Sentences with phrase «ecosystem effects»

If even a fraction of the planned projects is completed, the habitat disruption could have a cascade of ecosystem effects with devastating consequences, scientists say.

Much of the inter-annual to decadal scale variability in surface air temperature (SAT) anomaly patterns and related ecosystem effects in the Arctic and elsewhere can be attributed to the superposition of leading modes of variability in the atmospheric circulation.

The most comprehensive analysis to - date, the IPCC third assessment report (Kauppi et al. 2001), included the sequestration capacity and potential ecosystem effects of various BCDR strategies, but had a relatively brief treatment of potential negative ecological effects.

A rash of spills in the Amazon has scientists and villagers scrambling to understand oil's effects on the ecosystem

Researchers monitored ecosystem effects over three weeks.

Climate - related ecosystem effects are also already evident in the mid-latitudes, such as on the island of Hokkaido, Japan, where a decrease in alpine flora has been reported (Kudo et al., 2004).

A new report documents how the effects of global warming, such as sea ice and permafrost loss, cascade throughout the ecosystem

It shows the value of these really impressive large - scale experimental setups that aim to look at ecosystem effects out in the real world, not in growth chambers or greenhouses.

To explain this, think about the central IPCC projection of a 3.5 degrees increase in global mean temperature, which would imply significant but moderate economic damage (maybe a long - run loss of 5 - 10 per cent of GDP, depending on how you value ecosystem effects).

afforestation, leading to depleted water resources and other ecosystem effects, with consequences for livelihoods;

Even before getting their own lives settled, teams collect information on storm behavior and their effects on the ecosystem

The ELA, the world's only facility where researchers can intentionally poison whole lakes to monitor ecosystem effects, has an impressive research record: Its scientists were the first to find evidence for acid rain, and to fully diagnose the effects of pollutants such as mercury, phosphate, and synthetic hormones on aquatic life.

And the ecosystem effects are alarming.

Five years after its start, the German research network on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) has acquired a broad range of knowledge on biological mechanisms, organism responses, community and ecosystem effects and economic impacts.

The ecosystem effects of pollution range from the nearly imperceptible, in depressed growth or reproduction of particular species, to the incomprehensible, as when the web of life is restructured because an important element of the old regime is disabled.

These include roadbuilding and maintenance, the heat island effect of all those parking lots, the water and ecosystem effects and more.

The ecosystem effects in the three regions described in this work demonstrate that forest loss in wNA and / or the Amazon may have synergistic ecological impacts.