Sentences with phrase «about an ecosystem change»
Not exact matches
«Wall Street is going through an ecosystem change, where it's all about content.
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If the printing press was about «anyone can read,» the web about «anyone can write,» the hardware ecosystem changed enough to say today «anyone can build.»
Be part of a network of successful alumni, donors and friends of UNC who are passionate about making change in the Innovate Carolina ecosystem.
As a primer to talking about the ecosystem, it is important to first visit how buyers are changing against what we think is actually going on.
LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.
Depends on whether one worries about climate change or persistent plastics in terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
«These are magnificent ecosystems,» he says, «and we really know very little about how they change and recover after disasters.»
But something did change about 800 million years ago, and cyanobacteria and other minute organisms in continental margin ecosystems got more phosphorus, the backbone of DNA and RNA, and a main actor in cell metabolism.
Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.
The climate exposure of each reserve provides «first alarm» indicators about the effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems.
But they are already worrying about how extra ultraviolet light might affect humans and ecosystems below and wondering whether climate change will make such Arctic holes more common or severe.
These assessments, based on reviews of the scientific literature, will answer questions about how much biodiversity is declining and what the implications of extinctions and ecosystem change might be for humanity.
«This study is about starting the conversation about how communities can buffer themselves against unpredictable ecosystem changes in the future,» said lead author Timothy Cline, a doctoral student in the UW's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
That is another reason for concern about the worldwide decline in biodiversity, he notes: «The loss of diversity is probably having adverse effects on stability and productivity and the ability of the ecosystem to respond to global climate change.»
Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.
«Ecosystem changes brought about by zebra mussels have been dramatic.
«We need to know more about how synthetic chemicals are altering ecosystems and interacting with other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.
«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 findings raise important questions about the relationship between atmospheric change and soil ecosystems, says Michael Miller, a soil ecologist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.
«There is at present too little known about how marine ecosystems function in the Arctic, let alone how they will respond to the dramatic changes in progress, to prescribe safe harvest levels for living marine resources in the U.S. Arctic,» 43 marine scientists said in a letter to the Council chair.
«Our intent was to create a climate change resource that will be relevant to people who work, study, recreate, manage and care about the ecosystems in the Central Hardwoods Region.»
«This was a complex storm, so we do need to be cautious about linking it to climate change,» said Jonathan Foley, an ecosystem researcher who is director of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.
As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.
«Because symbioses are so common, understanding how symbiotic species interact and how they evolve will tell us a lot about ecosystems and how they will respond to climate change.»
«As we learn more about deep sea ecosystems and the role of oceans in mitigating climate change, it seems wise to take precautions to avoid damage that could have long - lasting and unforeseen consequences.»
«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.»
«It really changes how we think about marine ecosystems and how they're set up and how nutrients are provided.»
«This is a species that has been logged historically and still is, so it certainly is important in terms of thinking about not only how our ecosystems are responding to changes in climate, but also in changes of the economics of forest management, as well,» Restaino said.
If mesopelagic animals convey information through sound, learning more about who is communicating and what they're communicating about could change scientists» understanding of how the ecosystem fits together, Baumann - Pickering said.
«Our study is about how a whole forest ecosystem consumes and produces carbon dioxide, or CO2, the main greenhouse gas linked to human - induced climate change,» says Wehr, a research associate in Saleska's lab in the UA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Unfortunately, ecologists can't do much better at forecasting when an ecosystem is about to collapse or change dramatically.
«Our intent was to create a climate change resource that is relevant to people who work, study, recreate, manage and care about forest ecosystems in the Central Appalachians region.»
Thousands of people gathered in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress to talk about Earth's ecosystems, endangered species and climate change.
«If we are thinking about how we're going to restore ecosystems, or how they're going to respond to climate change,» UVM's Gotelli said, «we need to understand how they were organized before humans ever came on the scene.»
Express strong concern about the increasing threats arising from growing human footprint and climate change to the survival of snow leopards and associated mountain biodiversity and to the maintenance of watershed and ecosystem services their habitats provide;
«In these habitats, the natural pollutants give us a glimpse into the future and help us think about what happens in ecosystems that suffer from human - induced changes or pollution,» he said.
I will attempt to learn more about the effects of climate change on local ecosystems, and make use of data based on perceptions, livestock populations and rangeland experiments to aid snow leopard conservation strategies.
Ottawa About Blog Ian Skerrett is VP of Marketing and Ecosystem at Eclipse Foundation; Thinking how open source will change Internet of Things.
On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all life within it.
The data, posted at the aquarium's Web site, is part of a fifteen - year monitoring study to track changes in near - shore ecosystems that will inform scientists and fuel policy makers as they make decisions about the land.
Part 2 also builds on students understanding about how changes in biodiversity affect ecosystem services.
Students become a part of the learning process with activities about ecosystems, body systems, physical and chemical changes, weather, Earth's crust, natural resources, and more!
Project Learning Tree and the University of Florida developed this secondary module to help educators in the Southeast teach about climate change impacts on forest ecosystems, the role of forests in sequestering carbon, and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changing climatic conditions.
Bringing leaders and new voices from all parts of the ecosystem together for a discussion about where reading and publishing are headed, and how to work together for the best possible outcomes is crucial during this time of rapid change.
It provides important information about underwater debris to help inform policy change and improves the health of ocean ecosystems.
Ottawa About Blog Ian Skerrett is VP of Marketing and Ecosystem at Eclipse Foundation; Thinking how open source will change Internet of Things.
A new video from Capcom goes «behind the game» of Lost Planet 2 to talk about what the Akrid are and how the ecosystem of the planet EDN III has changed since the first Lost Planet game.
The first edition of the library was installed as a permanent artwork in the restored prairie at the College of DuPage in September 2017, where students assisted in a three - day process of firing the charcoal kiln, burying the books and re-seeding the prairie, while also learning about the endangered prairie ecosystem and impacts of climate change.
As the journey begins, a silky female voiceover explains the core tenets of the New Protocol — the need to elaborate a new «spiritual relationship with the universe of pattern, matter and energy we call home» in an era where «religious extremism has turned into apocalyptic death cults» and belief in the afterlife means it is pointless to worry about climate change and endangered ecosystems.
This article has linked ecological changes that have already happened to ACC, and as far as I know most papers are about future effects of ACC on ecosystems.