Sentences with phrase «of elevation gradients»

Though some high - elevation species are threatened, protection of elevation gradients allows other species to respond via migration.

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SEGA will create a system of 10 gardens along a steep elevation gradient in northern Arizona.

The study sites were spread out across 5,000 square miles of pinyon - juniper woodlands in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, to capture the wide range of elevation and soil gradients these trees take root in.

In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.

SEGA will create a system of 10 gardens along a steep elevation gradient in northern Arizona.

Eventually, the outward - directed pressure gradient force balances the apparent force due to the Coriolis effect and the water parcels flow around the gyre and parallel to contours of elevation of sea level.

A balance develops between the Coriolis force and the force arising from the horizontal water pressure gradient such that surface currents flow parallel to the contours of elevation of sea level.

Trying to figure out the increasing frequency of heavy precipitation over western Himalayas, the scientists said their analysis suggested that pronounced warming over the Tibetan plateau in recent decades due to elevation dependency of climatic warming signal favoured enhancement of meridianal temperature gradients.