The authors concluded that "… the distinct asynchrony between adjacent sites (<10 km apart) clearly belonging to the same climatic domain rules out the possibility that climate or, for that matter any other supposedly large-scale phenomenon could be responsible for the population phase differences".
(For more information see climate: Climatic classification: World distribution of major climatic types: Highland climates).
Grande [ 33] speculated that the evolution of higher vertebral numbers in esocids might be related to speciation during periods of climatic cooling (Jordan's rule), and the relationship between body size, temperature, and speciation has been supported for esocids based on growth and longevity [ 44], as has the positive relationship between body size and number of vertebrae [ 45].
The model outputs allow one to analyse the consequences of the decision rules for various climatic series and context.
With the Senate hurtling toward a climatic showdown over its controversial filibuster rules, the deep personal animosity between Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev). and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). spilled awkwardly into public view Thursday.
So, the migration experience includes major changes in the person's environment, with the incorporation of a new physical context, institutional and sociocultural (climatic and geographic changes in the rules and values), so it will be necessary to adjust to the new social position with a major transformation of its network of social relationships.
The tendency of individuals within the geographical range of a species to be larger in body size under colder climatic conditions is known as Bergmann's rule (Bergmann 1847; Mayr 1956), and is best supported in endotherms, namely birds and mammals (Ashton 2002; Meiri and Dayan 2003; Millien et al. 2006).
Scientists had long assumed that the enormous heat storage capacity of the oceans ruled out any sudden, drastic climatic changes.
We present AUSLEM (AUStralian Land Erodibility Model), a land erodibility modelling system that utilizes a rule-set of surficial and climatic thresholds applied through a Geographic Information System (GIS) modelling framework to predict landscape susceptibility to wind erosion.
While not subscribing to climatic determinism ourselves, it should not be ruled out that responding to direct and indirect challenges posed by a harsh climate could have been one of the many driving forces shaping Muslim history and occasionally, even the inspiration for some of the doctrines of Islam both in the past and in the present.
