Sentences with phrase «than heat stress»

However, falling crop yields may also be impacted by temperature - dependent factors other than heat stress, says Prof Graeme Hammer, director of plant science at the University of Queensland, who was not involved in the research.

Hammer believes that this indirect effect of temperature on plant growth has a larger impact on crop yield than heat stress:

A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences follows more than 7,000 households in Indonesia over 15 years to conclude that sudden disasters in fact have a much smaller impact on provincial migration than heat stress.

Not exact matches

The rats fed VCO had significantly less oxidative stress markers in their kidneys than the 5HPO fed rats, leading the researchers to conclude ``... virgin coconut oil has a potential to reduce the development of hypertension and renal injury induced by dietary heated oil, possibly via its antioxidant protective effects on the kidneys.»

The participating schools, more than a dozen altogether, serve some of Dallas» neediest neighborhoods, where holiday stress leaves parents wondering how they'll afford groceries, heat, warm clothing and gifts for the kids.

All the rollers — more than thirty of them — have built - in heat to reduce stress and rejuvenate the mind and body.

But the presence of increased heat and / or scale insects, when combined with water stress, had a multiplier effect — curtailing growth far more than water stress or scale insects alone.

Unless greenhouse emissions are cut, «we move toward a world where heat stress is a vastly greater problem than it has been in the rest of human history.

More than a hundred sites in the genome showed strong evidence of recent selection, including genes that affect muscle tissue, hair, hearing, immune - system function, skin pigmentation, sense of smell, and the body's response to heat stress.

We are learning that some corals are more sensitive to heat - stress than others, but reef fishes also vary in their response to these disturbances,» said lead author Ms Richardson.

«We found that both branching and massive corals exposed at low tide coped better with heat stress than s corals from deeper water,» says co-author Professor Malcolm McCulloch from the Coral CoE.

It has been known since 1939 (Laude et al) that plants» response to heat stress fluctuates between day and night — if you apply heat stress to a plant during the middle of the day, it is much more likely to survive than if you applied the same heat stress at night.

At the same time, the heating and accumulated damage to the surrounding rock causes the chamber walls to develop a more viscous (rather than elastic) response to stress.

«His research has had a significant impact on crop management, identifying the structural reasons some plant varieties can withstand heat or disease stress so much better than other varieties,» Auvermann said.

- Nuts and nut butters — while most almond, cashew, walnut and other nut based trail mixes or nut butters tend to be much healthier than the average peanut butter, they are also very high in heated oils (which produce cell - damaging free radicals) and inflammatory omega - 6 fatty acids — which can tend to dump inflammation on an already stressed athlete's body when overused to the extent most people implement such sources (by the handful and heaping spoonful).

Never use any settings other than low — heat stress is a potential risk.

Old dogs are also more vulnerable to heat related stress than young dogs.

• Fewer than normal lymphocytes Lymphopenia (decreased numbers) commonly occurs with excess glucocorticoids, whether they be from endogenous sources (stress, debilitating disease, surgery, shock, trauma, or exposure to heat or cold), or from exogenous sources (such as glucocorticoid therapy).

At the recommendation of our consulting veterinarian, Continental Airlines will now require the following to reduce stress and heat exposure, when shipping or handling the above - mentioned breeds: Use 1 size larger kennel than is normally required.

Well, that seems to have worked for a while, but as temperatures rise due to higher CO2 concentrations plants become subject to both heat and drought stress, and so we have that sink working less well than it has in the past — which is a feedback.

This suggests the hardy cereal may be more vulnerable to heat stress caused by climate change than previously thought, the authors tell Carbon Brief.

And since crops will be facing not just heat stress but also extreme events such as wide - ranging droughts, flooding, or pest outbreaks, the losses could easily turn out to be more severe than the models have predicted.

Until then, count me among the skeptics who consider this a political rather than scientific issue, especially in light of the fact that it is believed that the Antarctic and arctic shelves are breaking from stress (from «overgrowth»), not due to heat, since they are larger than they have been during recorded history, and that when the alarmists are proven conclusively to be wrong, they change the terminology («global cooling» to «global warming» to «global climate change» - face it, the global climate always has been and always will be very dynamic).

At six, according to an assessment focused only on effects within the U.S. from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, summer labor of any kind would become impossible in the lower Mississippi Valley, and everybody in the country east of the Rockies would be under more heat stress than anyone, anywhere, in the world today.

It is interesting to note that up to 65 million years ago, land life was dominated by ectotherms and endotherms, ie, creatures much less vulnerable to heat stress than is the case for humans.

By the end of this century, much of the Southeast will experience more than 100 days above 90 °F, which in the absence of adaptive actions is expected to lead to more heat - stress - related illness and deaths, decreased agricultural production, and negative impacts on fish and wildlife.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

However, the difference was not statistically significant, and the corals in South Tarawa were exposed to higher heat stress in 2004 than those in North Tarawa and Abaiang.

Although heat stress in 2004 was lower at Butaritari than at Abaiang and North Tarawa, massive Porites sp. corals at Butaritari experienced more severe bleaching as indicated by skeletal extension rate reductions and the occurrence of partial mortality scars.

«The losses got substantially reduced when we increased irrigation of fields in the simulation, so water stress resulting from temperature increase seems to be a bigger factor than the heat itself,» says co-author Joshua Elliott from the University of Chicago.

Unless greenhouse emissions are cut, «we move toward a world where heat stress is a vastly greater problem than it has been in the rest of human history.

What I concluded is that in the vicinity of human habitation (e.g., occupied coral atolls), other human excesses are currently a source of greater harm than ocean acidification (or heat stress, which is as a separate issue).

Of course, heat stress promises to pummel us in places other than our kidneys, too.

Well, lets see, climate change will be bad for crops due to increased heat stress and drought, particularly since domesticated crops tend to be rather pampered, adapted to our needs rather than the variabilities of nature.

Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.

«With the warmer temperatures, you're seeing widespread adoption of sorghum because it's more tolerant of heat and water stress than corn,» Hatfield said.

Within Australia, it has been predicted that northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with more than 100,000 people facing serious health risks from malaria, dengue fever and heat stress, as well as loss of food sources from floods, drought and more intense bushfires.