Sentences with phrase «causing ecosystem collapse»

Other species attempt to migrate, but as some are extinguished their interdependencies can cause ecosystem collapse.

Not exact matches

Ecologists have long known that drought can stimulate this type of attack on plants, he said, but they mostly discounted it as a secondary stress and not a main cause of ecosystem collapse.

To put it differently, invasions don't cause ecosystems to collapse.

- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels - water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring

If the impact of such a change is on the resilience rather than the productivity of the system, the damage may not be evident until much later, when the ecosystem collapses for a seemingly unrelated cause.

Could lower ph really cause a collapse of the marine ecosystem?

Loss of top predators causing surge in smaller predators, ecosystem collapse Oregon State University, William Ripple

And projections that AGW may cause the extinction of 30 - 50 percent, or more, of existing species, and the collapse of entire ecosystems, by the end of the century are quite mainstream.