Sentences with phrase «revealing changes in ecosystems»

Each double - page spread in the first two - thirds of the book features a research project revealing changes in ecosystems — in the behaviors of butterflies and penguins, in the sizes of glaciers and sea levels, and in the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Findings published today in the journal Nature Climate Change reveal that water temperature has a direct impact on maintaining the delicate plankton ecosystem of our oceans.

Research published last year by Professors Cox and Friedlingstein showed that these variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide can reveal the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to future climate change.

Research in Nature Climate Change reveals that adaptation measures have the potential to generate further pressures and threats for both local and global ecosystems.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

Changes in the composition of pollen contents (revealing many species and ecosystems) during the ages (geological record) may show more subtle variances in climatic conditions.

Changes in the composition of pollen contents (revealing many species and ecosystems) during the ages (geological record) may show more subtle variances in climatic conditions.

A particularly interesting aspect of this work, to my eye, is how it reveals the potential for fast - motion responses of ecosystems to environmental change in the far north.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

For instance, the introduction to the Society's latest report reveals: «Changes in climate have significant implications for present lives, for future generations and for ecosystems on which humanity depends.»

Mosses are important members in many dryland ecosystems and the community changes observed here reveal how subtle modifications to climate can affect ecosystem structure and function on unexpectedly short timescales.

The new method will reveal valuable data that can be used in assessing ecosystems and anticipating how specific parts of the world will be affected by either short - or long - term climate changes.

In the A2 emissions scenario, roughly 37 % of extant ecosystems reveal appreciable changes by 2100.

In the B1 emissions scenario (Figure 4.3 b) about 26 % of extant ecosystems reveal appreciable changes by 2100, with some positive impacts especially in Africa and the Southern HemispherIn the B1 emissions scenario (Figure 4.3 b) about 26 % of extant ecosystems reveal appreciable changes by 2100, with some positive impacts especially in Africa and the Southern Hemispherin Africa and the Southern Hemisphere.