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The 4FRI project provided the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of forest thinning to improve forest resilience and ecosystem functioning at larger scales.

The group also analyzed data from national forest inventories across Europe, making the study one of the most comprehensive analyses of forest ecosystem functioning at this scale to date.

«By linking fisheries to ecology, we can now make informed statements about ecosystem function at a given level of fish biomass.»

grasslands and rainforests and a change to actually repair the biosphere's ecosystem functions at least a little.

Not exact matches

Approximately 13,000 ML of environmental water entitlements from the Barwon River near Collarenebri and the Darling River entitlements at Toorale remained in - stream and contributed to protecting and restoring ecosystem functions and aquatic habitats in the Barwon - Darling River system by supporting:

At the same time, altered water availability and enhanced photosynthesis can change the amount of leaf, root and below ground microbial biomass, resulting in changes to ecosystem functioning.

He'd also looked at how climate change would affect the structure and function of desert landscapes and ecosystems.

We've moved into ecosystem functions, carbon fluxes and nutrient fluxes,» says Greg Henry, an ecologist at the University of British Columbia.

Several rare upland bird species are being put at risk together with other ecosystem functions by the effects of climate change on the UK's blanket bogs, ecologists at the University of York have discovered.

Though it's not yet clear whether these trends hold for all plant eaters, that they exist at all means that ecologists need to keep them in mind as they figure out the dynamics of how ecosystems function.

«The near extinction of sea otters is one of the most dramatic examples of human - induced impacts to the structure and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems,» said Rebecca G. Martone, of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University.

«There is at present too little known about how marine ecosystems function in the Arctic, let alone how they will respond to the dramatic changes in progress, to prescribe safe harvest levels for living marine resources in the U.S. Arctic,» 43 marine scientists said in a letter to the Council chair.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

The laboratory component confirms that amphetamine is present in the Gwynns Falls watershed at concentrations that have the potential to affect stream ecosystem structure and function.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

Around the same time, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability in New York City, was also looking beyond species numbers to study ecosystem function, zeroing in on the diversity of species at different levels of the food web.

That level of interest is encouraging to him and other researchers because ecosystems are so complex that once certain species, functions or ecosystem processes are lost, there's no getting them back — at least not using current techniques or knowledge.

«The real story here is that we probably need sea otters more than they need us, as they play key roles in the functioning and resiliency of kelp forest and estuarine ecosystems that provide a wide range of services to human societies,» said Dr. M Tim Tinker, a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is presenting an overview of the latest research on southern sea otters and is coauthor of several other new studies presented at the conference.

Decomposition is a fundamental microbial function that plays a major role in how ecosystems work,» said study co-author Sasha Reed at the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah.

But it turns out that reindeer are not only good at pulling Santa's sleigh; they can also teach us important lessons about the functioning of ecosystems.

He is now a researcher at Florida International University where he will continue to pursue his studies of the interactions between soft - sediment metazoan and microbial assemblages and the impact this has on biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem function.

Interests: Physiological ecology of plants, role of plant species in Arctic ecosystem function, climate change; lead principal investigator at Arctic LTER.

Marine Biologist Tom Iliffe, also from Texas A&M University at Galveston, said: «Providing a model for the basic function of this globally - distributed ecosystem is an important contribution to coastal groundwater ecology and establishes a baseline for evaluating how sea level rise, seaside touristic development and other stressors will impact the viability of these lightless, food - poor systems.»

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

His suggested method may still cause a stir: Eco-System Services Could be Traded for Profit After warning attendees at a gala function in London that an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch (which is bigger than an US Football field...) is chopped down every four seconds, he suggested that setting up a new «ecosystems market» could be used to prevent deforestation.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

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At a time when Canada should be figuring out not only how to stem global warming, but how to adapt to a changing climate, we are destroying healthy, functioning ecosystems, rapidly increasing climate - warming greenhouse gas emissions, and perpetuating our dependence on oil.

Perhaps the most notable of these at the international level is the Convention on Biological Diversity's Decision XIII / 14 para 6 which notes «that more transdisciplinary research and sharing of knowledge among appropriate institutions is needed in order to better understand the impacts of climate - related geoengineering on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, socio - economic, cultural and ethical issues and regulatory options.»

These small areas are aimed at protecting deepwater reef species and providing areas where a natural reef ecosystem can function.

If that's just a bunch of international relations - speak to you, this is why this is important: The idea behind ecosystem services payments is that in exchange for preserving intact (or at least not entirely degraded) ecosystems, which perform valuable social functions such as improving air quality, flood protection, traditional medicines, sequestering carbon emissions, et cetera, nations should be compensated.

It stresses that animals can be both a nuisance and a benefit, serving several direct and indirect functions in urban ecosystems, each with different priorities at household, city and national level.

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That's not to say that Google should spend huge amounts of time adapting Wear to run in conjunction with more minor mobile OS plaforms like Windows, but to have it at least function fully and normally with an iPhone so that some people who want round smartwatches but have an iPhone, don't have to spend the cash they would on an Apple Watch and instead have the option to get into the Android Wear ecosystem.

Amazon's Alexa AI ecosystem is capable of a huge range of functions limited almost exclusively by users» and programmers» imaginations, and the latest example of that is a sub - $ 1,000 DIY version of a premium, Alexa - enabled toilet seen at CES 2018.