Sentences with phrase «plants during the last ice age»
«Similar to today's Giant Panda, the Cave Bears were therefore extremely inflexible in regard to their food,» adds Bocherens, and he continues, «We assume that this unbalanced diet, in combination with the reduced supply of plants during the last ice age, ultimately led to the Cave Bear's extinction.»
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They dated a subset of the bryophytes and found that the plants ranged in age from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th centuage from 404 to 614 years old, confirming that were frozen during the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th centuAge, a period of cooling lasting a few hundred years, which ended in the 19th century.
A study evaluating the origins of shrubs and herbs on a group of islands in the Arctic Circle finds that seeds arrived from hundreds of kilometers away to restore plant communities lost during the last ice age — all in a matter of a few thousand years.
The results of this 20 - year study show that animal and plant communities were much more changeable during the ice age than they have been during the last 12,000 years of interglacial climate in which we live today.
Located between Greenland and Russia, Svalbard experienced a near - complete loss of its vegetation during the last ice age and was quite sparse even 10,000 years ago, but today it is home to a thriving plant community.
The island escaped glaciation during the last ice age, and now has the highest level of biodiversity in the high Arctic, with an astonishing variety of plant life.
Global levels of CO2 during the depths of the last ice age resulted in severe starvation for plants.
CO2 levels during the last Ice Age were so low that many plants were in danger of dying for lack of one of their basic nutrients, CO2.
Low levels of it came close to finishing off plants and indirectly animals during the last Ice Age.