Sentences with phrase «shifts in food availability»

These effects can be indirect, via shifts in food availability or species interactions (e.g., predation and competition).

The shift in food availability due to climate fluctuations has already hurt the reproductive rates of the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

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That shift can help couples bring a desired venue into budget by avoiding high weekend food and drink minimums, or increase the chance of a venue or vendor's availability even in a peak season.

The researchers suspect that climate - driven shifts in the availability of acorns, one of the pigeon's primary food sources, might be responsible.

In recent years, nutrition has shifted away from dieting and towards a focus on quality, resulting in the greater availability of convenient and nutritious foods, like LuvIn recent years, nutrition has shifted away from dieting and towards a focus on quality, resulting in the greater availability of convenient and nutritious foods, like Luvin the greater availability of convenient and nutritious foods, like Luvo.

This cultural shift must also include the recognition, as the present study makes clear, that the problem of human population growth can be feasibly addressed only if it is recognized that increases in the population of the human species, like increases in the population of all other species, is a function of increases in food availability.»

Now we are a smart species and our agriculture science and production has substantially reduced famine on our planet and has given us more time than most species have before these population reductions occur (although global climate shift and higher energy costs are wildcards in food production and availability in the future).

Further shifts to the north are predicted in the future under climate change, she says, noting that there may be other impacts on food availability that are far less straight - forward to predict.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

Perhaps the fire frequency was a function of population density, cultural practices innovations, or other human - based factors that had nothing to do with temperature, such as war, peace, displacement, entrenchment, food preference shifts, food availability changes, evolution in customs, advances in ecological knowledge, population growth, etc..