Sentences with phrase «multiple climate stressors»

Not exact matches

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

Also, I'm not sure I see strong support for this concluding sentence: «Although polar bears have persisted through previous warm phases, multiple human - mediated stressors (e.g., habitat conversion, persecution, and accumulation of toxic substances in the food chain) could magnify the impact of current climate change, posing a novel and likely profound threat to polar bear survival.»

Climate change is prominently featured as one of these multiple stressors (as, for marine environments, is ocean acidification, which Ms. Kolbert calls climate change's «equally evil twin.&Climate change is prominently featured as one of these multiple stressors (as, for marine environments, is ocean acidification, which Ms. Kolbert calls climate change's «equally evil twin.&climate change's «equally evil twin.»)

«This analysis combines the results of all these experiments to study the combined effects of multiple stressors on whole communities, including species interactions and different measures of responses to climate change.»