Sentences with phrase «of ecosystem health»

The goals are universal measures of ecosystem health — all 10 must be met for a country's ocean to be rated as healthy — but the relative importance of each goal can vary from place to place.

Hard - hit species include mayflies, which happen to sit at the bottom of the forest food chain and are a broad indicator of ecosystem health.

Taking advantage of that complex and vast expanse demands a different way of measuring and looking at the world, according to a Michigan State University professor in this month's edition of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

We go out sampling in the same locations biweekly, giving us a seasonal picture of ecosystem health since the project began in the early 90s.

Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).

«These species are not only icons of climate change, but they are indicators of ecosystem health, and key resources for humans,» said lead author Kristin Laidre, a polar scientist with the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.