Sentences with phrase «change in biodiversity»

In this lesson, students will use information about the connection between changes in biodiversity and changes in water quality to articulate criteria and constraints for a water filter design.

Also, there are many reasons for changes in biodiversity levels.

Part 2 also builds on students understanding about how changes in biodiversity affect ecosystem services.

However, there is still huge debate about the role of natural selection and adaptation in «macroevolution» — big evolutionary events such as changes in biodiversity over time, evolutionary radiations and, of course, the origin of species.

It is now widely recognized that climate change, land degradation and biodiversity are interconnected, not only through effects of climate change on biodiversity and land management, but also through changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning that affect climate change.

Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.

Human populations and their use of land have now transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the terrestrial biosphere (1, 2), causing major global changes in biodiversity (3), biogeochemistry (4 ⇓ — 6), geomorphic processes (7), and climate (8).

In this lesson, students will use information about the connection between changes in biodiversity...

«One hopeful point is that the extent of these changes in biodiversity and fisheries was dramatically reduced under a climate change scenario where greenhouse gas emissions were close to what would be needed for achieving the Paris Climate Agreement» said co-author William Cheung, Nereus Director of Science.

The scientists studied the changes in biodiversity among cartilaginous and bony fish during the Permian and Triassic periods around 300 to 200 million years ago — an interval marked by several serious extinction events.

Melott links the changes in biodiversity to the motion of the sun and planets through our galaxy.

Therefore, assessing the state of and change in biodiversity is central to ecology and conservation biology.

This involves recognising other causes of change, such as population growth, economic development and changes in biodiversity.

It is now widely recognized that climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity are interconnected; not only through the effects of climate change on biodiversity and land management, but also through the changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning that affect climate change.

The projects aims to give us further knowledge in areas as diverse as coral reefs ecosystem, the dietary composition in wildlife and domestic animals over the last 50 000 years, the effects of antibiotic exposure on microbial ecosystems, and changes in biodiversity that might have an effect on or are affected by climate change.

They will answer the driving question: What factors are considered when designing a water filter in response to a change in biodiversity that affects ecosystem services?

Its scientists conduct basic research on a wide range of large - scale environmental issues, including climate change, ocean acidification, biological invasions, and changes in biodiversity.

When it comes to data collection, simply documenting a change in biodiversity is not good enough.