Sentences with phrase «ecosystems by»

Salt Lake City, UT About Blog RiskRecon provides a SaaS platform that helps organizations more effectively manage the risk reality of increasingly interconnected IT ecosystems by delivering frequent, comprehensive and actionable security performance measurements.

Santa Cruz, California About Blog FishWise promotes the health and recovery of ocean ecosystems by providing innovative market - based tools to the seafood industry, to support sustainability through environmentally responsible business practices.

Following a successful initial coin offering (ICO) in which Dragon Token claims it raised over USD 320 million, the organization plans to take the sports, gaming, and entertainment ecosystems by storm in the coming months with announcements of additional partnerships in Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, and Malaysia.

«We can identify the impacts of climate extremes on these grassland ecosystems by comparing ecosystem performance in each year to the perfect curve,» said Yi.

We ensure wind and solar projects won't harm ecosystems by identifying potential conflicts from the beginning.

One way to do this is to protect the biodiversity and balance of ecosystems by setting aside key areas for conservation in marine protected areas.

«As one of the most dominant forces underwater, sharks help maintain the balance of marine ecosystems by keeping midlevel predators in check.

From lobsters to caribou to hundreds of bird species, animals species are coping with inhospitable changes to their ecosystems by moving around.

A more acidic ocean under climate change threatens to reconfigure entire ecosystems by advantaging some fish species to the detriment of others, a new study has found.

He also studies the impact of changes in sea ice on marine planktonic ecosystems by developing biophysical models such as the coupled Biology - Ice - Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (BIOMAS).

These events can sicken or kill people who consume toxin - contaminated shellfish, and can damage marine ecosystems by killing fish and other marine life,» says Christopher Gobler, professor of marine science at Stony Brook.

«Changes in basal melting are helping to change the properties of Antarctic bottom water, which is one component of the ocean's overturning circulation,» said author Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. «In some areas it also impacts ecosystems by driving coastal upwelling, which brings up micronutrients like iron that fuel persistent plankton blooms in the summer.»

For example, The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems by Wolfram M. Kurschner, Zlatko Kvacek, and David L. Dilcher, PNAS January 15, 2008 vol.

Considering the apparent importance of the Gulf of Boothia and Lancaster Sound as summer feeding areas for the eastern Canada - west Greenland bowhead whale population, as indicated by recent IPY results, every effort should be made to maintain the integrity of these ecosystems by limiting additional environmental alterations and human activities within their critical habitat.

Now compound that stress on ecosystems by considering changes in climate at the same time, as well as changes in land use such as deforestation, and we see that ecosystems are experiencing several stresses at the same time.»

Rising sea level impacts marine ecosystems by drowning some plants and animals as well as by inducing changes of parameters such as available light, salinity, and temperature.

While many different animal and plant species can be said to shape their various ecosystems by activity «pre-programmed» by their genomes, no single species until human beings has had its own future within its voluntary control via the outsized impacts it has had through its tool creation and use and through the ability to coordinate social activity, think alone and deliberate together via the use of language.

Disruption of soil ecosystems by monocropping with massive dumping of pesticides destroys the microbial and fungal infrastructure which is nearly invisible to the naked eye, and whose effects and dynamics we are barely starting to understand.

The analysis predicts that all 29 coral - containing World Heritage sites would cease to exist as functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of this century under a business - as - usual emissions scenario.

True biotope entirely recyclable, this floating Ecopolis tends thus towards the positive eco-accountancy of the building in the oceanic ecosystems by producing and softening itself the oxygen and the electricity, by recycling the CO2 and the waste, by purifying and softening biologically the used waters and by integrating ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biotic corridors on and under its body to meet its own food needs.

Since 1994, they have promoted a culture of creative reuse and the diversion of usable and toxic materials from landfills and Louisiana's fragile marine ecosystems by recycling discarded paint and reselling usable building materials.

We work to safeguard global marine ecosystems by addressing the threats posed by plastic pollution, bycatch and commercial exploitation of whales, dolphins and porpoises.

But ocean experts have increasingly warned that the direct chemical impact on marine life, as carbon dioxide dissolves in water and lowers its pH, could profoundly disrupt ecosystems by interfering with the growth of reefs and shell - forming plankton.

On his website, Roberts writes, «We can rebuild marine ecosystems by closing areas to fishing, but we can not do so by creating «protected» areas that fail to greatly restrain fishing.

A report by NBC News nicely summarized how things played out, starting with a March 2006 White House screening of «Voyage to Kure,» a film on the islands and surrounding ecosystems by Jean - Michel Cousteau:

Then there's other forms of pollution of the world's waters, the destruction of ecosystems by simple over - fishing / population reductions from feeding people and farmed biota, as well as built environment destroying supporting ecosystems.

Immerse yourself in Alaskan marine ecosystems by observing animals in naturalistic habitats.

The analysis predicts that all 29 coral - containing World Heritage sites might cease to exist as functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of this century if CO2 emissions are not drastically reduced.

REEF Environmental Education Foundation The Reef Environmental Education Foundation is a grass - roots organization that seeks to conserve marine ecosystems by educating, enlisting and enabling divers and other marine enthusiasts to become active ocean stewards and citizen scientists.

Again, you avoid the real issue — invasive species imposed on once - stable ecosystems by human agency.

Cool burning reduces the amount of damage done by hot fires to ecosystems by promoting new plant growth and clearing natural waste materials.

Besides being adorable, these critters play an important role in our ocean ecosystems by providing habitat for others, helping balance the food chain, and facilitating nutrient cycling.

A second finding is that, when done right, bioenergy crops placed near food crops can improve the surrounding ecosystems by boosting the diversity of insects.

An isolated Pan-Inia humerus from the late Miocene Ituzaingó Formation implies that this clade had already invaded turbid, obstructed shallow rivers and flooded forests typical of today's Amazonian freshwater ecosystems by this time, although this humerus may belong to extinct taxon more closely related to Ischyrorhynchus (Gutstein et al., 2014a).

Fire helps maintain prairie ecosystems by clearing away the dead leaf litter that can build up and crowd out sunlight for new plant shoots.

In Gujarat, on the west coast, fish catches plummeted after the construction of a massive 4,800 - megawatt coal plant destroyed mangrove and creek ecosystems by discharging polluted water in the sensitive ecosystem.

«These events can sicken or kill people who consume toxin - contaminated shellfish and can damage marine ecosystems by killing fish and other marine life.»

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

That is the conclusion of a study simulating a little - discussed consequence of climate change: it could choke entire ecosystems by cutting oxygen levels in the ocean.

The material can cloud the water, disrupting marine ecosystems by shifting the balance of microbes at...

MEDDLESOME MERCURY Increased runoff into Earth's oceans could increase methylmercury concentrations in marine ecosystems by altering the food web, new laboratory tests show.

Predators like wolves affect their ecosystems by eating their prey.

Among other examples of local and regional tipping points are the rapid collapse of coral reefs in the face of rising ocean acidity and the transformation of ecosystems by the extinction of a dominant species, or the introduction of a new one.

And the prognosis is grim: Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, all these reefs «will cease to host functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of the century,» predicts the report from UNESCO's World Heritage Center in Paris.

At a meeting last week, scientists from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States described their plans to explore the planet's last uncharted ecosystems by drilling into three very different examples of these subglacial lakes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

Students will increase their knowledge of Illinois ecosystems by observing living and non-living things on the Nature Museum grounds and by evaluating how the parts of each system interact and work together.

Explore the connections between biodiversity and ecosystems by treetop canopy walking and ziplining on a guided Eco Adventure Tour.

Specializing by industry gives a platform unique advantages — platforms can augment their crowdfunding ecosystems by integrating more relevant and direct resources, aimed at companies and / or investors — and I suspect we'll see a lot more activity here.