase «major environmental changes»

Digging deep into tidal marshes one discovers their important role as recorders of major environmental change in the Hudson Valley.

Species undergo major changes in distribution and abundance, but show no evolution of morphological characteristics despite major environmental changes.

Geoarchaeological evidence of marshland destruction in the area of Rungholt, present - day Wadden Sea around Hallig Südfall (North Frisia, Germany), by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362 AD Geophysical and geoarchaeological investigations were carried out in the Wadden Sea of North Frisia (Schleswig - Holstein, Germany) to elucidate major environmental changes that considerably altered the coastal landscape since medieval times.

«The fog forests are living on the edge and are thus harbingers of major environmental changes,» Weathers says.

To understand what Kilduff and colleagues» conclusions about the NPGO means for salmon, we need to keep in mind that for thousands of years salmon have not only survived but flourished despite major environmental changes.

For example, foreign government elections could affect our trading partnerships; many world leaders are changing their attitudes towards international relationships (e.g. Brexit); major environmental changes are affecting people throughout the world; electronic hacking is changing global communications, etc..

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

The overall picture is that the main response to major environmental changes is individualistic movement and changes in abundance, rather than extinction or speciation.

«We are in the midst of a major environmental change that will continue to stress corals over the coming decades, so the lesson from this study is that there are these systems such as coral reefs that are sensitive to environmental change and can go through this kind of wholesale collapse in response to these environmental changes,» Cobb said.

«Not a lot was known about these lakes, despite their importance, and despite the major environmental changes that were going on there,» Michelutti says.

It describes some of the major environmental changes that have taken place in the Arctic and Antarctic in recent years and considers possible changes over the next century.

Whenever there are major environmental changes, it triggers an increase in fever - related hospitalisations.