Sentences with phrase «of ecosystem models»

The regional effects of unexplained factors suggest that the next generation of ecosystem models will need to explore the impacts of forest demography, differences in regional management intensities for cropland and pastures, and other emerging productivity constraints such as phosphorus availability.

We will present our first steps in the construction of an ecosystem model designed to be coupled with geo - climate models of early Earth and Mars.

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According to a statement the SBA released this morning, the competition will allow entrepreneurial models to compete for prizes of $ 50,000 apiece, helping to fund operating budgets and fill in gaps in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

«The Happiness Foundation focuses on social enterprises, an innovative model that addresses social problems by tapping into corporate mechanisms, and supports the creation of a social enterprise ecosystem,» said Chey Kee - won, President, The Happiness Foundation.

We must continue to foster an ecosystem where founders of any gender of startups and established companies alike can confront unconscious bias, develop the skills necessary to navigate and disarm the biases of others and become the role models necessary to dismantle systemic bias.

As more and more business owners retire over the next decade, the search fund model will become a meaningful part of the private investment ecosystem and a more popular choice for existing owners.

By being self - aware of your own thought processes, you can consciously edit out a tendency to think in battlefield metaphors and reframe situations using the ecosystem model.

-- three times as many as other ecosystems that are also in the Activation Phase of Startup Genome's Ecosystem Lifecycle Model.

China's startup ecosystem has earned a reputation of fast rises and hard landings: during the last two years, sky - high funding rounds and valuations for less - than - ideal projects have made (over) saturation of companies and business models the new normal.

Incorporating ecosystem thinking into the crafting of a Buyer Experience Strategy can mitigate the confusion as well as the complexity while at the same time transforming the organization to a model of high regard in providing memorable buyer experiences.

We strongly believe that CrowdInvesting will bring the Silicon Valley capital raise ecosystem to the rest of the world, and will provide entrepreneurs across the world the ability to realize their dreams and disrupt industries thus enabling new technology and business models.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

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.

«Kin will fuel new experiences in communications, information, and commerce inside of Kik, and will also serve as a foundation for a new decentralized ecosystem of digital services, bringing a fair and sustainable business model to the market.»

Stability of ecosystems is only relative; the concept of climax communities has been replaced by a more dynamic model of nature.

Once this ultimate structure of divine - human communion has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we have referred subsequent to the events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and certainty as great as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say, as great as a process - relational model of real contingency in the divine - worldly ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that ecosystem.

Harmless Harvest is an ecosystem - based business that believes in bringing consumers the best organic ingredients through a business model that centers on the welfare of all people in the supply chain — from plant to shelf — and makes the sourcing environment a core beneficiary of its commercial success.

Helpfully he had come armed with suggestions for how this might be done: extending the kinds of business models that the ownership commission reported upon the day after the jobs summit; ecosystem policy, rather than industrial policy; a twenty - first century social contract, which would allow individuals to mitigate the risk in their lives; and a state - backed infrastructure bank.

In his remark, the Chief Transformation Officer of MTN Nigeria Olubayo Adekambi identified «the expansion of E-commerce into a dual business model that blends the physical and the digital to create an ecosystem between brands and consumers across the two worlds», as among the major factors fueling the increase in adoption of smartphones.

Her interests span from microbiology to macro-scale ecosystem modeling, with a goal of reducing human's environmental impact.

New climate model projections of the world's coral reefs reveal which reefs will be hit first by annual coral bleaching, an event that poses the gravest threat to one of the Earth's most important ecosystems.

CSIRO senior scientist and co-author of the paper Dr Eva Plaganyi said the research was enabled through a complex ecosystem model nicknamed «MICE», an acronym for Model of Intermediate Complexity for Ecosystem Assecosystem model nicknamed «MICE», an acronym for Model of Intermediate Complexity for Ecosystem Assessmmodel nicknamed «MICE», an acronym for Model of Intermediate Complexity for Ecosystem AssessmModel of Intermediate Complexity for Ecosystem AssEcosystem Assessments.

A team of ten scientists led by UFZ modelling experts Dr Thorsten Wiegand and Prof. Andreas Huth have spent the last five years using computer models to analyse ecosystems to explore the composition and dynamics of species - rich communities in tropical rainforests.

«Our modeling results suggest that the physical aspects of the kelp — its sheer size and its presence, the shade that it casts, its effect on flow and the habitat it provides for predators — affect the reef ecosystem more than its productivity,» Miller said.

A crucial reason why the study of freshwater acidification has lagged until now is because determining how atmospheric carbon affects these ecosystems requires complex modeling, and is much less clear than that occurring in oceans, according to study author Linda Weiss, an aquatic ecologist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

Future field experiments that can manipulate all three conditions at once will lead to better models of how long - term climate changes will affect ecosystems worldwide.

Matyas Ripszam has also examined the effects of higher temperature and different concentration of organic carbon content on the distribution of pollutants in modelled real - life marine ecosystems, so called mesocosms.

Higher temperature alone led to increased losses of pollutants, whereas higher organic carbon content retained more pollutants in the model ecosystems.

Model simulations can always be improved by testing predictions against field data collected from different ecosystems, and Sulman and Phillips are doing just that: investigating how roots influence soil decomposition and protected forms of carbon in forests that vary in the composition of tree and microbial communities.

This model is widely used by both UK and international groups for research into ocean circulation, climate and marine ecosystems, and operationally as part of the UK Met Office's weather forecasting.

Thanks to high - resolution models of the oceanic circulation and water oxygen content, IRD researchers and their partners have now quantified this ecosystem's sensitivity to various disturbances in the equatorial Pacific.

Obtaining accurate sea surface temperatures is important for a range of applications — from weather prediction to climate modeling to understanding marine ecosystem fluctuations.

Existing Earth System Model simulations indicate that the ability of tropical land ecosystems to store carbon will decline over the 21st century.

It sounds completely counterintuitive, but a pair of ecosystem modelers are proposing that conservationists could sometimes prop up a troubled ecosystem by removing one or more of its species — and using models to determine the timing and order of those removals.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

In addition, both studies have yielded valuable data that can be integrated into ecosystem models — which are in turn essential to forecasts of how the retreat of sea ice will affect the Arctic ecosystem.

This uncertainty is changing because of improved supercomputer modelling of the movement of water through ecosystems, based on 20,000 locations around the world.

This type of conclusion raises the possibility of using mathematical models as an early warning system that catastrophic changes in the ecosystem are imminent, enabling appropriate action (such as reduced grazing).»

From the National Space Science Centre featuring a Soyuz rocket to the model ecosystems inside the Eden Project's multiple linked geodesic domes — tall enough to enclose the Tower of London — the science centers offer much more than inner - city renewal, says @Bristol chief executive John Durant.

In addition to documenting the amount of defensive ecosystems in the U.S., the researchers fed data about property values, population, income and age into a model that tested four sea - level rise scenarios.

«When you think from a climate point of view, you're not having carbon uptake across all this landscape for many decades when there's very little plant cover,» study co-author Steve Running, a University of Montana professor who models ecosystem functions, said.

A Yale - led research team has adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

In their model herbivory is greatest in relatively unproductive environments, with predation more important and the impact of herbivory reduced as ecosystem productivity increases.

We quantify the changing value of natural stocks by linking economic measurements of ecosystem services — the income to society depending on nature — with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

Alex said: «For years ecologists have struggled to test or extend models of ecosystem - level change because the data were too expensive to collect at the required scales.

The model allowed Bonachela and his colleagues to apply small - scale observational data broadly to understand how rainfall influences vegetation growth and persistence in the presence and absence of termites across an entire ecosystem.

While this underestimate does not call into question the response of climate to carbon dioxide concentration in the IPCC models, the researchers say, it does suggest that a better understanding of what happened during the last 50 years could improve projections of future ecosystem changes.

Vulnerability of anaerobically protected carbon to future climate or land use change thus constitutes a yet unrecognized soil carbon - climate feedback that should be incorporated into terrestrial ecosystem models.»

«A challenge for the coming years is to use these kinds of climate models to be able to make predictions about populations and ecosystems in the future.

Lord Robert May planted the seeds of chaos theory, and his work modeling ecosystems and infectious diseases mathematically has translated into global conservation efforts and insights into AIDS.