The program, which received about $49 million in funding for its first year, is expected to provide models at significantly improved geographic and temporal resolutions that will be able to help decision makers plan strategies for adapting to the health, ecological, economic, and social changes that could result from a rapidly changing climate.
We used long-term ecological data to determine the role of nitrogen availability in changes of forest species composition under a rapidly changing climate during the early Holocene (16k to 8k cal. yrs. BP).
However, with a rapidly changing climate, new methods will be required to adapt as ecosystems change.
As people look to climate talks in Paris, my hope is that the negotiators will consider policy changes to the world's agricultural system to help us deal with rapidly changing climate as well as unacceptably high rates of hunger.
Our rapidly changing climate is helping many wild geese to thrive – but one subspecies is not.
A wild card in this disease scenario is the rapidly changing climate.
There is little doubt that the Earth's rapidly changing climate will have a significant impact on agriculture around the world.
The more rapidly changing climate in the Amazon rainforest is affecting the delicate balance needed for long-term stability.
Historic it may be, but is it enough to have a real impact on our rapidly changing climate?
These coping mechanisms may be insufficient to maintain optimal fitness of tree populations to rapidly changing climate.
Much uncertainty exists however to which extent species will actually be able to keep pace with a rapidly changing climate.
