Sentences with phrase «species respond to environmental changes»

«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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

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.»

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.

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.

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