Sentences with phrase «as natural ecosystems»

The study is commissioned by the U.S. National Geospatial Agency to help U.S. Department of Defense agencies understand and model the interaction of complex adaptive systems such as natural ecosystems, individual organisms, and human communities, organizations and families.

Not exact matches

If we view economic development in terms of its contribution to the health and well being of human communities and natural ecosystems, we will not seek increased production as such as the good in itself.

His team does this to prevent overfishing and ruining the natural salmon habitat, and this way each fisherman only harvests a particular number of fish so as to ensure that the ecosystem remains in healthy balance.

Weeds can be defined as plants growing out of place and can rapidly populate in ecosystems that do not support their natural enemies.

Comté cheese insists upon the importance of cultivating the natural yield of the landscape and ecosystem, and they refer to this as «terroir.»

Rainforest Alliance has provisions that do not allow destroying natural or high value ecosystems prior to certification, as does UTZ Certified; neither requires organic certification, however.

In fact, all natural ecosystems on certified farms must be identified and conserved as an obligatory condition of certification.

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Recognized as one of the greater Temecula Valley's natural treasures, the Plateau features unique ecosystems like ancient Engelmann oak woodlands and rare bunchgrass prairie.

As organic farmers can not use synthetic substances (e.g. fertilizers, pesticides, pharmaceuticals) they need to restore the natural ecological balance because ecosystem functions are their main productive «input».

When you say Organic products, these are products made from materials that uses natural ways of farming and cultivating such as non-use of chemical pesticides, less use of water, synthetic pesticides that consider the ecosystem and biodiversity.

By considering the changes in these natural areas over time, students will evaluate the roles humans play as a part of these prairie and lawn ecosystems.

As a result of this scouting expedition, Mass Audubon and the fledgling company Nomadic Expeditions offers the first broad - based natural history tours to sample the major ecosystems of Mongolia.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

As wildlife discovered the calcium deposits, a natural reef would form, and the city's shaky foundations would become a stable ecosystem.

As Germán Orizaola, co-author of the study published in the journal Ecology and a researcher at the Swedish university states «Among the many challenges climate change poses to natural ecosystems, the effect it can have on the dietary preferences of living organisms is a field of study that has been attracting researchers» attention in recent years.»

Beyond their value as carbon sinks, or medical plunder, plants are now seen to have value in terms of the vast gene bank they represent for crops, their ecosystem services and as «natural», spiritual capital.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

But just as a straight highway can prove to be a veritable cloverleaf of intersecting ecosystems, the story of American leprosy is more convoluted than it seems — an object lesson in the complexity of the natural world.

When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

«As humans encroach ever more steadily into natural ecosystems, the risk increases that pathogens will be transmitted from humans to animals, or vice versa,» Pallen concluded.

Use of a range of wild species of fruit, vegetables, condiments and medicines, as well as wild animal - sourced foods, increase the likelihood that subsistence farmers with access to natural ecosystems meet their nutrition and health needs.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short terAs with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short teras far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short teras possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

«The crane fly link was made as part of several longer - term studies — funded by The Natural Environment Research Council and Defra — investigating blanket bog ecosystems across several UK upland sites, including the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.Dr Heinemeyer, who is currently leading a # 1m Defra - funded SEI project to further study the impacts of climate change and management on blanket bogs, said it wasn't only rare birds that were at risk from climate change.

Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.

Such resources, known as ecosystem services, were the subject of a symposium held at AAAS» headquarters in Washington, on May 19 where experts explored the role played by the natural forces of ecosystems in protecting adjacent lands and local communities.

The impact this process has on the ecosystem is unknown, particularly with regards to the production of methylmercury as a result of the dam and the disruption of natural flows.

Natural resource managers and biodiversity experts are becoming increasingly concerned about invasions of weeds such as leafy spurge, which has swept across Western landscapes, and the melaleuca tree, a major threat to ecosystems in Florida.

The plantations would need to be so large, they would eliminate most natural ecosystems or reduce food production if implemented as a late - regret option in the case of substantial failure to reduce emissions.

A natural, undisturbed ecosystem could be thought of as an immunologic system; invasion, its disease.

In words of Isabel Reche, «saline wetlands are extremely productive ecosystems that act as natural filters by mineralizing organic matter and reducing the load of organic nitrogen they receive.

Simultaneously, the bleakly reductionist view of evolution as a product of nothing more than the sum of individual self - interest, common currency in the past half - century, is softening as we consider how natural selection may work even at the level of entire ecosystems.

As non-native species, land development, and climate change remodel river ecosystems, it is no longer easy to define what is «natural» for river systems.

«This paper shows that ecosystems are best thought of as portfolios of natural capital assets and the wealth held in the ecosystem provides an attractive headline index for ecosystem - based management,» said Seong Do Yun, a postdoctoral fellow at F&ES and lead author of the paper.

Using these historical records, University of Missouri researchers were able to shed new light on how the interaction of natural disturbances, such as wildfires, and human actions shape forest conditions and the ecosystem services that forests provide today.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

A new Yale - led study tackles this challenge by recognizing the value of «natural capital» assets — such as groundwater or fish species — and connecting them with holistic ecosystem management to calculate asset values for the interacting parts of an ecosystem.

As the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.&raquAs the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.&raquas purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.»

As natural pollinators, bees are an essential part of the ecosystem.

These geographic shifts will keep the wine flowing, but may bring new pressures on wildlife and other natural resources such as water, says climatologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International's Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.

The purpose of boreal forest reserves like Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell Nature Reserve in Southern Norway is to preserve natural forests as ecosystems — including the natural plant and animal life, and the natural processes that belong.

Referring to the possibility that natural selection may work at the level of entire ecosystems, your editorial described as «bleakly...

Fruit - eating primates such as tamarins are therefore invaluable to the natural regeneration and diversity of ecosystems in which they live.

As Louisiana's wetlands continue to disappear at an alarming rate, a new study has pinpointed the human - made structures that disrupt the natural water flow and threaten these important ecosystems.

Ecologists call this one - way process «succession» and say it rules the unfolding of ecosystems much as natural selection rules evolution.

Scientists at Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, in two parallel papers published in this week's journal PLOS ONE, develop a new integrated approach to measure human dependence on ecosystem services and human well - being so as to promote the understanding of the linkages between them — an important step toward improved understanding, monitoring and management of coupled human and natural systems.

The isolated populations then undergo genotype and phenotype divergence as natural selection pressures differ in their separate ecosystems, they undergo genetic drift in separated populations, and different mutations differ in their isolated gene pools.

When water used as a coolant is returned to the natural environment at a higher temperature, the change in temperature impacts organisms by (a) decreasing oxygen supply, and (b) affecting ecosystem composition.