Sentences with phrase «of ecosystem types»

«We also sampled a broad range of ecosystem types, from sub-tropical to sub-Arctic.

The classification can also assist in analysis such as the representativeness of environmental watering in terms of ecosystem types watered, for adaptive management purposes.

Not exact matches

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

«So I'm going to go out on my own and create the type of company and the type of environment and the type of ecosystem that I want to participate in,» she says.

«There is a place for both types of service in the ecosystem.»

We hope it will spark a broader conversation, not just on zero - tolerence for harassment of women, but also on addressing gender (and other types) of discrimination in the tech ecosystem.

As shown in Figure 10, most internet and mobile ecosystem companies did not sufficiently disclose what types of information they share and with whom, with only two of the 12 companies scoring more than 50 percent on this indicator (P4).

These types of businesses can also become potential acquirers of other local venture scale opportunities, thereby reducing the ecosystem's dependency on U.S. acquirers.

Metaverse is a type of platform that lets anyone create decentralized applications, or smart contracts on the platform's ecosystem.

By engaging all types of organizations that support startups across the country, this report provides a wider perspective on opportunities for funding and support as well as the general state of the startup ecosystem.

Like in any type of relationships, having two - way communication is important to create a dynamic ecosystem in your marketplace community.

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.

These sorts of extraordinary claims are common among Ponzi schemes and other types of scams in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Also, once we have recognized that our way of dealing with other types of creatures is subject to ethical judgment through and through, should our concern be more with species, with ecosystems, or with individual animals.

Many ecological studies support the key role of structural diversity (sometimes referred to technically as floristic heterogeneity) in increased biodiversity — of many types in many ecosystems well beyond the realm of coffee growing.

And even though the inevitable corruption (that type of money turns even the saints into black - marketers) eventually rot everything all through the nineties the attempt by BCCI (India's cricket governing body) to better market the game was very well balanced with grass - root level development and had helped to create an ecosystem where children from backgrounds that could never dream of playing even for their state team can now aspire to be an international cricketer.

Ultimately, she says, the goal is to identify what types of communities have developed in these deeply buried lakes — and what fuels their growth, because in their perpetually dark ecosystems, there can be no photosynthesis.

Carbon dioxide levels in lakes are often high and vary widely from lake to lake based on factors such as the type of nearby ecosystem, land use such as agriculture, sizes of the lake and watershed, amount of precipitation, and because some types of soils and rocks absorb more CO2 than others.

This type of climbing has similar potential for ecosystem damage as roped rock climbing, they note, plus a couple of additional ones: Boulderers often clear the ground below of rocks and logs so that they can place crash pads in case of falls, and they may be more likely to trample anything at the top of a boulder or cliff, rather than coming directly down.

They created 2 - meter - long study plots with adjacent areas of two types of algae: ecosystem - supporting miniforests of greenish brown Cystoseira amentacea and turflike species that nurture far less biodiversity.

Olander said such types of economic benefits mean that ecosystem services could stand out, as government administrators seek to make their agencies more efficient.

«Our dietary specialization studies show us that a majority of insect herbivores, around the world, pick one plant in their local ecosystem and feed on just that one type of plant, not every plant that's available, as many people assume.»

Ecologists have long known that drought can stimulate this type of attack on plants, he said, but they mostly discounted it as a secondary stress and not a main cause of ecosystem collapse.

Based on the team's preliminary review of drought - associated plant die - offs in other ecosystems worldwide, more than half of all such reported events could have been exacerbated by some type of natural enemy.

The molecular index developed by the biologists from UNIGE could easily be adapted to other groups of unicellular bioindicators: a major asset for monitoring various types of aquatic ecosystems.

Analyses of a recently discovered type of hot vent ecosystem on the seafloor suggest new possibilities for how life evolved

Just as in humans, the plant microbiome is shaped by the types of bacteria that successfully colonize the plant's ecosystem.

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).»

Their findings suggest a profound association between oral microbe and gut ecosystem, which provides new insights into microbiome research, and advance development of a novel type of medicine in therapeutics of chronic inflammatory diseases.

Polasky said that it's important to account for landscape changes resulting from oil and gas development, but many other types of development alter ecosystems and the use of land, including urbanization and expansion of cropland.

Global warming won't just melt ice caps; it could create whole new biomes — major ecosystem types like forest, desert, grassland, and tundra — say climatologists led by John Williams at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

As productivity continues to increase, as in boreal forests, plant biomass (the total mass of living matter of a particular type) increases, herbivore biomass increases, and ecosystems become capable of sustaining a third trophic level — the predators — with this level controlling herbivores.

Research published Dec. 1 in the online edition of the journal Ecology Letters suggests that the invasion of nonnative plants is strongly related to what type of mycorrhizal fungi are dominant in forest ecosystems.

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

This has led to a veritable ecosystem of RepRap - type machines — an estimated 3000 exist — and while Bowyer is now focused mainly on making Mendel more robust and user - friendly, the RepRaps in the wild have begun evolving into different forms.

«It looks like predators in many types of ecosystems can play a big role in global climate change,» says Trisha Atwood of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who led the study.

In fact, a third type of ecosystem exists along the edge of the ice cap in the northern Barents Sea, where Atlantic and Arctic ocean currents meet and mix.

«Environmental changes would have produced a lot more fragmented, mosaic - type ecosystems, where populations of horses with similar demands and adaptations could have evolved isolated from one another, resulting in different species but with a similar appearance,» points Manuel Hernández Fernández at the Complutense Univerity in Madrid.

Although algae are always present in natural bodies of water like oceans and rivers, a few types can produce toxins that can seriously harm people, animals, fish, and other parts of the ecosystem.

«For all types of ecosystem the results show that high carbon dioxide levels can impede plants» ability to absorb nitrogen, and that this negative effect is partly why raised carbon dioxide has a marginal or non-existent effect on growth in many ecosystems,» says Johan Uddling.

«It really leads to the necessity for conservation of these types of ecosystems because of the amounts of carbon that are in them,» Waddington said.

They can stimulate vegetation regeneration, promote a diversity of vegetation types, provide habitat for many species and sustain other ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling.

From these various anthropological approaches, a basic dichotomy has emerged between two types of societies from very different ecosystems: societies born in rain forests and those that thrive in deserts.

A leaked draft of the encyclical — a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its 1.3 billion adherents — emphasises moral responsibilities to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and calls for changes in lifestyle and energy use to avoid the «unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem».

Tropical rainforest A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem type that occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn).

«We are studying an ecosystem of different, but related, cell types in the brain,» Pollen said.

At right is a global map of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types.

A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem type that occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn).

«It tells you about the ecosystem of the tumour», Simona says, «using fluorescent markers, we can label many specific cell types and structures within the brain in the vicinity of the tumour, and look not just at the tumour cells but how they interact with their surroundings.

«We have so far only seen the top of the iceberg» says PhD student Martin Qvarnström, first author of the study; «The next step will be to analyze all types of coprolites from the same fossil locality in order to work out who ate what (or whom) and understand the interactions within the ecosystem».