Sentences with phrase «on migration patterns»

There even exists data on migration patterns for each student in the survey that could provide a much more nuanced view of where and when the NLSY97 cohort is moving.

Shearwaters are offshore birds that live over water for months at a time in both summer and winter depending on the migration pattern.

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If it goes on long enough, the next wave of new home buyers may not remember the bursting of the last bubble, and migration patterns may shift again.

A lot of people say so based on myths and anecdotes, but an authoritative background study for the Mowat Centre Report on EI by Day and Winer found that «there is no evidence in the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the employment insurance system has altered internal migration patterns in Canada in a substantial manner.»

Today, new tagging methods are quickly shedding light on what scientists once called the «lost years» — the early years of a sea turtle's life when their migration patterns were mostly unknown.

Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen

The results are «clear - cut» and confirm the migration patterns researchers had supposed based on archeological evidence, says population geneticist Lounès Chikhi of the French national research agency CNRS in Toulouse, France.

Studies on animals with mating or migration patterns that revolve around lunar cycles could also illuminate the underlying biological drivers as well as the evolutionary benefit of having a moon - synced clock.

Also last year, interested amateurs photographed tides on low - lying stretches of the California coast to help predict the effects of climate change; they also checked up on local patches of milkweed, prime real estate for monarch butterflies, to keep tabs on the insects» migration patterns.

Eastern North America is home to a small population of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), but despite their potential vulnerability to habitat loss and other threats, little information has been available on the patterns of their annual migration.

«Undoubtedly, a number of factors played a role in the prevalence in different regions, such as different food and migration patterns,» explains Christina Warinner, the senior researcher on the University of Zurich's study.

Scientists have reconstructed the ancestry of Helicobacter pylori, bacteria that live in half the human guts on Earth, and it corresponds to patterns of human migration.

Analysis of the images provided data on sex - ratio bias, site fidelity and aggregation, hotspot sites, size and migration patterns of the animal — details that improve scientists» understanding of the species and help conservation efforts to protect them and their environment.

The Apex Predators Program, located at the NEFSC's Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, collects basic demographic information about sharks and their life histories by conducting research on their distribution and migration patterns, age and growth, reproductive biology, and feeding ecology.

Axel Timmermann and Tobias Friedrich constructed a numerical model that quantifies the effects of past climate and sea - level change on global human migration patterns over the past 125,000 years.

− 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.

Locally, declining sea ice is affecting the feeding and migration patterns of polar bears, whales, walrus and seals, and the people who live in the Arctic and rely on seasonal ice for their livelihoods.

Light pollution is a growing problem that has adverse biological effects on plants and animals, particularly birds whose breeding and migration patterns are disrupted

We know, however, that both state migration patterns and the skills of interstate migrants are likely to differ depending on people's educational background, so we estimate NAEP scores separately for workers with different levels of educational attainment.

Friend talked about what animals they saw in what ecosystem and why those animals might be there, tying that discussion to learning objectives about ecology, migration patterns, and so on.

One school used Auld Reekie to focus on Victorian housing, whereas another school used the census database to illustrate patterns of migration.

Throughout her career, Dr. Gross has also taken opportunities to study and work on elephants in the wild, completing an expedition to track migration patterns in Africa as well as research on behavior and vocalizations in Nepal.

Sooty shearwaters breed on islands near New Zealand, Australia and Chile during September and October before following a figure - 8 migration pattern through the Northern Hemisphere and then southward again — passing through Monterey Bay in summer and early fall to feed.

The large number and undisturbed condition of archeological sites on the islands are shedding light on coastal migration patterns of the earliest Americans and their subsistence in the marine environment.

The migration is dependent on rainfall patterns.

In recent years I have focused on changes in animal husbandry, dwindling wilderness habitats, and new patterns of animal behavior and migration.

Learn about Glyndor Gallery exhibitions on a tour led by Wave Hill's Curatorial Fellow.Avifauna: Birds + Habitat features artworks that delve into the relationship between birds and their habitats — from the role birds play in propagating plants to changes in how natural and built environments affect migration patterns.

Deliberately installed in a wavy pattern in keeping with the theme of the piece, related to human impact on bird migration patterns.

The Inupiaq people have lived here for some 4,000 years, subsisting on the bounty of nearby seas, rivers, and fields, but now animal and bird migration patterns are changing.

Some of this variation may have to do with recent migration patterns and world energy trade networks, and we suggest that further evaluation of historical effects on these relations may help us to better understand these patterns.

The impacts associated with these changes are both positive and negative, and are most pronounced in relation to the migration patterns, health and range of animals and plants that indigenous groups depend on for their livelihood and cultural identity.

changing migration patterns of birds and other animals that affect by direct means (foraging, excrement) and indirect means (control of pests, affects on populations of beneficial insects such as bee populations and so on) 5.

Those papers take nothing into account regarding disease, pestilence, late frosts, variability in pollination, changing migration patterns of birds and other animals that can have both positive (fertilizer, elimination of pests) and negative (foraging) effects on the growth of the trees.

Now we have poor hunting conditions in the Bering Strait touted as evidence that «walrus migration patterns have changed» with the implication that this is because ``... the past eight years have had the eight lowest amounts of summer sea ice on record» due to man - made global warming.

Consider the facts: the climate system is indicated to have left the natural cycle path; multiple lines of evidence and studies from different fields all point to the human fingerprint on current climate change; the convergence of these evidence lines include ice mass loss, pattern changes, ocean acidification, plant and species migration, isotopic signature of CO2, changes in atmospheric composition, and many others.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

Like all other science, climatology is data - driven, and the data is constantly flooding in: measurements of change in bird - migration patterns; details of ocean temperatures and wind pro?les; measurements of the calcification of coral, the ripening of grapes, the retreat of glaciers, and so on.

This report explores three significant labour market changes: employers and workers are increasingly taking up less rigid working patterns, skilled migration is on the rise, and new technology is raising questions about who will do the work of tomorrow and what that work will look like.

Last fall, the Pew Research Center released an interactive map on patterns of global population migration, making it easy to visualize the...

Focused on emerging opportunities, one panel highlighted migration patterns, defined suburban types and talked decelerating urban rent growth.

It is important to note that these are not investors obsessed with chasing discounted properties, but long term investors focused on the fundamentals of population growth, migration patterns, demographics, employment strength, quality of life, cost of living and responsible governance.

United has tracked migration patterns annually on a state - by - state basis since 1977.