Sentences with phrase «species respond to those changes»

Monitoring hummingbird populations during the peak of fall migration in the Chiricahua Mountains helps scientists foresee how these primary pollinators of more than 150 U.S. flowering plant species respond to changes in climate

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.

Not exact matches

But we have not learned to respond to slow changes with long - term effects such as the population explosion, the increasing extinction of species and the deterioration of the environment.

For Polly and Lawing, rattlesnakes make a good model organism for tracking how species respond to climate change.

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

Temperamental variation — call it personality — also helps a species survive in a volatile, supercompetitive milieu by ensuring that different individuals respond differently to changing conditions, so some will thrive.

«We proposed that these two species were responding to changes in pack ice,» Trivelpiece said, «ice - loving versus ice - avoiding.

There is great interest in understanding how species might respond to our changing climate, but predictions have varied greatly.

These insights can be useful, he said, for understanding how marine life will respond to climate change and for predicting the movements of species for which tracking data are lacking.

From a practical point of view, this means we will be unable to predict how species will respond to projected climate changes over next century.

In other words, trees show no predictable response to climate change, and respond individually rather than as communities of species.

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

«It's easier in places like the dry valleys to isolate the effects of climate change, or to isolate how one species responds to climate change in one way,» he said.

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

Species have begun to respond to current climate warming, but it remains unclear whether such changes will lead to persistence or decline.

Researchers have for decades used museum specimens to answer questions about how species diverge, where they move around the globe, and how they respond to changing conditions.

«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.

Understanding that species can evolve rapidly to local climates is important for predicting how invasive species spread and how native and non-native species alike will respond to climate change.»

New research examines how vertebrate species in the eastern United States ranging from snakes to mammals to birds responded to climate change over the last 500,000 years.

«Trees vary even within a species, and their microbes vary, and their microbes might help or hinder when the species responds to climate change,» she said.

Climate change is predicted to threaten many species with extinction, but determining how species will respond in the future is difficult.

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.»

New research led by ecologists at the University of York shows that certain species of moths and butterflies are becoming more common, and others rarer, as species differ in how they respond to climate change.

In all species where it has been shown to delay aging and the diseases of aging, it affects the regulation of energy and the ability of cells and the organism to respond to changes in the environment as they age.»

Leonardo Calle of Montana State University (formerly Florida Atlantic University) and his colleagues wanted to assess how wading birds respond to these changes, because different species face different constraints — longer - legged birds can forage in deeper water than those with shorter legs, and birds that are only active during the day have different needs than those that will forage day or night.

«Because symbioses are so common, understanding how symbiotic species interact and how they evolve will tell us a lot about ecosystems and how they will respond to climate change.»

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.

With mere fragments of DNA, the scientists can reconstruct entire genomes of these animals to better understand how species respond to rapid changes in the environment

«This is a species that has been logged historically and still is, so it certainly is important in terms of thinking about not only how our ecosystems are responding to changes in climate, but also in changes of the economics of forest management, as well,» Restaino said.

«Testing how species respond to climate change.»

Species within an ecological community may respond differently to climate change, meaning the competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites that a given species encounters under the new climatic conditions may also Species within an ecological community may respond differently to climate change, meaning the competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites that a given species encounters under the new climatic conditions may also species encounters under the new climatic conditions may also change.

Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate - driven extinction, or to predict its consequences for ecosystems.

Sax, who wasn't involved in the study, notes that predicting how species will respond to these changes can be even more difficult.

Some gaps in the research include getting a better understanding of the distribution of species and habitats, understanding how marine populations respond to stressors and looking at how changes in climate can affect individual species and ecological communities.

But our results show that we need to take into account the evolutionary dynamics of a species if we want to predict how it will respond to climate change.»

That's why it says it's about ``... how species might respond to our changing climate».

Studying how ecosystems respond and adapt to changes can help us understand what will happen in the face of species extinction due to human encroachment and climate change.

Despite considerable interest, we still have a lot to learn about BC salmon — factors that determine juvenile survival during migration, susceptibility to disease, as well as how the six salmon species will respond to climate change stressors.

Between 2009 and 2017, the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) investigated how different marine species respond to ocean acidification, how these reactions impact the food web as well as material cycles and energy turnover in the ocean, and what consequences these changes have for economy and society.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.

Fish species used in laboratory studies, such as zebrafish, sticklebacks, and mosquitofish, respond to changes in stripe and color patterns of their conspecifics, and these features have been associated to their shoaling preferences, mating choices, and social ranks, respectively [18], [48], [49], [51].

The researchers use computer models to forecast future ocean conditions such as surface temperatures, salinity, and currents, and project how the distribution of different fish species could respond to climate change.

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

Wild species have responded to climate change, with three - quarters of marine species shifting their ranges poleward as much as 1000 km [44], [103] and more than half of terrestrial species shifting ranges poleward as much as 600 km and upward as much as 400 m [104].

It is sad that it takes something like drowning bears and losing a species (yet another) to understand and respond to the magnitude of Human Induced Climate Change.

«The American pika may be an early - warning indicator of generally how alpine species may respond to contemporary climate change,» said Erik Beever, Ph.D., a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the past 16 years.

There is limited information regarding exactly how invasive species may respond to changes in the regional climate, resulting in medium confidence for that part of the key message.

Establishing marine protected areas would allow species to recover from overexploitation; higher numbers would give their populations and gene pools more resilience in responding to climate changes.»

And the insects do respond, even to subtle change: researchers four years ago noted that around 80 species of moth inside Finland's Arctic seemed to be coping with warmer summers.

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»