Sentences with phrase «disrupted ecosystems»

(The short version, of course, is: centuries of melting ice and rising seas, hotter heat waves and heavier downpours, less predictable storm patterns, disrupted ecosystems and water supplies.)

The Southern Ocean and Antarctic systems offer remarkable natural experimental models for studying disrupted ecosystems.

For thousands of years, human mobility has brought all manner of species to isolated islands and regions, with the result being powerfully disrupted ecosystems.

The Ebola epidemic continues to rage in West Africa, and while it is very unlikely to reach pandemic scale (see The Economist), the outbreak provides a reminder of the linkages between disrupted ecosystems and human illness.

We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species» relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creating transient and novel communities dominated by generalist species and interactions.

If ecologists decide that a particular exotic species is disrupting an ecosystem, they may call for its destruction.

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.

They could be used to filter out the nitrates, endocrine disrupters and pharmaceutical residues that disrupt ecosystems and damage human health.

But our modern love of light - filled nights casts a long shadow — wasting energy, disrupting ecosystems, and in some cases harming human health.

When they're in waters outside North America, largemouth bass can cause declines in native fish abundance, disrupting the ecosystem.

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).

That heat is raising global sea levels, disrupting ecosystems and leading to more extreme weather events.

The swarms fly long distances, disrupting ecosystems forhundreds of miles.

Massive releases of methane from arctic seafloors could create oxygen - poor dead zones, acidify the seas and disrupt ecosystems in broad parts of the northern oceans, new preliminary analyses suggest.

Without proper safeguards, we risk letting synthetic organisms and their products out of the laboratory with unknown potential to disrupt ecosystems, threaten human health and undermine social, economic and cultural rights.

VP: Amazon.com has effectively utilized that information access and has been a force in so many of the digital publishing innovations — and, some would argue, has disrupted the ecosystem of the industry, not always to the benefit of authors» bottom lines.

Outdoors, cats are a non-native and invasive species that threaten birds and other wildlife, disrupt ecosystems, and spread diseases.

Using powerful air guns to send shockwaves to the ocean floor, the shocks generated are enough to affect migration patterns, cause deafness in dolphins and whales, and generally disrupt the ecosystem.

Power plant outflow raising the temperature of the water source disrupts its ecosystem.

The authors, led by Will Steffen of Australian National University and Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Center, have tried to refine how they approach risks related to disrupting ecosystems — not simply pointing to lost biological diversity but instead devising a measure of general «biosphere integrity.»

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.

Chemical fertilizers are running off the fields into water systems and oceans where they generate damaging blooms of oxygen - depleting microorganisms that disrupt ecosystems and kill fish.

While this may seem like a minor change, an earlier spring could disrupt the ecosystem balance, especially for the plants and animals whose life cycles depend on seasonal changes.

This EPA ruling that demands conversion of cooling systems from once - through to cooling towers is meant to mitigate impacts upon marine life from sucking in marine animals into the water intake, impinging larger animals onto filter screens, and discharging warm water that disrupts the ecosystem's normal temperature balance.

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The ecosystems in which we operate around the world are being disrupted and transformed,» CEO David Taylor said in a statement.

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.

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, a newsletter providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by Business Insider Intelligence.

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

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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.

To turn this tide, Circular Board, the first virtual accelerator for women entrepreneurs, approached Dell in 2016 with a new idea to disrupt the startup world: What if we could build an entirely new ecosystem, designed especially for women founders?

«Over-the-top video services will disrupt the media ecosystem from top to bottom over the next 5 - 7 years,» said Jason Krikorian, General Partner at DCM Ventures and Co-founder of Sling Media.

We strongly believe that CrowdInvesting will bring the Silicon Valley capital raise ecosystem to the rest of the world, and will provide entrepreneurs across the world the ability to realize their dreams and disrupt industries thus enabling new technology and business models.

They seek to disrupt a funding ecosystem in which Brand and Rupp say women - led startups account for just 2 percent of VC funding.

Aiming to disrupt the $ 8.5 trillion global grocery market, INS Ecosystem provides consumers with meaningful personalized offers leading to lower prices.

Warming temperatures, shifting seasons, changing precipitation, and rising sea levels are disrupting the behavior of our feathered friends and the ecosystems that support them.

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

A new study looks at how these compounds disrupt such ecosystems.

During the months and months of BP's ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and even after it was finally halted, researchers struggled to determine how the oil hidden below the ocean surface was moving, and whether it was disrupting Gulf ecosystems.

Finding evidence of malformation mechanisms in 252 million year old pollen fossils is impossible, so Looy and others have looked for other ways to determine whether increased UV - B disrupted the end - Permian ecosystem.

An ecosystem built around large palm trees shifted to a landscape dominated by grasses, disrupting the natives ability to farm and significantly hobbling their ability to survive on the island.

Disrupting a population could also produce ripple effects in other corners of the ecosystem, for example taking a food source from aquatic predators that feed on mosquito larvae.

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.

But escalating demand for these fish could be disrupting important wild ecosystems

He calls the plans «preposterous» and says the corridors could disrupt wildlife and the reserve's pristine ecosystem.

A complex set of chemical processes dissolves that CO2 and turns it into carbonic acid, which dissolves shells and coral, creating a cascade effect that could disrupt entire marine ecosystems.

These declines in rainfall could potentially alter the region's climate, disrupting rainforest ecosystems and impacting local economies, according to the study's authors.

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