Sentences with phrase «human pressures»

But it's worth setting aside these broader questions for a moment to look at what human pressures on rare or isolated species look like up close.

The wolf's ability to reclaim some of its territory is as good an indicator as any of wild nature's resilience in the face of human pressures.

These funds will not only pay for parks, but also for community planning, education, and sustainable economic development that will relieve human pressure on wildlife.

It helps to have some knowledge of the basic human pressure points, and they are simpler than you think.

But most important, he said, is to find ways to limit human pressures on the world's last wild places by slowing population growth and using resources more efficiently.

By pulling visitors away from the natural coral to the new, adjacent «parks,» there is less human pressure at the original, fragile sites.

Such injustices add to global population growth and increases human pressure on the Earth's natural systems.

By clarifying the movements and habits of a host of species, from black - footed albatrosses to great white sharks, the tagging study could help scientists and governments focus attention on particular regions to give species the best chance of persisting even as human pressures crest.

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«Maintaining the network of links between reefs allowing larvae to flow between them and re-stock depleted areas, is key to saving coral ecosystems threatened by human pressure and climate change,» Dr Kool explains.

Rockström went on to say, «Increased human pressure threatens the natural resources that humanity depends upon, increasing the risk of water and food insecurity and competition over natural resources.»

«We used these estimates to map natural extinction risk in modern oceans, and compare it with recent human pressures on the ocean such as fishing, and climate change to identify the areas most at risk,» says Professor Pandolfi.

They are the marine equivalent of our ancient oak woodlands, and just as that precious habitat is protected in sites such as the New Forest National Park, this MCZ will help to preserve this marine biodiversity hotspot and minimise the impacts of current and future human pressures.»

«Only by so doing will we gain the overall picture of what is happening to them, at a time when, as evidenced by the cacti, they may be under immense human pressures.»

Chiasmocleis quilombola occupy coastal areas north of Espírito Santo State, a region that is under strong human pressure, therefore the species may face imminent threat of habitat loss.

The authors looked at human pressure over time using the updated global Human Footprint criteria, which includes roads, agriculture, urbanization and industrial infrastructure, along with forest loss.

These deeper reefs are relatively insulated from global warming and other direct human pressures for the time being — but there are signs that overfishing, pollution and other forms of degradation are now starting to affect them too, making their protection urgent, they warn.

For Charu, the nomination is both an honor and an opportunity:» Growing human pressures are pushing many species towards extinction in India, and indeed across Central Asia.

It's a sobering fact that the world's coral reefs — habitat to a quarter of marine wildlife — are facing serious danger from ocean pollution and acidification, warming temperatures and human pressures like overfishing and tourism.

The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network reports that 24 percent of the remaining reefs are at risk of imminent collapse, with another 26 percent facing significant loss in the next few decades, due to mounting human pressures.

Using 24 key social, economic, and environmental indicators, our friend Félix Pharand - Deschênes has created a dashboard that shows how human pressure on planet Earth is reaching critical level.

Land use, habitat fragmentation and intense human pressures will further limit natural adaptation responses, and fire - regime shifts may threaten specific species and plant functional types.

The document calls for emergency actions to tackle human pressures on the Earth's environment while ensuring a more equitable and just world.

(06/07/2012) Scientists warn that the Earth may be reaching a planetary tipping point due to a unsustainable human pressures, while the UN releases a new report that finds global society has made significant progress on only four environmental issues out of ninety in the last twenty years.

But new research finds that even in periods without human pressures, the Dead Sea may have dried up, including once when it did so almost entirely more than 100,000 years ago.

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

These studies show that even as human pressure on the environment has increased, it was not uniform nor in proportion to the population growth and economic activity that presumably are the ultimate drivers of human impact on nature.

There is increasing evidence that human activities are affecting ES functioning to a degree that threatens the resilience of the ES — its ability to persist in a Holocene - like state in the face of increasing human pressures and shocks.

But keep your eye on the clock, sports fans, because this 600 - mile sprint may be history in 10 years — 90 percent of leatherback turtles have vanished from the Pacific Ocean, tripped up, as it were, by human pressures.

With a background in evolutionary ecology and conservation biology from UC Davis, Allen has a particular interest in bird population responses to urban development, climate change, and other human pressures.

Graphic clearly shows human pressure on Earth reaching critical level.

Ironically these are the effective ways of mitigating the broad range of human pressures on the climate system — sequestering carbon dioxide in the landscape, reducing methane, nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone, black carbon and CFC emissions.

It would be too much to say that the «evangelistic lifestyle» for which he called has been adopted with respect to human pressure on the environment, but it would not be too much to say that under Morikawa's leadership the American Baptists were far ahead of any other denomination.

How, then, does the biosphere as a whole respond to human pressures?

The biosphere's response to human pressures is merely the sum of all of the changes.

Petrov examined historical data going back to 1969 and determined that there are ongoing changes in the distribution and migration patterns of the wild reindeer due to climate change and human pressure.

Consequently, human pressures have increasingly taken their toll on the countrys natural resources.

Some NWHS such as the Sinharaja Forest Reserve and Mana Pools National Park showed minimal change in forest loss or human pressure, but the authors say they are in the minority.

«This paper illustrates that successful conservation is not cheap, and given the increasing human pressures, it is not going to get any cheaper» says Graham Kerley, who directs the Centre for African Conservation Ecology at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Abstract: As human pressure on the marine environment increases, safeguarding healthy and productive seas increasingly necessitates integrated, time - and cost - effective environmental monitoring.

Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly traditional agriculture in remote areas.

Evidence is growing that human pressures are starting to overwhelm the Earth's buffering capacity.

There is increasing evidence that human activities are affecting ES functioning to a degree that threatens the resilience of the ES — its ability to persist in a Holocene - like state in the face of increasing human pressures and shocks.

The reef's designation as a marine park helps protect it from some human pressures, such as local water pollution and overfishing.

Projected range shifts of mammal species will be limited by fragmented habitats and human pressures, as suggested in the TAR, with declines in species richness likely, especially in protected areas.

Rural populations are declining, and the human pressure in some regions is decreasing.

Even a species with billions of members may have a biological Achilles» heel that makes it vulnerable to human pressure.