Sentences with phrase «alter ecosystem structure»

Novel species assemblages can also substantially alter ecosystem structure and function and the distribution of ecosystem services.

Changes in terrestrial plant and animal species ranges are shifting the location and extent of biomes, and altering ecosystem structure and functioning.

Not exact matches

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

The ultimate keystone predator, humans alter their environments by eliminating species and modifying ecosystem structure and function, thereby contributing to extinction, altering evolution itself.

The reduction in predator abundance through fishing altered the balance and structure of the coral reef ecosystem.

Thus, past and future increases in atmospheric nitrogen deposition have the potential to alter the base of the marine food web; and, in the long term, the structure of the ecosystem.

The way in which fishing alters size - structured food web interactions has implications for the structure and function of kelp forest ecosystems.

Such non-consumptive parasite effects could alter disease transmission, population dynamics, and even ecosystem structure.

Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Persistent changes in tree mortality rates can alter forest structure, composition, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration.

The general goal of these projects was to improve our understanding of how the response of arctic marine ecosystems to climate warming will alter food web structure and ecosystem services provided to Northerners.

An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot

Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).

The edge effects describe the changes in species diversity that occur at habitat boundaries, and can be pronounced when habitat structure alters abruptly between two different types of ecosystem.