Sentences with phrase «ecosystem collapse»

Still, the signature of ecosystem collapse is far and wide, way too noticeable to ignore.

In other words, if we don't deal with the problem soon, we should think about what widespread ocean ecosystem collapse will look like and mean for humanity.

This will lead to global ecosystem collapse — good enough retaliation.

It is more likely they will continue the processes that are leading to global ecosystem collapse.

Scientists are learning to study (study of ecosystem collapse in a North American lake) these changes and pushing for action to protect ecosystems both as the home to some of the planet's most threatened species and to give human beings a sustainable future on the planet too.

Extreme droughts, intensified by a warming climate, are increasingly causing ecosystem collapse in many regions worldwide.

My impression from looking at the conference material is that it was indeed more or less what you would expect four years on from the 2001 IPCC report, with two very large exceptions: The potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (= 5 meter sea level rise) and ocean acidification (= partial ocean ecosystem collapse with a subsequent cascade of potential side effects that practically defy description).

From ecosystem collapse to climate crunch, the warnings of future catastrophe could be staring us in the face

[*) For illustration — the authors present an example of the Arctic marine ecosystem collapse on individual threatened species level: «Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) are among the 1,688 species affected.

A.E. Etter, P.M. Fearnside, and W.F. Laurance, 2010: More than CO2: A broader picture for managing climate change and variability to avoid ecosystem collapse.

Headed toward an 8 F rise in warming Other such low - probability but high - risk scenarios mentioned in the report include ecosystem collapses, destabilization of methane stored in the seafloor and rapid greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost.

After 2 years, in the plots missing 75 % of the forest algae, the ecosystem tipped over to entirely turf algae and C. amentacea never came back, showing that recovery length could predict ecosystem collapse, the researchers reported yesterday in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

«Pressures from grazers hastens ecosystem collapse from drought: Experiments show grazing pressures compound drought stress, delay recovery.»

10 Ecosystem collapse Images of slaughtered elephants and burning rain forests capture people's attention, but the big problem — the overall loss of biodiversity — is a lot less visible and a lot more serious.

As the planet faces the dawn of a sixth mass extinction, scientists are searching for clues about the uncertain road ahead by exploring how ancient ecosystems collapsed and bounced back from traumatic upheavals.

Bad news, we are extinguishing species at an astonishing rate without knowing how many we can lose before ecosystems collapse

Now, entire swathes of the Great Barrier Reef are suffering from «complete ecosystem collapse,» marine researcher Justin Marshall said after spending a week conducting surveys near Lizard Island in the northern region of the reef.

«Dim the lights and the entire ecosystem collapses.»

Take the keystone away and the whole ecosystem collapses into something very different.

Grow, grow, grow the economy Never have decline US causes world ecosystem collapse Troll... janet's lost her mind.

Volcanic activity and large meteorite strikes in the past have «resulted in hostile conditions that have increased extinction rates and driven ecosystem collapse,» the report says.

Climate change drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting thousands of years, according to a paper published this week in Science.

This is also a leading source of uncertainty in determining the risk of the Amazon ecosystem collapse (Friedlingstein et al., 2006; Good et al., 2013).

Loss of top predators causing surge in smaller predators, ecosystem collapse Oregon State University, William Ripple

Orr 2005 lamented rising atmospheric CO2 would reduce pteropod habitat and survival, leading to ecosystem collapse in polar regions.

Fishermen individually have an incentive to report the lowest possible number, while as a group they would benefit from being honest to avoid ecosystem collapse.

Other species attempt to migrate, but as some are extinguished their interdependencies can cause ecosystem collapse.

«The large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

The ecosystem collapsed, the desiccated lake bed is now laced with pesticides spread by dust storms, and drinking water is polluted.

But models used by scientists to predict the tipping points at which drought stress leads to ecosystem collapse have proven unreliable and too optimistic.

Ecologists have long known that drought can stimulate this type of attack on plants, he said, but they mostly discounted it as a secondary stress and not a main cause of ecosystem collapse.

Ecosystem collapse may have helped usher out the dinosaurs.

«We lost our 35 - year - old brine shrimp business because of low lake levels, which resulted in toxic high salinity levels and ecosystem collapse,» Kreuz said.

Each of these ecosystem collapses could trigger an out - of - control runaway warming process.

This book presents a series of essays on the application of plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment to help prevent species extinction, ecosystem collapse, and solve problems in biodiversity conservation.

Ecosystems collapsed in the mid-2020s and you won't see a single glimmer of sunshine throughout the whole film.

«We have this spectacle of ecosystem collapse.

If the impact of such a change is on the resilience rather than the productivity of the system, the damage may not be evident until much later, when the ecosystem collapses for a seemingly unrelated cause.

The extermination of wolves from Yellowstone National Park in the 1920s triggered an ecosystem collapse known as a trophic cascade.

The longer global warming continues, the greater the risk of «waking the sleeping giants» — major feedbacks such as ice sheet collapse, methane «burps,» or ecosystem collapse — that could ignite abrupt or runaway warming beyond our control.

He discussed the escalating scale of impacts we could expect from unchecked climate change: from deaths and injuries from heat, to pollution, food - related illnesses, altered vectors for diseases such as malaria, crop failure and water shortages, mass migration, resource wars, economic collapse, and ecosystem collapse with mass extinctions.

In some areas of the world, the implications of ecological deficits can be devastating, leading to resource loss, ecosystem collapse, debt, poverty, famine, and war.

The atmospheric concentrations of several important greenhouse gases have increased substantially, and the Earth is warming rapidly,» according to Steffen et al., bringing us ever closer to the precipice of ecosystem collapse and putting prospects for a decent future at grave risk.

In March 2009, the Prince of Wales declared that the world had «only 100 months to avert irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse».