climatic stress

Growth reductions since 1985 suggest that the species was under climatic stress, making it more vulnerable to pest–pathogen activity.

The alvar habitat is also rare and may be experiencing increasing climatic stresses.

•year−1), consistent with the higher elevation and greater climatic stresses of their typical habitats.

The result has been an economically viable (and even profitable) animal, incorporating resistance to tropical climatic stresses.

Efforts to help sensitive populations adapt to current climate variability have shown that socioeconomic, environmental, and climatic stresses are all connected.

"Rare animals can be wiped out by climatic stress and competition more easily than animals that are common," Kuhn says.

Commonly two types of climatic stress are recognised, moisture stress and temperature stress.

Tolerance and adaptability to climatic stress.

Selection of promising crop genotypes and livestock breeds with greater tolerance to climatic stress.

Current projections of forest responses to global climate change do not consider important physiological changes induced by air pollutants that may amplify climatic stresses.

Nutrient-starved trees can experience stunted growth and loss of leaves, and are more vulnerable to climatic stresses, pests and disease.

My PhD and first 5 years of post doctoral research concentrated on climatic stress and adaptation to stress in ruminants.

For example, significant improvements in pig performance should result from removing climatic stress by controlling temperature, air movement and ability of a pig to wet its skin.

'For three years we looked for signs that this intense selection would increase climatic stress resistance - but it simply did not happen,' Professor Hoffmann said.

Although rainfall may not be a significant factors for some mountains, atmospheric humidity or aridity can be more important climatic stresses that affect altitudinal zones.

Climatic stresses and insect defoliations appear to have been major triggering factors, whereas insects and pathogens were likely contributing (killing) factors.

Changes in the natural water availability, as a result of global warming, would result in impacts which are generally most detrimental in regions already under existing climatic stresses.

In Australia, Woodford (1991a) and Gilliam (1991) name maternal abandonment and climatic stress during the nesting phase as two major causes of rusa perinatal mortalities.

Cultivated colocynth suffers of climatic stress and diseases such as cucumber mosaic virus, melon mosaic virus, Fusarium wilt, etc. as any other crop.

Anasazi Puebloan Adaptation in Response to Climatic Stress: Prehistory of the Middle Rio Puerco Valley.

He said he agreed that a convergence of climatic stress, technology and social organization led to the domestication of plants but quarreled with some features of the Hole-McCorriston theory.

The researchers found that during times of high climatic stress, human populations contracted into localised environmental 'refuges', in well-watered ranges and along major riverine systems, where water and food supplies were reliable.

But if current rates of consumption paired with climatic stress continue, levels of water scarcity in Africa are predicted by UNECA to reach dangerously high levels by 2025.

Evidence of climatic conditions and human activity at the site suggest that people at Box Gully were adapting to severe climatic stress leading up to the Last Glacial Maximum.

Dr. Donald O. Henry of the University of Tulsa, an expert on the Natufians, argues that they would have begun domesticating crops sooner or later, with or without climatic stress.