Sentences with phrase «migration patterns which»

Also, public adaptation could also change, such as reversing migration patterns which currently trend toward areas of risk.

Not exact matches

«Understanding which environmental cues link migration timing to patterns of global change is key to forecasting future responses of migration systems,» said Kelly.

19 A virus called HTLV, which has coevolved with humans for thousands of years, is being used to uncover prehistoric migration patterns.

The correlation is very strong, says lead author Francois Balloux of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling in London, and the pattern matches human migration out of Africa, which scientists believe started some 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.

− It is thrilling to investigate what has happened in our early history, a time for which we have no written material to rely on, and how we can explain todays genetic patterns based on population history and migration.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

In general terms a reversal of the PJS northward migration, with the PJS often south of the BI, a greater incidence of meridonal synoptic patterns, the ending of our regime of «barbecue summers» and mild winters, replaced with monsoon summers and cold winters, and the cessation of the almost continuous above average montly CET trend (which now appears to be cooling).

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.

Increasingly strong and complex global linkages: climate - change effects cascade through expanding series of international trade, migration and communication patterns to produce a variety of indirect effects, some of which may be unanticipated, especially if the globalised economy becomes less resilient and more interdependent (very high confidence).

Those are the results of United Van Lines» 39th Annual National Movers Study, which tracks customers» state - to - state migration patterns over the past year.