Sentences with phrase «natural ecosystems»

If people want to restore self - managing varied landscapes, they can draw on the knowledge provided by the new study about the composition of natural ecosystems in the past.

In a few areas natural ecosystems with their native animals are protected.

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.

Most natural ecosystems are heavily affected by changes to the human habitat, climate change or invasive species.

In doing so, the initiative will also provide a framework to defend other natural ecosystems, protect human and labor rights, and increase the respect of community land rights.

Ultimately, the understanding that human welfare is intimately and directly tied to conservation of intact natural ecosystems is crucial.

It seems to me that a primary reason to prevent human - induced climate change is to protect and preserve natural ecosystems.

Natural ecosystems play a crucial role in helping combat climate change, air pollution and soil erosion.

Strong and resilient economies depend on healthy natural ecosystems.

While the risks can be exaggerated to frightening effect, modified organisms do have the potential to upset natural ecosystems if they were to escape.

In this scenario, they would replace natural ecosystems on fertile land the size of more than one third of all forests we have today on our planet.

The reserve has an abundant amount of flora and fauna and several distinct natural ecosystems.

Climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems, and the human economies and cultures that depend on them.

Natural ecosystems also can, in many cases, keep pace with sea level rise, while built infrastructure does not adapt to changing conditions.

This is very different from the situation that we usually study, where natural ecosystems disappear and biodiversity is lost.

Even before agriculture, human societies required technologies and social strategies to sustain their populations well above what natural ecosystems could provide.

Much remains unknown about how most introduced species affect natural ecosystems.

In most affluent regions of the world, air pollution is regulated to reduce the risk to human health and natural ecosystems caused by these airborne toxins.

From the air, it's possible to see the lush surrounding rainforest and the stunning beaches that make this area one of the most visited natural ecosystems on the planet.

This venture is also aimed at providing economic return on the well managed natural ecosystem.

It is the ultimate accommodation for up to eight guests in a totally private and exclusive natural ecosystem.

It is very simply the observation that natural ecosystems evolved to be highly productive without nitrogen fertilizer inputs nor any human inputs at all really.

Much of the rest contains natural ecosystems that keep climate - warming carbon out of the atmosphere, protect freshwater supplies, and preserve biodiversity.

Moreover, we know that about half of the CO2 we put into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels and trash natural ecosystems stays there.

We must also implement targeted research programs to study the stabilizing impact of natural ecosystems, to stimulate public discussion, and to raise people's awareness of the real value of forests.

In addition, the benefits of avoided emissions of air pollutants have been estimated for agricultural production and the impact of acid precipitation on natural ecosystems.

CAN acknowledges and encourages the outstanding role of carbon sequestration in natural ecosystems in the struggle to limit global warming to 1.5 o C, as enshrined in the Paris Agreement.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

(Altering the climate and destroying natural ecosystems around the globe were unintended consequences.)

Forests, grasslands, lakes, oceans, deserts, and other natural ecosystems provide a range of natural services that people have often taken for granted, even though they are vital to human welfare.

Mass Audubon manages its wildlife sanctuaries as natural ecosystems of which mosquitoes are a part.

If a large amount of nitrogen comes from rocks, it helps explain how natural ecosystems like boreal forests are capable of taking up high levels of carbon dioxide.

In light of this, the government has enacted conservation policies in an effort to balance preservation of natural resources, sustainable development, and industry, but a growing tourism sector will help ensure that the country's valuable natural ecosystems remain intact.

Permaculture Social Networking Though the full definition is more complex, permaculture, short for «permanent agriculture,» is essentially a way of designing farms and gardens so they work like natural ecosystems.

«As humans encroach ever more steadily into natural ecosystems, the risk increases that pathogens will be transmitted from humans to animals, or vice versa,» Pallen concluded.

So the study offers a practical incentive to preserve species diversity and conserve natural ecosystems: that way nature delivers the breadwinning coffee bean and the honey as well.

From slowing, and maybe even reversing global climate change through soil carbon sequestration to creating perennial food crops that mimic natural prairies and help protect our waterways, there are many methods that could be deployed to both reduce farming's negative impact and simultaneously start rebuilding natural ecosystem services that have previously been degraded.

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

Such integrated systems function by mimicking natural ecosystems in which plants are grown together with the animals that they feed and the animal manure can be used to fertilize plants, reducing reliance on (purchased) chemical fertilizers in some instances.

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.

This would allow us to begin to understand how we could prevent some of the major tipping point problems that we can already foresee coming, even for 1.5 C warming, and to try and understand what it would take to protect and sustain important natural ecosystems such as coral reefs, or to prevent ice sheet disintegration.