For example, certain geographic locations such as the Amazon basin, western United States, boreal forests, southern Europe, and Australia appear to be more susceptible to forest loss due to region specific heightened changes in temperature and precipitation (Allen et al. 2010; Choat et al. 2012).
An elevated level of non-synonymous change amongst circulating avian influenza viruses could signify a heightened risk of molecular changes occurring which would increase the pathogenicity of the virus, or its ability to infect new species and become transmissible amongst humans.
But there is cause for optimism as well: The 2015 talks also coincide with a heightened public awareness of climate change, and a momentum for action that surpasses what we've seen previously.
Consistent with this, the lesion compositional changes translated to a heightened plaque vulnerability index in mice lacking TIMP-2, compared alongside TIMP-1-deficient mice and wild-type control animals (Table 1 ; see Supplementary material online, Figure S2 ).
Such standards would provide clear guidance to non-experts faced with the task of classifying an event as climate change-related, or of classifying a risk heightened by climate change as foreseeably more intense or frequent.
And those changes, coming in an age of mind-numbing congestion and heightened climate change worry, will benefit New Yorkers long after the L train shutdown is over.
Meeting these growing demands is a tremendous challenge, given competing needs for limited resources amid heightened climate change effects.
This risk could be heightened through changes in PO activity.
In his writing, though, Lowell drew upon the experience of feeling his mind speed up, his ideas accelerate, his sense of himself heighten and change, his sense of power and ethical behavior fracture, his memory and his reading switch places.
"[H]ope masks a deeply divided Senate, where ill will over recent rule changes has heightened a bitter partisan divide.
One of the report's recommendations to develop "transparent community standards for attributing classes of extreme events"—deserves special mention because of its clear application to contexts in which a factfinder must determine causation and/or responsibility for adverse outcomes related to risks heightened by climate change.
