Sentences with phrase «control ecological processes»
Microbial communities in marine sediments control ecological processes, affecting the availability of nutrients and the chemistry of the soil.
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Variation in insect diet has implications for numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including effects of environmental disturbance, the stability of networks of interacting species and the top - down effects of predators being controlled by the level of herbivore diet specialization.
In contrast to the often narrowly defined single - objective nature of flood control, they observe that SFM places an emphasis not only on reducing risk (to people, economics and the environment) but also on seeking opportunities to working with natural processes and promoting multiple benefits across a range of criteria (ecological, societal and economic).