Sentences with phrase «respond to changing environmental»

One tantalizing possibility is that as these restless bits of DNA drift throughout the genomes of human brain cells, they help create the vibrant cognitive diversity that helps humans as a species respond to changing environmental conditions, and produces extraordinary «outliers,» including innovators and geniuses such as Picasso, says UC San Diego neuroscientist Alysson Muotri.

The discovery of the lakes in Greenland will also help researchers to understand how the ice will respond to changing environmental conditions.

Not exact matches

Whereas the Harvard group would respond to particular extreme cases of environmental problems, the WCC group would ask for a fundamental change in the way human beings look at nature.

Professor Paul Berryman will speak at Food Matters Live on Examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.

I hope to see you at my Food Matters Live seminar on 24th November, when I will be examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.

This approach could also tell conservationists how other animals and species might respond to future environmental changes and stressors.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

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.

Because of the way evolution works, it is impossible to predict how a given species will respond to environmental change.

So it is perhaps time to think more about how we will respond to the range of possible environmental changes.

«Evolution will fundamentally alter how species and ecosystems respond to environmental change,» Hendry says.

Debate over the tradeoffs and values of how to respond to climate change is appropriate for environmental education, Buhr and other educators say.

The study reflects a significant advance in the integration of research among scientists and historians, and points to the need for more interdisciplinary scholarship to better document and analyze how humans have related and responded to past environmental changes, says Marlon.

Cells can respond to a host of environmental vicissitudes such as changes in nutrients, bursts of hormones, or encroaching neighbors, for instance.

«With the potential negative effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long - term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

For example, the hippocampal place cell representation of location was previously found to respond continuously to changes in environmental shape alone.

More precisely monitoring dolphins with seafloor recordings could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long - term effects of 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.

Emma Dunne, from the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: «This is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken on early tetrapod evolution, and uses many newly developed techniques for estimating diversity patterns of species from fossil records, allowing us greater insights into how early tetrapods responded to the changes in their environment.»

«It illustrates well the difficulties facing local authorities and stakeholder groups, representing a spectrum of priorities, when attempting to respond to large - scale environmental change.»

The co-authors were «amazed» at this anatomy of the giant sequoia leaf that «indicates an ability to respond to local environmental signals» and furthers inquiry into the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.

This provides us with information about the mechanisms to colonize new sites that respond to environmental changes,» says Cardona.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

The study of distribution patters of species — called biogeography — is giving us insights into the way ecosystems respond to environmental change such as global warming.

«The researchers now plan to team up with other world - leading experts in cancer signalling based in Manchester including Professor Nic Jones, Director of MCRC and Cancer Research UK Chief Scientist who heads the Cell Regulation Laboratory, which studies how cells respond to sudden adverse changes in their surroundings, known as environmental stress.

Neither the selective pressure nor the evolutionary response could have been identified with the methods used by the majority of studies that examine how wild populations respond to environmental changes, which predominantly concentrate on changes in the phenotype.

The findings presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's Biennial Conference in San Francisco demonstrate that humpback foraging responds to environmental changes, and illustrates how marine mammals serve as sentinels of ever - changing ocean conditions.

«These findings opens the door for studying the geologic history of how these deep reefs evolved and responded to past environmental change,» said James Klaus, UM associate professor of geology and coauthor of the study.

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. Smarsh hopes her research will provide key information on bat movement ecology and behavior necessary to help determine how populations respond to environmental changes, such as disease, pollutants, hunting, and decimated food sources.

General seminar: Riikka Kinnunen - PhD Proposal: «The Ecology of Urban Wildlife: How do Species Respond to Rapid Environmental Change?»

MSCs have the capacity to detect changes in the body which are causing pain or dysfunction, and to respond and communicate with the local environmental needs to provide the correct tools needed for healing.

â $ œIt is well known that the immune system can detect and respond to pathogens, but these results highlight its capacity to sense and adapt to environmental changes, such as nutritional starvation, which cause cellular stress, â $ he says.

Many aspects of human health can be traced to the ability of cells to sense and respond to infection, injury or other environmental changes.

«As the world faces monumental health challenges related to climate change, there is a growing need for health professionals with the knowledge and skills to respond in a meaningful way,» says Jeffrey Shaman, director of GCCHE and associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Today's young people, as they move into adulthood, will face momentous issues of responding to environmental degradation, climate change and the role of human activity in causing or exacerbating global warming.

First introduced at the 2017 Frankfurt International Motor Show, the Smart Stream powertrains will allow Hyundai Motor Group to respond to global changes in environmental regulation and meet customer demand for fun - to - drive cars.

Psychoactive medications are sometimes used to complement other treatment recommendations, although these may not be necessary if the pet responds to behavioral and environmental changes.

Some cats respond to dietary changes and environmental modifications such as HEPA filters in the house.

Many cats will respond well to environmental changes alone whereas other cats may require a medical approach.

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To my satisfaction, the Times published my letter to the editor on this (responding to the «Eco-tecture» issue of the Magazine); to my dismay, they retained my criticism of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff of the sacrifice or changes in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters of the environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff» of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definitionTo my satisfaction, the Times published my letter to the editor on this (responding to the «Eco-tecture» issue of the Magazine); to my dismay, they retained my criticism of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff of the sacrifice or changes in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters of the environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff» of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definitionto the editor on this (responding to the «Eco-tecture» issue of the Magazine); to my dismay, they retained my criticism of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff of the sacrifice or changes in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters of the environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff» of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definitionto the «Eco-tecture» issue of the Magazine); to my dismay, they retained my criticism of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff of the sacrifice or changes in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters of the environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff» of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definitionto my dismay, they retained my criticism of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff of the sacrifice or changes in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters of the environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff» of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definition).

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

This first Bren School Environmental Research Initiative — SERI Fire — will facilitate collaboration among natural and social scientists, with the intention of filling this knowledge gap and developing new management strategies to prepare for and respond to wildfires in a changing climate.

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

RSA Arts & Ecology is a catalyst for the insights, imaginations and inspirations of artists who are responding to environmental changes and emergencies.

Understanding how individuals respond to environmental change is essential if we want to predict how animals will react to global warming and other human - driven habitat shifts.

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.