The modern analogs of many fossil Quercus are strongly debated and the climate preferences of any set of candidates may differ significantly.
Climate perception, broadly construed, can include interpretations of experienced climate, beliefs about how climate works or changes, attitudes about climate issues such as the human role in climate change, and even climate preferences.
We discuss the effect of an expanding agricultural frontier on parasitoid abundance and relate our findings to the design of a fruit fly biological control program that tailors mass releases to parasitoid climate preferences.
The bugs' climate preferences are essentially an exact match to our own, and a small wingless creature couldn't ask for a better traveling companion — airlines have opened a world of possibilities for a species that can't get very far on its own six legs.
Most investors decide which country they prefer based on other factors such as family members in the target country, educational opportunities, climate preferences, ethnic ties or such other considerations and that was certainly the case with the Nigerian investors we met with in Lagos.
We reconstruct climate preferences for hypothetical ancestral Cyclamen.
Yesson and Culham [ 23] have demonstrated the plausibility of this general approach to estimates for ancestral areas based on reconstruction of climate preferences for ancestral lineages in other taxa.
This approach to interpreting past climate uses the climatic preferences of modern plants to interpret the past.
Different parts of the world, Mr Brack points out, can tolerate different levels of pollution, depending on climate, the preferences of local people and governments, and existing pollution levels.
