Sentences with phrase «species responds to climate change»

«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.

«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.

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

«Testing how species respond to climate change.»

For their study, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries West Coast Region used hydrophone surveys in order to better understand how marine species respond to climate change.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

«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.»

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

«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.»

Her butterfly study got her a spot on the UN climate panel, where she got «a quick and hard lesson on the politics» when policy makers killed the words «high confidence» in the crucial passage that said scientists had high confidence species were responding to climate change.

For example, cod and lobster fisheries south of Cape Cod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expected.

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].

And although species have throughout geological time responded to climate fluctuations, one of the primary concerns of conservation biologists is the current rapid rates of human - caused climate change.

At best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualistically).

In the past glacial cycles organisms and ecosystems responded to climate change by shifting geographical ranges and when unable to shift local populations died and at times entire species became extinct.

Tropical plant species may be sensitive to small variations of climate, since biological systems respond slowly to relatively rapid changes of climate.

Verges stated that the biggest impact of climate change is not the direct effect of the temperature on a particular species but the way species respond to each other.