Such decisions could directly affect ecosystem functions and services and alter condition of ecosystem resources such as soil, water, flora and fauna (Lemenih 2004; Maitima et al. 2009).
At the time of the 1974 survey, the memorial was considered in "excellent" and "not altered" condition.
There may be some light snow in the Alps on Friday, but this will not alter conditions greatly.
People have to do something to the things they wish to find out about; they have to alter conditions.
Road improvements like heat-absorbing dark pavement alter conditions in the ground beneath, particularly if a lens of ice lies close to the surface.
Many strategies can be used to alter conditions in experiment, such as changing the growth time, adjusting initial, and including additives with the experiment.
They establish a pre-cooling and pre-heating device to produce altered conditions of the inlet air for investigating the performance of HPHX.
Higher temperatures and new patterns of precipitation are putting pressure on some tree species, either directly or via altered conditions for disease-bearing fungi, bacteria and insects.
That's the takeaway of a new modeling study, which estimates how climate change will alter conditions such as temperature and precipitation that coffee beans grow in.
Climate change will restrict resource availability and alter conditions that are vital to oilseed crop growth and yield, thus instigating environmentally induced shifts in phenotypes.
Furthermore, going back to historic species compositions in a particular area may, in extremis, lead to local extinction if environmental conditions change sufficiently to alter conditions beyond species' niches [an "ossification" of the ecosystem (Harris et al. 2006)].
