Sentences with phrase «ecosystem modeling approach»

Not exact matches

A Yale - led research team has adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

More work is needed to extend the new approach to other plant species, and to broaden the effort to include models that look at dynamics at the ecosystem scale, the researchers said.

To establish CINAR as a leader in promoting «rational ocean stewardship» and serve as a model for development of similar ecosystem approaches to management in other regions;

Also, atmospheric measurements of the amounts of methane released by permafrost (a top - down approach) are far less than estimates of these amounts made using point - based field assessments and ecosystem modeling (bottom - up approaches).

The problem with many products and approaches on the market today is that they follow the old outdated medical model in trying to destroy bacteria, fungus, etc., in the body without any knowledge or concern for the natural ecosystem of the digestive tract and the vitally important role of microorganisms in our body.

Inspired by the unique facilities of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and drawing upon its ecosystem of over 400 companies across manufacturing, media, food, technology, and other fields, the S.T.E.A.M. Center model represents a bold, innovative approach to STEM education.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.

• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management

A proportional approach to downscaling the SRES land - cover scenarios has been applied to global ecosystem modelling (Arnell et al., 2004) by assuming uniform rates of change everywhere within an SRES macro-region.

Here we use a set of integrative approaches that combine metatranscriptomes, biochemical data, cellular physiology and emergent phytoplankton growth strategies in a global ecosystems model, to show that temperature significantly affects eukaryotic phytoplankton metabolism with consequences for biogeochemical cycling under global warming.

Extending this approach to other shelf - sea models would help quantify the uncertainty in more biogeochemical simulations, a step that would ultimately improve the models» ability to inform better management of sea - shelf ecosystems, the source of more than 90 % of the world's fishing catches.