Sentences with phrase «in small ecosystems»

Just a five - minute walk from Gili Meno's salt lake, take a leisurely stroll around the lake in morning or evening, you'll be blown away at the biodiversity of flora and fauna in this small ecosystem, on this small island.

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They also were social long before social media: selling tickets directly, creating an extremely engaged fan club, sharing personal details as well as fan - generated artwork and content through their mailing list, and creating an ecosystem of small businesses that traveled with the band and had a vested interest in the band's long - term success.

In an effort to build a creative economy, the South Korean government has invested heavily in its start - up ecosystem and last year appointed its first start - ups and small and medium - sized enterprises ministeIn an effort to build a creative economy, the South Korean government has invested heavily in its start - up ecosystem and last year appointed its first start - ups and small and medium - sized enterprises ministein its start - up ecosystem and last year appointed its first start - ups and small and medium - sized enterprises minister.

This scenario plays out in every entrepreneurial ecosystem, from small app developers to Virgin Galactic.

To support this exploding industry, several cyber-security ecosystems have developed around the globe, consisting of companies, venture capitalists, talent and expertise concentrated in small areas.

Companies like Research In Motion and Nortel have been the exceptions, having created small ecosystems, but both have also fallen from grace, as tech companies often do, reminding us that a single company can not maintain an ecosystem indefinitely.

In announcing the Journalism Project in January, Facebook said it «cares a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive,» and committed to helping media outlets — including smaller, local publishers — figure out how to best use the network for their journalisIn announcing the Journalism Project in January, Facebook said it «cares a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive,» and committed to helping media outlets — including smaller, local publishers — figure out how to best use the network for their journalisin January, Facebook said it «cares a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive,» and committed to helping media outlets — including smaller, local publishers — figure out how to best use the network for their journalism.

Starting up in Alpharetta also allows businesses to operate in a smaller, more connected ecosystem.

«We know that in order to address the range of financial needs within all of our communities, we need to support and work with the ecosystem of organizations that serve small businesses,» said Jon Campbell, executive vice president, government and community relations for Wells Fargo.

«It's a little bit of a different ecosystem, there are a lot of smaller companies, indie developers, here in Toronto.

It has had great success in helping mostly small, high technology businesses access and execute Federal contracts and grants, team with other businesses and grow the ecosystem of support among industry, government, nonprofits and academia — while simultaneously bringing innovative solutions to help America's warfighters achieve mission success and safety.

The Sensor Tower Blog is for any mobile developer (big or small) looking to grow their user base in app stores & understand the larger mobile ecosystem.

Shockley says being based in friendly, small town - feel San Diego has been critical to the startup's fast success, thanks in large part to its close - knit startup ecosystem.

The future of finance is an ever increasingly converged ecosystem where consumer and small and medium enterprise financial services are provided by banks and by platform companies with roots in e-commerce.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

While the «Silicon Valley of India», Bengaluru, is spearheading the growth of the startup ecosystem in the country, there are smaller «Valleys» coming up in different parts of the country.

The quarter also saw an uptick in smaller rounds - $ 250K - $ 1MM - perhaps a sign of renewed confidence in the ecosystem as investors take pre-seed bets on promising companies.

You don't have to feel small in order to come to terms with an idea that we will once again become part of the universe in death, and give nutrients back to the ecosystems that have helped sustain life as we know it.

Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.

Ecosystems left in the wake of a mass extinction that occurred about 359 million years ago (artist's representation shown) contained fish and other vertebrates that were much smaller than the species that lived before the die - off, a new study suggests.

They added sediment and plankton collected from a nearby pond to establish a small freshwater ecosystem in each tank.

But it was before the explosion itself, «during these anoxic phases... that a lot of morphological novelty arises,» Erwin explains, likely in small, soft - bodied animals that existed on the sidelines of ancient ecosystems and which left little to no fossil record.

Other species like the American bison and many kinds of whales had once played central roles in important ecosystems but had been reduced to small remnant populations.

Roads, for example, appear to directly affect only a relatively small strip of land, but they also cut ecosystems in half, altering the survival prospects of species living on either side of them.

This way these small organisms (between a few millimetres and a few centimetres in size) help return the organic material stored in bones to the ecosystem.

In fact, he said, big trees do a lot for a forest ecosystem that their smaller counterparts can not.

Small mammals and reptiles can be very diverse and abundant in modern ecosystems, but small dinosaurs (less than 100 kg) are considerably less common than large ones in the fossil reSmall mammals and reptiles can be very diverse and abundant in modern ecosystems, but small dinosaurs (less than 100 kg) are considerably less common than large ones in the fossil resmall dinosaurs (less than 100 kg) are considerably less common than large ones in the fossil record.

Tidal wetlands and estuaries, despite being the smallest ecosystems in the study domain at 2.4 percent and 9 percent of the area, respectively, buried the majority of the region's carbon, the team found.

Small ecosystems are more vulnerable to extinctions; their member species are fewer in number and have limited refuge, and so are at statistically greater risk of being eliminated by a single event, whether a hurricane or the introduction of a predatory snake.

«It was surprising to discover that small - scale changes in the environment can influence ecosystem - level reef processes,» said Silbiger.

Also, the native residents of these small ecosystems — surrounded by fewer species than their counterparts in large continental ecosystems — are evolutionarily less fit to compete against invaders.

«Until now, the focus has mainly been on conserving small parts of a reef in marine protected areas,» said Prof Bellwood,» - we're talking about broader approaches to change the relationship between humans and coral reefs to reduce human impacts across the whole ecosystem.»

The changes in biomass are worrying, says Michael Hirshfield, chief scientist of the advocacy group Oceana, based in Washington, D.C. Populations of small fish tend to boom and bust — making ecosystems less stable — much more when the ranks of top predators have been gutted.

The model allowed Bonachela and his colleagues to apply small - scale observational data broadly to understand how rainfall influences vegetation growth and persistence in the presence and absence of termites across an entire ecosystem.

Every organism, no matter how small or unattractive, has its place in the ecosystem.

Crustaceans, mussels and predatory fish as well as many smaller organisms that are important for the Baltic Sea ecosystem thrive in submarine Fucus forests.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

«In terms of practical nature conservation, these results signify that in the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquIn terms of practical nature conservation, these results signify that in the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquin the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquin the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquin closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.»

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

«Dramatic shifts in species distributions, community composition, forest diversity and ecosystem functioning have to be expected,» Engelbrecht says, «even with relatively small changes in dry season lengths of only about one month.»

«While the changing seascape has dramatically altered and increased the diversity and number of small creatures at the base of the marine food web, we still don't know how these changes in the ecosystem will propagate through the entire chain.

The Argentine ant's takeover of coastal California is marked by small shifts in the local, native ecosystem.

Small animals that decompose fallen leaves in the forest form complex food webs and are essential to a functioning ecosystem.

Small differences in the mass of these isotopes mean that they are processed at slightly different speeds in the body, leading to patterns which can show who eats who in the slope ecosystem.

«Small changes in rainforests cause big damage to fish ecosystems.»

Smaller fish will have an impact on fisheries production as well as the interaction between organisms in the ecosystems.

Though the study included only a small number of sharks monitored over varying lengths of time, the findings may suggest that fish prey location may influence movements of their shark predators, and that group spawning events may shape ecosystem dynamics in deeper coral reefs.

In addition, while the death of small trees may affect the dominance of trees in a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate's health, especially due to the important role that trees play in the carbon cyclIn addition, while the death of small trees may affect the dominance of trees in a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate's health, especially due to the important role that trees play in the carbon cyclin a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate's health, especially due to the important role that trees play in the carbon cyclin the carbon cycle.

Lawson will work with colleagues at the NEFSC to focus on the development of acoustic techniques for sampling zooplankton (animals that are suspended or drift in the water) and micronekton (small but actively swimming organisms) for ecosystem assessment.