Sentences with phrase «important ecological services»

The plan calls for wealthy countries to pay developing countries to preserve their rainforests arguing that these ecosystems store massive amounts of carbon dioxide as well as providing important ecological services and serving as a repository for most of the planet's biodiversity.

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

Bats are keystone species for cave ecosystems and provide important ecological services.

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Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

The certainty of the forecasts is particularly important as warming leads to shifts from temperate to subtropical drylands, which leads to changes in precipitation and soil moisture, which in turn has profound effects on ecological services, provided to humanity, including the viability of certain temperate agricultural systems.

But flies play important ecological roles, as pollinators for example, points out Chris Nagano, an entomologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry for WWF - UK, says, «It's important to celebrate innovations that drive us towards a One Planet Future - a future in which the production and consumption of goods and services flourish within the Earth's ecological limits and support human well - being around the world.»