Sentences with phrase «plants respond to changes»

The purpose of my research is to understand how plants respond to changes in their environment, such as increases in CO2 or global warming.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

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During your visit to Moose Hill's trails children will look for signs of the season and discover the delight of a walk in the woods as you observe how the plants and animals respond to seasonal weather changes.

For example, the amount of weedy non-native plants across all research sites increased, suggesting that the plant community responded more strongly to environmental changes caused by high - intensity wildfire than disturbances from logging.

Jennifer Barone wrote about how plants detect and respond to changes in the world around them and even communicate with their neighbors through chemical signals.

Plants are even sensitive to hot and cold, allowing them to respond to the weather by doing things like changing their growth rates and modulating their use of water.

An in - depth look at how plants respond to climate change shows mixed results for the phenomenon of «demographic compensation» as a way for plants to avoid severe population declines.

Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that understanding how plants respond to elevated temperatures is crucial for protecting our environment and food supply.

As a result, it is imperative that we understand how plant populations are responding to climate constraints now, and use that information to predict how they are likely to respond to climatic changes in the future.»

By describing the structure of these webs, scientists can predict how plants and animals living in an ecosystem will respond to change.

Monitoring hummingbird populations during the peak of fall migration in the Chiricahua Mountains helps scientists foresee how these primary pollinators of more than 150 U.S. flowering plant species respond to changes in climate

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

«The gene we studied (FLC) allows plants to respond to changes in the season.

Understanding how plants respond to heat stress is crucial for developing crops that can withstand rising average temperatures and more frequent heat waves under climate change.

The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how plants and animals will respond to global climate change and highlight the need to slow and prevent further warming.

As researchers from many fields realize just how much ancient DNA can tell them, the method is being applied to everything from the peopling of Europe to how plants and pathogens respond to climate change.

By identifying images with changing leaves, blooming flowers, and other easy - to - recognize features, citizen scientists can contribute to a better understanding of how plants are responding to climate change

Stuck where they are, plants have to adapt to their environments, responding to stresses like drought or pests by changing how they grow.

It's given scientists around the world critical cybertools to catalog and analyze how plants and animals have responded to changes in global climate going back 5 million years.

And if their crops fail — because of drought or plant diseases, which also respond to a changing climate — they may be forced to move to the city.

«Carbon respiration of microorganisms and plants may respond differently to future climate changes, which is why it's important to explore how each behaves in forests,» said Dr. Ben Bond - Lamberty, a scientist at the Joint Global Research Institute.

«We responded to this challenge by proposing to engineer maize viruses, aphids, and leafhoppers such that they can be deployed rapidly to change gene expression in mature maize plants.»

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

That's partly because different plants and animals will respond differently to threats like disease, pests, or climate change, but also because if one plant or animal falls victim to such challenges, others will be there to fill the hole left behind, helping to prevent the entire system from collapsing.

I have to admit that although I follow a mostly plant - based diet, my body responds very nicely to this change and seems to appreciate the juices.

And without leaving the classroom students can experience plants and animals responding to changes in the environment as day turns to night.

However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).

Chamovitz says that in our modern environment — with its global warming, changes in precipitation, and shifting populations — we need to learn from plants about how they respond to their environment and then adapt.

While this may not be the case in parts of California where plant ranges are still responding to the post-glacial conditions, human induced climate change is projected to be far greater than post-glacial change.

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

For example, cod and lobster fisheries south of Cape Cod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expected.

Over millennia, marine life have endured and responded to CO2 levels well beyond anything projected, and temperature changes that put coral reefs and tropical plants closer to the poles or had much of our land covered by ice more than a mile thick.

Living things seem to be responding to change in climate where the air temperature affects the lives of animals and plants.

There is also empirical evidence that plants, birds, fish, mammals and insects are responding to climate warming by changes in geographic and seasonal distribution.

Finally, in stomatal reconstructions, among other variables, one must be careful to choose plants that are known to respond well to changing [CO2] atm.

With their project Honey Bee Net, NASA and associated researchers are trying to answer questions such as: How will plant - pollinator interactions respond to climate and land use changes?

We've written plenty of times about how animals and plants are already responding to climate changes — flowering earlier, migrating later, etc — but it seems humans are already doing this too.

Tropical plant species may be sensitive to small variations of climate, since biological systems respond slowly to relatively rapid changes of climate.

Secondly, are you insane??? Tropical diseases will have a wider band around the earth with warming, bug infestations that destroy plants and trees are already having a field day, weeds are likely to overwhelm agricultural lands since they respond much better to increased co2 than do cultivated plants, weather patterns will change and everything dependent on weather will have to adjust etc. etc..