Sentences with phrase «natural hydrology»

Restoring the natural hydrology to improve ecosystem function is one focus of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

Not exact matches

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

OARE provides more than 3,200 institutions access to up to 11,000 journals, up to 22,000 e-books, and up to 55 other information resources in a wide range of disciplines contributing to our understanding of the natural environment, including environmental toxicology and pollution, zoology, botany, ecology, environmental chemistry, geology, hydrology, oceanography, meteorology, climatology, geography, environmental economics, environmental law and policy, conservation policy and planning, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, energy, and many other disciplines.

It would also mean less support to agriculture, as intact natural ecosystems have important effects on hydrology and on the viability of natural (and possibly semi-domesticated) pollinators, as well as tending to stabilize populations of pest species.

To address these global challenges, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) jointly funded a workshop that brought together experts in limnology, aquatic biogeochemistry, atmospheric science, glaciology, and hydrology from the United States and China.

Or that any of the global ocean indices (and therefore hydrology) are obviously outside the bounds of natural variability even given the limited record.

The biggest natural emitters of methane are wetlands and lakes, both of which are affected by the impacts of climate change, namely increased temperatures and changing hydrology.

Climate is a key factor determining different characteristics and distributions of natural and managed systems, including the cryosphere, hydrology and water resources, marine and freshwater biological systems, terrestrial biological systems, agriculture and forestry.

I understood from my studies in hydrology that much of the variation in 20th century floods and drought was quite natural.

The impact assessments cover: agriculture and forestry, natural terrestrial ecosystems, hydrology and water resources, human settlement and socioeconomic activities, oceans and coastal zones and the cryosphere.

These disciplines offer a lens through which one can see the natural systems at work in a place — the landforms, hydrology, vegetation and climate of each particular locale — and, thoughtfully applied, they empower architects and planners to develop designs that «fit,» designs that encourage healthy and creatively interactive relationships between a building and its environs.

Research is pursued in the natural sciences, such as microbiology, ecology and the other environmental sciences; earth sciences, such as hydrology, geography, and geomorphology; political science and law as they relate to the environment; environmental economics and other social sciences, and computer science or geo - informatics.