Sentences with phrase «rate of adaption»

While I agree that corals have a capacity to adapt to warming waters, it is my firm view that the rate of adaption will be too slow to prevent major loss of biodiversity at current levels and trends in -LSB-...]

I have got a question regarding the rate of adaption to new temperatures by plants and ecospheres in general.

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While we know that treeline can be climatically «elastic» in the space of both latitude and altitude, i.e., moving north and south and up and down with topography, this paper raises important issues about rates of ecological adaption, rates that are being tested by contemporary rates of change forced by human activities.

The trend in peak hottest years starting in 1998 and continuing on through 2005, 2010, and now 2014 is roughly 0.1 C per decade, as is illustrated in the graphic shown below, which is an adaption of the Ed Hawkins graphic referenced by David Apell several weeks ago in a comment he posted in response to the «Spinning the «warmest year»» article... As shown in the above graphic, if a trend of peak hottest years starts in 1998 and is then extrapolated at a rate of +0.1 C per decade out to the year 2035, the extrapolated trend just skirts the lower boundary of the model ensemble range interval described by IPPC AR5 RCP (all 5 - 95 % range).

The Australian Early Development Index is an adaption of the Canadian Early Development Instrument.6, 7 It has been the subject of numerous reliability and validity studies.8 — 13 Studies have also shown teacher ratings on the questionnaire to be more reliable and consistent than parent ratings, 11,14 and that these ratings predict later educational outcomes.8, 15 In addition to the developmental data, the AEDI census also provides information on any special needs the child might have, the child's care and educational arrangements prior to enrolling at school as well as demographic data, attendance and geographical information about where the child lives.