Sentences with phrase «by ecosystem level»

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The topics were informed by interviews with both industry and research, with some being primarily driven by advances and investment in science and technology while others require broader operational changes at the business and ecosystem level.

The broader F&A ecosystem also has an important role to play, being responsible for creating an environment that supports growth by reducing existing barriers to export, strengthening food safety and biosecurity systems, assisting with knowledge sharing and promoting Australian F&A at a national level.

And even though the inevitable corruption (that type of money turns even the saints into black - marketers) eventually rot everything all through the nineties the attempt by BCCI (India's cricket governing body) to better market the game was very well balanced with grass - root level development and had helped to create an ecosystem where children from backgrounds that could never dream of playing even for their state team can now aspire to be an international cricketer.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

The analytic reports by AAAS are the next step in achieving «a high level of credibility and reliability of the national R&D ecosystem,» said Ahmed M. Alabdulkader, Secretary General for NSTIP at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the national science agency.

Agriculture, ecosystems and ocean levels are all inextricably linked to the atmosphere — and understanding these processes is obviously critical to studies of climate change and the formation of public policies that are shaped by those studies.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.

That is the conclusion of a study simulating a little - discussed consequence of climate change: it could choke entire ecosystems by cutting oxygen levels in the ocean.

«By studying eelgrass meadows on a ecosystem level, we were able to observe how plants and animals interact under changing climatic conditions.

Glen Hood, a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame and lead author of the paper, said, «Our study has impacted our understanding of evolution by suggesting that change in individual lineages can reverberate through different trophic levels of an ecosystem and increase community - level biodiversity.»

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

An increasing amount of drugs taken by humans and animals make it into our streams and waterways, and pharmaceutical pollution has had catastrophic ecosystem consequences despite low levels of concentration in the environment.

These variations originate primarily from fluctuations in carbon uptake by land ecosystems driven by the natural variability of the climate system, rather than by oceans or from changes in the levels of human - made carbon emissions.

This was to be done by calculating the «critical load» of acid that each ecosystem could absorb without suffering damage and then aiming to reduce by 50 per cent the gap between that and the levels of acid fallout in 1980, the base year for the calculations.

«By linking fisheries to ecology, we can now make informed statements about ecosystem function at a given level of fish biomass.»

«Changing Antarctic waters could trigger steep rise in sea levels Main Coastal ecosystem services» valuation by stakeholders improves planning decisions»

King crabs may soon become high - level predators in Antarctic marine ecosystems where they haven't played a role in tens of millions of years, according to a new study led by Florida Institute of Technology.

By «complex life,» the researchers don't mean necessarily technologically advanced or even highly intelligent life, but rather life forms that are above the microbial level and form stable food chains like those found in ecosystems on Earth.

It consists of careful genomic analysis, then minimal gene tweaking, followed by sustained monitoring at every level from ecosystem to individual gene.

Because everyone hosts a different variety of bacteria (by the trillion), many experts believe that studying these ecosystems on an individual level could provide a ton of insight in everything from why different diets work better for some than others, to the way our skin reacts to different ingredients.

«By operating at the platform level as well as the app level of blockchain technology, we believe we can create the most enterprise value, because now we can partner with a large network of developers to create a live video and messaging ecosystem on blockchain.

By extension to an ecosystem approach this means that in plant - strategy environments it is likely that levels of competitive and of stress tolerant species do exist in ruderal environments.

Backed by RIM's famed email and messaging infrastructure and a growing app ecosystem, the BlackBerry Torch is the device that takes RIM and its users to the next level.

[6] The most pressing threat to kelp forest preservation may be the overfishing of coastal ecosystems, which by removing higher trophic levels facilitates their shift to depauperate urchin barrens.

The success of those ecosystem - level actions was facilitated by the islands» isolation and their limited, more defined ecosystems: once pigs were removed from the islands, there was little chance of them returning.

If this trend is not halted soon, many millions of people will be at risk from extreme events such as heat waves, drought, floods and storms, our coasts and cities will be threatened by rising sea levels, and many ecosystems, plants and animal species will be in serious danger of extinction.

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

The ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats are especially vulnerable to sea - level rise and more severe storms.

The ocean uptake of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, the excess above preindustrial levels driven by human emissions, causes well - understood and substantial changes in seawater chemistry that can affect marine organisms and ecosystems.

I will note that this is also a very different level of certainty from the «it is likely that increased CO2 will lead to sufficient warming to cause problems for humanity and ecosystems», which I will posit is likely, but if CO2 went up to 600 ppm and temperatures in 2100 only increased by a degree or so, I would be very surprised but would not feel like the laws of physics had been repealed.

The World Bank also warned when it released its report that «we're on track for a 4 °C warmer world [by century's end] marked by extreme heat waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life - threatening sea level rise.»

We present an integrated modeling study designed to investigate changes in ecosystem level phenology over Europe associated with changes in climate pattern, by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

Here we report measurements of ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes, remotely sensed radiation absorbed by plants, and country - level crop yields taken during the European heatwave in 2003.

Also recognizes the need for more knowledge and research on the source and fate of microplastics and their impact on biodiversity, marine ecosystems and human health, noting recent knowledge that such particles can be ingested by biota and could be transferred to higher levels in the marine food chain, causing adverse effects; 6.

Yet were the mean level of the seas to rise or fall by half a meter, it would alter coasts, and costs, and ecosystems, throughout the world.

In particular but in no particular order, informed conservation of biological diversity, development of public taste for a thriving ecosystem, responsiveness of governments to the will of individual human beings not of corporate fictions, levelling the playing field by privatizing the carbon cycle, enlightened application of the principles (by which I mean from Newton's Principia) of Science to questions of climate science, and payment for harms by those who cause them.

(5) Global warming, the climate change component that is driven by greenhouse gas increases, is the reason for concern because of its increasing impact on ecosystems and polar ice caps / sea level rise.

Rising sea level impacts marine ecosystems by drowning some plants and animals as well as by inducing changes of parameters such as available light, salinity, and temperature.

Forest ecosystems have been stressed through wildfire activity, regional drought, high temperatures, and infestations, while aquatic ecosystems are being affected by higher temperatures and sea level rise.

Such sea level drops expose shallow marine ecosystems in the Pacific Islands, causing massive coral die - offs with a foul smelling tide, called taimasa (pronounced [kai» ma» sa]-RRB- by Samoans.

Based on our assessment, we have very high confidence for climate impacts (especially sea level rise and storm surge) on ecosystems; and we have high confidence for climate impacts on agriculture (reduced to some degree, compared to our level of confidence about ecosystems, by uncertainty about the efficacy and implementation of adaptation options).

Given that a case can be made that current levels atmospheric ghg concentrations are already harming or putting people and ecosystems at risk, it is difficult to make an ethically acceptable case that atmospheric ghg concentration targets higher than current levels are justified unless consent is given by those who are already being harmed by warming or full compensation is made to those who through no fault of their own are harmed by climate change.

Reports show the ocean's unique ecosystems are adapting to fluctuation in water temperatures likely caused by global warming, but increasing acidic levels may prove fatal for the world's coral reefs.

When we put these developments against the harsh warnings of an organization as conservative as the World Bank — that «we're on track for a 4 °C warmer world marked by extreme heat - waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life - threatening sea level rise» — the only reasonable conclusion is that the world has gone mad.

«The impacts of climate change — including an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more heavy downpours, an increase in wildfires, more severe droughts, permafrost thawing, ocean acidification and sea - level rise — are already affecting communities, natural resources, ecosystems, economies and public health across the Nation,» reads an executive order signed this morning by President Obama.

Melting in Greenland has implications for sea life, fisheries, and coastal communities worldwide, by contributing to global sea - level rise and adding freshwater to ocean ecosystems.

From CSIRO: «What we learned is that in spite of droughts, floods, volcano eruptions, El Niño and other events, the Earth system has been remarkably consistent in regulating the inter-annual variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels,» Tropical ecosystems regulate variations in Earth's carbon dioxide levels Rising temperatures, influenced by natural events such as El Niño,...