Sentences with phrase «disrupted as the ecosystems»

In many ways, the field of «restoration ecology» is as disrupted as the ecosystems that researchers seek to restore.

Not exact matches

As it forges ahead, transforming itself into a bona fide entertainment company, its success is still predicated on its coexistence with the very environment it is trying to disrupt: the Hollywood ecosystem.

We've heard an awful lot about entrepreneurs attempting to «disrupt» the tech ecosystem with new innovations, but few sectors are experiencing as much disruption as the auto industry, where dozens of start - ups are aiming to create the vehicle of the future.

Environmentalists, residents and Park District members have expressed concern that the center project, as proposed, will disrupt the preserve's ecosystem.

From Louisiana and Missouri through the American heartland and all the way north to Minnesota, Asian carp are invading freshwater lakes and rivers, disrupting ecosystems as they go.

Since the publication of Laurie Garrett's influential 1994 book, The Coming Plague, people commonly talk about pandemics as nature's retribution: something sprung on us as a penalty for disturbing the world's innate balance, for penetrating too deeply into forests and jungles, for disrupting the order of the Earth's precarious ecosystems.

As a result, these species will migrate to cooler regions or deeper waters, ecosystems will be disrupted, and the diversity of species will decline.

If the ice melts, the camp's infrastructure, as well as any remaining biological, chemical and radioactive waste, could re-enter the environment and potentially disrupt nearby ecosystems, say the study's authors.

In the United States, even preliminary experiments with ranching using sound as a herding signal attracted a lawsuit over fears feeding the animals could cause pollution and disrupt ecosystems (see: Lawsuit chips away at fish research).

The Sahara expands as the Sahel retreats, disrupting the region's fragile grassland ecosystems and human societies.

As Louisiana's wetlands continue to disappear at an alarming rate, a new study has pinpointed the human - made structures that disrupt the natural water flow and threaten these important ecosystems.

As too much fiber «sweeps» through the digestive tract, it can disrupt the delicate ecosystem that exists there.

Mesopredator Release In its IPMP / EA, FWS refers to two often - cited papers [18, 19] as evidence of cats disrupting native ecosystems, but fails to acknowledge the larger point made by the authors: the mesopredator release phenomenon.

Fish feeding disrupts the natural balance of ocean ecosystems and stimulates algae growth which is harmful to coral as well as disrupts the natural diversity of marine life.

These include such actions as driving species to extinction and adding long - lived greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in ways that have few impacts now, but could disrupt climate patterns, ocean ecosystems and coastal settlements in decades to come.

Such large variations of the climate likely won't occur every year over the next few decades given the limited global warming to date, but it would seem likely such conditions will occur more and more frequently as global warming continues, disrupting both social systems and ecosystems.

But ocean experts have increasingly warned that the direct chemical impact on marine life, as carbon dioxide dissolves in water and lowers its pH, could profoundly disrupt ecosystems by interfering with the growth of reefs and shell - forming plankton.

The continued shrinkage of thaw ponds could bring significant changes to local ecosystems, as spruce forest is likely to supplant tundra as the dominant land cover.14, 20 This could lead to a northward advance of some species of plants and other trees, while leaving resident vegetation more vulnerable to early mortality — potentially further disrupting the climate.14, 20,21

That's just on land; building the dam (and this is true for both large - scale and run of river projects) disrupts the aquatic ecosystem as well, both upstream and downstream.