Sentences with phrase «natural ecosystem processes»

«Our study highlights the need to understand natural ecosystem processes, especially in a world where change is occurring so rapidly,» concluded Dr. Lutz.

We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long - term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes.

Tans initially expected February to be the first month of the year above 400 ppm, but predicting that threshold is tricky because CO2 concentrations depend both on emissions and natural ecosystem processes, which can be influenced by climate phenomena like the El Nino Southern Oscillation cycle, he said.

Not exact matches

Wagoner and the Rodale Institute passed the baton in 2002 to the Land Institute, in Salina, Kansas, a nonprofit agricultural - research centre dedicated to replacing conventional agriculture with processes akin to those that occur in natural ecosystems.

NRC called for an «end - to - end» approach going «from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope» with likely impacts on natural disasters, freshwater availability, agriculture and food security, ecosystems management, human health, and economics.

The impact this process has on the ecosystem is unknown, particularly with regards to the production of methylmercury as a result of the dam and the disruption of natural flows.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

In one of his more intriguing passages on biological systems, he notes that humanity has failed to realize that «operation of natural ecosystems is exemplary,» in that their processing of organic waste gives rise to a new generation of plants.

The purpose of boreal forest reserves like Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell Nature Reserve in Southern Norway is to preserve natural forests as ecosystems — including the natural plant and animal life, and the natural processes that belong.

Ecologists call this one - way process «succession» and say it rules the unfolding of ecosystems much as natural selection rules evolution.

Linking the composition and activity of natural microbial communities to the physical composition, biogeochemical processes, and food web structure of planktonic and benthic ecosystems.

In 1994, Donna introduced the natural sweetener Stevia to the U.S. and began teaching about fermented foods and coined the phrase «inner ecosystem» to describe the network of microbes that maintains our basic physiological processes — from digestion to immunity.

This process restores and rebalances ecosystems and establishes healthy natural capital buffers.

The topics covered across the three years are: Biology Humans as organisms - health, diet, exercise, nervous system, disease and control Living processes - respiration, reproduction, transport in cells, Variation, evolution, inheritance & genetics - cloning, mutation and natural selection Ecosystems and habitats - food webs, interdependence and extinction

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!

The exhibition, «Edward Hines National Forest,» introduces a site - specific installation that traces the material processing of trees, from plant to lumber and cellulose, to produce hybrid forms that expose the complex relationship between people, human - made objects and the natural ecosystem.

The process promotes simulating, or directly utilizing patterns observed in natural ecosystems.

Above: Negative - emissions solutions can include use of natural systems (e.g., forest or other ecosystem restoration, agricultural soil carbon sequestration) and technological systems (e.g., bioenergy, direct air capture coupled with storage in long - lived materials or geologic formations, accelerated CO2 mineralization processes).

Forest Trends is an international, Washington, DC - based non-profit organization whose mission is to maintain, restore, and enhance forests and connected natural ecosystems, which provide life - sustaining processes, by promoting incentives stemming from a broad range of ecosystem services and products.

Coal is dangerous to extract, and the drilling process causes irreparable damage to natural habitats and ecosystems.

Environmental consequences are frequently overlooked or disregarded in the process, often resulting in significant ecosystem disruption and perturbation of natural accretion and erosion cycles.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

Climate Change and Himalayan Cold Deserts: Mapping vulnerability and threat to ecology and indigenous livelihoods The remote cold desert stretches of high altitude Himalayas, having a fragile ecosystem are characterized by complex interplay of climatic and geo - morphological processes, availability of limited natural resources and economic conditions leading to accelerated resource degradation and associated environmental consequences [continue reading...]

I think we should focus more on looking after the earth (and each other) to maintain or enhance natural processes that they remain «sustainable» and not aggravate our ecosystems which largely serve humans and all other species together and fundamentally affect the quality of life.

Researchers have successfully piloted a process that enables natural resource managers to take action to conserve particular wildlife, plants and ecosystems as climate changes.

Her research focused on the human dimensions of environmental change including development of collaborative processes in natural resource decision - making, behavior change, valuation of ecosystem goods and services, and modeling of human - ecosystem interactions.

When the technologies emerging from the 4th Industrial Revolution are applied to the active ingredients of the Amazon's biodiversity, natural processes, molecules, materials and forest ecosystems, the result could be the creation of innovative products and services of high added worth.

Such massive industrialization of the landscape is destroying wildlife habitat, upsetting natural ecological and hydrological processes, and threatening numerous herds of Canada's threatened woodland caribou and the health of the forest ecosystem.

These changes may «tip the carbonate balance» of ecosystems such as coral reefs into the negative, given the large amount of calcium carbonate that is taken away by natural processes associated with physical and biological erosion.

Forest Trends — Convener forest-trends.org Forest Trends is a Washington, D.C. - based international non-profit organization whose mission is to maintain, restore, and enhance forests and connected natural ecosystems, which provide life - sustaining processes, by promoting incentives stemming from a broad range of ecosystem services and products.

Forest Trends» mission is to maintain, restore, and enhance forests and connected natural ecosystems, which provide life - sustaining processes, by promoting incentives stemming from a broad range of ecosystem services and products.

This new concept of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH formulated here accommodates the broad range of mechanisms involved in the anthropogenic forcing of pH in coastal ecosystems, including changes in land use, nutrient inputs, ecosystem structure and net metabolism, and emissions of gases to the atmosphere affecting the carbon system and associated pH. The new paradigm is applicable across marine systems, from open - ocean and ocean - dominated coastal systems, where OA by anthropogenic CO2 is the dominant mechanism of anthropogenic impacts on marine pH, to coastal ecosystems where a range of natural and anthropogenic processes may operate to affect pH.

And in light of this likelihood, they conclude their paper by stating that the processes they studied «are best identified in natural settings... where ecosystems and individuals are exposed throughout their life to conditions similar to those in future oceans.»»

There are countless other examples of ecosystem services - value provided to humans from natural resources and processes provided by ecosystems.

Thanks to the emergence of the technologies associated with vertical farming we now have the means to provide all essential resources for urban living - food, fresh water, fresh air, and energy - from on - site processes disconnected from natural ecosystems.

The WGI FAR codified the key physical and biogeochemical processes in the Earth system that relate a changing climate to atmospheric composition, chemistry, the carbon cycle and natural ecosystems.

A growing global population, continuing industrialization, and continuing reliance on fossil fuels are combining to create a number of threats to natural ecosystems and to sustainability of human processes.

The permaculture design process is based on observing what makes natural ecosystems endure, establishing their defining principles and using them to mirror nature in whatever we chose to design.

The field of conservation biology identifies four objectives that must be achieved to ensure the longterm viability of an ecosystem: 1) all native ecosystem types must be represented in protected areas; 2) populations of all native species must be maintained in natural patterns of abundance and distribution; 3) ecological processes such as hydrological processes must be maintained; and 4) the resilience to short - term and long - term environmental change must be maintained.

The secret, says David Antcliffe of Ponds In the City in Toronto (pondsinthecity.com), is to create a natural ecosystem that mimics as closely as possible the processes found in nature, which is surprisingly simple if you follow a few sound principles.