Sentences with phrase «ecosystem type»

At right is a global map of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types.

The classification can also assist in analysis such as the representativeness of environmental watering in terms of ecosystem types watered, for adaptive management purposes.

The assessment describes effects of climate change that have already been observed, projected changes in the climate and the landscape, and forest vulnerabilities for nine forest ecosystem types in a 29 - million - acre area of Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland.

Global warming won't just melt ice caps; it could create whole new biomes — major ecosystem types like forest, desert, grassland, and tundra — say climatologists led by John Williams at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Colors indicate primary ecosystem type at a site.

Because some ecosystems and perturbation types operate on different spatial and temporal scales, we looked at each variable type by each perturbation and ecosystem type separately and still found no patterns.

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.

Emphasizing the realities of climate change impacts in eight ecosystem types in the United States (forest, shrubland, grassland, desert, Arctic tundra, inland water, coastal, and marine), the Strategy is relevant to resource managers, industry representatives, and private landowners nationwide.

That is, 40 % of existing landscapes will experience a shift from one major ecosystem type to another — from forest to grassland or grassland to desert for example.

«We also sampled a broad range of ecosystem types, from sub-tropical to sub-Arctic.

The nitrogen content in the crops is reduced in atmospheres with raised carbon dioxide levels in all three ecosystem types.

Tropical rainforest A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem type that occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn).

A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem type that occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn).

It's not just any old organization that can set a goal like this: protect 10 % of every ecosystem type on Earth by 2015, effectively doubling the headway of the conservation movement over the last century.

The exciting part for me in looking at that map is that it's like we're looking at, particularly in northern latitudes (look at the red sections), we're talking about 100 % change in ecosystem type.

Every ecosystem type, however, is projected to experience an increase in average annual burn area.