Sentences with phrase «more about the ecosystem»

The Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center is where visitors can learn more about the ecosystems present at the different islands, see sea life up close in a touch tank and speak with park rangers more about what the islands offer for visitors.

NYSERDA will also require successful proposers to coordinate with regional environmental scientists to collect information that could be useful in understanding more about ecosystem function, timing and relative density of wildlife in the area, or ambient underwater noise.

Not exact matches

Calacanis says the move is less about selling books and more about building out the company's online retail ecosystem.

As the hardware becomes more and more indistinguishable, the next focus of the smartphone wars will be about locking consumers into an ecosystem of content and services.

«We're talking about an online ecosystem that for us is an opportunity to give more to our consumers and make sure they stay with our offerings.

Over time, as people became more and more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment, plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

But a real ecosystem is about more than just a collection of places.

We spoke in Paris with Anaïs Raoux, the Managing Director of the industry association France Fintech about how the association helps build an effective ecosystem for French Fintechs tackling issues... Read More

Well, basically, things are about to get even more interesting as the community and industry ecosystem decides which bitcoin versions to support, and how.

She says she saw plenty of money in the ecosystem but a lack of understanding about the customers that Israeli companies were hoping to target, including in the U.S. «I always asked myself why founders weren't spending more time here,» says Galili.

We get a better feel for management behaviour and we get more information about how a business fits into its ecosystem.

By learning more deeply about new and emerging social ecosystems, social business models, and social buyer cycles, B2B business leaders can be better informed on the future direction of their organization.

Our ecosystem had been badly affected, we have no more fishes, we have no more forests but these are not things that we can talk about overnight.

But something did change about 800 million years ago, and cyanobacteria and other minute organisms in continental margin ecosystems got more phosphorus, the backbone of DNA and RNA, and a main actor in cell metabolism.

Says Dr Jonah Choiniere, co-author and Senior Researcher in Dinosaur Palaeobiology at the ESI at Wits University: «This new animal shines a spotlight on southern Africa and shows us just how much more we have to learn about the ecosystems of the past, even here in our own «backyard».

As he watched the progressive paving of the canyons, Soulé found himself even more distressed about the big picture, the loss of the ecosystem, than about the cats.

But they are already worrying about how extra ultraviolet light might affect humans and ecosystems below and wondering whether climate change will make such Arctic holes more common or severe.

Setting aside the labels of «good» and «bad» — which are inescapably human judgments — Burdick sought to view invasive species with more objectivity and to explore what they have taught scientists about how ecosystems work.

Not much is known about what happens in these transitional savanna ecosystems located between more arid and wetter climate zones, information critical to their management,» said lead author J. Tyler Fox, who earned his doctorate in fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment in 2016.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

As research advances in this area, questions are being raised about potential implications for nontarget species, ecosystems, soils and more.

Poinar is a world leader in examining such specimens and using them to learn more about prehistoric ecosystems.

You can bang a drum about fighting these companies but I would hope that we can learn more by working with them,» says Ewers, who runs the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems project (SAFE).

Sharks are at the top of the ocean food chain, Meyer noted, making them an important part of the marine ecosystem, and knowing more about these fish helps scientists better understand the flow of energy through the ocean.

«We need to know more about how synthetic chemicals are altering ecosystems and interacting with other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

«As we learn more about deep sea ecosystems and the role of oceans in mitigating climate change, it seems wise to take precautions to avoid damage that could have long - lasting and unforeseen consequences.»

Proponents of moving plants and animals threatened by rising temperatures to more hospitable locations are more concerned about the increasing rate of species extinction, while opponents are more worried about the integrity of coevolved ecosystems.

That includes krill and other zooplankton such as Calanus finmarchicus, and Sanni says that more precise data are needed about the possible risk to stocks and the impact on the ecosystem.

Using previously documented information about soil distribution, the researchers were able to map potential areas where belowground ecosystems are more likely to be vulnerable to deforestation.

She also emphasises the importance of the study to current debates about a human role in climate warming: «Cumulative archaeological data clearly demonstrates that humans are more than capable of reshaping and dramatically transforming ecosystems.

If mesopelagic animals convey information through sound, learning more about who is communicating and what they're communicating about could change scientists» understanding of how the ecosystem fits together, Baumann - Pickering said.

This project, Plant STEM for K - 12 Education, will incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) into activities that encourage children at eight public schools to learn more about plants» roles in ecosystems, their uses for medicine, materials and fuels.

Shannon then sequences the DNA of the biological samples to learn more about how the life in each unique ecosystem survives in such harsh conditions.

«We're looking for fossils of backboned animals that were living in Antarctica at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs, so we can learn more about how the devastating extinction that happened right afterward might have affected polar ecosystems.»

NASA and its partners are planning even more future missions over the next several years to advance what we know about Earth's ecosystems.

I will attempt to learn more about the effects of climate change on local ecosystems, and make use of data based on perceptions, livestock populations and rangeland experiments to aid snow leopard conservation strategies.

I am no expert in this and don't know much about terrestrial ecosystems except that they are generally considered to be substantially more complex than ocean ecosystems.

«Not much is known about what happens in transitional savanna ecosystems that are located between more arid and wetter climate zones.»

So life still happens and as much as you and I can do the things to try to create these little bubbles of you know, a nutrition bubble and lifestyle, and all these great little parts of our ecosystem, we still operate in an ecosystem that is generally pretty toxic in terms of all the things that are out in the air, food, water, soil and you're going — you're going to come across stuff and it is just about what do you do to increase your resilience against these things once you kill them off, like you said was some of the post infection support, you know, people may hear — hear this and think oh kill, kill, kill, but eventually we're strengthening us, too, as the host and so that's why you and I, you know, maybe we take an extra day off or we go spend some more time in nature because that's the stuff that's going to heal you in the long term.

Bees are an essential part of our ecosystem, so we teamed up with the Bee Girl to learn more about what we could do to help our fuzzy friends this summer.

Read more about how education leaders can create environments that support, train and recognize teacher leaders — and how Capella University can help provide solutions for sustaining a teacher leader ecosystem.

Kelsey writes about learning technology for Docebo, a leading online learning ecosystem for enterprise organizations in more than 80 countries.

Students become a part of the learning process with activities about ecosystems, body systems, physical and chemical changes, weather, Earth's crust, natural resources, and more!

A smaller event run by content guy Eddie Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, will likely focus more on the special content ecosystem designed just for the iPad Mini — with less oohing and aahing about the hardware.

Publishers are obviously leery about being too heavily invested in the Amazon ecosystem and most are looking at alternative avenues to generate more revenue with their digital collections.

This introduction about LibriVox is more or less the talk I gave in San Francisco, at the Books in Browsers conference in October last year... and the second half of that talk was a lament about how constrained the ebook ecosystem has become, for various reasons.

Patchett told The Bookseller that authors should become more involved in the industry and take greater responsibility as part of a wider ecosystem, just as book - buyers should think twice about purchasing through the cheapest channel, like Amazon, if it means they might lose their local bookshop.

Apple's own e-books business is more just about offering its users one more component of an already - strong ecosystem, and there's no way Nook needs the added competition, so officially throwing in the towel before that new challenger even appears makes a certain amount of sense.