Sentences with phrase «major environmental stress»

Another major environmental stress for which population growth is directly responsible is degradation of coastal ecosystems.

These dinoflagellate blooms, which can be thought of as ancient red tides, are a sign of major environmental stress in the coastal zone possibly as a result of the increased runoff of water from the land.

Irrigated rice yields in Africa are often comparable to yields obtained in Asia, but there is a need for improved, high - yielding varieties, resistant to major environmental stresses, pests and diseases.

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Some were uneasy lest the statement slight concerns for justice — such as employment, majority / minority rights, or Third World development — in favor of a major stress on environmental or life - style issues related to energy.

At that time, environmental science was so new only a handful of colleges offered it as a major so I didn't have to stress too much when I chose the University of Vermont.

«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.

The plant hormone the biologists directly tracked is abscisic acid, or ABA, which plays a major role in activating drought resistance responses of plants and in regulating plant growth under environmental stress conditions.

Inflammation may be a major driver of chronic disease, including mental illness, and is promoted by sugar, stress, and environmental toxins.

With our highly stressed lives, poor diet and environmental toxins, adrenal gland imbalance will occur and can be a major undiagnosed underlying factor in many chronic illnesses.

Major contributors are long - term stress; dysbiosis (undigested food left in the intestinal tract to ferment); environmental toxins; gastrointestinal disease; impaired immune function; over consumption of alcohol, a clogged liver, and diet: too much sugar, simple carbohydrates, processed foods.

Current theories suggest that environmental stress may have been a major cause for the decline of Maya civilization.

Release from the combined environmental stresses of a frigid, glacial climate near sea - level and a major impact in low latitudes may have been a factor influencing subsequent Ediacaran biotic evolution.»

Such findings have been attributed to three major environmental influences on the development of EF; general cognitive stimulation (exposure to books and toys), psychological stress (household chaos and conflict), and parenting styles (responsive versus neglectful; Bernier et al., 2010; Farah et al., 2008; Schroeder & Kelley, 2009).