Sentences with phrase «like ecological effects»

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To cut down on ill effects, the researchers suggest using less damaging lighting — like avoiding blue lighting, which penetrates deeper in seawater — to minimize ecological impacts, and establishing «marine dark sky parks,» similar to what the International Dark - Sky Association has done for terrestrial parks.

I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.

I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.

Small - scale solar, which can essentially be done anywhere at mid and lower latitudes, has fairly limited effects on ecological habitats (though I'd like to see better resource extraction for silicon, copper, etc), concentrates resource needs to a local level, harnesses an «unlimited» resource, is a great compliment to other renewables, and once operational has no emission footprint.

Initiatives like NEON and the Long Term Ecological Research Network aim to help us to track and understand the effects of human activities on ecosystems that provide valuable services to society.

This flying insect decline is probably caused by land use factors (agriculture, possibly insecticides like neonicotinoids, possibly amplified by inert effects of «ecological sinks» in the landscape) and independent of climate development.]

However, the ecological impact we do have some basis for understanding is the effect of ocean acidification on important biological processes like calcification.

Partly this is because it's hard to beat the blunt biodiversity effects of direct habitat destruction (like deforestation) and partly that is because climate warming is often a slow process, for instance in the deep oceans, where its ecological effects are «outpaced» by the rapidly escalating plastic pollution — admittedly an impossible comparison.

This effect is ecological in nature and is mediated by microbial activity, and is thus harder to model than simpler physical processes, like glacial melting or ocean warming.

ARS Administrator Edward B. Knipling states, in relation to climate change effects, that «Studies like this also show us that these ecological shifts don't stop at crop production.

Without studying the principles of highly - organized functioning of ecological communities, including their genetically encoded ability to respond to environmental perturbations in a non-random compensatory way, the perspectives drawn from global circulation models with respect to the climatic effects of land cover change (e.g., statements like cutting all boreal forests will ease global warming) will continue to lack any resemblance to reality.