Sentences with phrase «suggesting ecological changes»

The authors similarly surveyed on - line abstracts from which they extracted only papers suggesting ecological changes were driven by climate change.

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Now, researchers reporting April 21 in Current Biology suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird - like dinosaurs, and early modern birds with toothless beaks were able to survive on seeds when other food sources declined.

Combined with knowledge about the ecological distribution of modern magnetotactic bacteria, this finding suggests that biogeochemical changes during the PETM led to the development of enlarged suboxic zones in the sediments of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

John, I think his point in 128 is that the «new ecological niche» you suggest will be created in an ice - free Arctic is likely at first to be a biological desert, because of the rate of change.

We also demonstrate that forest loss in western North American may lead to cooling in a similarly northern latitudinal band in Eurasia, suggesting that changes in Northern Hemisphere climate teleconnections [40] may have ecological impacts.