Sentences with phrase «many ecological systems»

But GM crops have been around for only about 15 years, and that is not long enough to fully assess their effect on complex biological and ecological systems.

Under the auspices of the Jefferson Project, IBM has teamed up with Dublin City University Water Institute to launch a pilot program that uses the Internet of Things combined with advanced analytics to monitor and manage ecological systems.

That just as all the products we use came into existence through a mind, these being consistent with reality, so likewise of not only the earth with its marvelous ecological systems, but all the universe by which we keep time, from the passing of one day to the passing of one year allowing to keep track of time, that all these diverse, but harmonious systems are the product of a Supreme Designer for the benefit and enjoyment of mankind.

And what about the entire ecological system of things, that works in harmony with us as humans for life to exist, from our atmosphere at 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen down to the magnetosphere that comes from within the core of the earth and protects us from the sun's damaging electrically charged particles?

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security, and human health are likely to occur.

Contraceptives obviously have a negative effect on the delicate ecological system of a woman's fertility.

Instead the new document speaks more realistically of the need to «balance and harmonize» competing interests, including balancing «economic progress with the flourishing of ecological systems.»

Living within a crowded and delicately balanced economic, social, and ecological system, we have become vitally dependent on each other, and on our collective habitat.

Indeed, as Whitehead is convinced, all ecological systems and by extension all naturally occurring social groups of whatever type, human included, are fostered upon the principle of cooperation, and not competition or antagonism.

As in the case of natural ecological systems, the possibility exists that the task is beyond the capacity of law and government to affect for the better.

They saw that all over the world the ecological systems they studied were in decay.

The global environmental crisis tells us that the ecological system has been disastrously affected by the design of the production system, which has developed with almost no regard for sustaining the ecological system.

We are all in the same boat concerning relations between the production, economic and ecological systems.

The needs of peoples of the earth today depend upon three related systems: the production system, the economic system and the ecological system.

The organized ecological systems of the Earth would have been dealt a mortal or near mortal blow, perhaps putting the Earth's future toward a state comparable to what was here a billion years ago.

The dilemma created by traditional economics in its sup - port of the growth — driven economy in the ecological system of the world that does not grow is discussed in Chapter 3.

All the resources used by humans, with the exception of minerals and petroleum, are dependent upon four ecological systems: grasslands, croplands, forests and fisheries.

Nichols goes on: «When looked at more closely, this «human ecology» is in fact a series of interlocking ecologies, as indeed is the complex of ecological systems which make up our natural environment.»

However, frequent soil cultivation decreases soil health and disrupts the ecological system; increases fuel and labor costs, and brings buried weed seeds to the soil surface.

Organic Agriculture should be based on living ecological systems and cycles, work with them, emulate them and help sustain them.

Supporting the transfer of knowledge and horizontal interchange between organizations and promote the extension and application of ecological systems to other sectors.

According to this alternative way of understanding the geography, land is perceived not as a horizontal plane but rather vertically, so that it takes advantage of all that the elevations are able to deliver according to the particularities of each ecological system.

In 2002, he bought a property 138 miles from Paris and dedicated himself to learning about permaculture farming, a beyond - organic ecological system.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition.

Batavians for a Healthy River formed in 2003 to promote a healthy ecological system along the Fox River watershed in Batavia and to inform the public on the negative impact of dams and other manmade encroachments along the Fox River.

These organizational systems have become the main driving force of ecological systems.

It seemed that any small fluctuation in an ecological system was always balanced out by some other change, maintaining equilibrium even in complex situations.

Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population growth — something that can be broadly applied to infer how much resource loss a species can survive.

Local, labor - intensive, low - input agriculture: It provides jobs, security, stability and food, and helps make local ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.

The second - year course is more specialized and emphasizes topics such as ecotoxicology, epidemiology, individual - based models, or spatial analysis of ecological systems.

To maintain this status while growing its electricity system to serve millions of new customers, the country is planning a major expansion of hydroelectric power in the Amazon Basin — one of the most important ecological systems in the world.

This coordinated response, although not intentional, can affect ecological systems at the landscape scale.

Stewart Ibarra and her colleagues use a social - ecological systems (SES) approach to conduct their research.

Well, it's a big planet with some very complicated climatic and ecological systems, and there's no guarantee that any approach will actually work in real life.

«Ecological systems are quite robust, actually,» says Motter.

Hence, researchers have emphasized the use of non-chemical means of control, with a hope that Mother Nature will kindly accept these exotic species as a part of the ecological system.

And in environmental research, there is always a good chance that the most economic solution is in compliance with nature and therefore stabilizes the ecological system.

In ecological systems, removing just one specific species from a food web can affect the whole ecosystem.

They then used a modeling approach developed by Scripps ecologist George Sugihara and colleagues to detect cause - and - effect relationships in ecological systems.

Today, as a wildlife biologist for the National Forest Service and a presidential award winner, he travels the world studying the complex interactions that play out in ecological systems.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

«This is something that will show up across many ecological systems.

The Blue Mountains case study is part of an open access special issue on «Social - ecological systems in mountain landscapes» published online in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.issue-S1).

«The results of this study are also unprecedented in their remarkable consistency across a very large set of vastly different ecological systems throughout the world's oceans,» he adds.

I researched the interaction in various areas between rabbits, arthropods, coyotes, plants, and weather information in order to determine how these factors interact with one another to create a complete ecological system.

«Women used to play a role in the ecological system.

Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.

Marilyn Roossinck of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, spoke with Sarah Crespi about the diversity of roles that viruses take on in ecological systems, from protecting plants from drought to moderating nitrogen fixation.