Sentences with phrase «respond to environmental changes by»

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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.

«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.

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.

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.

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 definitionBy 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 definitionby definition).

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:

«Sony has continued to take actions based on our «Road to Zero» environmental plan that aims for a zero environmental footprint by 2050, and curbing climate change is one of the four important perspectives * that we take into account when responding to environmental issues.

Sow doubt, make up statistics, call for an «open debate,» claim that you are being «silenced and ignored by the media and politicians,» claim that your opponents are just a «few bureaucrats and environmental activists,» not real scientists — those are the tactics that will be brought to bear in the coming months by the CCDs in their attempt to derail meaningful efforts to respond to global climate change.

The political, cultural and economic diversity that exists among Arctic regions today impacts how communities are affected by, and respond to, environmental change.

«If Trichodesmium responds negatively to the environmental changes forced upon the ocean by fossil fuel burning, it could have a large effect on our food web.»

Most of the energy devoted to discussing climate - change adaptation focuses on responding to the direct environmental risks of climate change, for example by switching crops, building flood defences, moving homes and building dwellings differently.

Last week, the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) held a conference aimed at responding to the ambitious target set by the Paris Agreement to «pursue efforts» to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 C.

According to Saarnisto (1986), small lakes respond to rapid environmental changes faster, but are more easily affected by local disturbances.

LG's Cine Effects are live, responding to environmental changes to maintain the look (something that's not needed with still filters), and color tuned by Hollywood cinematographers.

Influenced further by epigenomes, these changes are linked with impairment in the child's ability to respond to future biological and environmental stress, and increase the risk for physical and mental health disease later in life.49 - 52 This emerging research underscores the need to develop and test prevention and early, aggressive intervention strategies for children who have been victims of serious physical abuse.