Sentences with phrase «healthy ecosystem function»

«Our results suggest that current levels of pesticide exposure could be significantly affecting how bees are interacting with wild plants, and impairing the crucial pollination services they provide that support healthy ecosystem function,» he said.

Like many large vertebrates, orangutans play a particularly critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystem function.

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A healthy global debate has occurred concerning the benefits of using non-native trees for restoring some aspects of ecosystem function in degraded habitats.

«By providing new insights into the functioning and future of global environments, we hope such studies will help us keep ecosystems healthy in a fast - changing world.»

Microbiomes maintain healthy function of these diverse ecosystems, influencing human health, climate change, food security and other factors.

The normal functioning of natural, healthy ecosystems pulls carbon from the air and stores it in soil or biomass.

We can not go back in time to some past system, but we can protect and restore the functioning of today's ecosystems so they can be as healthy, productive and resilient as possible.

Even local extinctions can impair the healthy functioning of ecosystems.

«We need to preserve these ecosystems because human well - being is so reliant on healthy well - functioning systems,» she said.

«What's happening is the ecosystems are being broken down in many ways and you're being left with a coral reef that is not as diverse, that is not able to function as well, that basically is not as healthy as it was previously.»

At a time when Canada should be figuring out not only how to stem global warming, but how to adapt to a changing climate, we are destroying healthy, functioning ecosystems, rapidly increasing climate - warming greenhouse gas emissions, and perpetuating our dependence on oil.

Importantly, the framework does not imply a one - way causal link between resource use and social outcomes; instead, it is intended to show that social outcomes are dependent on healthy, functioning ecosystems and the resources that they provide.

Roberto came to believe that a society functions because every individual is connected to every other individual through a vast ecosystem of healthy interconnected social networks.