Sentence examples for major climatic changes from inspiring English sources

The Uinta Mountains lie along an important transition between major climate regimes and thus are sensitive to major climatic changes and consequent vegetation shifts.

Accordingly, climatic fluctuations of the Plio-Pleistocene (succession of glacial and interglacial events) may be expected to produce a stasis-punctuation model of evolution, where bursts of speciation are caused by major climatic changes [ 7- 10] (hereafter, the climate-driven speciation hypothesis, from which the much-debated "LPO" Late Pleistocene Origin model [ 11] is a derivative).

Without the ice, many scientists fear this balance could be upset, potentially causing major climatic changes.

Without the summer sea ice, many scientists fear this balance could be upset, potentially causing major climatic changes.

The continents move across Earth's surface at rates of a few centimetres a year, and over millions of years of geologic history this movement profoundly alters the face of the planet, causing major climatic changes along the way.

In the southern continents the Permian Glossopteris and Gangamopteris seed fern flora, adapted to cool, moist conditions, were replaced by a Triassic flora dominated by Dicroidium, a seed fern that preferred warm, dry conditions which indicates major climatic changes at the Permian-Triassic boundary.

"This is a period of major climatic change and increasing aridity in Africa, when a number of different species of potential early Homo ancestors occur, each adapting to these changes in different ways.

Without a major climatic change in which cooler and moister weather returns and persists, the mass balance, which is the accumulation rate versus the ablation (melting) rate of glaciers, will continue to be negative and the glaciers will eventually disappear, leaving behind only barren rock.

The newly-defined lower QZJ LC facilitates accurate palaeogeographic reconstruction in the study area during a period of major tectonic and climatic changes.

The transition from Late Palaeolithic to early Mesolithic cultures is strongly associated with the major environmental and climatic changes occurring with the shift from the Younger Dryas to the Holocene in northern Europe.

In addition, several other major geological and climatic changes in western Mediterranean areas including the Iberian Peninsula, northern Africa, and western Europe could possibly have promoted rapid speciation, inter-island and inter-archipelago colonization of those plant groups.