Sentences with phrase «species than climate change»

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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 warmingChanging 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 warmingchanging 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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

«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.

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.

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.

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].

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.

Off the coast of Washington we also see shifts in fish species for probably different reasons than the Bering Sea, i.e., warm waters moving north, rather than changes in primary production (but both likely related to anthropogenic climate change).

For more than a decade, I've been probing changes in Arctic climate and sea ice and their implications for the species that make up northern ecosystems and for human communities there.

Two years ago, Audubon's Birds and Climate Change analysis revealed that 58 percent of the species seen during the count were showing up significantly further north than 40 years ago — right in line with charted temperature increases.

In all the wordage herein in all these blogs, from the extinction of species and the threat of extinction to the profound changes in Earth's climate regimes, there is a systemic failure to accept that the physical and chemical processes that govern such changes are calibrated on Deep Time and not Human Time, and that our sojourn on this Planet can not be considered more than a nanosecond in the overall schema.

I would like to read a book about how the rate and degree of warming expected to take place over the next couple centuries compares with global warming episodes in Earth's past, and how today's plants and animals might not survive climate change and heat waves more severe than experienced during the climates in which their species evolved.

«Concerns about climate change and energy security are driving an aggressive expansion of bioenergy crop production and many of these plant species emit more isoprene than the traditional crops they are replacing,» the paper states.

The second reason is the possibility that the ecological effects of climate change (the portion that is already manifesting itself) are currently already larger than thought — something that can be masked by looking at individual species and is better assessed when looking at ecosystems or entire biomes.

If humans don't act to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, Gore contends, the deaths caused by climate change will double in 25 years to 300,000 people a year, and more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction in half a century.

Despite satellite estimates that more than doubled the population of known Emperor Penguins, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed their ranking of Emperors from a species of Least Concern to a Near - Threatened species based on modeling studies blaming the decline of DuDu's penguins on climate change as presented in Jenouvrier and Caswell's study.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

[Update May 23, 2010: Demoted: UN officially throws global warming under the bus: UN now says case for saving species «more powerful than climate change» — May 21, 2010 — Different Eco-Scare, Same Solution!

Wiens found that local extinctions were more common in animals than plants, and in tropical species than those living in temperate regions — evidence that climate change may be hitting the more biodiverse regions of the world hardest.

Climate change may alter amphibian evolution Most of the more than 6,000 species of frogs in the...

Nothing exposes our species» «future flaw» more than climate change — rarely, if ever, have the history books demonstrated a generation acting selflessly, or with sacrifice, for the sole benefit of generations to come.