Sentence examples for projecting future changes from inspiring English sources

General Circulation Models (GCMs) are one of the primary instruments for projecting future changes in climate variables (IPCC 2007).

Ongoing climate change already impacts the ecosystems of Northern Eurasia and may provide hints for projecting future changes.

Projecting future changes is a crucial step towards planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change on biodiversity [6].

A multi-scale study has been undertaken to explore the relationships between climate, water resources, land use and diffuse pollution in order to assess the significance of projected future changes in climate and the uncertainty inherent in these projections.

Projected future changes of natural disturbance patterns call into question the effectiveness of existing forest management mechanisms to achieve C sequestration objectives [20].

Some studies have used empirical methods to estimate SOC stocks and changes at the regional scale, but such studies are limited in their ability to project future changes, and most have been carried out using temperate data sets.

Although a wide range of EGS studies have used this approach (reviewed in Seppelt et al. 2011), a challenge still remains, namely the effective integration of ecological, economic and social components into an internally consistent framework that can be used to project future changes in EGS and their response to different driving forces.

We mapped and investigated observed historic and projected future changes in winter chill in California, quantified with two different chilling models (Chilling Hours, Dynamic Model).

Many studies have projected future changes in species' distributions and patterns of diversity, with an emphasis on range contractions and the potential for species extinctions [13] [15].

We then demonstrate how these statistical models can be used to project future changes in global fire patterns, highlighting regional hotspots of change in fire probabilities under future climate conditions as simulated by a global climate model.

There is however, no systematic relationship between historic performance and projected future change.