Sentences with phrase «critical ecosystem services for»

C4 grasses include some of the world's most important food and energy crops and C4 grassy savannas provide critical ecosystem services for more than a billion people.

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Surface water resources are critical for public water supply, industry, agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, initiated by United Nations Secretary - General Kofi Annan, demonstrated the critical need for investment in the sustainable use of ecosystem Ecosystem Assessment, initiated by United Nations Secretary - General Kofi Annan, demonstrated the critical need for investment in the sustainable use of ecosystem ecosystem services.
The research, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, casts doubt on the argument that deforestation is a critical step towards development and suggests that mechanisms to compensate communities for keeping forests standing may be a better approach to improving human welfare, while simultaneously sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services, in rainforest areas.
The Katoomba Network is designed to create an enabling environment for local actors to take critical steps towards the development and improvement of payments for ecosystem services - «PES» initiatives and policies, critical for restoring and improving ecosystems.
This could also entail sudden shifts of ecosystems to less desired states (Scheffer et al., 2001; Folke et al., 2004; e.g., Chapin et al., 2004) through, for example, the exeedance of critical temperature thresholds, possibly resulting in the irreversible loss of ecosystem services, which were dependent on the previous state (Reid et al., 2005).
However, mangroves are far from unexceptional, providing critical ecosystem services like erosion control, flood mitigation and nurseries for fish.
I also believe people will increasingly find that local blockchain ecosystems, where critical services are co-located in one geographical area, are critical success factors for blockchain projects.
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