environmental pressures
Nature's survival challenges
Environmental pressures are external forces that compel organisms, populations, or systems to adapt or change.
In biology, these include predation, competition, climate, and resource scarcity—factors driving natural selection: Environmental pressures favored individuals who could survive drought.
The phrase extends to any outside forces demanding response: The company faced environmental pressures to reduce emissions.
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- rising sea levelsIncreasing ocean elevation
- extreme weatherUnusual, dangerous atmospheric events
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
survival of the fittest · stress · pollution · habitat loss · habitat fragmentation · competition · invasive species · natural selection · extinction · population decline · resources · food scarcity · water shortage · scarcity · predation · temperature · drought · flooding
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Inherited biological influences
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Human-controlled trait propagation
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