Sentences with phrase «for ecosystem processes»

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In the process, they are creating new ecosystems for their products and services.

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

He noted that the existing CDS system is capable of doing real - time settlements, but speeding up the overall process for other players in the capital markets ecosystem such as regulators is difficult.

«The concept of «maintaining ecological function» refers to the balance of ecological processes necessary for the reef ecosystem as a whole to persist, but perhaps in a different form,» a spokesperson for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority explained, «noting the composition and structure may differ from what is currently seen today.»

The ecosystem for credit - and debit - card processing involves a complicated set of players interacting to process every transaction.

We believe that Enterprise Grade Hadoop brings significant additional value to the entire data center ecosystem far beyond traditional Hadoop's value proposition for batch processing.

He hopes to contribute to a future where our decision - making focuses on the long - term health of ecosystems and communities, and accounts for the integral role of Indigenous laws and governance in that process.

With Ethereum becoming the standard for custom token creation, this process should help ease adoption and bolster the ecosystem.

Moore draws upon the process recognition of human responsibility for the ecosystem.

In light of this the researchers call for changes in forest management strategies in order to maximize ecosystem processes and thus maximize the benefits of European forests.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

NRC called for an «end - to - end» approach going «from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope» with likely impacts on natural disasters, freshwater availability, agriculture and food security, ecosystems management, human health, and economics.

Floodplains are important because they lie at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and serve as a crossroad for a variety of beneficial processes that protect surrounding lands.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

«The lack of baseline data for deep - sea ecosystems identified by the report has a direct bearing on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process... without continued efforts to produce basic underpinning science, regulation and governance of the deep sea will remain an exercise on paper rather than knowledge - driven decision making.

«The migration affects every single process in this ecosystem,» says J. Grant Hopcraft, a landscape ecologist at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom who has studied wildebeest for decades.

«If that behavior is important for controlling certain ecosystem processes, like for instance nutrient cycling, it's then reasonable to suggest that fundamental aspects of the ecosystem may well change in ways that we currently don't appreciate.»

(B) establishes programs for monitoring the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes;

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

«The concept of «maintaining ecological function» refers to the balance of ecological processes necessary for the reef ecosystem as a whole to persist, but perhaps in a different form, noting the composition and structure may differ from what is currently seen today,» a spokeswoman for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority explained.

CoMotion, Amazon and the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) are working together within a broader innovation ecosystem, which is comprised of financial support sources, processes and stakeholders necessary to take something from the realm of basic research to a final product that can be widely distributed.

This communication process is vital for our very survival as the body is one huge ecosystem of cells - disturb one part of the ecosystem and the organism (our body) will not function effectively.

Content knowledge about ecosystems and populations is an important strand of the life science content standards, and the processes underlying ecosystems exemplify sophisticated causal mechanisms (e.g., systems dynamics) foundational for advanced science and mathematics.

The Innovation Fund directly supports the Center's trajectory towards ambitious idea generation, innovative project designs, community - supported implementation strategies, and the development of evaluation metrics that lead to actionable insights within a rapid cycle iteration process.This discreet award supports a process for integrating the Center's evolving business plan thinking into current and emerging initiatives to develop a more effective innovation ecosystem for early childhood development.

For comparison's sake, the 4G iPad 3 with 32 GB storage will cost $ 729, though that is a vastly better device with the best display, better processing capability, and a comprehensive tablet app ecosystem.

While the purchase and delivery process is seamless for magazines in the NOOK Newsstand, the Barnes & Noble digital ecosystem is a bit more complex than with Amazon or Apple, especially for NOOK HD and HD + tablets.

Only now, for example — after years of struggling with this issue — does FWS propose to «implement monitoring and conduct further research as needed to determine abundance and distribution of free - roaming cats throughout the Refuge, document effectiveness of management actions taken or not taken on cat populations, and determine the impacts on the ecosystems and native species to aid in the adaptive management process.»

For example, we could describe climate change primarily in terms of the physical processes: carbon emissions, the radiative balance of the atmosphere, average temperatures, and impacts on human life and ecosystems.

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

«Environmentalists generally object to battery - powered devices and for good reason: batteries require mined minerals, employ manufacturing processes that leak toxins into local ecosystems and leave behind an even - worse trail of side effects upon disposal.

MP Press Release: Mainstreaming Rio +20 outcomes in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes for prosperous, resilient, and sustainable mountain ecosystems and communities» was held in Doha, Qatar, on 3 December 2012, on the sidelines of the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference.

There are more herbivores and creatures that parasitise other animals, but the detritivores — the creatures that consume carrion, excrement and decomposing plants — seem to be on the way down, with, the scientists say, potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

(B) establishes programs for monitoring the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes;

Monitoring the ocean to its full depth with consistently calibrated instrumentation all over the globe — and doing so for decades at a time — is critical to track how global warming impacts the oceans» ecosystems and biogeochemical processes.

The flow of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from land to sea typically accounts for a small fraction of an ecosystem's carbon budget compared with processes like photosynthesis and respiration.

«One quarter of CO2 emissions are going to terrestrial ecosystems, but the details of those processes and how they will respond to a changing climate are inadequately understood, particularly for tropical forests,» Chambers said.

Oct 15, 2013 by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies http://www.youtube.com/user/CoralCoE/videos Presentation given at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies 2013 Symposium: Coral Reefs in the 21st Century ~ James Cook University, in Townsville Australia by Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg (21 mins Lecture) Global Change Institute University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 1) The AR5 IPCC Process 2) Recent changes in the Ocean 1950 - 2009 3) Projected changes in temperature and other variables 4) Implications for Coral Reef Ecosystems

«We quantified the major carbon pools and fluxes and then used these data to verify an ecosystem process model, which we used to simulate carbon dynamics for the entire landscape.

Good practices and lessons learned in adaptation planning processes addressing ecosystems, human settlements, water resources and health, and in processes and structures for linking national and local adaptation planning: a synthesis of case studies.

The strong controls that ecosystem metabolism and watershed processes exert on the pH in coastal ecosystems suggest that strategies based on the management of ecosystem components and watershed processes may help buffer the impacts of OA by anthropogenic CO2 locally, an option not available for the open ocean.

However, the conditions predicted for the open ocean may not reflect the future conditions in the coastal zone, where many of these organisms live (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011; Kelly and Hofmann 2012), and results derived from changes in pH in coastal ecosystems often include processes other than OA, such as emissions from volcanic vents, eutrophication, upwelling and long - term changes in the geological cycle of CO2, which commonly involve simultaneous changes in other key factors affecting the performance of calcifiers, thereby confounding the response expected from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone.

In her talk, she outlined the basic principals of biomimicry, which involve drawing on nature's R&D; for three basic areas of innovation: mimicking form, mimicking process, and mimicking ecosystem.

Thanks to the emergence of the technologies associated with vertical farming we now have the means to provide all essential resources for urban living - food, fresh water, fresh air, and energy - from on - site processes disconnected from natural ecosystems.

The complexity of Earth's ecosystems poses a challenge for scientists as they try to understand how relationships are interwoven among organisms, processes and their surroundings.

This approach can be extended to a complete industrial ecosystem, e.g. recycling «waste» outputs from industrial and agricultural processes as feedstock or energy inputs for other industries and users - cascading and integrating to increase overall materials and energy efficiency, and, where possible topping up with renewables to drive the system.

The systems, processes and culture we create now will have lasting effects on the future of the legaltech ecosystem — let's stand for great people, great software and an open and inclusive culture.

The integration creates a more resilient ecosystem for devices to run on by ensuring that data is legitimate, and that the process by which new data is introduced is well - defined.

Electrum — a hybrid model of light clients for end users and full node servers run by hosts — is one of the most - used wallets in the Bitcoin ecosystem today; according to Voegtlin's estimations, his software processes up to 10 percent of all Bitcoin transactions.

Fragmented ecosystem — digital asset issuers have custom processes for managing, distributing and tracking assets