Our application on landuse traits certainly contains
such local adaptation due to peoples» choice of utilized organisms.
Not exact matches
Similarly, many ventures are based around business methods and concepts that have been successful in developed countries, but with
adaptations made to reflect
local conditions,
such as «Careem,» the Uber of Pakistan.
Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the
local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.
First, locally adapted strains are likely to suffer higher mortality when they are moved to very different conditions —
local adaptation is a product of directional selection
such that adapting to one environment is likely to reduce performance in another environment (5, 6).
This could help avoid their own
local extinction due to ever - increasing habitat degradation in their original range, could provide potentially robust stock for denuded areas, and assist in shortening the time needed for
adaptation of stocks yet naïve to
such extremes.
Processes
such as species interactions,
local adaptation and interactions with the physical landscape likely affect the responses researchers observed.
A major consequence of
such interspecific hybridization may be outbreeding depression due to the break - up of co-adapted gene complexes and disruption of
local adaptations (Barton & Hewitt 1989).
Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and
local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and
local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.
Researchers have speculated that
local hypoxia by occlusion and slow movement may contribute to
such adaptations via promoting anabolic hormone secretions by the
local accumulation of metabolites.
It consists of nine chapters, covering risk management; observed and projected changes in extreme weather and climate events; exposure and vulnerability to as well as losses resulting from
such events;
adaptation options from the
local to the international scale; the role of sustainable development in modulating risks; and insights from specific case studies.
Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Service Program, a Climate Service Office, a Climate Service Advisory Committee, and a Summer Institutes Program at the Regional Climate Centers for interaction with and training of students and educators on weather and climate sciences; (2) operate the Climate Service Program; (3) maintain a network of six Regional Climate Centers to work cooperatively with the State Climate Offices on data collection and exchange, research support, and state and
local adaptation and response planning on climate; (4) maintain a network of offices as part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program; (5) ensure that the core functions and missions of the National Weather Service, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and any other programs within NOAA are not diminished or neglected by the establishment of the Climate Service Program or the duties imposed on
such offices or programs; (6) report to Congress on the need for climate services; (7) prepare a plan for creating a Climate Service Program in NOAA and delivering climate products and services to NOAA users and stakeholders; and (8) establish and maintain a clearinghouse of federal climate service products and links to agencies providing climate services.
The October 2011 report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change
Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage clim
Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal
adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage clim
adaptation, including: building resilience in
local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources
such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climate risks.
-- Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing the National Climate Service or the Climate Service Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to require State, tribal, or
local governments to develop
adaptation or response plans or to take any other action in response to variations in climate that may result in an increased financial burden to
such governments.
Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and
local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and
local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.
Micro-financing and other social safety nets and social welfare grants, as a means to enhance
adaptation to current and future shocks and stresses, may be successful in overcoming
such constraints if supported by
local institutional arrangements on a long - term sustainable basis (Ellis, 2003; Chigwada, 2005).
A diverse mix of potential
adaptation strategies,
such as crop breeding, changing crop varieties, adjusting planting time, water management, diversification of crops and a host of indigenous practices will all be applicable within
local contexts.
One of the most striking conclusions was the importance of
local institutions and social capital
such as farming associations in initiating and supporting
adaptations.