Sentences with phrase «known as ecosystem»

Those scientists often cite sustainability as a key benefit of this approach, known as ecosystem - based fisheries management, or EBFM.

Such resources, known as ecosystem services, were the subject of a symposium held at AAAS» headquarters in Washington, on May 19 where experts explored the role played by the natural forces of ecosystems in protecting adjacent lands and local communities.

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Apple is known as the designer of the slickest devices in the world, but the Windows ecosystem is closing the gap.

Today, Impinj's tags are a key part of the huge and growing tech ecosystem known as the internet of things.

Below, five successful founders and members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC)-- all under the age of 35 — weigh in on the survey's findings and its implications for the entrepreneurial ecosystem as we know it.

Outside investors are an essential element of the «financing ecosystem» for technology companies if they are to grow, no matter what industry sector they're part of, as the Jenkins Panel has pointed out.

One of the best examples of this behavior is exemplified by a team of hackers specific to the Ethereum ecosystem and known only as «The White Hat Group.»

Now that things have relatively stabilized, and almost as if on cue, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin took to an online chat forum to address a breadth of questions and concerns from ecosystem participants who were anxious to know what's next for Ethereum.

While it runs a decentralized network, there is a cooperative ecosystem, known as DasNet, which has an interest in the success of the network.

«We look forward to working with the Malta government as it is forward thinking and shares many of our same values: the most important of which are protection of traders and the general public, compliance with Anti Money Laundering and Know Your Customer standards, and recognition of the innovation and importance of continued development in the Blockchain ecosystem.»

Turkey are going to launch a cryptocurrency known as turkcoin, what does this imply for the ecosystem of cryptocurrencies?

Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group's chief operating officer, said in a press conference last week that he hopes the 11.11 sale will become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years as Alibaba's e-commerce ecosystem, once largely confined within China's borders, continues to expand internationally through collaboration with more governments, banks and postal services in order to give shoppers everywhere a seamless, «local» e-commerce experience — no matter where the merchants they patronize are located.

You don't have to feel small in order to come to terms with an idea that we will once again become part of the universe in death, and give nutrients back to the ecosystems that have helped sustain life as we know it.

There could he nothing like the ecosystem as we know it without extensive predation.

Bill Mollison, known as «The Father of Permaculture», was an advocate of agricultural ecosystems that are sustainable and self - sufficient.

«As the world continues to grow smaller, the importance of healthy, clean oceans, and our responsibility to maintain the ecosystems within them, can no longer be neglected.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

In forest ecosystems, cockroaches are known as important decomposers that consume dead and decaying plants.

The 35 authors of the United Nations Environmental Programme report — including the University's Professor Elaine Baker in the School of Geosciences — say as the world's surface reefs are being threatened, part of the ecosystem may survive in these barely known deeper environments, known as mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs).

«Coral bleaching «lifeboat» could be just beneath the surface: UN report finds part of the ecosystem may survive in barely known deeper environments, known as mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs).»

In the Apple and iOS ecosystem, rooting is known as jailbreaking.

Sixteen million years ago, the reptile Diplocynodon ratelii lived in wooded ecosystems among the lakes and pools of what we know today as Catalonia (Spain).

Developed by Harvard geneticist George Church, a modified E. coli strain provides what's known as codon security: Biosensors can't spill their tweaked genes into the ecosystem because a segment of their genetic code has been made incompatible with all living organisms.

«This is important to know as we pursue conservation, ecosystem management and restoration,» Forister said.

«We need to know what insects eat when doing ecosystem restoration, and we shouldn't assume that species with generalist feeding habits will necessarily fill the same ecological roles as more specialized species.»

In the event your de-extincted animal doesn't work out and, say, wreaks havoc in your local ecosystem, wiping out long - established flora and fauna, having the extended warranty covers all costs associated with the capture and transport of the animal to the Island of Misfit Toys, formerly known as Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica.

Ecologists have long known that drought can stimulate this type of attack on plants, he said, but they mostly discounted it as a secondary stress and not a main cause of ecosystem collapse.

Bryozoan skeletons - like coral's - usually build the basic structure of isolated small reefs (known as patch reefs) and contribute to the formation of the known coral reefs, fragile ecosystems that are sensitive to the ocean acidification.

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

«We know that carbon footprint, a popular indicator used in environmental policies, does not correspond well with other environmental impacts such as toxicity to ecosystems and humans, depletion of resources, and land use.

The Fisheries Committee agreed to close off northeast Atlantic areas known (or likely) to harbor vulnerable marine ecosystems, such as sponges and corals, to bottom trawling.

As non-native species, land development, and climate change remodel river ecosystems, it is no longer easy to define what is «natural» for river systems.

Human skin surfaces are complex ecosystems for microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria and viruses, which are known collectively as the skin microbiome.

In our guts, and in the guts of all animals, resides a robust ecosystem of microbes known as the microbiome.

The process, known as nitrogen deposition, can do great damage to ecosystems, causing soil acidification, fertilizing harmful algal blooms and threatening biodiversity, says Zhang.

However, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara researchers Deron Burkepile and Andrew Shantz, excess nutrient input — or nutrient pollution — creates an imbalance in the interactions between partner — also known as mutualistic — species across a variety of ecosystems.

Known as páramos, these ecosystems at more than 11,000 feet above sea level exist only in Central and South America, the majority in Colombia.

«Once we know that, they can shed light on the whole ecosystem as it is today and help us predict what it might look like in the future.»

The acquisition of skeletons, the advent of predation and the rise of complex ecosystems all occurred in what's known as the Cambrian explosion of marine animals.

The primary objective of the study was to characterize deep coral reef habitat, known as «mesophotic coral ecosystems» or the coral - reef «Twilight Zone.»

A team of sixteen researchers has completed a comprehensive investigation of deep coral - reef environments, known as mesophotic coral ecosystems, throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago.

Despite the condition of the fossils, dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Appalachia are evolutionarily significant in that they represent an entirely separate ecosystem from the Laramidian fauna; the western North America Late Cretaceous fauna well known for species such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops [1 — 3].

in the 1950s, with regular meetings leading to the commencement in 1965 of cooperative, in - depth, multi-vessel surveys in what is now known as the Barents Sea Ecosystem Survey.

invasive species (also known as aliens) A species that is found living, and often thriving, in an ecosystem other than the one in which it evolved.

These vents (also know as black smokers) expel minerals dissolved by water which bacteria use to in chemical reactions to produce energy and support ecosystems involving larger multi-cellular lifeforms that feed off of of the massive and fast - growing bacterial populations.

The Convention addresses specifically the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the drylands, where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

You've likely heard of the microbiome — also known as the living ecosystem of bacteria living in and on your body — and how it is absolutely crucial in living a balanced and fulfilled life.

These microorganisms are a natural part of the ecosystem known as the micro biome.

So life still happens and as much as you and I can do the things to try to create these little bubbles of you know, a nutrition bubble and lifestyle, and all these great little parts of our ecosystem, we still operate in an ecosystem that is generally pretty toxic in terms of all the things that are out in the air, food, water, soil and you're going — you're going to come across stuff and it is just about what do you do to increase your resilience against these things once you kill them off, like you said was some of the post infection support, you know, people may hear — hear this and think oh kill, kill, kill, but eventually we're strengthening us, too, as the host and so that's why you and I, you know, maybe we take an extra day off or we go spend some more time in nature because that's the stuff that's going to heal you in the long term.