Sentences with phrase «ecosystem processes»

Another activity allows students to view 3 - D molecular simulations of ecosystem processes such as photosynthesis.

Her research is centered on relationships between community dynamics and ecosystem processes in response to human disturbances.

The spatial pattern of forest is important because the same area of forest can be arranged in different ways on the landscape with important consequences for ecosystem processes.

In light of this the researchers call for changes in forest management strategies in order to maximize ecosystem processes and thus maximize the benefits of European forests.

By contrast, many ecosystems that would naturally experience frequent lower - severity fires may respond to vegetation management aimed at both reducing fire hazard to humans and restoring crucial ecosystem processes.

I am particularly interested in how humans and top predators shape and drive ecosystem processes.

We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long - term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes.

A by - the - numbers comparison is not indicative of performance capabilities here, given the two very different ecosystems these processing packages have to power, but in both cases, we are dealing with the pure version of the respective software experiences, resulting in performances that are as high as it should be.

There are more herbivores and creatures that parasitise other animals, but the detritivores — the creatures that consume carrion, excrement and decomposing plants — seem to be on the way down, with, the scientists say, potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.

«Across the globe, the mountain glaciers influence ecosystem processes like stream flow, nutrient delivery and primary production in the ocean.

The strength of DGVMs is especially in their global application, realistic dynamics and simulation of ecosystem processes including essential elements of the global C - cycle (e.g., Malcolm et al., 2002b).

In a new study published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, Pearse Buchanan, a scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, and his team integrated new, dynamic ways of representing marine ecosystem processes in ocean models.

For example, he currently serves as co-chair of the Integrated Land - Ecosystem Process Study (iLEAPS), a core activity for the International Biosphere Geosphere Programme that focuses on understanding how physical, chemical and biological processes interact to transport and transform energy and matter through the land - atmosphere interface.

The study of climate - induced changes in key ecosystem processes (Scholze et al., 2005) considers the distribution of outcomes within three sets of model runs grouped according to the amount of global warming they simulate: < 2 °C, 2 - 3 °C and > 3 °C.

Principle 8: Recognizing the varying temporal scales and lag - effects that characterise ecosystem processes, objectives for the ecosystem management should be set for the long term.

«The results show that there are synergies between ecosystem processes.

Despite the artificially imposed boundaries, «nobody doubts that Kruger is a real ecosystem, with real ecosystem processes in it,» Packer says.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

To address the knowledge gap about the globally - relevant ecosystem process of nutrient uptake, researchers worked to identify how different levels of microbial biodiversity influenced in situ phosphorus uptake in the Western Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean.

«If that behavior is important for controlling certain ecosystem processes, like for instance nutrient cycling, it's then reasonable to suggest that fundamental aspects of the ecosystem may well change in ways that we currently don't appreciate.»

The work shows that chemical cues in the plankton have the potential to alter large - scale ecosystem processes including primary production and nutrient cycling in the ocean.

Flowering times are well - documented indicators of the ecological effects of climate change and are linked to numerous ecosystem processes and trophic interactions.

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

ESM 254 - Coastal Marine Ecosystem Processes [4 units] Lenihan Examination of physical, chemical and geological processes in coastal ecosystems, including estuaries, that are influenced by human activities.

«But because of their presence they mitigate or mediate ecosystem processes that then can have these ramifying effects.»

«Our study highlights the need to understand natural ecosystem processes, especially in a world where change is occurring so rapidly,» concluded Dr. Lutz.

The team's results, discussed here, showed that warming caused a significant increase in emission rates for plants that is considerably higher than what is observed at more southern latitudes, emphasizing the high temperature sensitivity of ecosystem processes in the changing Arctic.

But this focused approach might not be necessary as trade - offs among different ecosystem processes that contribute to achieving these major three forest management objectives are relatively rare, a newly published study an international research team shows.

«Limited information is available on how extreme climatic events, such as hurricanes, will influence ecosystem processes,» Rodrigo Vargas, formerly at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE), Mexico, and now at the University of Delaware, US, told environmentalresearchweb.

Semlitsch believes that future research should consider the importance of amphibians to ecosystem processes such as soil enrichment.

This project addresses feedbacks between microbial matabolism and ecosystem processes in a forest soils, prairie potholes, river systems, and lakes.

Currently there only a few spots throughout Europe where researchers could find simultaneous high levels of all the ecosystem processes that contribute to timber production, climate regulation and biodiversity conservation.

«We really don't know the effects the Deepwater Horizon spill had in the deep sea because we know little about the ecosystem processes there,» reports Gary Cherr, director of UC Davis» Bodega Marine Laboratory and a lead author on a recently released paper published in the journal Bioscience.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

Tans initially expected February to be the first month of the year above 400 ppm, but predicting that threshold is tricky because CO2 concentrations depend both on emissions and natural ecosystem processes, which can be influenced by climate phenomena like the El Nino Southern Oscillation cycle, he said.

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.

A complex interplay of climate, hydrologic and ecosystem processes, and human impacts influences drought.

We need to study the ecosystem processes to find out.

This 9 - day - long summer course intends to provide basic knowledge about the functioning of the Critical Zone and its relationships with ecosystem dynamics, focusing on aspects related to hydrology, soil geochemistry and weathering, vegetation dynamics and distribution, microbiota, biodiversity, ecosystem processes

Some ecosystem processes confer direct benefits on humanity, but many of them confer benefits primarily via indirect interactions (MEA, 2005).

However, in last few years the term used is ecosystem services instead of environmental services, in order to specify that they are the results of the ecosystem processes and to distinguish them from the conception of goods and from the environmental services ecosystem components considered as divisible units (PERU, 2010).

This opening marks the end of a multi-year project aimed at restoring the ecosystem processes of Redwood Creek.

Low species diversity and abundant resident populations of birds and other animals make the soda lakes of the property especially important environments in which to conduct investigations of trophic dynamics and ecosystem processes.

Christina Tague's research is focused on the interactions between hydrology and ecosystem processes and, specifically, how eco-hydrologic systems are altered by changes in land use and climate.