Browsing by Subject "adaptation"
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Adaptation to Climate Change by Smallholder Coffee Producers in Latin America
(2016-04-29)Smallholder coffee farmers in Latin America are already being impacted by and adapting to climate change. Our client, Counter Culture Coffee, a coffee roaster that sources from coffee cooperatives throughout Latin America ... -
Adapting to Rising Sea Levels
(2010)According to IPCC estimates, sea levels will rise between .18 and .6 meters by 2100. More recent estimates indicate that actual amounts of sea level rise may be much more, and that 1 meter of sea level rise by 2100 is likely ... -
Agriculture in a Changing Landscape: Modeling shifts in the geospatial distribution of crops in response to climate change
(2014-04-17)Altered patterns of temperature and precipitation associated with global climate change are expected to affect the productivity of agricultural regions around the world, with varying regional impacts. Since ideal environmental ... -
Analysis of Global Sea Level Rise Impact and Adaptation Risk Assessments
(2011-04-28)Global sea levels currently are rising and will continue to rise far into the future. This rise engenders significant risks to life and the environment, as it creates negative physical, economic, and societal impacts across ... -
Ancestry-based Methods for Characterizing the Evolutionary History of Admixed Populations
(2022)Admixture occurs when previously isolated populations come together to form a new population with genetic ancestry from those sources. Admixture is ubiquitous across the tree of life, including humans, and is often associated ... -
Bioenergetic and Fitness Costs of PAH Adapted Fundulus heteroclitus to Early Life PAH and Hypoxia Exposures
(2019-04-26)Growing evidence suggests that acute polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposures have toxic mitochondrial effects and may inhibit aerobic respiration. However, the effect of subteratogenic exposures during development ... -
Community Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in East Palo Alto
(2016-08-23)Climate change and sea level rise continue to devastate communities around the globe. The impacts have a disproportionate effect on those of lower socio-economic levels, and the consequences are frequently not borne equally ... -
Community Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in East Palo Alto
(2016-08-23)Climate change and sea level rise continue to devastate communities around the globe. The impacts have a disproportionate effect on those of lower socio-economic levels, and the consequences are frequently not borne equally ... -
Consistency and Adaptation of Gaussian Process Regression, Bayesian Stochastic Block Model and Tail Index
(2021)Bayesian methods offer adaptive inference via hierarchical extensions and uncertaintyquantification automatically with corresponding posterior distribution. Frequentist evaluation of Bayesian methods becomes a fundamental ... -
Convergent evolution in lemur environmental niches
(Journal of Biogeography, 2020-04-01)Aim: To test the hypothesis that adaptive convergent evolution of climate niches occurred in multiple independent lemur lineages. Location: Madagascar. Taxon: Lemurs. Methods: I collected climate and altitude data from WorldClim ... -
Crop Insurance and Climate Change: Balancing structure and flexibility to improve on-farm management of climate risk
(2014-04-18)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: INTRODUCTION Crop insurance has become an important tool for managing economic and environmental risk in the agricultural sector, and one of the largest sources of Federal subsidies to agricultural producers. ... -
Genetics Analysis of Standing Variation for Floral Morphology and Fitness Components in a Natural Population of Mimulus Guttatus (Common Monkeyflower)
(2009)An unresolved problem in evolutionary biology is the nature of forces that maintain standing variation for quantitative traits. In this study we take advantage of newly developed genomic resources to understand how variation ... -
Hepatic Responses of Juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus from Pollution-adapted and Nonadapted Populations Exposed to Elizabeth River Sediment Extract.
(Toxicol Pathol, 2016-07)Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting the Atlantic Wood Industries region of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, have passed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) resistance to their offspring as evidenced by ... -
Integrating genetics, geography, and local adaptation to understand ecotype formation in the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus
(2010)Speciation is a constantly ongoing process whereby reproductive isolating baririer build up over time until groups of organisms can no longer exchange genes with each other. Adaptation is thought to play a major role in ... -
Living with long-term consequences: Experience of follow-up care and support needs among Asian long-term colorectal cancer survivors.
(Psycho-oncology, 2020-10)<h4>Objectives</h4>This study aimed to provide an in-depth exploration of follow-up care experiences and supportive care needs in long-term colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors within multiethnic Asian communities.<h4>Metho... -
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Adaptation to PAHs in Fundulus heteroclitus
(2010)Chronic exposure to toxicant mixtures is a serious threat to environmental and human health. It is especially important to understand the effects of these exposures for contaminants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ... -
Olfactory Receptor Subgenomes Linked with Broad Ecological Adaptations in Sauropsida.
(Mol Biol Evol, 2015-11)Olfactory receptors (ORs) govern a prime sensory function. Extant birds have distinct olfactory abilities, but the molecular mechanisms underlining diversification and specialization remain mostly unknown. We explored OR ... -
Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Mitigation Planning in Charleston, South Carolina
(2015-04-24)As sea level rise continues to occur on a global scale, coastal cities need to be evaluating the risk and potential impacts it will have on their communities and developing adaptation and mitigation strategies to effectively ... -
Selection and Constraint: Population Genetic Approaches to Understanding the Evolution of Sea Urchin Development
(2011)Changes in the expression and function of genes active during metazoan development have played a critical role in the evolution of morphological differences between species and phyla, yet the origins of these changes remain ... -
The Anatomy of Mastication in Extant Strepsirrhines and Eocene Adapines
(2008-04-25)The jaw adductor muscles in strepsirrhines were dissected and their fiber architecture was quantified. Bite force and leverage were estimated using values for physiological cross-sectional area (PCSA) of the jaw adductors ...
