Sentences with phrase «species than climate»

«Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming».

Not exact matches

Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.

Findings in the new report warn that more than 40 percent of the species included in the study show «high vulnerability» to climate change.

It says that climate forces on species are stronger than land - use impacts.

The climate is changing faster than many species can adapt, forcing them to move to new habitats and drastically altering their range, according to new research.

The authors examined the effects of climate change on more than a thousand species, including those that live on reefs and those that live in open - water habitats.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

The authors found that over 50 % of bird species surveyed are projected to lose more than half of their current geographic range across three climate change scenarios.

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

More than 100 species exist, and almost all of them have been decimated by disease, climate change, habitat destruction or some combination of these threats.

Predictions that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of more than one - fifth of plant and animal species before the end of the century have often come under fire, and not just from climate - change deniers.

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

«They're a good example of a species that will likely adapt to global climate change better than other less behaviorally flexible whales,» Pyenson says.

By 2100, climate change could also result in the loss of more than half of African bird and mammal species, a 20 - 30 % decline in the productivity of Africa's lakes and significant loss of African plant species.»

«Climatic changes are threatening highly prized native trout as introduced rainbow trout continue to expand their range and hybridize with native populations through climate - induced «windows of opportunity,» putting many populations and species at greater risk than previously thought,» said project leader and USGS scientist Clint Muhlfeld.

Threats to wildlife survival, such as habitat loss and climate change, tend to strike some species harder than others, and the threat of chytrid, a deadly amphibian fungus, appears to be no different.

Density estimates provide significantly more information about species» response to climate change than only studying their ranges, which has been standard practice in these kinds of studies until now.

In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously sClimate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously sclimate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

The worry is that the rate of current and future climate change is more than species can handle naturally.

Although global warming is likely to change the distribution of species, deforestation will result in the loss of more dry forests than predicted by climate change damage.

Bergmann's rule holds that populations of a species in colder climates — generally located at higher latitudes — have larger body sizes than populations in warmer climates, which are usually at lower latitudes.

This domino effect is a particular threat to animal species that only interact with a small number of plant species, since they are more sensitive to climate change than generalists.

Tropical deforestation and climate change are expected to have serious negative effects on most tropical species, but few species have been studied for more than a few years, and they are usually studied in a single site.

The date of the impact, estimated at slightly less than 66 million years ago, converges with the hypothesis that worldwide climate disruption in this period caused a mass extinction event in which 75 % of plant and animal species on Earth suddenly became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

Together with his colleagues, he modeled the vulnerability of more than 700 European plant and animal species to future climate change.

On average, mammals living in warmer climates collected mutations 50 percent more quickly — that is, they evolved 50 percent more rapidly — than their sister species in cooler regions.

«Some marine species more vulnerable to climate change than others.»

If the researchers incorrectly estimated a 200,000 - year - old salamander species to be 2 million years old, then their result was off by a factor of 10, making the salamander's rate of evolution 20,000 times slower than climate change instead of 200,000 times slower.

In a study published September 13 in the journal Science, researchers from the U.S. and Canada suggest that climate velocity — the rate and direction that climate shifts in a particular region or landscape — explains observed shifts in distribution far better than biological or species characteristics.

«This is not a sensational «cephalopods are taking over the world's oceans» story,» says Paul Rodhouse, a biological oceanographer with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, U.K. Further climate change could have unpredictable effects, squeezing generation times to less than a year and throwing off some species» annual mating gatherings in the process.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

With the help of models, the researchers — more than a dozen scientists from institutes throughout Europe — analyzed data on the species found in the bogs alongside data on climate variables like temperature, moisture and precipitation.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

And certain invasive species and diseases may have a stronger negative impact on the southern sugar maples than our more northern populations, exacerbated by climate change.

In the face of climate change, preserving Australia and New Guinea's bandicoot species will require more than just roadway vigilance.

The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one - quarter shorter than they were 40 years ago, evolving that way because climate change altered the buffet of wildflowers they normally feed from, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

«Coral reefs are sometimes regarded as canaries in the global climate coal mine — but it is now very clear than not all reef species will be affected equally,» explains lead author Professor Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

Rather than experiencing wholesale destruction, many coral reefs will survive climate change by changing the mix of coral species as the ocean warms and becomes more acidic.

Tropical species with smaller geographical ranges are more likely to die out in a warming climate than those that can adapt by «invading» new regions

Humans may adapt to shifting climate zones better than many species.

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].

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

It is simply a different species and climate than we have down here and it was joy to see him create with such lovely natural materials.

Whenever a population of birds, insects, rodents etc... becomes endangered, city officials always choose to make the feral cats the scapegoat, in spite of the fact that it is usually human encroachment, various predatory species other than cats, hunters, climate change, disease or various other non - cat related causes that are to blame.

I can clearly understand that sea - level rise would result in a loss of real - estate (including many major cities); I can also understand that a faster than «normal» climate change might force a larger number of species into extinction.

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).

There's a growing body of evidence that species in vulnerable situations are far more able to withstand or adjust to climate extremes than once thought — from California butterflies to Pacific corals, if given some space and limiting other pressures.