Sentences with phrase «organisms respond to changes»

We know that living organisms respond to changes in their environment.

Such organisms respond to changes in their environment — such as light and food — by moving, and if these movements can be harnessed, we can use them as motors.

«Our plan includes coastal observations, technology development, remote sensing using satellites, an observational network with moorings to measure CO2, [and] physiological research on how various organisms respond to changes.»

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There can be no creative change until persons begin to get a sense of their own power and responsibility — that is, the ability to choose to respond to their organism's real needs by taking action to meet them.

An organism has a dynamic equilibrium which allows it to assimilate and respond to a changing environment in order to preserve its unique identity.

For Polly and Lawing, rattlesnakes make a good model organism for tracking how species respond to climate change.

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

In all species where it has been shown to delay aging and the diseases of aging, it affects the regulation of energy and the ability of cells and the organism to respond to changes in the environment as they age.»

How do microbes respond to spaceflight and relocation, and do genetic changes occur in the organisms that could be passed to future generations?

Although it does not change the basic rules of evolution, holobionts do have a way to respond to environmental challenges that is not available to individual organisms: They can alter the composition of their bacterial communities.

So we've got to map not only the 3D location of the organisms, but the fourth dimension of time to understand how that community is changing and responding to environmental stimuli.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.

The team of scientists also note that organisms go through different developmental stages with different possibilities to respond to a changing environment.

Circadian Rhythms are «physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24 - hour cycle, responding primarily to light and darkness in an organism's environment.

Designed to evolve and change like a living organism that adapts and responds to its environment, it adopts the structure of a theatrical play developing over three acts to be staged over a five - month period.

«In responding to those rapid changes in climate, organisms will encounter a highly fragmented landscape that is dominated by a broad range of human influences,» the study said.

The Max - Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry contributes to the understanding of how living organisms — including humans - exchange fundamental resources like water, carbon, nitrogen and energy with their environment, and how this affects and responds to global climate and environmental change.

Ecophysiological process - Individual organisms respond to environmental variability, such as climate change, through ecophysiological processes which operate continuously, generally at a microscopic or sub-organ scale.

Other uncertainties include imprecise understandings of how complex ecosystems will respond to climate - and non-climate-induced changes and the extent to which organisms may be able to adapt to a changing climate.

Changes in ecosystem structure can occur when specific organisms respond to surface warming, acidification, changes in nutrient ratios resulting from changes in external sources of nutrients (atmosphere or rivers) and changes in upper trophic levels (fishChanges in ecosystem structure can occur when specific organisms respond to surface warming, acidification, changes in nutrient ratios resulting from changes in external sources of nutrients (atmosphere or rivers) and changes in upper trophic levels (fishchanges in nutrient ratios resulting from changes in external sources of nutrients (atmosphere or rivers) and changes in upper trophic levels (fishchanges in external sources of nutrients (atmosphere or rivers) and changes in upper trophic levels (fishchanges in upper trophic levels (fisheries).

In the past glacial cycles organisms and ecosystems responded to climate change by shifting geographical ranges and when unable to shift local populations died and at times entire species became extinct.

Richard is particularly interested in understanding how the marine biosphere and key organism traits, such as body size, responded to the major climatic and environmental changes of the past, particularly those associated with the key extinction and warming episodes of the Phanerozoic.