Sentences with phrase «many ecosystems around the world»

To expand the scientific knowledge base, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists set out to estimate the vulnerability and extinction risk of migratory birds, mammals and fishes from different regions and ecosystems around the world.

«Coastal ecosystems around the world depend greatly on the services provided by oysters,» Kimbro said.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

This is worrying because ecosystems around the world are being diced up as human activities encroach.

The scientists calculate that the hypothetically required plantations would in fact replace natural ecosystems around the world almost completely.

The answers they came up, just published in the scientific journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution and summarized below, portend both risks and opportunities for species and ecosystems around the world.

They are now everywhere and while they are not always welcome on your kitchen counter, they are critical to ecosystems around the world for many roles, including seed dispersal and decomposition.

This thawing permafrost could release a large amount of mercury that could potentially affect ecosystems around the world.

«Increasing demand for seafood has contributed to a global fisheries crisis, with consequences for marine ecosystems around the world,» Österblom adds.

«We find that the composition of ecosystems around the world is changing much more rapidly than we expected.

While some, like hydrological conditions, are beyond human control, others can be replicated at different marine ecosystems around the world.

The Jefferson Project — a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM Research, and The FUND for Lake George — was founded to develop a new model for technologically enabled environmental monitoring and prediction to better understand and protect the Lake George ecosystem and freshwater ecosystems around the world.

The research is part of the Jefferson Project at Lake George — a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM Research, and The FUND for Lake George — founded to develop a new model for technologically enabled environmental monitoring and prediction to understand and protect the Lake George ecosystem and freshwater ecosystems around the world.

Non-native species invasions are an increasing concern in marine ecosystems around the world.

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

A review of recent science shows the impact of human food waste on a variety of wildlife ecosystems around the world.

Winrock believes that climate change will have a profound impact on the poorest populations and the most fragile ecosystems around the world and that markets are the most effective path to mobilize actions to reduce emissions.

Winrock believes that climate change will have real and profound impacts on the poorest populations and the most fragile ecosystems around the world, and that markets are the most effective path to mobilize actions to reduce emissions.

Despite widespread recognition that hunter - gatherers and early farmers were capable of transforming terrestrial ecosystems around the world, these early anthropogenic changes have yet to be understood as global change processes and are generally portrayed by global change scientists as localized and insignificant compared with contemporary changes in the Earth system (11, 14).

But we really haven't gotten our minds much around the rest of life and the existence of natural ecosystems around the world that are disappearing rapidly.

However, the rate of warming that we see today is much faster than expected and may be a threat to societies and ecosystems around the world.»

According to Francis Chan, a marine ecologist at OSU, this recurrent dead zone is just another sign of global warming's harmful impact on ocean ecosystems around the world — prompted by unprecedented changes in wind patterns and water currents.

Not exact matches

The ecosystems in which we operate around the world are being disrupted and transformed,» CEO David Taylor said in a statement.

With a theme focusing on tackling how entrepreneurs can be supported by the ecosystem, the event aimed to celebrate and leverage Bahrain's strategic role for startups in the GCC region and around the world as an ideal startup hub for entrepreneurs and investors looking to expand their impact.

«The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world,» says Tim Draper, venture capitalist.

If everyone were to frame their investment choices around such goals as eliminating poverty, preserving ocean ecosystems and fostering innovation for sustainable cities, the world would certainly begin to look different.

In transitioning economies around the world, the private sector alone can not develop dynamic and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

My writing on start - up communities (Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City) and with organizations like the nonprofit UP Global takes me around the world.

The demand for access and the caliber of funds attending affirms that the Canadian tech ecosystem is creating a strong pull with investors from around the world,» says Bilal Khan, Managing Director of OneEleven.

Following Morgan Stanley, he joined the NY based accelerator VentureOut, where he worked closely with entrepreneurs from around the world, helping them scale and break into the NY tech ecosystem.

EA will strengthen Canada's startup ecosystem by combining talent and capital from the Toronto — Waterloo corridor with the best international founders from around the world.

«The ultimate objective is to lay the groundwork for a global women's enterprise ecosystem, so that economies around the world can benefit from a strategic and systemic approach to women's enterprise development,» Littlejohn said.

Our ecosystem, of millions of professionals and businesses around the world, is supported by a strong localized community team and local on - the - ground staff who run highly targeted events.

The rise of ICOs and popularisation of blockchain and cryptocurrencies has provided the technological catalyst needed for Doklist.com to evolve into a completely decentralised ecosystem with the capacity to serve billions around the world.

While smaller application cases are being considered around the world, the United Nations isn't waiting for ecosystems to develop.

As lawmakers around the world tussle over how to define and regulate cryptocurrency, the Swiss have little time to waste building a blockchain ecosystem.

Around the world, these early adopters were contributing to the realization of the Bitcoin ecosystem and bitcoin currency, a digital asset rooted in nothing but logical, computable, principles.

This is also Demo Day for Class 7 of Queen City Fintech, which features fintech startups from all around the world who will have just spent twelve weeks incubating in Charlotte and the Southeast ecosystem.

YouNoodle is the technology engine behind hundreds of competitive startup programs around the world, giving the world a unique picture of the global startup ecosystem.

Unsustainable from every perspective other than corporate balance sheets, it still manages to spread its talons around the world, draining life from ecosystems, forests and rural communities.

To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value of ecosystem services provided by land resources such as food, poverty reduction, clean water, climate and disease regulation and nutrients cycling.

Hunting and habitat loss are killing off big carnivores around the world, just as ecologists are discovering how important they are for keeping ecosystems in balance.

Doerr routinely starts wildfires in heath and gorse areas in the UK and around the world to try to understand how such blazes might affect the ecosystem.

Now building on a large scale, the answer is a global Earth observatory, consisting of 1,000 or more well - equipped ground stations around the world that track environments and key ecosystems fully and continuously.

The finding, from the first survey of ocean acidification around one of the world's greatest natural landmarks, supports fears that the ecosystem is on its last legs.

«Our dietary specialization studies show us that a majority of insect herbivores, around the world, pick one plant in their local ecosystem and feed on just that one type of plant, not every plant that's available, as many people assume.»

From overfishing and pollution to coastal development and climate change, fragile coral ecosystems are disappearing at unprecedented rates around the world.

Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a study spanning six continents.

This uncertainty is changing because of improved supercomputer modelling of the movement of water through ecosystems, based on 20,000 locations around the world.

«Trillions of insects around the world migrate every year, and we're just beginning to understand their connections to ecosystems and human life,» says Dara Satterfield, an ecologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.