Sentence examples for helping adaptation from inspiring English sources

In addition to its traditional role in providing discovery, diagnosis, and prediction of the changes that are taking place on our planet, science has now also a role in helping society mitigate emissions by objectively quantifying them, and in helping adaptation by providing environmental forecasts on regional scales.

It had invested $50m to help adaptation to climate change, released a climate change adaptation plan, and was a strong supporter of renewable energy.

Conjunctive water management enables greater water supply security and stability, helps adaptation to climate variation and uncertainty and reduces depletion and degradation of water resources.

Integrated cyclical water management can help adaptation to climate variation and uncertainty by varying the proportion of surface water and groundwater allocations over time in response to changing water availability.

The system should be able to inform itself by learning from previous experiences and its intelligence should help adaptation to different circumstances in such a way that it does not require continuous programming.

It can also help adaptation of small populations through both demographic and genetic rescue effects [ 75, 76].

Behavioural treatment of cold sensitivity can relieve symptoms [ 50] but most important is to offer patient information on reliving strategies to help adaptation for daily life [ 51].

For example the Gates Foundation states that while they believe climate change to be a major issue and they do fund some projects designed to help adaptation, they do not fund mitigation efforts [ 26].

Hybrid populations that have previously undergone admixture with distant populations or with sister species contain large amounts of genetic variation (Dettman et al. 2008), and there is increasing evidence that hybridization helps adaptation and speciation (Rieseberg et al. 2003; Seehausen 2004; Arnold 2006; Abbott et al. 2013).

However, there are also good examples from Darwin's finches (Grant and Grant 2008) and Helianthus sunflowers (Rieseberg et al. 2003), showing that hybridization can help adaptation to new niches, as well as evidence that species can expand their climatic ranges as a consequence of introgression from other species (Krehenwinkel and Tautz 2013).

If Lamarck's concept is modified using modern genetic terminology, it contains the following two key points: (i) environmental conditions can induce heritable genome changes in a specific gene(s) and (ii) the induced changes help adaptation to the environmental conditions (Fig. 1, upper panel).