Sentences with phrase «complex changes in their ecosystems»

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As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

The revolutionary discovery in the 1970s of a thriving complex marine ecosystem around the hydrothermal vents of the Galapagos Rift on the ocean floor of the eastern Pacific forever changed our understanding of habitability showing that life could also arise and flourish in the complete absence of sunlight in conditions that were utterly toxic to any other life forms on Earth.

The overuse of drugs, especially when it is coupled with the consumption of a western diet (low in fruits and vegetables and high in sugar, salt, refined grains, alcohol and ultra-processed foods that combine sugar, fat, flour, salt and various additives, especially emulsifiers), can change the delicate and complex balance of our gut's ecosystem, leading to intestinal dysbiosis and increased intestinal permeability, both of which are believed to play an important role in the development and exacerbation of various chronic degenerative diseases.

«The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and freshwater ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more,» the letter published in Science reads.

Her pictures depict in ever changing manners the beauty found in coral reefs and the complex marine ecosystems.

• While the complex biological relationships among fisheries and other aquatic biota and physiological responses to environmental change are not well understood, positive effects such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes may be offset by negative factors such as a changing climate that alters established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships (High Confidence).

Determining the effects of climate change on infectious diseases is complex because of confounding contributions of economic development and land use, changing ecosystems, international travel, and commerce.38 Currently, climate warming has been identified as contributing to the northern expansion of Lyme disease in North America39 and has been projected to increase the burden of child diarrheal illness, particularly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.40 Concern has also been raised for climate links to emerging infections, including coccidioidomycosis41 and amoebic meningoencephalitis.42 Further investigation into climactic influence on infectious diseases is needed.

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Leverage points are those «places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.»