As climate shifts from the wet hot to the dry cold cluster, soil moisture decreases for all land covers, with the minimum rate occurring in forest conditions.
As climate shifts from wet to dry conditions, forecasts across the burned landscape reveal a decreasing trend in the total number of debris flow, flood, and runoff events with considerable variability among individual basins.
As climate shifts over coming decades, only a small fraction of today's coral growing zone will maintain temperatures and acidity profiles that sustain corals.
Biology instructors, for instance, can talk about ecological zonation, and how these zones may change in the future as climate shifts, with some animals seeking higher ground, while other organisms going extinct.
As climate shifts, the communities most vulnerable to cholera will need clean water and sanitation more than ever.
(Mutation can also introduce novel and potentially adaptive variation, which could be selected upon as climate shifts).
Because most seed-mediated gene flow requires human agency, we would not expect it to reach necessarily a new optimum as climate shifts without intentional changes.
Then, between three and two million years ago, the onset of northern hemisphere glaciation led to increased climatic variability as climates shifted strongly back and forth from cool and dry to warm and wet over relatively short time periods (Potts 1998).
After all, species migrate as climates shift - and have done so up and down latitude throughout geological history.
Also, critics say, forests are not a secure repository because the carbon dioxide can easily be freed up d by fires, assault from pests or as climate shifts occur.
Similarly, highland sites should be promoted for the in situ conservation of highland populations to promote their evolution as climate shifts.
