Sentences with phrase «in ecosystem level»

We present an integrated modeling study designed to investigate changes in ecosystem level phenology over Europe associated with changes in climate pattern, by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

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When there are strong interdependencies between different players in a product ecosystem, there can be a risk of «hold up» if a necessary part of the product bundle is not available at an attractive quality and price level.

With Canada's startup scene receiving increased support, looking to innovations in Asian ecosystems would take disruption to a new level.

Ethereum's ecosystem is experiencing the highest level of activity in its history.

We build proprietary efficiencies in search engine algorithms, digital marketing intelligence and inbound marketing to complete the digital ecosystem and take your company to the next level..

The virtual bridge will enable Startup ecosystem in India to evolve to the next level, bridging the gap between ideation and implementation.»

The objective of this course is to accelerate your progress in the program and expose you to the process of experimentation at the business, strategic and ecosystem level.

Apart from supporting local farmers, businesses and economies through modern solutions like blockchain and digital currencies, the FoodCoin Ecosystem connects people on a personal level that's becoming increasingly uncommon in an indifferent global eEcosystem connects people on a personal level that's becoming increasingly uncommon in an indifferent global ecosystemecosystem.

The topics were informed by interviews with both industry and research, with some being primarily driven by advances and investment in science and technology while others require broader operational changes at the business and ecosystem level.

Agriculture, especially in its most extreme modern form of industrialized monoculture, modifies landscapes and damages the ecosystem's goods and services, including biodiversity at all levels.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

That study found that a 1.5 degrees Celsius world would reach a peak rate of sea - level rise about 0.7 inches per decade less than in a 2 degrees Celsius world — a potentially life - saving reduction for some vulnerable coastal ecosystems.

The analytic reports by AAAS are the next step in achieving «a high level of credibility and reliability of the national R&D ecosystem,» said Ahmed M. Alabdulkader, Secretary General for NSTIP at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the national science agency.

At night, for example, water in the estuary had higher carbon dioxide, lower pH levels, and a lower saturation state from the collective «exhale» of the ecosystem.

The indirect effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, such as changes in soil moisture and plant structure, can have a bigger impact on ecosystems than previously thought.

A higher organic carbon load might lead to the development of ecosystems where microorganisms mainly feed on dissolved organic carbon, thus opening a way for the pollutants to enter the food web and cause more problems in higher level organisms, like fish,» says Matyas Ripszam.

Carbon dioxide levels in lakes are often high and vary widely from lake to lake based on factors such as the type of nearby ecosystem, land use such as agriculture, sizes of the lake and watershed, amount of precipitation, and because some types of soils and rocks absorb more CO2 than others.

They would create and maintain a varied vegetation in temperate ecosystems, and thereby ensure the basis for a high level of biodiversity,» says senior scientist Rasmus Ejrnæs.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

«We have no means of detecting nanosilver in the environment once it is released, even if concentrations rise to levels that are toxic to aquatic ecosystems,» Luoma said in a statement when the report, «Nanoscale Silver: No Silver Lining?»

Eventually the ecosystem absorbed these impacts and leveled out to a new normal, even if those influences remained in place.

Even the species identification methods are deficient, regardless of the fact that gelatinous zooplankton can be abundant in the ecosystem and have a major effect on both the upper and lower levels of the food web,» says Majaneva.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

Changing temperatures and ocean acidification, together with rising sea level and shifts in ocean productivity, will keep marine ecosystems in a state of continuous change for 100,000 years.

The centre runs research programmes in climate variability and change, the monitoring of sea levels, ocean uptake of carbon dioxide, and Antarctic marine ecosystems.

«Crinia signifera appears to be an important player in maintaining levels of disease within the ecosystem,» said lead author Dr. Laura Brannelly, of the University of Pittsburgh.

Indeed, in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems, the big surprise is that the incursion of alien species can actually increase, rather than decrease, biodiversity at a local level.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

«It was surprising to discover that small - scale changes in the environment can influence ecosystem - level reef processes,» said Silbiger.

«We lost our 35 - year - old brine shrimp business because of low lake levels, which resulted in toxic high salinity levels and ecosystem collapse,» Kreuz said.

Natural ecosystems also can, in many cases, keep pace with sea level rise, while built infrastructure does not adapt to changing conditions.

Humans depend on high levels of ecosystem biodiversity, but due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is now greater than at any time in human history.

Simultaneously, the bleakly reductionist view of evolution as a product of nothing more than the sum of individual self - interest, common currency in the past half - century, is softening as we consider how natural selection may work even at the level of entire ecosystems.

Findings in the paper, «Worldwide Evidence of a Unimodal Relationship between Productivity and Plant Species Richness,» reveal a consistent biological rule governing the link between plant biomass and species richness in grassland ecosystems — plant species diversity is generally greatest at intermediate levels of plant biomass.

New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.

That is the conclusion of a study simulating a little - discussed consequence of climate change: it could choke entire ecosystems by cutting oxygen levels in the ocean.

In addition to documenting the amount of defensive ecosystems in the U.S., the researchers fed data about property values, population, income and age into a model that tested four sea - level rise scenarioIn addition to documenting the amount of defensive ecosystems in the U.S., the researchers fed data about property values, population, income and age into a model that tested four sea - level rise scenarioin the U.S., the researchers fed data about property values, population, income and age into a model that tested four sea - level rise scenarios.

Science also tells us things that are hard to hear and that we don't know how to fix: Climate change is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and, new research shows, even affecting the ecosystems in our beloved lakes.

«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.

Glen Hood, a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame and lead author of the paper, said, «Our study has impacted our understanding of evolution by suggesting that change in individual lineages can reverberate through different trophic levels of an ecosystem and increase community - level biodiversity.»

As productivity continues to increase, as in boreal forests, plant biomass (the total mass of living matter of a particular type) increases, herbivore biomass increases, and ecosystems become capable of sustaining a third trophic level — the predators — with this level controlling herbivores.

And while the levels remained high for only a few days, these contaminants may have accumulated in the ecosystem's top predator — the alligator.

Since the CERP was launched, a scientific consensus has developed that the Everglades ecosystem contained much more water historically than previously thought, which means recreating that level of hydrology will require more new water and have different ecological outcomes than first anticipated in the planning.

Even though this increases the amount of plants consumed, the plant biomass remains approximately at the same level as in species - poor ecosystems.

«The research results reveal that diversity enables the functionality of the ecosystems to be stabilized at a high level in the course of time and in different environments,» concludes Schmid.

This enables plants to maintain their level of biomass at an approximately equal level in species - poor as well as species - rich ecosystems.