Sentences with phrase «when ecological conditions»

During the wet season, when ecological conditions were at their best, youngsters were more likely to engage in «high - key» play, which involved play boxing, chasing, wrestling and rough - and - tumble.

Not exact matches

The protection of these fragile island resources was ensured when Congress, in the act that created Channel Islands National Park in 1980, established a long - term ecological monitoring program to gather information on the current health of resources and predict future conditions.

Ecological succession and biological evolution would also provide hysteresis (for example, I read of an idea that under some conditions, bogs will tend to take over forests; these bogs will have a higher albedo than forest when snow falls, thus potentially bringing an ice age...).

While extreme events per se are not abrupt climate changes as defined in this report, changes in extreme events could lead to abrupt changes in two ways: (1) an abrupt change in a weather or climate extremes regime, for example a sudden shift to persistent drought conditions; or (2) a gradual trend in the frequency or severity of extremes that causes abrupt impacts when societal or ecological thresholds are crossed, as illustrated in Figure 2.10.