Sentences with phrase «ecological function»

What natural, ecological function solves a problem that we generally address by putting a plug in the wall?

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

In the face of this, experts said revising the plan to a more achievable goal of maintaining ecological function would be more realistic, while accepting that the overall health of the reef would decline with time, Michael Slezak reports for The Guardian.

Amphipods perform an important ecological function in water: they break down organic material, thus keeping the water clean, and serve as food for fish.

Besides recharging groundwater supplies and trapping floodwaters, wetlands serve a variety of important ecological functions

For overfished coral reef systems, restoring fish populations that perform key roles will in turn restore ecological functions critical to recovery.

The authors recommend that these coral refuge areas maintain a fish biomass of greater than 500 kilograms per hectare, which, as previously published WCS research shows, is the threshold to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries.

They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.

The company will pay $ 640,000 to the state, and identify and acquire additional conservation land «that provides ecological functions equivalent to the land impacted by the pipeline» such as the nearly two miles of pipeline through pristine Otis State Forest.

The company will also have to identify and acquire additional conservation land «that provides ecological functions equivalent to the land impacted by the pipeline» such as the nearly two miles of pipeline through pristine Otis State Forest.

In the absence of native mammals, weta are thought to perform similar ecological functions.

But the few people that are getting rich off of illegal logging will increase the impoverishment of the many who depend on those forests that provide fuelwood, building materials, and most importantly, ecological functions such as water capture and retention.

«Besides, the pet food industry serves an important ecological function by using up food that would otherwise be thrown out,» Dr. Nestle said.

In this case, an invasive species is potentially restoring a lost ecological function.»

«It's important to understand the role that wolves play in ecosystems and to not assume that smaller predators... perform the same ecological functions,» Benson said.

Given that fungi supply core ecological functions that are beneficial to humankind, it is perplexing that they are afforded such meagre attention and protection.

These kind of experiments «tell us a lot about rebuilding a rainforest,» he says, as well as inform us about «what we can do that will help forests recover their biodiversity, carbon storage and other ecological functions in as short a time as possible — and hopefully in a way that roughly approximates the forest that was there originally.»

This isn't really a true de-extinction, but it might still let us fill in missing ecological functions.

The study found that 29 per cent of the 3,863 reefs comprising the world's largest reef system lost two - thirds or more of their corals, transforming the ability of these reefs to sustain full ecological functioning.

Thus, chlorination can have important ecological functions related to the activity of microorganisms, such as dealing with dangerous oxygen radicals that form during metabolism, or being part of the chemical battle that the microorganisms are engaged in, in the competition for resources in the ground.

When considering the significant investments required in resurrecting a species like the mammoth, it is important to consider the relative ecological functions that the species provides in an ecosystem.

Ecological functions include providing food and shelter to marine creatures, giving food to humans, protecting the coastline and many more.

But it's pretty clear that this century will, in many situations, unavoidably see a shift away from «saving» species to conserving ecological function and diversity.

«Or is it that the monetary narrative places less importance on ecological functions during a monetary crisis?»

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green Wild by Design / Island Press «Combining ecological function and design is now mainstream,» said...

For timber, all wood must be certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 100 % labeling standards, from salvaged sources, or from the intentional harvest of on - site timber for the purpose of clearing the area for construction or restoring / maintaining the continued ecological function of the on - site bionetwork.

• Coral reefs that maintained 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare (about 50 percent of an average reef's carrying capacity) were found to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries, providing fishers and marine managers with a critical target.

Coral reefs that maintained 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare (about 50 percent of an average reef's carrying capacity) were found to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries, providing fishers and marine managers with a critical target.

Second, returning the Passenger Pigeon to the forests of the eastern United States would fulfill a key ecological function.

In their recent publication, Douglas McCauley, an ecologist at UCSB, and his colleagues argue for three criteria to consider when choosing de-extinction candidates: Select target species with unique functions, concentrate on species that went extinct recently, and only work with species that can be restored to levels of abundance that meaningfully restore ecological function.

Kelp has an important ecological function and can support hundreds of thousands of invertebrates.

The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef's «ecological function» instead.

«The concept of «maintaining ecological function» refers to the balance of ecological processes necessary for the reef ecosystem as a whole to persist, but perhaps in a different form,» a spokesperson for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority explained, «noting the composition and structure may differ from what is currently seen today.»

And the more likely it is that toxic effects will occur, the larger the number of potentially affected species and ecological functions.

«Bleaching that takes place every year will invariably cause major changes in the ecological function of coral reef ecosystems,» said study leader Dr. van Hooidonk of NOAA and the University of Miami.

Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.

«If you want to restore the ecological function of an extinct species, and you don't have any living species that will do that, you take the closest living species you can get and adapt it based on the genome of the extinct species.»

«One of the biggest problems in the exploration of microbial dark matter is that so far, it is very complicated to determine when uncultured microbes are metabolically active and what their ecological function in a system is,» said study first author Roland Hatzenpichler, a postdoctoral researcher working in the Caltech lab of microbial ecologist Victoria Orphan.

These are ecological functions that we are beginning to discover, and a revised view of chloride is also interesting from a societal perspective.

According to Abouheif, Khila didn't just show that this new gene makes the water striders» fan; he also «reconstructs its evolutionary history, and then does the trademark ecological tests to show that it has an ecological function.»

More importantly, edge effects create species communities near edges that bear little resemblance to the communities of forest interiors, and this species turnover likely reflects dramatic changes to the ecological functioning of modified forest habitats.

Furthermore, when researchers analyzed patterns of remaining forest, they found a global loss of interior forest — core areas that, when intact, maintain critical habitat and ecological functions.

The translocated animals would be «living in a complex natural environment carrying out an ecological function, for instance harbouring parasites, interacting with other species and evolving,» says Possingham.

Studies have found that kelp forests are one of the most productive systems in the ocean with high biodiversity and ecological function.

In other studies, scientists have documented the ecological functions that birds perform, such as seed dispersal, pollination and herbivore control.

It is a real opportunity to explore the diversity of marine micro-eukaryotes which will help us to understand their relative importance through studying specifics such as their metabolic function from a gene repertoire to more broad concepts such as the identification of their ecological functions.

Detection of gene repertoires related to ecological functions (phagocytosis, organic matter degradation, membrane transporters, meiosis) in different lineages of heterotrophic microeukaryotes.