Sentences with phrase «ecological services for»

In other words, many of the effects of human changes even initiated decades (or even centuries) ago will not manifest themselves on provisioning ecological services for many years, and perhaps only decades into the future, by which time it will be too late to do anything, and the quality of life for our species will drop rapidly and precipitously.

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.

Not exact matches

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

«Targeted promotion of the active SCFA producers as ecosystem service providers via personalised nutrition may present a novel ecological approach for manipulating the gut microbiota to manage T2DM and potentially other dysbiosis - related diseases,» Zhao added.

Amber Carr is the Director of Mass Audubon's Ecological Extension Service, a fee - for - service program where we share management expertise with our conservation paService, a fee - for - service program where we share management expertise with our conservation paservice program where we share management expertise with our conservation partners.

Anytime you prohibit some product or activity or service legally which has a demand in society, you create an ecological niche for organized crime to cater to that demand.

Despite the stigma attached to bugs, many of them perform services necessary for a productive ecological community.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

For an up - to - the - minute glimpse of Hawaii's ecological predicament, visit www.hear.org, which is run by the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project, a joint venture of the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the University of Hawaii.

In order to explore the factors that hinder and help individuals transition from long - term residential substance abuse treatment centers to the community, Dr. Manuel and her collaborators, Dr. Obie Nichols and Ms. Erin Palmer, from Services for the UnderServed, Inc., (SUS) conducted a qualitative socio - ecological model - based study, «Barriers and Facilitators to Successful Transition from Long - Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment,» the findings of which were recently presented at the 2016 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State conference.

Today, as a wildlife biologist for the National Forest Service and a presidential award winner, he travels the world studying the complex interactions that play out in ecological systems.

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.

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Watersheds not only supply water for domestic use but also provide a multitude of ecological and cultural services, including water for irrigation and industry, shelter, habitats for biodiversity and, in very poor areas, sources of livelihoods.

But flies play important ecological roles, as pollinators for example, points out Chris Nagano, an entomologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

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

Other participants include the Institut für sozialökologische Forschung (Institute for Social - Ecological Research, ISOE), the Deutsche Wetterdienst (German Weather Service), EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) as well as a number of small and medium - sized companies.

Bats are keystone species for cave ecosystems and provide important ecological services.

These impairments hold ecological relevance, particularly in contexts in which precise disambiguation of complex socio - emotional cues is critical but insufficient sleep is prevalent; for example, in members of the military, emergency service personnel, medical professionals, and new parents.

But Michael Makarian, president of the New York - based Fund for Animals, said the park service was causing an «ecological disaster» with its poisoning campaign.

Located on Playa Flamingo, designated a Blue Flag beach for ecological purity and tourism safety: 120 beautifully decorated guest rooms & suites, 2 outdoors swimming pools (with waterfalls), Serenity Spa, covered childrens pool with water features and adjacent play area, swim - p pool and snack bar, tennis court (lit for night play), breakfast and All Inclusive plan available, new restaurant and weekly theme buffets, new rooftop sunset lounge with spectacular ocean view, casino and piano bar, fitness center, beauty salon with select spa services available, sundry shop, two souvenir shops, tour desk featuring optional (volcano, rain forest, white water rafting, deep - sea fishing, and other tours), on site scuba and snorkeling Shop, table games area (Billiards & Air Hockey.

On a Saturday in November of 2016, during his exhibition Continuous Services Altered Daily at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut (May 1, 2016 — February 5, 2017 and on view at the Bemis Center in Omaha June 1, 2017 — August 26, 2017), David Brooks, an artist recognized for his commitment to illuminating our complex human relationship with the natural world, sat down with Greg Lindquist to talk about his current show, ecological activism, and scientific fieldwork.

Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry for WWF - UK, says, «It's important to celebrate innovations that drive us towards a One Planet Future - a future in which the production and consumption of goods and services flourish within the Earth's ecological limits and support human well - being around the world.»

Attempting to substitute more technological services for degraded ecological and environmental services is putting us on a path toward greater resource and energy consumption with diminishing returns.

As a result, the National Park Service has for the past 40 years conducted carefully managed «prescribed burns» to clear unsafe accumulations of dead wood and for ecological restoration purposes.

Outside of their own farms, Brooklyn Grange offers consulting and installation services all over the city for «environmentally friendly ecological vegetated installations,» as Gwen puts it.

The ecological value of old growth wasn't appreciated at the time, and future pressure for wholesale conversion of old growth to timber production on US Forest Service land wasn't anticipated.

Forests count — not just for their ecological and industrial services but also for the sake of order and beauty.

Even prior to passage of the law, it also meant setting in motion the mechanisms that would educate millions of citizens and hundreds of thousands of businessmen about complex subjects such as ecological - economic zoning; payments for ecosystem services (PES); and carbon sequestration measurement, reporting and verification (MRV).

Through this initiative, the corporate world as major beneficiaries from the environmental capital and other endowments» will be mobilized to reduce ecological footprints, pay back for goods and services from the environment and embrace sustainable green production techniques.

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.

August 13 is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is part of an Arctic - focused project partnership: the National Science Foundation Arctic Data Center which encompasses the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at U.C. Santa Barbara, DataONE at the University of New Mexico, and NCEI at NOAA.

As part of the 2030 Agenda and in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO is committing to 1) Continue monitoring the environmental impact of its functional operations, 2) Improve its ecological performance and reduce its GHG emissions by 5.4 %, 3) Embrace the circular economy principle when procuring goods and services and managing waste, and 4) Develop Environmental Management Systems for Offices.

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

As we explained in December (This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster) in the United States old oil fields are commonly used on the premise that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas — there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gas.

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.

«With an alliance of environmental NGOs, universities and private businesses, we're developing the capacity to significantly accelerate funding from markets supporting «Payments for Ecological Services», including carbon credits, wetlands banking, biodiversity banking, etc, and to direct that funding to the best ecosystem restoration projects as determined by solid science», he explains.

According to GFN, if we don't rapidly shift things, by 2030, we'll be using the equivalent of two Earths» worth of natural resources and ecological services, and the pressure put on these natural systems could possibly lead to significant damage to the long - term biocapacity of the planet, which will then negatively affect the amount of resources available for our ever - growing population.

Because nature does not charge for the ecosystem services it provides, pricing these externalities is a matter of public policy, which can be addressed through a wide variety of financial as well as regulatory mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, land - value assessments, and / or various forms of ecological - use fees (Sanderson 2013).

Economic and ecological concepts for valuing ecosystem services.

The plan calls for wealthy countries to pay developing countries to preserve their rainforests arguing that these ecosystems store massive amounts of carbon dioxide as well as providing important ecological services and serving as a repository for most of the planet's biodiversity.

Service focused, highly reliable in protecting, developing and maintaining forestlands and their natural resources for ecological and economic purposes.