Sentences with phrase «ecological interactions among»

Finally, the impacts of climate change on plant growth could alter ecological interactions among species with potential cascading effects on food webs; integrating changes in suitable plant growing days and NPP within recently developed General Ecosystem Models [40] could provide some insights into the magnitude of these changes.

Understands how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples

Not exact matches

Process thought, reflecting upon the mutual interaction among God, humanity, and natural actualities, conveys a sense of ecological balance between both nature and God.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

This session addresses the long - term interactions among past climate conditions, ecological processes and human activities.

The lower Chesapeake Bay is especially at risk due to high rates of sinking land (known as subsidence).96 Climate change and sea level rise are also likely to cause a number of ecological impacts, including declining water quality and clarity, increases in harmful algae and low oxygen (hypoxia) events, decreases in a number of species including eelgrass and seagrass beds, and changing interactions among trophic levels (positions in the food chain) leading to an increase in subtropical fish and shellfish species in the bay.66

Ecodevelopmental theory consists of three overlapping components: (a) a social — ecological framework, based on the work of Bronfenbrenner (1979), that incorporates four levels of social context; (b) a developmental perspective emphasizing the changing nature of youth and families across time as a function not only of the current social context but also of changing conditions in the social context over time; and (c) a focus on social interactions between and among individuals in the youth's and family's social context.