Sentences with phrase «ecosystem services over»

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

Not exact matches

With competition over smartphone sales growing more intense, in September 2015 Apple broadened its ecosystem of services by introducing Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks to China.

Over 400 global industry leaders from across the global payments and financial services ecosystem.

«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.

The World Trade Centers Association is an international ecosystem of global connections and integrated trade services made up of 324 World Trade Center locations in 89 countries, representing over 750,000 businesses globally.

The trove of documents shared publicly by the company's former research director, Christopher Wylie, illustrates that granular personal data on each of us can be used to create precise messages to any individual voter, then delivered to us through the online ecosystem over Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and other free services.

The World Trade Centers Association is an international ecosystem of global connections and integrated trade services made up of over 324 World Trade Center locations in 89 countries, representing over 750,000 businesses globally.

Over the next 72 hours the government shut down the country's Internet service and mobile - phone system in an attempt to squelch the rebellion — to no avail: a rich ecosystem of Facebook conversations, Twitter outbursts and chat - room plans had already unified millions of Cairo's people, who continued the relentless uprising.

The Botswana government wanted to better understand how land cover is changing over time and how this might impact ecosystem services.

Storing the carbon associated with global warming proved the most remunerative of the ecosystem services, providing roughly $ 378 of value over every hectare — despite a relatively low assumed price of carbon of $ 2.50 per metric ton.

Carolina Bello said: «The effectiveness of these programs will be improved if the preservation of ecological processes that sustain the ecosystem service of carbon storage over time is guaranteed.»

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.

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.

Amazon currently offers over 43,000 Android apps in its own Appstore, and the new service will add yet another differentiating feature from Google's ecosystem.

The company designed and created the largest independent ecosystem of hardware, software platforms and services, which are used by over 35 million gamers.

«Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level» «Economic impacts of climate change in Europe: sea - level rise» «Future flood losses in major coastal cities» «Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea - level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services» «Coral islands defy sea - level rise over the past century: Records from a central Pacific atoll»

The estimated level of resources and ecosystem services required to support human activities today is just over 1.7 Earths.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

The construction and operation of over 1 million dams globally (Lehner et al. 2011) has provided a variety of services important to a growing human population (e.g., hydropower, flood control, navigation, and water supply), but has also significantly altered water, nutrient, and ecosystem dynamics and fluxes in river networks.

University of Minnesota: Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers.

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.

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.

The provision of financial resources in payment for ecosystem services projects, such as are associated with Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), has the potential to stimulate conflict over resources and property rights (Melick, 2010).

Over the course of the year, the UNEP - hosted Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), with 115 member states, established an ambitious five - year work programme and agreed to develop a set of fast - track assessments.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

While REDD + offers the potential to simultaneously reduce emissions, conserve biodiversity, maintain other ecosystem services, and help alleviate rural poverty, concerns over potential adverse impacts have plagued the program since its conception.

The most comprehensive assessment of ecosystem services to date — the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment — found that over 60 % of the environmental services studied are being degraded faster than they canecosystem services to date — the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment — found that over 60 % of the environmental services studied are being degraded faster than they canEcosystem Assessment — found that over 60 % of the environmental services studied are being degraded faster than they can recover.

Its intention was to double India's forest and other vegetation cover over the decade from 2011, to enhance ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and biodiversity, while providing fuel, fodder and other forest products.

Although historical records indicate that atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea surface temperatures have undergone significant oscillations and have exceeded present - day levels in the past [3,4], it is the unprecedented rates of change that are fuelling concerns over whether organisms will retain the capacity to mediate vital ecosystem functions and services [5,6].

However, land clearing can seriously affect biodiversity, ecosystem services, and carbon storage over decades or centuries, discussed by Fargione et al. (2008), Searchinger et al. (2008), and Plevin et al. (2010).

Marine biodiversity supports ecosystem function and the services it provides (Worm et al., 2006) with over 1 billion people relying on fish as their main animal protein source, especially in developing nations (Pauly et al., 2005).

This requires taking your legal hat off and poring over your competitor's annual reports and other public filings, analysts» reports, trade publications, and subscription services on your client's business, understanding the ecosystem it operates in, identifying what the competitive differentiators are in terms of its products and services, the vertical your client will be selling into, and getting a grasp of how money is made in the client's industry.

NEW YORK --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (Nasdaq: HMNY)(«HMNY») and MoviePass Inc. («MoviePass»), the nation's premier movie theater subscription service and a majority - owned subsidiary of HMNY, today announced that HMNY has acquired Moviefone, an entertainment service owned by Oath Inc. (formerly, AOL Inc.)(«Oath») which provides over 6 million monthly unique visitors full access to the entertainment ecosystem, from movie theaters to streaming services and all screens in between.

Roku doesn't try to get users into one ecosystem over the other and has access to every streaming service except for Apple content.

«Much of our motivation in developing this new service was to further promote a decentralized bitcoin ecosystem — giving users increased control over their bitcoin and more independence from third - party institutions,» Glidera CEO David Ripley said in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine.

To the extent the company can fulfill the promise of integrating these services seamlessly into Google Assistant, then there is added value for many Android users already in the ecosystem to adopt Google Home over the Echo.

All three Canadian wireless carriers are selling the Google Home for $ 179.99, which translates to just over $ 144 USD, making this a relatively attractive deal for people looking for a new flagship who value the stock Android experience or are simply seeking an affordable way to expand their commitment to Google's product and service ecosystem.

And when it's paired with the right hardware I'd take it over the competition, especially if you're at all hooked into the Google services ecosystem.

We are very happy with the continued strong growth in revenue from Services, thanks to the incredible strength of the Apple ecosystem and our growing base of over one billion active devices.»

The three - year - old startup, which uses blockchain technology to create digital, localized cryptocurrencies for communities, says the token will incentivize communities to engage and consume locally and enable several new utilities such as currency exchange, payments, lending services and KYC — functionalities that will be added into the ecosystem over time, the company said.