«These species are not only icons of climate change, but they are
indicators of ecosystem health, and key resources for humans,» said lead author Kristin Laidre, a polar scientist with the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.
Not exact matches
Birds are often used as an
indicator of overall
ecosystem health in Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona, Hatten said.
Frogs and toads also play an important role, serving as both prey and predator, in wetland
ecosystems and are considered
indicators of environmental
health.
These species have also long been used to study the
health of ecosystems, as
indicators of biodiversity.
According to Dr. Biju Kumar, one
of the study's authors, the discovery
of this crab is very important in the context
of conservation
of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotpot as they can serve as ecological
indicators, reflecting the
health of the
ecosystem.
Acknowledge that the snow leopard is an irreplaceable symbol
of our nations» natural and cultural heritage and an
indicator of the
health and sustainability
of mountain
ecosystems;
Coho Salmon >> This flagship fish
of the Redwood creek watershed has a remarkable life cyle that makes it especially susceptible to habitat degradation and loss, and renders it an
indicator of ecosystem's
health.
This newsletter discusses the publishing
of rivers climate change
indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry
of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island
Health, progress on the development
of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council
of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release
of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release
of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing
of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State
of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources
of Pacific Canadian Marine
Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsletter.
The categories
of indicators include greenhouse gases, weather and climate, oceans, snow and ice,
health and society, and
ecosystems.
«Penguins are excellent
indicators of changes to the biological and environmental
health of the broader
ecosystem because they are easily accessible while breeding on land, yet they depend entirely on food resources from the sea.