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Poleward migration of species has already affected forestry bark beetle infestations in southern Canada.
Climate Change I: sources of evidence for change e_moon60 2009
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Poleward extensions of the distribution range for many fish species are very likely under the projected climate change scenarios (see Fig. 9.30 and Box 9.11).
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Poleward migration of insect populations has a direct effect on human health, as does lack of hard freeze to kill off populations and allow them to expand.
Climate Change I: sources of evidence for change e_moon60 2009
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Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming.
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Poleward heat transfer of latent heat also includes some of the most violent low-pressure cells (cyclones), American hurricanes, and Asian typhoons.
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"Poleward movement of large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, such as jet streams and storm tracks, could result in shifts in precipitation patterns affecting natural ecosystems, agriculture, and water resources," it says, but cautions that the implications still aren't well understood.
Finding a Successor 2007
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They gave their services for nothing, and the only way in which we could repay them was to select two chief Petty Officers from their number, disrate them, and take them Poleward as ordinary seamen.
South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918
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March 29: You have undoubtedly taken into consideration the pangs of hunger and of cold that you know assailed us, going Poleward; but have you ever considered that we were thirsty for water to drink or hungry for fat?
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888
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If you will remember, Panikpah and Pooadloonah were the two Esquimos who found, when on our Poleward journey, just about the time we had struck the "Big Lead," that there were a couple of fox-traps, or something like that, that they had forgotten to attend to, and that it was extremely necessary for them to go back and square up their accounts.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888
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