climatic change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofclimaticandchange
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climatic
adjective
uk/klaɪˈmæt.ɪk/us/klaɪˈmæt̬.ɪk/
relating to general ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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Assessing the response of plant functional types toclimaticchangein tropical forests.
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The chapter concludes with showstoppers to this vision such as bolide impacts,climaticchange, astronomical catastrophes and, of course, humanity's greatest enemy, itself.
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This kind of dramaticclimaticchangewill strongly stress the planetary biota.
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Overall, sedimentation was mainly controlled by an interplay of post-rift thermal subsidence, plume-related uplift, siliceous oceanic productivity,climaticchangeand eustatic sea-level change.
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For the same reason the extinctions cannot be explained by appealing to globalclimaticchange.
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Subsequently, extensive milpas were cultivated very near the lake, and the ability to discernclimaticchangethrough pollen analysis is severely restricted.
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With precipitation being a key variable to alter under long-termclimaticchange, the impact could be much more severe on agriculture-dependent households in the region.
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The objective of this preliminary excavation was to determine the feasibility of obtaining indicators ofclimaticchangefrom the sediments.
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In other cases, the authors neglected data that would have been useful for understanding the response of their taxon toclimaticchange.
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Obviously, in this stream reach the incision driven by faulting is dominant over incision related toclimaticchange.
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It was concluded thatclimaticchangewas responsible for the decline that affected one of the cod's major food sources and its parasites.
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The data have implications for the effects ofclimaticchangeon cryptoendolithic communities.
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Climaticchangewhich extends the period of summer water temperatures may change this pattern in two ways.
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By contrast, the globalclimaticchangeinduced by deforestation could well outweigh, in economic terms, the benefits resulting from using more tropical land to raise crops and livestock.
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Qualitative variations in the plant content between members is difficult to interpret as compositional changes in the flora may be influenced by edaphic and hydrological factors rather thanclimaticchange.
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Lives that were already barely tolerable (by the standards of a wealthy but hugely unequal society) came under renewed threat in the context of suddenclimaticchange.
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This generalclimaticchangemay also account for the fact that in the mid-90s the role of historians suddenly became the subject of critical examination.
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Pollen analysis is one proxy for vegetational andclimaticchangethat is widely applicable.
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However, such proxy measures ofclimaticchangeare, at best, only suggestive and cannot be a substitute for the evidence afforded by biological, geomorphological and stable isotope indicators.
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