Sentences with phrase «ecosystems as»

Future plans envisioned by Liaison include enablement of smart contracts and digital currency transactions, and providing capabilities for ALLOY users to create custom, private blockchains in support of specific digital ecosystems as they innovate and expose more of their blockchain verified data more widely for new business opportunities through the ALLOY Platform.

On the other hand, Nest Secure may make more sense if you've got a Nest Thermostat or Nest Cam and want to have products in as few ecosystems as possible.

Disney has teamed up with four big movie studios to make sharing movie downloads between ecosystems as simple as possible.

That means you're not just considering hardware and software, but ecosystems as well.

They play vital roles in a wide - variety of ecosystems as pollinators.

The immense changes to the planet's geology and ecosystems as a result of industrialization and globalization has even led some scientists to argue that humans are now living in a new epoch dubbed the Anthropocene.

In recognition of this fact, Ecosystem - Based Adaptation seeks to use the restoration of ecosystems as a stepping - stone to improving the quality of life in communities experiencing the impacts of climate change.

According to Mr. Heikki Simola Finnish Association for Nature Conservation Finnish forest management has made Finnish forest and mire ecosystems as a considerable net source of carbon into the atmosphere for decades.

Revkin is concerned about the lack of coverage of invasive and displaced species entering new ecosystems as a result of climate change, such as the spread of lionfish on the mid-Atlantic coast and the emergence of Asian carp in the Mississippi River andGreat Lakes.

These results support projections of a long - term, positive carbon feedback from similar ecosystems as the world warms.

While much of the work on whole - ecosystem regime shifts has focused on drylands, a growing body of evidence indicates abrupt state shifts will plausibly affect many other ecosystems as climate continues to change over the next several decades.

Since then, ecologists have increasingly come to see all ecosystems as «novel» assemblages of species that come and go, with or without human interference, making establishing a baseline for what is «natural» and «normal» totally subjective.

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All four of us have dedicated our scientific careers to understand the processes and impacts of climate change, variously studying ocean systems, tropical cyclones, ice sheets and ecosystems as well as impacts on human societies.

«In their work, the group analyzed the physcial and economic impacts to water deliveries, hydropower generation, recreation, and downstream ecosystems as Lake Mead water levesl decline.

A precautionary approach to developing genetically engineered algae, which weighs the costs and benefits of GE algae to society and ecosystems as a whole.

With all of the negative effects predicted to occur in response to the ongoing rise in the air's carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration — a result of burning fossil fuels to produce energy — it is only natural to want to see what has been happening to our Earth's many ecosystems as the atmospheric carbon dioxide load has risen.

Researchers have successfully piloted a process that enables natural resource managers to take action to conserve particular wildlife, plants and ecosystems as climate changes.

Koven and colleagues set out to estimate how much carbon dioxide and methane (which contains carbon) could be released by boreal and Arctic land ecosystems as a result of climate change.

Healthy forests play a key role in global ecosystems as they contain much of the terrestrial biodiversity on the planet and act as a net sink for capturing atmospheric carbon.

Ketut Sarjana Putra, Vice President of Conservation International Indonesia, agreed that governments should appreciate coastal ecosystems as natural assets that provide environmental services.

These «slow feedbacks,» he says, include greenhouse - gas releases from ecosystems as forests die and permafrost melts.

This risks depriving poor people of food crops and destroying ecosystems as swathes of land are converted to growing biomass for energy.

We must stop seeing ecosystems as only individuals, but rather as interconnections.

That is basically a death sentence to marine ecosystems as we currently know them.

This first picture shows our students learning about novel ecosystems as part of the «Restoration» class.

In her series «Hope Spots,» Mattison's sculptures represent areas in the sea critical to our underwater ecosystems as identified by marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle, a longtime hero of hers.

Current studies include the exploration of Arctic deep - sea life under the ice, and the long - term observation of the effects of global warming on polar ecosystems as well as on hypoxic aquatic ecosystems.

Bacteria alone make up two - thirds of all Earth's biodiversity, thriving in ecosystems as diverse as the human gut and the deep ocean.

Glen MacDonald, a UCLA distinguished professor of geography and another co-author of the paper, said loss of the wetlands would affect other ecosystems as well.

Today, analyzing and editing genomes, proteomes and metabolomes has become a standard for many model systems; imaging beyond the diffraction limit of light and new technologies for studying protein structures provide insights deeper than ever before; the characterization of large populations of cells or organisms brings unprecedented statistical power; and studying nearly all organisms of an ecosystems as a whole allows generating comprehensive models.

October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the human gut and the ocean, to improve human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.

River deltas, low - lying landforms that host critical and diverse ecosystems as well as high concentrations of human population, face an uncertain future.

Methane Cold Seeps Methane cold seeps are similar to the more famous black smokers in that they form isolated ecosystems as oasis in the deep ocean, but are lower temperatures and form away from mid-ocean ridges.

«But in the long term it benefits fish, fishermen and our ocean ecosystems as a whole.»

«Fossil record should help guide conservation in a changing world: Focus on saving resilient ecosystems as well as species, say experts from many disciplines.»

Birds play an important role in a wide variety of ecosystems as both predator and prey, in controlling insect populations, pollinating and seed dispersal for many plants, and in releasing nutrients on to land and sea in the form of guano.

Some species, however, may not be able to keep pace with future changes potentially leading to new regional ecosystems as novel climate patterns emerge, possibly leading to extinctions if some climates disappear entirely.

Amphibians are important pieces in ecosystems as secondary consumers in food chains.

Because nitrogen and carbon cycles are tightly coupled, the team's discovery might also alter projections of carbon storage or release from arctic ecosystems as the climate warms.

Today, most phosphorus enters the world's ecosystems as granite and other rocks weather over time, releasing the molecule orthophosphate: a phosphorus atom linked to a hydrogen and four oxygens.

By sequencing whatever DNA emerges (called eDNA) from even a thimbleful of ancient soil, researchers are reconstructing ancient ecosystems as far back as 700,000 years ago with astonishing clarity.

The study is unique because it tests the emerging framework for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Ecosystems, which seeks to classify vulnerable ecosystems as «safe,» «threatened» or «endangered.»

Williams and his team used computer models to predict what will happen to the world's ecosystems as temperatures rise.

These research findings have implications for the scientific understanding of fragile coral reef ecosystems as well as for the ecological significance of grey reef sharks.

The Permian extinction obliterated ecosystems as complex as any on Earth today.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.

NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

From Louisiana and Missouri through the American heartland and all the way north to Minnesota, Asian carp are invading freshwater lakes and rivers, disrupting ecosystems as they go.