Sentences with phrase «ecological services»

Today, it is possible to restore ecosystem structure and functionality for the benefit of wildlife and to regain some of the original ecological services for human benefit.

Most species of the mentioned animal groups in Table 4 are beneficial organisms and enforce ecological services.

Under these conditions, reduced populations of tropical birds may result in fewer birds to provide vital ecological services.

And what about wild areas, whether terrestrial or marine, and their associated ecological services?

This approach ensures that the right tree species are planted in the right places for optimum ecological services.

The omission of ecological services in economics is the equivalent of double bookkeeping: one set that looks (relatively) rosy for us and another for our children.

2009, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region, South Fiorida Ecological Services Office: Veero Beach, FL. p. 19.

He has been a senior ecologist for Applied Ecological Services, Inc., since 1978 and currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

And what about cats who «fit» into urban ecologies, taking the place of otherwise absent predators and contributing ecological services in the form of pest control?

The EPA points out that, besides containing a disproportionately high number of plant and animal species compared to other land forms, wetlands serve a variety of ecological services including feeding downstream waters, trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, removing pollution and providing fish and wildlife habitat.

It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 63 fishery resources offices and 81 ecological services field stations.

The certainty of the forecasts is particularly important as warming leads to shifts from temperate to subtropical drylands, which leads to changes in precipitation and soil moisture, which in turn has profound effects on ecological services, provided to humanity, including the viability of certain temperate agricultural systems.

Ecological services derived include soil forming and conditioning, soil stabilization, waste recycling, carbon sequestration, nutrients cycling, predation, pollination and habitats.

Wild species perform a variety of ecological services within organic systems: pollination, pest control, maintenance of soil fertility.

Through this we would put a price on forests, soils, water supplies and other essential ecological services — an approach that China has been pioneering (see news story).

And that, says FWS Arizona Ecological Services Office field supervisor Steve Spangle, is «larger than any other critical habitat that I'm aware of.»

The study is the first effort to specifically document Marsh Arab women's cultural relationship to marsh ecological services.

«We really must begin understanding pollination as a global ecological service.

However, a browse through their website (Chinese only) reveals on the left panel vague references to «ecological service rights transactions» (生态服务权益交易) and «renewable resource transactions» (可再生资源交易) without providing much details.

She envisions a world where each new or retrofitted building would perform multiple ecological services, together working the benchmarks of the greater community.

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

Whereas in conventional agriculture weeds are considered competitive to the crop and are eliminated by herbicides, in organic systems some of the accompanying plants are desired to a certain degree and considered useful, as they provide a wide range of ecological services.

Here, the conservancy is partnering with the City of Niagara Falls and Applied Ecological Services to restore habitats on the land owned by the New York Power Authority and managed by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Please consider how scarce resources are being recklessly dissipated and global ecosystems are being relentlessly degraded, at a much faster rate than the Earth can restore its resources and ecological services for human benefit.

Ecological services.

«FDOT is committed to biodiversity conservation and ecological services that roadsides can offer.

«However, these programmes need to directly assess the ecological services provided by native forests, such as biodiversity conservation or soil and water retention — and pay farmers accordingly.»

Salt marshes perform a long list of ecological services: they buffer coastal erosion; filter runoff; reduce the risk of flooding; provide habitat for juvenile fish, crabs and shrimp; and store excess carbon, keeping it from re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

«With a tool like this, we could more easily assess what plants various bee species are relying on, helping to boost their populations as well as the economic and ecological services they provide to our agricultural and natural landscapes.»

«The Ordos Declaration reaffirms the contribution of ecological services to food security and peace and security....

The disappearance of our rural or ancient bugs, like those still teaming in some guts in Africa, may have provided services — ecological services that is — that we are only beginning to know we are missing.

PES are incentives offered to farmers or landowners in exchange for managing their land to provide some sort of ecological service.

Not only a fantastic area for wildlife, Santay Island helps filter and clean the air from the city and provides an important ecological service.

This exhibits a very limited understanding of the ecological services of the planet.

How much is actually determined by what the Ecos needs to maintain the biodiversity and ecological services that it provides.

A report on the future of California agriculture, released by the Pacific Institute on Wednesday, offers the following vision: «It is now the year 2050 and California agriculture is thriving, leading the world in sustainable production, the efficient use of water... and the protection of ecological services.»

As of August 21, Global Footprint Network said that «humanity has demanded all the ecological services — from filtering CO2 to producing the raw materials for food — that nature can regenerate this year.

This article explains what the National Ocean Policy is, how it builds upon and is distinguished from past ocean governance laws, and what the NOP will need to succeed in effectively managing our coastal resources and preserving the value of our coasts, including the recreational and ecological services it provides.

However, I believe that if we are patient and if we are willing to put in more research investment into this area, we will have much improvement in understanding the economic estimation of ecological services.

Not giving full account for new understandings of the ecological services rendered in light of what we are learning about the Pleistocene and the Aerosol chemistry elephant in the room, way understated.