Sentences with phrase «population density increased»

We were wandering around with super-smart phones, but no network to link too until population density increased.

In this, early humans «expanded to fill all usable land, and then intensified land use as population densities increased».

No matter what you want to insure or what part of the state you reside in, New York insurance quotes are determined by various risk factors; these risk factors increase dramatically as population density increases.

Not exact matches

Such speculations assume an almost automatic and inevitable urbanization stemming from material causes, a combination of increasing population density and new technologies («the agricultural revolution»).

Meanwhile, Georgia's population bloomed, increasing the density of state talent.

But due to climate change, increased building and greater population density the threat is growing.

Swarming among unicellular organisms often precedes sexual reproduction because it rapidly increases population density in a small area, whereas it would be much rarer for two choanoflagellates to spontaneously encounter each other and mate under normal conditions.

If the explosive increase of the Norwegian oyster populations is caused by locally produced larvae, reducing the density might be an efficient measure: simply pick and remove the oyster from production areas.

A combination of increasing human population density, better hunting methods and climate change may have reduced the availability of prey and pushed some wolves towards scavenging, which favoured tameness and smaller size.

«The Natufians lived at a time of many changes — a time when population density was rising and the struggle for land, food and resources was increasing.

In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

«Local politicians have sought to increase town centre populations by encouraging the supply of high density urban housing on almost every available plot of land.

Efforts to increase population density, for example, appear not to be a very effective strategy locally for reducing emissions.

Moreover, increased population density and changes in economics have meant that the progress of an epidemic will not necessarily follow the course nor move at the speed of historical «plagues» even up to the global influenza outbreaks of the twentieth century.

The model does also not take into account population density and migration, which could increase the transmission rates.

CrvA expression is activated by quorum sensing and increases as the population density of bacteria grows, the researchers found.

«It's perplexing,» says Stefan Walker of James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, «because as population density drops, more resources should be available and populations should increase.»

Although warmer winters favor an increased mean population size, density - dependent feedback can cause the local population to be less buffered against occasional poor environmental conditions (cold winters).

«Our paper shows that, since the 1930s, increasing population densities and cropland area have led to a decrease in area burned by wildfires and an associated decrease in wildfires CO2 emissions.»

«We show that the decrease in wildfires CO2 emissions associated with increasing population densities has led to an enhanced carbon uptake by land.»

In particular, the results indicate that, for a 10 unit increase in a state's search volume index for Match.com, there will be 1022 more cases of Chlamydia for females and 391 more cases of Chlamydia for males after controlling for population, race, age, income, education, and population density.

Because more drivers means more potential accidents and higher population densities generally lead to higher repair costs for vehicles as well as houses, the likelihood of an increase in Utah insurance costs is high.

The Northeast includes places where weight of snow and ice can cause loss, but it also places like New York City where theft and fire pose increased risk due to population density.

As the density of the Territory's human population increases so too does the Territory's cat population.

With increasing population density and more and more cars in the environment, the danger of being killed or badly hurt by a car is a constant threat to free - roaming cats and dogs.

If you wanted the global / regional / local averages to somehow provide a measure of average human misery due to increasing temperatures, then population - weighted or un-weighted averages will probably capture that, since the density of met stations is a reasonable proxy for population density.

Like the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts, the increasing population density and building of more and more infrastructure in harm's way will make hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones more tragic and deadly... everywhere!

Technology is the enabler that allows population densities to increase without destruction of quality of life.

As long as technology continues to progress in areas like public health, recycling, and effecient energy generation population densities can safely continue to increase in the First World.

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

They are forced to innovate, and some of those new skills may allow them to exploit resources not being used where the central population lives, so the central population density can actually increase somewhat when the immigrants arrive.

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.

-- The question of whether increased population leading to increased density does not seem silly to me: i) some aspects of the UHI do not depend on population density (Johnson); ii) there is a limit to how close people like to live to each other, sometimes enforced by housing codes.

A possible clue to the discrepancy is that the U.S. population increased at the same time, suggesting that it may be an artifact of greater tornado detection due to increases in population density, awareness of severe weather threats, and modern technological advances such as Doppler radar.

«For a lot of reasons, the population density along the coasts is increasing,» said Kelly.

Anyone who doubts that the population density of NYC has not increased in the last 30 years should look at Fig.

In short, tree densities usually plummet as the human population increases.

The population density then increases to at least 1 person per square kilometer as the hunter - gatherer cultures become more sophisticated and begin to develop agriculture and civilizations.

Using your logic (if you could call it that), every new day is unprecedented given the increases in population density..

A divergence phenomenon around ad 1800, expressed as an increase in TRW that is not paralleled by temperature and MXD, is most likely an effect of major changes in the density of the pine population at this northern tree - line site.

The apparent paradoxes of individual tree growth increasing with tree size despite declining leaf - level8, 9,10 and stand - level10 productivity can be explained, respectively, by increases in a tree's total leaf area that outpace declines in productivity per unit of leaf area and, among other factors, age - related reductions in population density.

Helama et al. (2004a, 2005) have shown that such a major increase in population density could affect the empirically determined growth curves used in normal RCS standardization.

«We highlight the fact that increasing individual tree growth rate does not automatically result in increasing stand productivity because tree mortality can drive orders - of - magnitude reductions in population density.

Between 1970 and 2010 coastal counties increased population density by 39 percent (excluding Alaska).

Growing population density on coastlines also increases the destructive potential of hurricanes.

Because more drivers means more potential accidents and higher population densities generally lead to higher repair costs for vehicles as well as houses, the likelihood of an increase in Utah insurance costs is high.

In general, the higher the population density, the higher your rates due to the increased likelihood of an auto accident.

Why Oklahomans are at an increased risk is uncertain, but it could be that the state's higher population density accounts for more damage due to widespread fires.

Risk factors like high crime rates, high population densities, age of structure, high occurrences of fires, and other situations all increase the likelihood of an incident will all raise your premiums.

The Northeast includes places where weight of snow and ice can cause loss, but it also places like New York City where theft and fire pose increased risk due to population density.