Sentences with phrase «at ecosystem scales»

More work is needed to extend the new approach to other plant species, and to broaden the effort to include models that look at dynamics at the ecosystem scale, the researchers said.

Important areas are interannual variability in terrestrial fluxes and the interplay of warming, management, and CO2 enrichment responses at the ecosystem scale.

Nonlinear feedbacks, thresholds, and bi-stable hysteresis13 operate at the ecosystem scale.

Soils are providing an environmental service of sequestering this potent greenhouse gas, but the trunks are releasing methane equivalent to 4 percent of what could be captured by CWD and soils at the ecosystem scale,» said Rodrigo Vargas, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and lead investigator of the study, in a press release.

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500's mission is to discover and back the world's most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems.

Startup «Ecosystems» thrive on access to an extended community of talent and resources at scale to build world - class product.

«The ability to manage and run business - critical technology at scale in an agile and adaptive ecosystem has become fundamental to our firm.

Principle 7: The ecosystem approach should be undertaken at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales.

The group also analyzed data from national forest inventories across Europe, making the study one of the most comprehensive analyses of forest ecosystem functioning at this scale to date.

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scaleAt the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scaleat population, community, and ecosystem scales.

«When a new host is infected, we know something at a larger scale is going on in the ecosystem.»

The team used DayCent, an ecosystem modeling tool that tracks the carbon cycle, plant growth, and how growth responds to weather, climate and other factors at a local scale.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

«The coexistence of multiple patterns at these scales makes ecosystems more robust and less prone to collapse, and that is the significance of this study,» Huisman said.

Alex said: «For years ecologists have struggled to test or extend models of ecosystem - level change because the data were too expensive to collect at the required scales.

And it's something that humans can actually help ecosystems like coral reefs to build up, Bozec says: «You can manage the reef at a local scale to try to give to the reef the best chance to recover when faced with these increasing disturbances.»

However, quantification of photosynthesis at the ecosystem - to - global scale remains uncertain.

These «keystone» corporations of the global seafood industry critically shape the future of marine ecosystems, but have yet to assume this responsibility at the global scale.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

Schimel presented his work to forecast and understand land - ecosystem impacts on the carbon cycle at the global scale as part of the Frontiers in Global Change Seminar Series, June 21.

Although fungicides are being investigated as a tree protectant, it would only be feasible to treat infected trees at an individual level, not at a landscape or ecosystem scale.

Forest ecosystems: analysis at multiple scales.

MedSeA assesses uncertainties, risks and thresholds related to Mediterranean acidification and warming at organism, ecosystem and economic scales.

Nate, a member of the FI Board of Directors, is the leader for the Landscape Ecology Team at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and has expertise about decadal - scale climate variability and ecosystem regime shifts.

At local scales, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs) are being developed to help fund climate mitigation actions that may include coastal ecosystem conservation.

One innovation of the research team was to explore the past 30 years from the perspective of the ecosystems («impact perspective») at a global scale.

«Results of this study and others suggest that accelerated forest thinning at large scales could improve the water balance and resilience of forests and sustain the ecosystem services they provide.»

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Looking at a map of metropolitan areas and how much space they occupy, in terms of impact on the record, I wonder if they couldn't be thought of more as a human ecosystem — say on the scale of fossil reefs.

Of course, the absolute temperature does matter in many situations (the freezing point of ice, emitted radiation, convection, health and ecosystem impacts, etc.) and so it's worth calculating as well — even at the global scale.

At the scale of a particular community or ecosystem, things can get complicated, as Bettina Boxall reported for the Los Angeles Times last month in a piece on the deadly «Erskine Fire» in Kern County.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

trigger tipping points at ecosystem and biome scale, and that such non-linear dynamics at local to regional scale can add up to impacts at the Earth system scale.

As species and ecosystem boundaries shift to keep pace with climate change, improved and better - integrated research, monitoring, and assessment efforts will be needed at national and global scales.

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well - being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs).

While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and climate into economic and social policies.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

Dr. Tom Swetnam, professor at the University of Arizona, studies natural and cultural disturbances of forest ecosystems across a broad range of temporal and spatial scales.

Putting ecosystems at the center of our understanding of human health thus offers a promising way forward on some of the toughest human health issues, whether the scale is global or local.

The Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) approach recommends a baseline of information at the LME management scale on changing states of productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, and socioeconomic and governance coEcosystem (LME) approach recommends a baseline of information at the LME management scale on changing states of productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, and socioeconomic and governance coecosystem health, and socioeconomic and governance conditions.

His research investigates human - managed ecosystems at local and global scales with the goal of sustainable stewardship of the biosphere.

Votes were approximately 30 for, 10 against the proposal that it does help to call it an emergency, and to call on governments to declare a climate emergency and mobilise society - wide resources at sufficient scale and speed to protect civilisation, the economy, people, species, and ecosystems.

In this view, carbon storage as organic matter in soil is a valuable ecosystem service to society at every political scale, from sub-watershed to municipality to region, nation, and world.

The 4FRI project provided the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of forest thinning to improve forest resilience and ecosystem functioning at larger scales.

Our group explores the ecology of populated landscapes at local, regional and global scales towards the goal of making ecosystem management more sustainable.

That's important because many of the impacts of climate change on people, societies, infrastructure, industry, and ecosystems are the result of interactions between humans, nature, and specifically climate and weather, at the regional scale.

There is a major industry that involves taking GCM output and using that to evaluate local impacts on crops, endangered species, and ecosystems, and often what gives the biggest impact is changes in the extremes, but even the mean climate at a local scale has not been demonstrated to be accurately simulated.

Such abrupt state changes are well - documented for ecosystems at many scales, and can be triggered by a variety of forcing factors — including pollution, resource extraction, deforestation, and other land use changes — with climate change being only one of them (Scheffer et al., 2009; Lenton et al., 2008; Barnosky et al., 2012).

They highlight the need to understand the relative importance of how these factors interact in relation to each other, and urge that simultaneous action at local, regional and global scales is needed if we are to halt the damage being done to Antarctica's unique marine ecosystem.

Attempts to extend current global models to coastal ecosystems may yield spurious results, unless these models capture other relevant processes, such as regional watershed processes and changes in landscapes at the ecosystem level, which are not tractable at the global scale.