Sentences with phrase «of ecosystem responses»

These types of ecosystem responses to higher temperatures, researchers said, are crucial to include in updated management and clean up plans.

Monitoring of ecosystem responses to the delivery of environmental water in the lower Goulburn River and Broken Creek in 2012 - 13

The full report of the early results is available at Monitoring of ecosystem responses to the delivery of environmental water in the Edward - Wakool river system 2011 - 12 - Report 1.

The GOA - ON Requirements and Governance Plan provides both broad concepts and key critical details on how to meet our high level goals of: 1) to improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions; 2) to improve our understanding of ecosystem response to ocean acidification; 3) and to acquire and exchange the data and knowledge necessary to optimize the modeling of ocean acidification and its impacts.

Not exact matches

«Marketers are in need of higher quality data to generate stronger engagement, better response rates, and higher revenue growth,» said Shai Alfandary, vice president, global head of ISVs and LaunchPoint ecosystem, Marketo.

The launch of Blue now comes as a response to the increasingly complex needs of an ecosystem that now includes smart contracts, chip exchanges and other types of asset trading creating a situation where transactions and contracts can involve multiple parties and Variables, each of which needs to be verified by the signer.

Knowledge of limits, especially of the intricacy of the ecosystems, makes humility and care a much more natural response.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office commissioned the University of Melbourne to monitor the ecosystem response to environmental water delivered to the Lower Goulburn River and Lower Broken Creek during the 2012 - 13 water year.

The results show ecosystem responses relating to primary productivity, movement of organic matter and habitat for fish and macroinvertebrates.

Yet in response to my post regarding the weakening of Criterion 2.8 for coffee farms, a Rainforest Alliance representative stated: «The current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.»

As part of our commitment to adaptive management, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO) has commissioned a series of monitoring and evaluation reports on the ecosystem responses to environmental watering in the Edward - Wakool river system.

Sarah Feakins» recent work has tested the drought response of wheat crops and surveyed the diversity of tropical forest ecosystems.

«This work is important because, rather than focusing on the warming response at a single site, it aggregates data collected from many sites across a range of ecosystems.

Just as I came to see my research as part of a larger scientific ecosystem, today I understand that scientific advancements are just one part of the needed response to climate change.

For planetary tipping points to exist, the forces of humanity would need to act uniformly across the planet, all ecosystems would need to respond to them in the same way, and the response would need to be transmitted rapidly across Earth's many ecosystems and continents.

Examples of such areas include understanding relationships between intended genetic changes and an organism's observable traits, the unintended effects of genetic changes on target and non-target organisms, predicting and monitoring ecosystem responses, and quantifying the economic and social costs and benefits of biotechnologies.

In response, the U.S. Geological Survey began a study on changing Arctic ecosystems to better understand the consequences of lost permafrost and sea ice habitats, and the Interior Department established a Climate Science Center at the University of Alaska to specifically address Arctic issues.

However, it is important to know whether the response depends on the abundance of grazing animals, particularly reindeer, voles and lemmings, which are very common in tundra ecosystems.

«Until the rate and likely duration of sea ice losses as well as the ensuing ecosystem responses are better understood, closing the U.S. Arctic to commercial fishing is a prudent measure.»

The list includes a variety of measures of biodiversity; of the pressures leading to the loss of species, genetic diversity, populations, and ecosystems; of the responses by governments and other organizations; and of the benefits or services provided by biodiversity.

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.

«Direct impact of warming on physiology is a fundamental and direct consequence of warming, but it's really only one foundation stone for the response of the ecosystem,» Deutsch says.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

Many of the creatures in the White Sands ecosystem, including the lesser earless lizard and the Apache pocket mouse, have undergone rapid evolution in response to their unique environment, developing a lighter appearance that allows them to blend into the gypsum sands and escape predators.

«Ancient ecosystem response to «big five» mass extinction: Ingenious modeling shows that the stability of ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.»

That's the conclusion of NPS ecologist Mary Foley, whose team is studying the response of natural ecosystems in Fire Island National Seashore in New York and in Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia, Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City and New Jersey, and others.

With the need to evaluate atmospheric conditions, bioindicators — organisms whose response to environmental changes indicates the health of an ecosystem — have attracted considerable attention.

This will represent a novel comparative study between formation of very diverse icy ecosystems in arctic, antarctic, and alpine regions in connection with responses and diversity of extremophile microorganisms.

The analysis looked at different kinds of natural fires, what drives them in various ecosystems, the ways public response to fire can differ, and the critical interface zones between built communities and natural landscapes.

Until now, theoretical ecological studies on the response of ecosystems to various perturbations have focused on the resilience of such ecosystems.

Lead author Matthias Schmidt Thomsen, of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «We have known for some time that a reduction in biodiversity has negative ecological consequences, but predictions of what happens to an ecosystem have not accounted for the occurrence of compensatory responses.»

He added: «Our study provides evidence that the response of surviving species to novel circumstances can, at least partially, offset, or indeed exacerbate, changes in an ecosystem that are associated with species removal.»

«Our study provides a quantitative methodology for assessing the relative response rate of ecosystems, either natural ones or those with a strong anthropogenic footprint, to climate variability,» Seddon explains.

Response of Nitrifier and Denitrifier Abundance and Microbial Community Structure to Experimental Warming in an Agricultural Ecosystem — Tatoba R. Waghmode — Frontiers in Microbiology

LTER Climate Committee reviews research and understanding of climate variability and ecosystem responses of the LTER sites (Greenland and Swift 1990)

Ocean acidification research is strongly represented in the community and covers the detection of ocean acidification change to ecosystem responses and resilience.

Phytoplankton production and light response; analytical and numerical modeling of primary production and pelagic ecosystems; bio-optical oceanography; phytoplankton physiology; carbon dioxide flux at the air / sea interface.

«Contrary to popular perception, logging is not uniformly a cause of deforestation and forest degradation, and thus emissions ecosystem services and other forms of land use coexist with logging concessions,» she wrote in response to Climate Home's questions.

This project, including the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, is a response to the Montana University System Science and Technology Plan, targeting Environmental and Ecosystem Science, one of five major research areas identified as a priority for Montana.

Acknowledgments: This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Plant Ecosystem Response.

Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.

His main research areas include understanding the responses and vulnerabilities of marine ecosystems and fisheries to global change, and examining trade - offs in managing and conserving living marine resources.

BIOACID III bridges between different branches of ocean acidification research and provide an assessment of short - to long - term responses and their underlying mechanisms at the level of organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems to multiple drivers leading up to ecosystem services.

Leigh Welling, the National Park Service's Climate Change Response Program chief and one of the agency's NAWPA representatives, said that in a warming world, it's critical that public lands and their ecosystems remain intact.

Today, microbes continue to evolve in response to an ever - changing environment, and microbial ecosystems still govern the biogeochemical cycling of the planet and profoundly affect the function of all other living organisms.

Understanding their behavioural responses to acidification is critical for assessing the impacts of ocean acidification on the ecosystem.

«A deeper look at the differences between the different land surface and Earth system models may help better constrain the response of mid-latitude ecosystems to climate variability.»

Yu, Z., D. W. Beilman, and J. Loisel (2016), Transformations of landscape and peat - forming ecosystems in response to late Holocene climate change in the western Antarctic Peninsula, Geophys.

Its staff conducts basic research on the interactions among Earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans to understand how these interactions shape the behavior of the Earth system, including its response to future change.

The complex networks, interactions, and responses of immune cells produce diverse cellular ecosystems composed of multiple cell types, accompanied by genetic diversity in antigen receptors.