Sentences with phrase «ecosystem services»

Many agencies already consider the value of ecosystem services in their decision making, she said.

They could be used to fund renewable energy projects, research and development on renewable energy, payments for ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, etc..

They also directly and indirectly provide numerous invaluable ecosystem services such as water regulation, carbon sequestration and flood prevention.

High biodiversity is a trademark of ecosystems that are healthy, resilient to stress, and those that provide valuable ecosystem services like clean air, water, or food.

The restored land is integrated with adjacent productive working lands, restoring a wide range of ecosystems services with greater impact.

The world's forests and the people who depend on them face a host of challenges — including deforestation, rural poverty, and degradation of critical ecosystem services.

They provide us with essential ecosystem services, such as coastal protection from storms and nursery grounds for fish.

Local governments are looking for ways to better manage their nature and the valuable ecosystem services nature provides.

And our study shows that properly managing wildlife can have big benefits for biodiversity and forest ecosystem services.

Part 2 also builds on students understanding about how changes in biodiversity affect ecosystem services.

The responses to such arguments have often cited what are called ecosystem services.

The document highlights that, with demands on forests increasing and climate change threatening, efforts to maintain ecosystem services and benefits from forests should focus attention on effective management at the field level.

«Typically people look at one ecosystem service at a time,» she says.

This report offers suggestions for ocean conservation that should be considered in protecting ecosystem services: how our oceans function and what they offer us.

In addition, we need to fund and protect forests that provide global ecosystem services other than carbon sequestration.

Since we need such services not just once, but on an ongoing basis, the way to integrate such ecosystem services into our various economies is through ongoing rental.

Her research often links ecosystem services and carbon cycle science to water and food security.

Thus, they can accumulate more biodiversity and ecosystem services over time.

Signs of these costs are showing up everywhere, because ecosystem services are beginning to fail.

Humans are causing declines in biodiversity for many of these groups and evidence from experiments on plants suggests this might threaten ecosystem services.

In addition, decentralized development may increase emissions that contribute to global climate change, reduce ecosystem services such as clean water, and limit land available for parks and recreation.

To discuss ecosystem services with students is a way to use arguments that highlight our dependence on nature, financial values?

The assessment reveals that, if those trends continue, freely available ecosystem services will cease to be available or will become more costly in the near future.

We did not calculate the trade - off curves for these wider ecosystem services with respect to logging.

You have been a part of the journey that has put ecosystem services on the map,.

Further motivations for incorporating tree richness into planted forests include the contribution of diversity to total forest carbon - pool development, carbon - pool stability and the provision of extra ecosystem services.

Not only is it essential to life, but it makes it possible to light fires, which single ecosystem service gave us advantages over all other life on the planet.

As the degradation of ecosystem services becomes ever more apparent, many non-profits, governments, and businesses are using innovative financial incentives to conserve and restore them.

They can stimulate vegetation regeneration, promote a diversity of vegetation types, provide habitat for many species and sustain other ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling.

And preserving biodiversity would largely protect critical ecosystem services.

Overall, the impacts of climate change are projected to result in a net loss of global biodiversity and major shifts in the provision of ecosystem services.

They will answer the driving question: What factors are considered when designing a water filter in response to a change in biodiversity that affects ecosystem services?

In addition, a carbon market for avoided deforestation may not necessarily be the best way of protecting forests that yield other global ecosystem services.

Many of these efforts have linked ecosystem services and poverty reduction, resulting in emissions reductions, though not always in economic benefits.

«Species like the tapir and peccary provide an important ecosystem service by dispersing seeds,» she said.

On otherwise barren mudflats, habitat - forming invasive species such as nonnative seaweed can offset the loss of foundation species and provide vital ecosystem services, such as storm protection and food production, on which nearly half the human population depends.

In addition to the benefits from reducing emissions, REDD activities can protect the biodiversity and important ecosystem services provided by tropical rainforests.

The value of lost ecosystem services due to land degradation averages US $ 43,400 to $ 72,000 per square km, some US $ 870 to $ 1,450 per person, globally each year

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.

From 2009 to 2011, he was Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Services in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.