Sentences with phrase «under changed climatic conditions»

«This is because plant and animal pest numbers and vigour could increase under changed climatic conditions and at the same time impact on the persistence of native species.»

«By studying eelgrass meadows on a ecosystem level, we were able to observe how plants and animals interact under changing climatic conditions.

This series of publications is intended to empower sub-national planners to take action, and to prepare their territories to adapt, and hopefully thrive, under changing climatic conditions.

Not exact matches

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

Species within an ecological community may respond differently to climate change, meaning the competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites that a given species encounters under the new climatic conditions may also change.

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

Changes between future (i.e., the average from 2091 to 2100) and contemporary (i.e., the average from 1996 to 2005) number of days with suitable climatic conditions for plant growth under RCP 8.5 (results for all RCPs shown in S5 — S7 Figs; data are provided in S2 Data).