Sentences with phrase «loss of species»

The preamble to SARA states «the Government of Canada is committed to conserving biological diversity and to the principle that, if there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to a wildlife species, cost - effective measures to prevent the reduction or loss of the species should not be postponed for a lack of full scientific certainty».

Don't get me wrong: The loss of every species is a tragedy.

These include changes to ecosystem, loss of species, and increased sea levels.

Numerous scientific studies... show that if heat - trapping emissions continue unabated, global warming is likely to cause more extreme heat in our cities, severe water shortages, loss of species, hazards to coasts from sea level rise, and extreme weather.

Plans are also underway to develop a captive breeding population, as an «insurance policy» against the loss of the species in the wild, and this may also aid further studies into the species» biology and its venom, without the need to capture wild individuals.

Using modelling projections of species distributions for future climate scenarios, Thomas et al. (2004) show, for the year 2050 and for a mid-range climate change scenario, that species extinction in Mexico could sharply increase: mammals 8 % or 26 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), birds 5 % or 8 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), and butterflies 7 % or 19 % loss of species (with or without dispersal).

We are currently experiencing an extinction rate approximately 1000x the background level, and the majority of this loss of species are seen in these very same ecosystems that are being exploited for cheap oil and meat.

The biodiversity crisis — i.e. the rapid loss of species and the rapid degradation of ecosystems — is probably a greater threat than global climate change to the stability and prosperous future of mankind on Earth.

Which is why it's clear that anthropogenic climate change to date can not be held responsible for large scale loss of species, because global warming is so recent in its inception.

E.O. Wilson, the eminent biologist credited with bringing the term biodiversity into the public lexicon, spoke on the loss of species and how much we just don't know about the spectrum of life on the planet.

Among them: moving away from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy, halting deforestation and the loss of species, more efficiently managing resources, stabilizing the human population, eliminating poverty and ensuring gender equity.

Even in the face of Hurricane Sandy and more severe firestorms, the rapid loss of species, massive deforestation, and the melting glaciers and poles, most people still don't take climate change seriously enough to believe that these emergent realities ought to change human behavior.

If it lands on zero, we find significant loss of species, ecosystems, and cultural landmarks like Venice.

Other circumstances that have high plausibility of accelerating extinctions include climatically induced loss of keystone species, collateral loss of species not necessarily affected by climate directly but dependent on species removed by climate change (for example, the myriad species dependent on coral - building species, see below), and phenology mismatches (disruption of the links between a species» yearly cycle and the seasons)(Dawson et al., 2011; NRC, 2011a).

It might lead to the loss of some species that we lament greatly, but it will also usher in new species, and unless there is extremely «abrupt» climate change, net biodiversity is unlikely to decrease dramatically.

In the report, they state: «In reality, the problem is lack of food security, inadequate water supply, high risk of catastrophic fires, climate change and loss of species.

Not well represented in the literature, however, is an emotional response we term «ecological grief,» which we have defined in a recent Nature Climate Change article: «The grief felt in relation to experienced or anticipated ecological losses, including the loss of species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes due to acute or chronic environmental change.»

Earth faces «catastrophic loss of species» from the Independent.

In the longer term, there may be serious consequences for fisheries production that result from loss of coral communities and reduced structural complexity, which result in reduced fish species richness, local extinctions and loss of species within key functional groups of reef fish (Sano, 2004; Graham et al., 2006).

Similarly, the debate is permeated with the assumption that climate change will bring ecological catastrophe in its train with major loss of species diversity in its train.

In the case of global warming, the innocent are likely to include residents of south Louisiana and other coastal communities whose lives will be disrupted by sea level rise and other climate change effects, and by the loss of species, he said.

``... that species extinction in Mexico could sharply increase: mammals 8 % or 26 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), birds 5 % or 8 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), and butterflies 7 % or 19 % loss of species (with or without dispersal).»

Its conclusion that the mass loss of species imperils human civilization is also ripe for analysis.

While ecosystems are remarkably robust, the chances of dramatic trophic cascades increases with the loss of every species (assuming its exact niche isn't filled by some other species — in which case the loss of this replacement species will have double the effect).

Yes, it hurts the heart to hear of the loss of species in this fascinating, amazing world of ours so delicately balanced and so easily destroyed.

But why should we mourn the loss of species that have not evolved the biological mechanism to survive?

As a gardener, Enteles understands our dependence on bees for agriculture and the devastation that the loss of this species would cause.

Perry wants to artistically explore contemporary ideas of re-generation in the context of climate change, loss of species, and the increasing influence of agribusiness.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project reports on the loss of species in the last 30 years of the 20th century.

The loss of species diversity has reached unsafe levels across 58 % of the world's land surface, according to a new assessment led by Museum scientists.

The extent of biomass production in species - rich ecosystems is more stable and thereby predictable whereas the loss of species leads to unpredictable deficiencies, which would have to be compensated by humans, according to the paper, published today in «Nature Communications.»

Similarly, deforestation often does not result in the immediate loss of species, and communities may exhibit a process of «relaxation» to their new equilibrium over time [3].

The team was able to demonstrate that the loss of species is related to changes in the hydrologic regime resulting from the conversion of forested areas to agricultural land.

As a new study highlights, deforestation in this area might result in a loss of species richness in adjacent streams.

Professor Bellwood says, in many cases, a single species of fish carries out a unique and essential role, making the ecosystem vulnerable to loss of that species.

For protected areas, efficacy means avoiding the loss of species and maintaining the integrity of ecosystems.

They argue persuasively that an «Earth Biocode» is both conceivable, because of advances in technology, and urgent, because of the impending loss of species and destabilization of our biota.

The extent of biomass production in species - rich ecosystems is more stable and thereby predictable whereas the loss of species leads to unpredictable deficiencies, which would have to be compensated by humans, according to the paper, published in Nature Communications.

The list includes a variety of measures of biodiversity; of the pressures leading to the loss of species, genetic diversity, populations, and ecosystems; of the responses by governments and other organizations; and of the benefits or services provided by biodiversity.

As a result of this, the UK has signed up to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to try and stop this loss of species.

«Before we can even begin to hope to reduce the dramatic loss of species the world is currently experiencing, we need to first have a clear understanding of where we should and should not expect biodiversity to be high or low,» notes author J.C. Cahill, professor in the University of Alberta's biological sciences department.

In some scenarios, gene drive would cause a population to go extinct, and data are lacking on how the loss of a species would affect its local ecosystem.

The predicted loss of species area in the climate change scenario was only 21 square kilometres per year.

Strangely, the scientists said, nothing of the kind is seen in a different kind of biodiversity loss: the loss of species today as you move from the warm tropics to the chillier poles.

The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, says that too little is known about endocrine disruptors to say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as global warming and loss of species habitat.

The researchers, from the University of Exeter, showed there is a higher risk of extinction cascades when other species are not present to fill the «gap» created by the loss of a species.

«The measurement we use for assessing biodiversity is focused almost entirely on loss of species,» says ecologist Daniel E. Schindler, lead author of the paper.

Fortunately, plant genomes — all of an organism's genetic information — are a vast storehouse of genetic variability that can be used to help prevent the loss of species suffering from climate change.

Crowley believes that gaining a better understanding of how animal mobility has been affected by the loss of species and habitat will be beneficial to current and future conservation efforts on the island.

We are now losing species at [a hundred] to a [thousand] times faster then we should be based on the normal geologic rate of evolution in the loss of species; [a] thousand times faster.