Sentences with phrase «ecosystem processes such»

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.

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

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.

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This brings about a new level of transparency to B2B ecosystems — simplifying processes such as ownership transfer, production process assurance and payments.

He wanted to see the effect of fish processing plants on the ecosystem but he didn't expect to find such a gruesome scene.

He noted that the existing CDS system is capable of doing real - time settlements, but speeding up the overall process for other players in the capital markets ecosystem such as regulators is difficult.

GOTS means inputs used in processing, such as dyes and inks, comply with strict biodegradability and toxicity requirements, factories have functioning wastewater treatment plants to protect local ecosystems and water supplies, products do not contain any allergenic, carcinogenic or toxic chemical residues and core International Labour Organization, ILO, conventions are adhered to.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

Such keystone actors among corporations, the authors say, can be defined by the following characteristics: a) they dominate global production revenues and volumes within a particular sector, b) control globally relevant segments of production, c) connect ecosystems globally through subsidiaries, and d) influence global governance processes and institutions.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

NEON collects and produces data on precipitation patterns, soil and groundwater dynamics, interactions with vegetation, and processes such as nutrient cycling and food web dynamics in aquatic ecosystems to support the comprehensive study of water cycles throughout diverse ecosystems.

By having more information on what processes are active in the different parts of the Baltic Sea, such models can likely be refined, leading to better predictions and in the long run better ecosystem management.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

Ecosystem impacts include changes in basic processes such as photosynthesis; large - scale shifts in the distribution of plants and animals; and increased threats from fire, pests and disease.

If we're going to get out of this mess, the starting assumption has to be a love of nature and a belief that even things such as wildfire and drought are part of an ecosystem's normal processes.

Such rapid shifts in vegetation may represent abrupt, rapid, and persistent shifts in not only ecotones, but also in dominant vegetation cover and associated ecosystem process...

Ecosystem function - The processes and interactions that operate within an ecosystem, such as energy flow, nutrient cycling, filtering and buffering of contaminants, and regulation of popEcosystem function - The processes and interactions that operate within an ecosystem, such as energy flow, nutrient cycling, filtering and buffering of contaminants, and regulation of popecosystem, such as energy flow, nutrient cycling, filtering and buffering of contaminants, and regulation of populations.

A significant component of this key ecosystem characteristic is dependent on relatively slow processes such as rates of recuitment, mortality, and changes in vegetation composition.

Hilbert says that the ecosystem feedbacks in global climate models are based on short term processes such as carbon fixation by photosynthesis or decomposition, whereas in the longer term stocks of carbon are controlled by tree demographic processes.

Dryland ecosystems comprise a substantial proportion of total land cover and constitute a significant component of global biogeochemical cycles1, 6, yet owing to strong limitations by water and nutrients7, 8, undisturbed drylands are typically thought to maintain relatively low annual rates of ecosystem processes — such as plant photosynthesis5 (but see refs 9, 10)-- and to harbour biological communities that change composition on relatively slow timescales11.

Such massive industrialization of the landscape is destroying wildlife habitat, upsetting natural ecological and hydrological processes, and threatening numerous herds of Canada's threatened woodland caribou and the health of the forest ecosystem.

However, these models do not yet include many processes and reservoirs that may be important, such as peat, buried carbon in permafrost soils, wild fires, ocean eddies and the response of marine ecosystems to ocean acidification.

These changes may «tip the carbonate balance» of ecosystems such as coral reefs into the negative, given the large amount of calcium carbonate that is taken away by natural processes associated with physical and biological erosion.

Attempts to extend current global models to coastal ecosystems may yield spurious results, unless these models capture other relevant processes, such as regional watershed processes and changes in landscapes at the ecosystem level, which are not tractable at the global scale.

However, the conditions predicted for the open ocean may not reflect the future conditions in the coastal zone, where many of these organisms live (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011; Kelly and Hofmann 2012), and results derived from changes in pH in coastal ecosystems often include processes other than OA, such as emissions from volcanic vents, eutrophication, upwelling and long - term changes in the geological cycle of CO2, which commonly involve simultaneous changes in other key factors affecting the performance of calcifiers, thereby confounding the response expected from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone.

But if such approaches are going to overcome the limitations of GDP, we'll need to reshape our entire economic system so that it literally functions like an ecosystem — with the outputs from one enterprise or industrial process becoming the inputs of another.

The field of conservation biology identifies four objectives that must be achieved to ensure the longterm viability of an ecosystem: 1) all native ecosystem types must be represented in protected areas; 2) populations of all native species must be maintained in natural patterns of abundance and distribution; 3) ecological processes such as hydrological processes must be maintained; and 4) the resilience to short - term and long - term environmental change must be maintained.

Some members of the Bitcoin ecosystem, such as Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen, worry that the difficulties associated with making changes to Bitcoin's consensus rules are slowing down the development process, but others, such as Bitcoin Core contributor Cory Fields (who is Andresen's colleague at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative), feel that the inability to implement controversial changes is a sign of strength in terms of Bitcoin's level of decentralization.

There is a number of Dragonchain use cases such as identity systems, ticketing, decentralized processing, computing, and storage framework, voting systems, smart contract, reporting and compliance, funding and accountancy, generic crypto - store, payments policy, organization inside currency, open source software project control, Intellectual Property marketplace, customer facing currencies — ecosystem exchange (physical or virtual, gaming), reservations (room, travel, table...), Internet of Things etc..

Although Muscat raised several positive use cases of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology, Muscat specifically addressed the Bitcoin Blockchain's ability to handle, store and process sensitive data such as lands registry in a secure, immutable and decentralized ecosystem.