Sentences with phrase «how ecosystems function»

«We need a better understanding of how ecosystems function to maintain their productivity, and the new biology will encourage the technologies needed to advance this understanding.»

Though it's not yet clear whether these trends hold for all plant eaters, that they exist at all means that ecologists need to keep them in mind as they figure out the dynamics of how ecosystems function.

Hence, Scheyer and his colleagues wanted to establish whether the apex predators really were missing from the oceans after the mass extinction and how the ecosystems functioned.

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As ecosystems of the human environment change during development, pregnancy, or with changing diets, which bacterial species remain or how these microbial species function may shift is slowly becoming understood.

He'd also looked at how climate change would affect the structure and function of desert landscapes and ecosystems.

In this new study scientists calculated how much it would cost to set aside land in priority landscapes across the whole Atlantic Forest in order to restore the minimum amount of habitat needed to conserve biodiversity and maintain ecosystem functions.

The key lies in organic materials found in fossil bones, which contain evidence for how ancient ecosystems functioned, according to a new study available online and in the September issue of the Journal of Herpetology.

The new study provides data to assist scientists in understanding how changes in the environment trigger long - term changes in coral reef growth and ecosystem function, which is a critical challenge to coral - reef conservation.

«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.

«There is at present too little known about how marine ecosystems function in the Arctic, let alone how they will respond to the dramatic changes in progress, to prescribe safe harvest levels for living marine resources in the U.S. Arctic,» 43 marine scientists said in a letter to the Council chair.

To this end, they observe various facets of biodiversity, such as the size of populations, the characteristics of species or the functioning of ecosystems and analyse how they change.

While previous research has shown how competition drives specialization within a species, the bumblebee study is one of the first to link this mechanism back to the broader functioning of an ecosystem.

Therefore, we need to be concerned with the multiple functions of ecosystems, what controls them and how this might change with climate change,» says Dr. Xin Jing from Peking University.

That makes the region «a natural laboratory to study how coral reef ecosystems are structured and function under these acidic conditions.»

«We know biodiversity loss affects ecosystem function but how it does this is not entirely clear.

Decomposition is a fundamental microbial function that plays a major role in how ecosystems work,» said study co-author Sasha Reed at the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah.

How does this planetay environmental change feed back on the ecosystem's further evolution and function?

Without these tools, scientists are less able to link specific genes to cell behavior or determine how microbes interact within their environment and with one another — critical information for understanding how ocean ecosystems function.

Marine Biologist Tom Iliffe, also from Texas A&M University at Galveston, said: «Providing a model for the basic function of this globally - distributed ecosystem is an important contribution to coastal groundwater ecology and establishes a baseline for evaluating how sea level rise, seaside touristic development and other stressors will impact the viability of these lightless, food - poor systems.»

Rather than focusing on how to shield ecosystems from our impacts, we could be experimenting with ways to achieve comfort and security while also promoting biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function.

In addition to providing further evidence that pesticides can dramatically change the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems, our experiment is among the first to demonstrate how road salt can have similar effects.

Achberger will be continuing the research to sequence the DNA, which will show just what types of microbial life they found and how each of these function in the ecosystem.

In addition to the long - term studies, detailed investigations on the way ecosystems function and how species interact are essential.

In a large - scale field experiment, 53 scientists from Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain and the United States are investigating how ocean acidification influences important functions in an ecosystem representative for two - thirds of the world's oceans.

As mentioned in the Top 5 Ways Kombucha is Earth Friendly post, science is just now beginning to explore and understand the incredible importance of the human microbiome and discovering how bacteria function within our internal ecosystem.

Heron has a Marine Centre where you check - in for diving and snorkelling, and as important, an Information Centre where you can learn how your Reef functions, but also plays a part in planet - wide ecosystems.

How small can a fragment of an ecosystem be and still function in all its richness, and thus be considered preserved?

These are some of roles we know leatherbacks play in ecosystem functions and who knows how other roles they play that we don't know.

And we do that by the mapping and figuring out where important species live and how much land, or what kind of functioning ecosystem they need to survive.

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The Team's initiative, she said, began informally in 2005 functioning in an ad hoc, sporadic fashion to enable policy makers from around the world to receive fast, focused advice on how to participate in emerging ecosystem markets and design effective plans and legislation that yield payments for ecosystem services.

However, our grasp of how dryland ecosystem structure and function will respond to changing climate remains poor5.

This report offers suggestions for ocean conservation that should be considered in protecting ecosystem services: how our oceans function and what they offer us.

Mosses are important members in many dryland ecosystems and the community changes observed here reveal how subtle modifications to climate can affect ecosystem structure and function on unexpectedly short timescales.

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.

The need to find how tropical ecosystems function under a dual threat from El Niño and habitat loss is urgent.

The region is critical for scientific research, for studying how marine ecosystems function and understanding the impacts of climate change on the ocean.

Here, using the longest experiment to date (542 days), we investigate how the interactive effects of warming and ocean acidification affect the growth, behaviour and associated levels of ecosystem functioning (nutrient release) for a functionally important non-calcifying intertidal polychaete (Alitta virens) under seasonally changing conditions.

Our goal is to use satellite data to analyze the whole Arctic tundra and develop classifications of vegetation types and how they function in the ecosystem broadly, as compared to what we've done thus far, which is primarily trying to determine what plant species are there.

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