Sentences with phrase «for small ecosystems»

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Get ready for «HackON: A Small Business Accelerator,» aimed to strengthen area's entrepreneurial ecosystem.

In announcing the Journalism Project in January, Facebook said it «cares a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive,» and committed to helping media outlets — including smaller, local publishers — figure out how to best use the network for their journalism.

«We know that in order to address the range of financial needs within all of our communities, we need to support and work with the ecosystem of organizations that serve small businesses,» said Jon Campbell, executive vice president, government and community relations for Wells Fargo.

It is often framed as high - growth startups vs. mainstreet or lifestyle small businesses, but I think it runs much deeper than that.The consequences of not resolving this tension are very bad for the ecosystem.

It addresses, for example, how Stockholm, a relatively small startup ecosystem, is able to produce sizable startups at a meaningful rate, versus Chicago, whose ecosystem is ostensibly three times bigger.

The Sensor Tower Blog is for any mobile developer (big or small) looking to grow their user base in app stores & understand the larger mobile ecosystem.

Atlantic Canada has a vibrant but small ecosystem of entrepreneurs that have supported one another for generations.

While smaller application cases are being considered around the world, the United Nations isn't waiting for ecosystems to develop.

Atlantic Canada's Innovation District Atlantic Canada has a vibrant but small ecosystem of entrepreneurs that have supported one another for generations.

Trail explorations, hands — on activities, games, crafts, and more provide full ecosystem immersion for an enhanced learning experience, while small group sizes ensure a welcoming, supportive environment.

Only a small percentage of wildebeests drown as they cross the Mara River, but they provide resources for the river ecosystem for years after their deaths.

Because these bulkheads block the small flow of health sediment, one section of bulkhead can impact fragile ecosystems for miles downstream.»

Roads, for example, appear to directly affect only a relatively small strip of land, but they also cut ecosystems in half, altering the survival prospects of species living on either side of them.

The long - term geological record reveals an early Cenozoic warm climate that supported smaller polar ecosystems, few coral - algal reefs, expanded shallow - water platforms, longer food chains with less energy for top predators, and a less oxygenated ocean than today.

In fact, he said, big trees do a lot for a forest ecosystem that their smaller counterparts can not.

PAHs could stunt growth, an effect that could ripple through the ecosystem: smaller organisms are picked off by predators at a young age, leaving less food for larger fish such as red snapper and bluefin tuna.

This is good news whether we love poodles or not, but it's also good news economically because the diversity of the ecosystem makes it a fertile environment for small players.

But even small webs can harbor complexities that can make the order of removals for ecosystem stability challenging to sort out.

Crustaceans, mussels and predatory fish as well as many smaller organisms that are important for the Baltic Sea ecosystem thrive in submarine Fucus forests.

«In terms of practical nature conservation, these results signify that in the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.»

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

And if the pika falters, it could mean trouble for an entire ecosystem: On the Tibetan Plateau, they are the most common small mammal to stay active through winter, providing one of the few foods for snow leopards, weasels, even bears.

Lawson will work with colleagues at the NEFSC to focus on the development of acoustic techniques for sampling zooplankton (animals that are suspended or drift in the water) and micronekton (small but actively swimming organisms) for ecosystem assessment.

Writing Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers have, for the first time, altered the acidity of a small section of a natural coral reef ecosystem to mimic conditions reefs will experience later this century.

While small amounts of sewage can dissipate quickly, the routine dumping of large amounts of human waste has caused long - term harm to many shoreline ecosystems, and rendered many coastal waters unfit for recreational activities.

[emphasis added] Bast: «We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem.

Abstract: Diverse and abundant, marine invertebrates have essential roles in ocean ecosystems and provide vital food and export resources for millions of people around the world through small - scale artisanal to large - scale commercial fisheries.

Framing the solution as a disruptive innovation — to start small with a small investment; gain organic adoption over time from the ground up; begin with a primitive solution and iterate to improve gradually and unpredictably as it grew and learned what customers did or did not in fact want; be patient for growth but impatient for evidence of success and sustainability; and avoid the limelight and pushback from an ecosystem's incumbent organizations — as opposed to being the one - perfect solution or infrastructure with a massive up - front cost, could result (and still may very well result for another start - up entity) in a vey different picture.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Introducing the living world - small scale ecosystems 2 - How change affects ecosystems 3 - Global ecosystems 4 - Rainforests introduction 5 - Causes of deforestation in Malaysia 6 - The impact of deforestation in Malaysia 7 - Managing tropical rainforests (ICT lesson) 8 - Sustainable management in tropical rainforests Hot deserts also on the This is Geography shop to be taught alongside this module.

A smaller event run by content guy Eddie Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, will likely focus more on the special content ecosystem designed just for the iPad Mini — with less oohing and aahing about the hardware.

The Kindle still looks like the best ecosystem for the titles I searched for, but just barely — its advantage is much smaller than it used to be.

Every proper and fair XML publishing expert can set up an XML authoring and publishing ecosystem for less $ 10,000 — $ 50,000 for small to medium complex requirements.

They have a very developed ecosystem and have attracted many small companies to exclusively develop for their platform.

The 8.9 is not a slam dunk against the upcoming $ 400 retina iPad mini, a tablet that will offer roughly similarish screen quality, a barely smaller screen, premium hardware, and a way more robust ecosystem for just $ 20 more than the comparable HDX 8.9.

If you like Kobo's ecosystem but want a smaller device, the 6 - inch Kobo Glo is still for sale and is still excellent at $ 40 less.

Hope, that was, for a smaller, more portable tablet that would bring access to all the Apple ecosystem had to offer, in a package you could easily hold in one hand.

Bottom line... Amazon will build an ecosystem, BUT... one limited to the US... to consuming media categories which can prosper on small format screens supported by minimal feature sets... and a business with permanent low margins as a result of aggregating content owned by others on top of a device they must subsidize, not just for launch, but quite possibly long term.

For now you can get a great device with a fair number of apps, but the entire ecosystem is smaller than Amazon's in - house Android App Store which is itself often complained about as being too sparsely populated.

«Mobile is the most important ecosystem for everybody everywhere... and books are a pretty small part of it.

South Africa may be best known for elephants, rhinos and its impressive predators, but there is a much smaller world that is just as integral a part of our ecosystems.

Many species in the extraordinary ecosystems of Madagscar, which evolved in isolation for tens of millions of years, are found only in small numbers there, or in zoos — as with the fossa in this video.

If we keep doing as we do now and getting what we get now, is it possible that the relatively small, evidently finite, noticeably frangible planet we inhabit will soon reach a point when it is no longer possible for Earth's resources and ecosystem services to sustain either life as we know it or the human species?

The consequences for ecosystems, both natural and man - made (agriculture, forestry), of even relatively small or moderate changes in climate have a potential to be very large, especially if the change occurs rapidly.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

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.

Opportunities for sustainable solutions range from small green business start - ups to large - scale ecosystem services.

Reflecting sunlight from the Earth by geoengineering would undoubtedly cool the climate - but how will this impact on small holder farmers who depend on un-manipulated nature and other ecosystem services for their nature based agriculture.

Because this is a large region, various ways have been proposed for dividing it ecologically, from a few large ecosystems to many smaller ecoregions (e.g., [243], [244], [245]-RRB-.

After centuries of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest, an ecosystem which once stretched unbroken for over 500,000 square miles along the eastern coast of South America, now only a small fraction remains.