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«There are lots of suggested treatments, but there is no evidence that any of them work,» says Simon Potts, a professor of biodiversity and ecosystem services at the University of Reading in England.
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ZINO: Well, I think in the interim term, what we have to look at in terms of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is what can they sell within that services business, you know, via the ecosystem that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has and when we look at the quarter here, growth of about 38 percent.
In Canada, ecosystem services research dates back to at least 2004, with the publication of Simon Fraser University Professor Nancy Olewiler's study, The Value of Natural Capital in Settled Areas of Canada.
«Over-the-top video services will disrupt the media ecosystem from top to bottom over the next 5 - 7 years,» said Jason Krikorian, General Partner at DCM Ventures and Co-founder of Sling Media.
While the television and the car offer tremendous growth opportunities, Apple's core ecosystem continues to improve and grow, now sometimes referred to as a «mega-ecosystem», a term we find increasingly appropriate, as we look at the breadth of its components, which now include existing products (iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, iPad, Beats, Apple TV), software / services (Apple Pay, Homekit, Healthkit, Carplay, iCloud, iTunes, and rumored Beats Music, pay TV service), as well as possible new products in new categories (a Car, a TV set).
Your point 5 though means there would still be some liability because the «tokens» can be exchanged at a later date for other assets as well as used to pay for services in our ecosystem.
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Agriculture, especially in its most extreme modern form of industrialized monoculture, modifies landscapes and damages the ecosystem's goods and services, including biodiversity at all levels.
But those new strategies have yet to be identified, as Manning quickly points out: «The next step would be to have a closer look at the few spots with a high amount of synergies between different ecosystems services to see how this works and might be transferred to other sites».
«This is important because trees need to grow in order to perform valuable ecosystem services, such as removing pollutants from the air and storing carbon,» says Steve Frank, an associate professor of entomology at North Carolina State University and co-author of the paper.
Tribal values as well as goods and services produced by tribes from forest ecosystems are also at risk, according to the assessment.
That is concluded at the Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which serves under the United Nations flag.
«It requires a little bit more work,» said Steve Crooks, climate change services director at the ecosystem consulting firm ESA PWA, who also sits as a member of two international blue carbon working groups.
Such resources, known as ecosystem services, were the subject of a symposium held at AAAS» headquarters in Washington, on May 19 where experts explored the role played by the natural forces of ecosystems in protecting adjacent lands and local communities.
Researchers in the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore - ETH Centre, a research outpost of ETH Zurich, developed a method to map and quantify how street trees regulate ecosystem services.
«Understanding climate change impacts is vital to help protect marine ecosystem services that humans rely on so heavily such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism» said Dr. Rob Ellis, an ecological physiologist also based at Exeter University.
By quantifying the impact of international trade on ecosystem services, the research team, led by Assistant Professor Roman Carrasco from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, showed that tropical countries are severely underpricing the agricultural commodities they produce, and thus effectively subisidising consumption by importing countries.
The assessment reports were approved by the Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), in Medellín, Colombia, at the 6th session of its Plenary.
In their article, «Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure,» Ferraro and Georgia State alumnus Merlin Hanauer, now on the Economics faculty at Sonoma State University, examine three potential causes of poverty reduction linked to the establishment of protected areas:
For an up - to - the - minute glimpse of Hawaii's ecological predicament, visit www.hear.org, which is run by the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project, a joint venture of the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the University of Hawaii.
At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»
Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasilia, says 2030 is «too late» to stop deforestation, and that the current level of 5000 square kilometers being cleared per year is still too high to preserve ecosystem services.
«Minnesota Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis» was published by the U.S. Forest Service's Northern Research Station and is available online at: http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/45939
From removing carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air, intercepting rainfall and increasing property values, California's 173.2 million city trees provide ecosystem services valued at $ 8.3 billion a year.
Each ecosystem service is dependent on at least three groups and the higher the number of species within the group, the more reliably the ecosystem service is provided.
«EbA is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation to help people and communities adapt to the negative effects of climate change at local, regional, and global levels.»
In addition, each individual group influences at least one ecosystem service,» Soliveres, lead author for the study, summarises the results.
«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.
Scientists at Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, in two parallel papers published in this week's journal PLOS ONE, develop a new integrated approach to measure human dependence on ecosystem services and human well - being so as to promote the understanding of the linkages between them — an important step toward improved understanding, monitoring and management of coupled human and natural systems.
Though researchers knew that switchgrass and other perennial grasses have certain advantages over maize, the study is the first to look at multiple ecosystem services and animal populations at the same time, says Silvia Secchi, an agribusiness economist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
«Until targets are clarified, and metrics agreed upon, zero may mean nothing at all,» say authors Sandra Brown, chief scientist with Winrock's Ecosystem Services, and Dan Zarin, program director of the Climate and Land Use Alliance.
«This fossil is a unique representative from an incredibly important era in the evolution of mammals; the ecosystem of the whole world changed as the Triassic transitioned into the Jurassic,» said study senior author Neil Shubin, PhD, Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.
Humans have a greater understanding of the surface of the moon than they do of the depths of the oceans, hinting at untouched natural resources and unrecognized ecosystem services.
In addition, forest managers do not have to decide on the provision of solely one service — such as wood production or nature conservation — as a second study demonstrates: several services provided by forest ecosystems can be improved at the same time.
For example, mangroves are estimated to be worth at least US$ 1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services that support coastal livelihoods and human populations around the world *.
BIOACID III bridges between different branches of ocean acidification research and provide an assessment of short - to long - term responses and their underlying mechanisms at the level of organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems to multiple drivers leading up to ecosystem services.
«Results of this study and others suggest that accelerated forest thinning at large scales could improve the water balance and resilience of forests and sustain the ecosystem services they provide.»
LDN refers to a state whereby the amount of healthy and productive land resources necessary to support ecosystem services in a given community or country, or globally, remains at least stable.
Over a million species, most not yet described [119], are estimated to populate coral reef ecosystems generating crucial ecosystem services for at least 500 million people in tropical coastal areas.
In October, lead author Brian Walsh of the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, Austria, visited the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center and spoke with John Milewski about his research on Wilson Center Now.
Other seminars and lectures have been held by World Academy of Art & Science President Ivo Šlaus [12], New South Wales Chief Scientist and Engineer M [12] ary O'Kane [13] and AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy director Vaughan Turekian [14], the director of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.
The accelerating loss in biodiversity will have serious repercussions for the ecosystem services upon which the world relies at work and at home.
To wit: RIM, at the launch event, also unveiled its BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform, BlackBerry WebWorks Application Platform, a new Enterprise Application Development Platform and BlackBerry Advertising Services to augment its application ecosystem.
Or you look at places like China where Google services are frowned upon or perhaps not allowed at all, they can still use Android to create a new app ecosystem,» said Orr.
When combined with our unmatched content ecosystem, unmatched cross-platform interoperability, and standard - setting customer service, we hope people will agree that Kindle Fire HD is the best 7» tablet available anywhere, at any price.»
But, they do have an excellent «ecosystem» already in place, and adding their various services to a basic tablet OS (like Android) can be done at a reasonable cost.
If Amazon lowers the price to at least $ 5 this service product sells and Amazon makes the profit on quantity, entices more people to try the Kindle ecosystem.
Granted, the Amazon Appstore is about one - tenth the size of Google Play or the Apple App Store (at about 100,000 apps) but the convenience and breadth of Amazon's content and service ecosystem should satisfy most consumers.
«If you look at the skills Apple has, from hardware to software to services and an incredible app ecosystem, this set of things are very, very unique,» Apple CEO Tim Cook said about new product categories.