Sentences with phrase «local diversity»

Moving species around the world may increase local diversity, but it doesn't increase the overall number of species on the planet; that number only goes down.

Policies that promote school integration by race and class took a significant hit last week when the U.S. Department of Education announced that it was killing a small but important federal program to support local diversity efforts.

World Government would be awful because it would require an enormous amount of coercion to overcome local diversity.

Theresa works with each office to develop and support local diversity initiatives, and she partners with firm management and practice groups to explore ways to promote diversity and inclusion.

In addition to the firm - wide diversity initiatives discussed above, the firm has established a fund for each office for membership in, and support of, local and regional affinity bar associations, local bar association diversity initiatives, local diversity conferences and events, local pipeline programs, and other similar organizations.

Application information for up to $ 3,000 in matching funds from the NAR State and Local Diversity Initiative Grant program.

The new maps reveal that local diversity is substantial; ignoring this fact is problematic.

They investigated life history data of nearly 1400 bird species and found that avian life span varies considerably across the entire Earth, and that much of this variation can be explained by the species» body mass and clutch size and by the local diversity of predator species.

«We know that this region was pivotal for ancient trade, and it seems plausible that animals followed the trading routes and thus increased the local diversity,» he says.

The local diversity and unique geologic history (covered by neither glaciers nor oceans for the past 225 million years, the Ozarks provided refuge for migrating species during the Ice Age) explain the richness of the lichens here: some 600 named species, along with 30 recently discovered ones awaiting their official designation.

Reacting to the concerns of local school districts, the Alaska State Board of Education has endorsed a concept that will recognize «local diversity» in the implementation of a plan for a statewide school - improvement proposed by the Governor's Task Force on Effective Schooling.

Every trip to the Caribbean offers a unique experience, while often similar in many instances, each presents it's own flare and local diversity.

Spend time talking to Scotland's devs, and you'll hear repeated talk of local diversity.