Sentence examples for severe environmental changes from inspiring English sources

Due to the transition from traditional land use to modern agriculture throughout Europe, semi-natural grasslands are subject to severe environmental changes.

This mutation in LCT-KP289 might have been caused by the severe environmental changes during spaceflight.

The cellular responses of bacteria to superoxide stress can be used to model adaptation to severe environmental changes.

This may be due to the thick gelatinous sheath material that covers M. aeruginosa cells and protects them from severe environmental changes.

Furthermore, a severe environmental change took place between the Middle Bronze Age and the Final Bronze Age/Iron Age (ca. 3600 to 3000 BP), when the mixed deciduous oak-silver fir woodland, which dominated the landscape until the Early Bronze Age, declined and was substituted by a Calabrian pine forest or by an open landscape.

A common thread links these problems: evolutionary adaptation occurring on the same timescale as demographic dynamics determines whether populations survive severe environmental change.

Nonetheless, long-term survival of populations facing severe environmental change is expected to require evolution, due to limits of plasticity and barriers to dispersal (Frankham and Kingsolver 2004; Visser 2008; Chevin et al. 2010; Barrett and Hendry 2012; Schiffers et al. 2013).

In any case, more severe environmental change (larger distance or rate at which the optimum moves) is disadvantageous to rescue in these models (Lynch and Lande 1993; Bürger and Lynch 1995; Gomulkiewicz and Holt 1995; Gomulkiewicz and Houle 2009; Kopp and Matuszewski 2014).

Strong pressure on landscapes in South Korea from urbanisation is leading to severe environmental problems, changes in landscape character, and loss and fragmentation of woodlands which threaten biodiversity.

Motivated both by the COP21 negotiations and the estimated economic costs - localities stand to lose $4 trillion by 2030 due to severe weather and environmental changes - city governments are already taking mitigation and adaption steps.

The resulting high sea-surface temperatures (SST) feed back on atmospheric circulation patterns worldwide, causing a range of environmental changes, from severe droughts in parts of Asia and the Western Pacific, to harsh winter conditions and flooding in North America [2] [3].