Sentence examples for climatic shift from inspiring English sources

Both, fossil and climatic records show that apart from a generally known long-term climatic shift to drier conditions in Early Permian, the climate oscillated on several time scales throughout the study interval.

A terrace results from any hydrological or climatic shift that causes renewed downcutting.

This dramatic climatic shift may have been partially triggered by the assembly of smaller continents into the supercontinent of Pangea.

The current rate is approaching the 10mm per year which occurred during the transition from the last Ice Age to the current warm interglacial, a major climatic shift.

The flora and fauna of the Karoo are terrestrial and appear to record a gradual climatic shift toward ever-increasing aridity.

The impression that the reader gets is both excitingly diverse and depressingly familiar: tales of human ingenuity in the face of extreme climatic shift, but also tales of a widespread tendency to screw up the immediate environment (as with the Mesolithic visitors to Colonsay, who processed hazelnuts in such industrial quantities that the crop never recovered).

This is particularly relevant in a climate change context where predicted climatic shifts could have a significant impact on inter-population connectivity and micro-evolutionary potential.

However, climate change raises the possibility that existing societies will experience climatic shifts (in temperature, storm frequency, flooding and other factors) that previous experience has not prepared them for.

This record exhibits millennial-scale trends evident in other lower-resolution studies, but with much more detail on short-term climate variability and on the rapidity and timing of major climatic shifts.

Our appraisal of past species resilience, and of their ability to track suitable habitats in response to past climatic shifts, is crucial to better forecast their future performance under global climate change scenarios [ 10, 73, 75- 77], and thus essential for more informed decisions aimed at long-term conservation of biodiversity.

It takes this glacier 50 years to respond to climatic shifts.