Sentences with phrase «ecosystem process study»

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As the authors wrote in the recent Great Barrier Reef study, these processes are likely to continue — and they'll totally transform ocean ecosystems.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

The organic (carbon - containing) compounds they studied in that patch of Colorado forest play a key role in atmospheric chemical processes that can affect air quality, the health of the ecosystem, and the climate itself.

Agriculture, ecosystems and ocean levels are all inextricably linked to the atmosphere — and understanding these processes is obviously critical to studies of climate change and the formation of public policies that are shaped by those studies.

«Studying disruptions to ecosystems like those seen in plant invasions provides a window into something — specifically the process of co-evolution — that we normally don't get to observe in a single human lifetime.»

«The migration affects every single process in this ecosystem,» says J. Grant Hopcraft, a landscape ecologist at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom who has studied wildebeest for decades.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

NEON collects and produces data on precipitation patterns, soil and groundwater dynamics, interactions with vegetation, and processes such as nutrient cycling and food web dynamics in aquatic ecosystems to support the comprehensive study of water cycles throughout diverse ecosystems.

I study the cycles of water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur at the process, ecosystem and global levels.

Studies of processes affecting plankton community structure through the use of size - structured ecosystem models.

These studies include seamount and chemosynthetic ecosystems intimately tied to planetary processes significant to the evolution of life on earth.

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

We need to study the ecosystem processes to find out.

This study report under the coordination of Conservation International (CI - Brazil), recommends that companies should understand and incorporate into their decision making process, the economic value of biodiversity and ecosystems services...

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

Oct 15, 2013 by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies http://www.youtube.com/user/CoralCoE/videos Presentation given at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies 2013 Symposium: Coral Reefs in the 21st Century ~ James Cook University, in Townsville Australia by Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg (21 mins Lecture) Global Change Institute University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 1) The AR5 IPCC Process 2) Recent changes in the Ocean 1950 - 2009 3) Projected changes in temperature and other variables 4) Implications for Coral Reef Ecosystems

Gower and colleagues used the Biome - BGC process model to simulate what is happening in the Boreal Ecosystem - Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) region, which at 1000 km × 1000 km makes up 15 — 20 % of the North American boreal forest.

With the Canadian led IPY - CFL sampling program, new highlights on winter ecological processes and confirmation of some of the earlier observations made during previous and scarce overwintering scientific studies help to refine our understanding of the structure and functioning of the arctic marine ecosystem.

The US CLIVAR PSMI Panel seeks new panelists with prior expertise in field / process studies or model development in one or more of the following areas: (a) clouds, (b) high - frequency ocean - atmosphere interaction (diurnal to sub-seasonal), (c) coastal ocean processes, (d) high - latitude processes (i.e., Arctic, Antarctic, ocean - ice interactions), or (e) ocean biogeochemical cycles / ecosystem interactions.

Good practices and lessons learned in adaptation planning processes addressing ecosystems, human settlements, water resources and health, and in processes and structures for linking national and local adaptation planning: a synthesis of case studies.

«Our study highlights the need to understand natural ecosystem processes, especially in a world where change is occurring so rapidly,» concluded Dr. Lutz.

All four of us have dedicated our scientific careers to understand the processes and impacts of climate change, variously studying ocean systems, tropical cyclones, ice sheets and ecosystems as well as impacts on human societies.

Dr. Tague, studies interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes and explores how eco-hydrologic systems are altered by climate and land used changes.

Besides the fact that I use MODIS frequently to monitor ice shelves and outlet glaciers, my colleagues and I use it to study snow and ice - albedo processes, snow cover in mountainous areas, vegetation recovery after wildfires, and ecosystem processes.

And in light of this likelihood, they conclude their paper by stating that the processes they studied «are best identified in natural settings... where ecosystems and individuals are exposed throughout their life to conditions similar to those in future oceans.»»

The study of climate - induced changes in key ecosystem processes (Scholze et al., 2005) considers the distribution of outcomes within three sets of model runs grouped according to the amount of global warming they simulate: < 2 °C, 2 - 3 °C and > 3 °C.