Sentences with phrase «ecosystem recovery»

To reach these recovery averages, the researchers looked at data from peer - reviewed studies over the past 100 years on the rate of ecosystem recovery once the source of pollution was removed.

«It would be good to see their predictions tested with actual observations of ecosystem recovery from drought across a range of ecosystems and climate zones.»

Scientists at Oregon State University, Simon Fraser University and other institutions have shown in both computer models and 18 months of field tests on reefs that reducing lionfish numbers by specified amounts — at the sites they studied, between 75 - 95 percent — will allow a rapid recovery of native fish biomass in the treatment area, and to some extent may aid larger ecosystem recovery as well.

A recent scientific paper looking at Latin America lists «similar patterns of ecosystem recovery following rural - urban migration» in Patagonia, northwest Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras and the montane deserts and Andean tundra ecosystems of Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.

«Submerged aquatic vegetation return is sentinel of Chesapeake Bay ecosystem recovery: Effects of nutrient and stormwater reduction on bay — nation's largest estuary.»

And according to the nonprofit Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team, «approximately 100 species of plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, butterflies and other insects are officially listed as «at risk» in these ecosystems» in Canada.

EGU 2012: The latest dirt on reducing carbon emissions Scientists gather to discuss permafrost ecosystem recovery and the use of charcoal for counteracting carbon loss from soil.

Schwalm, C. R. et al. (2017) Global patterns of drought recovery, Nature, doi: 10.1038 / nature23021 Seneviratne, S. I. and Ciais, P. (2017) Trends in ecosystem recovery from drought, Nature

One of the expectations climate scientists have for a future including climate change is more droughts in some regions and now a new study in Nature shows that slow ecosystem recovery from those droughts may become more normal too.

There are a few published reviews of ecosystem recovery that tend to support my assessment (see «Rapid Recovery of Damaged Ecosystems»).

This ecosystem recovery is an unprecedented event; based on the breadth of data available and a sophisticated data analysis, this is the biggest resurgence of underwater grasses ever recorded in the world.

The researchers employed advanced analytical tools to definitively show how the reduction of excess pollutants like nitrogen and phosphorus are the cause of this ecosystem recovery.

«A big question will be, «What will be the ecosystem recovery with multiple disturbances like this?

Climate models should include its degradation and ecosystem recovery to predict carbon feedback with more certainty.