Sentence examples for climate species from inspiring English sources

Despite the relatively mild climate, species' distribution were affected by climatic fluctuations during Pleistocene.

"This is an idea that people are finding very compelling, and especially compelling now because with changing climate, species will need the capacity to move," said Norman Christensen, a professor of ecology at Duke University, whose team is working to define corridors in Central America, India and Africa.

In this context, the study of natural and/or anthropogenic fires through the analysis of carbonized remains can give information on past climate, species diversity, and human intervention in forests and landscapes.

Forest productivity, the summation of the productivities of the individual landscape elements (stands) that comprise the forest, is the integration of soil productivity, climate, species composition and stocking, and stand history.

Urban ecologists have documented numerous biotic and abiotic consequences of urbanization, such as altered climate, species interactions, and community composition, but we lack an understanding of the mechanisms underlying organisms' responses to urbanization.

Indeed, an important part of the available discussions focuses on the benefits of increasing body size for heat retention in cold climate species.

From the Chilean sub-Antarctic to Patagonia; from the virtually untouched island of Chiloé up to the arid north; and from the foothills of the Andes to peaks of the longest mountain range in the world, Chile offered an extraordinary range of habitats, climates, species and geology.

Occasionally bitter weather intensifies the action and draws in cold-climate species I see infrequently, like the Varied Thrush and the striking Townsend's Warbler, or even Band-tailed Pigeons who will stop by to see what all the commotion is about even though their dietary needs are elsewhere.

The basic assumption of community-based climate change indicators is that generalized warming causes non-random species distribution shifts, with warm-climate species substituting colder-climate species within local assemblages [2].

Yet despite this attention, the role of climate-species relationships during early life stages in identifying and conserving potential refugia has received insufficient consideration due to the common assumption that climate-species relationships are static throughout the lives of individuals (McLaughlin and Zavaleta 2012 is an exception).

However, that is not a common feature in climate-species studies.