Sentences with phrase «against species loss»

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This cuts against the loss of known species and of a certain number of unknown ones.

«It has been predicted that more complex food webs will be less vulnerable to extinction cascades because there is a greater chance that other species can step in and buffer against the effects of species loss.

The next step, says Sax, is to test the predictions of the endemics - species relationship against actual observed species loss.

Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in France.

Well, according to evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, species loss may go against biophilia, or the tendency of humans to focus on life and lifelike processes.

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

Plans are also underway to develop a captive breeding population, as an «insurance policy» against the loss of the species in the wild, and this may also aid further studies into the species» biology and its venom, without the need to capture wild individuals.