Sentences with phrase «effect on ecosystems»

This leads to positive or negative effects on ecosystems, and in turn, either better or worse outcomes than current estimates would suggest.

Changes in winter have big and surprising effects on ecosystems and their services.

«According to Jones» work, and combined with previously published studies, additional dams are going to have a positive effect on lianas and a detrimental effect on long - term carbon storage,» Schnitzer concluded, although he emphasized that lianas are not inherently «bad» but «are an important component of tropical forests with a number of positive effects on the ecosystem.»

«Colonization by shrubs, for example willows, would have a cascade effect on the ecosystems in Svalbard as there are only very fragmented populations of shrubs [there] today,» Alsos says.

Spills can take years to clean up, with direct effects on ecosystems lasting even longer.

Warming of 3 to 4 degrees C (as much as 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F), projected by NOAA GFDL's CM2.6, will likely cause more extreme effects on the ecosystem.

These particles, too small to be caught by water filtration systems, reenter our water ways and have disastrous effects on their ecosystems.

Some microplastics exhibit properties that might have direct damaging effects on ecosystems.

The Stern Review, an excellent new report by the U.K. Treasury, makes clear that the consequences could be catastrophic: melting of ice sheets, with a huge rise of ocean levels; massive crop failures; increased transmission of diseases; and potentially calamitous effects on ecosystem services.

«In this case, removing more females than males is a good thing because females have the biggest effects on the ecosystem,» Palkovacs said.

While the volume of pulse flow water is minute compared with the 4.9 trillion gallons of water that flowed in pre-dam days, it will have clear effects on the ecosystem, and on the spirit of the people in delta communities.

«So it got me thinking that maybe these shallow habitats might be the place where sharks have their most pronounced effects on the ecosystem.»

Bärbel Hönisch, a marine biologist and geochemist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, points out that «none of these strategies has been tested over the long term, and the potential effects on the ecosystem are uncertain.»

Therefore, banning discards of fish could have unintended effects on the ecosystem.»

It's not always termites causing them, but they may very well have similar effects on the ecosystem,» Pringle said.

«First Salish Sea - wide shoreline armoring study shows cumulative effects on ecosystem.»

But Felder and others say it's too soon to predict what the larger effects on the ecosystem might be.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

We've covered other instances in which climate change had profound effects on ecosystems before, including one instance that almost wiped out all life on Earth.

When they evolved resistance to PCBs, there may have been wider effects on the ecosystem, says Wirgin.

These practices displace (or kill) native species — like the Sumatran tiger, the Asian rhinoceros, and the Sumatran orangutan — putting them at high risk for extinction and causing a negative effect on the ecosystem as a whole.

Twenty - seven - year - old Maeve Brennan is based in London and Beirut, and uses her proposed work emphasizes the «whirring presence» of wind turbines, examining their ripple effects on the ecosystem.

As behaviorally modern Homo sapiens spread out of Africa more than 50 000 years ago, their advanced hunter - gatherer societies helped to cause the extinction of more than half of Earth's mammalian megafauna, yielding trophic cascading effects on ecosystems coupled with the direct effects of landscape burning to enhance hunting and foraging success.

Overdevelopment along the Red Sea has deleterious effects on the ecosystem, including coral bleaching.

The vicious confluence of weather anomalies in recent years — and, even just this year we've seen a rash of devastating floods, tornadoes and droughts — suggest that shifting climate patterns are having adverse and wide - ranging effects on our ecosystem.

Severe drought effects on ecosystem CO2 and H2O fluxes at three mediterranean sites: revision of current hypothesis?

This is slightly OT to this post, but there is detailed data under our noses about changing microclimate effects on ecosystems that is relatively recent.

It has been estimated that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their present rate, Earth's surface temperature could exceed historical values as early as 2047, with potentially harmful effects on ecosystems, biodiversity and the livelihoods of people worldwide.

We're also seeing similarly dramatic changes in other aspects of climate and related effects on ecosystems, including the distribution of rainfall, storm activity, extinction of plant and animal species, and seasonal change.

On the other hand the depletion of the ozone layer in spring certainly can have a significant effect on ecosystems, although so far the ozone layer has not been thinner in spring than later during the year.

It's not quite redemption, but one of most loathed invasive species in the world — the European green crab (Carcinus maenas)-- has had a surprisingly positive effect on an ecosystem.

Warming on the scale of 3 to 4 oC, as shown in GFDL's high - resolution climate model, will cause more extreme effects on the ecosystem.

Global climate change produces cascading effects on ecosystems.

If you're in the business and you want to ramp up a new fishery, you need to prove there won't be significant negative effects on the ecosystem.»

It should be noted that the effects on the ecosystem and the animals have not been properly studied nor have the potential impacts been considered by animal protectionists.

«Climate change, predators, and trickle down effects on ecosystems.»

A rash of spills in the Amazon has scientists and villagers scrambling to understand oil's effects on the ecosystem

Their merits include being able to evaluate an environment over a wide area at a low cost; detect environmental changes over an extended period; and assess these changes» effects on the ecosystem.

On the other hand, ecosystem productivity had either regained or exceeded its normal level a year after a climate event, regardless of plant diversity, showing that biodiversity has no effect on ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescales.

Even before getting their own lives settled, teams collect information on storm behavior and their effects on the ecosystem

However, understanding the full impact of those effects on an ecosystem can be difficult.

Biologist Stan Temple finds the concept intriguing, but has many questions, such as who decides which species to revive, and what might be the effect on the ecosystem?

To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.

If the theories hold true, we'd expect the dingoes to have positive effect on the ecosystem.»