Sentences with phrase «maintaining ecosystem diversity»
In many instances, fire is beneficial for maintaining ecosystem diversity, and in most cases all land will burn eventually if left to nature.
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New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.
In all locations, they play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and species diversity.
This project promotes and maintains the function and diversity of ecosystems along Ontario's Niagara escarpment.
They define this as «a seamless mosaic of forests and associated natural treeless ecosystems that exhibit no remotely detected signs of human activity or habitat fragmentation and are large enough to maintain all native biological diversity, including viable populations of wide - ranging species».
a seamless mosaic of forests and associated natural treeless ecosystems that exhibit no remotely detected signs of human activity or habitat fragmentation and are large enough to maintain all native biological diversity, including viable populations of wide - ranging species».
This preparatory work is an essential part of permaculture (short for «permanent agriculture»), a way of designing and maintaining «agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems» (in the words of workshop organizers) that emphasizes working with the land rather than fighting against it.
Indigenous traditional knowledge, land management and conservation practices will be crucial to responding to climate change, maintaining biological diversity and preserving important ecosystems.