Sentences with phrase «for ecosystem resilience»
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In a separate meeting, Holt and Pastrana developed future plans for their memorandum of understanding to extend beyond the biomedical sciences into areas including natural disaster resilience, protecting marine ecosystems and biodiversity management — all areas of importance to the societies of Cuba and the United States.
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The study recommends that forest managers look for strategies that enhance forest ecosystem resilience and increase flexibility to make future management changes as required by realized climate change trends.
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.
«Most of our tools for managing coastal species and ecosystems — such as marine protected areas and regulating point source pollution — are spatially explicit, and this research illustrates there may be hotspots of vulnerability or resilience that we could protect or manage locally,» she said.
The world is therefore calling for a thorough understanding of the resilience and «self - cleaning» capacity of Arctic ecosystems to recover from oil spills.
In a study published today in the journal Nature, the researchers refer to this alternative model as «piggyback - the - winner,» and it could have implications for phage - based medicine and ecosystem resilience in the face of environmental disturbances that promote microbial blooms.
Singer, Stella, Roberts and Caylor will develop a toolkit and provide quantitative support for land and water conservation management to promote the sustainability and resilience of riparian forest ecosystems located on DOD lands.
Anthropogenic alterations of genetic diversity within tree populations: implications for forest ecosystem resilience.
We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.
14.2 by 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration, to achieve healthy and productive oceans
A truly just and sustainable economic order will be one that increases the resilience of natural ecosystems, enhances the quality of life for all individuals, and creates a level of prosperity that allows all of humanity the opportunity to attain its full potential.
For development to be sustainable, it must not only generate wealth: it must also advance social justice, reduce and eventually eliminate poverty, and remain within the limits imposed by ecosystem and resource resilience.
But even as I push for an energy quest that limits climate risk, I'm not worried about the resilience of Arctic ecosystems and not worried about the system tipping into an irreversibly slushy state on time scales relevant to today's policy debates.
If the impact of such a change is on the resilience rather than the productivity of the system, the damage may not be evident until much later, when the ecosystem collapses for a seemingly unrelated cause.
«(i) Managing for novel ecosystems... (ii) Retaining ecological memory... (iii) Conserving regions of high genetic diversity... (iv) Developing resilience to threshold events...»
ERMOND (Ecosystem resilience for mitigation of natural disasters)(2015 - 2017).
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The document recommends the use of adaptive forest management to protect forest resources against increasing abiotic disturbances, and calls for the use of strategies such as species diversification, windbreaks and mixed cropping patterns to enhance ecosystem resilience, as well as selective planting.
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This guidance document presents climate - smart land use, which gives an opportunity for advancing the multiple win of sustainable food production, rural development, climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, and ecosystem resilience.
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By 2020, ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has been enhanced, through conservation and restoration, including restoration of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to combating desertification which has a benefit of $ 7 for every dollar spent.
Our Facilities team has set an ambitious bar for the sustainability and resilience of our buildings» ecosystems.
• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management
Strong ecosystems make for better resilience.
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We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.
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This activity report showcases a set of case studies that present the work of a wide range of financed and supported projects that make a case for further investment in marine protected areas to restore the health of oceanic and coastal ecosystems, strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, sustain fisheries and other economic activities, and improve the lives of the world's poorest communities.
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Researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia have determined that the Internet can be used for a whole lot of untapped information mining - including detecting possible environmental disasters.In an article for the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the researchers state that there could be enough information being posted on the Internet to mine the data and fill gaps in existing research, which would lead to detecting changes in ecosystems.
This preparatory work is an essential part of permaculture (short for «permanent agriculture»), a way of designing and maintaining «agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems» (in the words of workshop organizers) that emphasizes working with the land rather than fighting against it.
Nature Letter Published online: 18 April 2018 Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages Terry P. Hughes et al Abstract Global warming is rapidly emerging as a universal threat to ecological integrity and function, highlighting the urgent need for a better understanding of the impact of heat exposure on the resilience of ecosystems and the people who depend on them.
As glaciers retreat, Demuth said the resilience is reduced, affecting both natural systems such as the way ecosystems function and human systems such as irrigation, hydropower and water for mining projects.
Green group The Nature Conservancy and insurance company XL Catlin have teamed up to develop «Blue Carbon Resilience Credits» for marketing the benefits of ecosystems that combine carbon sequestration and climate change resiliency.