Sentences with phrase «to respond to environmental changes»
Understanding how individuals respond to environmental change is essential if we want to predict how animals will react to global warming and other human - driven habitat shifts.
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The study of distribution patters of species — called biogeography — is giving us insights into the way ecosystems respond to environmental change such as global warming.
Dr. Smarsh hopes her research will provide key information on bat movement ecology and behavior necessary to help determine how populations respond to environmental changes, such as disease, pollutants, hunting, and decimated food sources.
This sheds unprecedented light on what drives animals to migrate, he said, what cues they use, and how animal migrations respond to environmental change.
Thirty thousand years ago, Cooper says, animals could respond to environmental changes by migrating.
«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.
The findings presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's Biennial Conference in San Francisco demonstrate that humpback foraging responds to environmental changes, and illustrates how marine mammals serve as sentinels of ever - changing ocean conditions.
Bethany Clark, a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter, whose work looks at how birds respond to environmental changes, but who wasn't involved in the research, tells Carbon Brief:
And coupling that finding with the 32 percent increase in water use efficiency over the same time period, Urrutia - Jalabert et al. conclude the trees «are actually responding to environmental change.»
«Evolution will fundamentally alter how species and ecosystems respond to environmental change,» Hendry says.
Neither the selective pressure nor the evolutionary response could have been identified with the methods used by the majority of studies that examine how wild populations respond to environmental changes, which predominantly concentrate on changes in the phenotype.
Professor Paul Berryman will speak at Food Matters Live on Examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.
I hope to see you at my Food Matters Live seminar on 24th November, when I will be examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.
«Epigenetic modification strikes me as an ideal way for animals to respond to environmental change,» says Alan Cooper, a palaeobiologist at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
Because of the way evolution works, it is impossible to predict how a given species will respond to environmental change.
Variations of circadian genes (which affect how the body controls and responds to environmental changes — such as changes in light) have previously been shown to affect mood disorders, so it was thought it would be interesting to see if they were associated with migraine.
The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.
The researchers plan to use the findings to explore other aspects of plants» evolutionary history, including examining how they respond to environmental changes other than freezing temperatures.
This provides us with information about the mechanisms to colonize new sites that respond to environmental changes,» says Cardona.
This could help scientists learn how wild dolphins are responding to environmental changes and stressors and lead to better veterinary care for captive animals.
LEGO ® MINDSTORMS ® robotics kits get your pupils designing, building and testing robots that can carry out complex tasks, record live data, respond to environmental changes — and much more.
LEGO ® MINDSTORMS ® gets your pupils designing, building and testing robots that can carry out complex tasks, record live data, respond to environmental changes — and much more.
Design, build and test robots that can complete complex tasks, record live data, respond to environmental changes and more.
RSA Arts & Ecology is a catalyst for the insights, imaginations and inspirations of artists who are responding to environmental changes and emergencies.
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