Sentences with phrase «as ecosystem engineers»

Therefore, the scientists suspect that coralline algae may not be able to keep up their important function as ecosystem engineers.

«I see them as ecosystem engineers,» says Cook.

The Passenger Pigeon served as an ecosystem engineer because its large and dense flocks created forest disturbances and set regeneration cycles in motion.

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As part of the ecosystem, we have worked hard to build a service that can support enterprise - grade businesses such as Microsoft by forming top - notch engineering, client operations, business development, legal, and executive teamAs part of the ecosystem, we have worked hard to build a service that can support enterprise - grade businesses such as Microsoft by forming top - notch engineering, client operations, business development, legal, and executive teamas Microsoft by forming top - notch engineering, client operations, business development, legal, and executive teams.

Doherty et al. (2000) described sustainable agriculture as «ecological engineering solutions aiming to minimally manipulate and manage ecosystems for the benefit of both nature and humanity».

He says the finding demonstrates the role that large mammals like elephants play as «ecosystem engineers» providing resources and habitat to much smaller animals.

Likewise, coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and tidal marshes are proving to be a more cost - effective and ecologically sound alternative to buffering storms than conventional coastal engineering solutions.

Furthermore, climate models for every ecosystem need to better account for organisms such as termites and mussels that «engineer their own environment,» Huisman said.

Newly added creatures include giant genetically engineered super soldiers and vicious killer fungi, and many towns have been completely rebuilt to take advantage of new building models and ecosystem options such as volumetric fog.

«The ecosystem services have actually been valued at $ 3 billion — meaning that the protection that these reefs give against tsunami waves, against coastal erosion is a dollar figure that we can never engineer anything as effective as our reefs, and in order for them to work, they have to be healthy,» said Richmond.

This newsletter discusses the publishing of rivers climate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsletter.

According to an article from Agence France Presse (AFP) who have seen a leaked draft of that report, the panel gives the «thumbs down» and «pours scorn» on a clutch of wacky plans to intentionally re-engineer large scale ecosystems, referred to collectively as geo - engineering: «Geo - engineering options... remain largely speculative and with the risk of unknown side - effects» claims the IPCC draft according to AFP (1).

A precautionary approach to developing genetically engineered algae, which weighs the costs and benefits of GE algae to society and ecosystems as a whole.

He sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon.

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

A team of engineers, each with deep knowledge in blockchain as well as the communications industry, remains actively engaged in research to advance the SonoCoin ecosystem and secure the necessary intellectual property to sustain SonoCoin's long - term competitive advantage.