Sentences with phrase «of key ecosystems»

While record - breaking warming is being felt on land, most of the extra heat energy being trapped in our atmosphere is being stored deep into our oceans causing rapid changes and the decline of key ecosystems.

A significant component of this key ecosystem characteristic is dependent on relatively slow processes such as rates of recuitment, mortality, and changes in vegetation composition.

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Overall, the scorecard highlighted several overarching trends: globally, women don't get access to an equal share of resources; men still dominate in key leadership positions; and growth capital and innovation ecosystems primarily focus on businesses run by men.

Today, Impinj's tags are a key part of the huge and growing tech ecosystem known as the internet of things.

FB: For us the ecosystem is the key component of the BlackBerry 10 experience.

The key to Sonos» ecosystem is that you can build up a collection of speakers over time and connect them together to create a unified system.

For instance, the lab would attempt to pinpoint the key areas of actions in a start - up ecosystem.

Start - ups brimming with ideas, industry leaders committed to facilitating change, and an ecosystem in which entrepreneurship can thrive are the key ingredients for a community of innovators.

«They need to include a small subset of key players at first, what we call the «minimal viable ecosystem.»

Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, President and CEO of SBI stated, «A safe and user - friendly cold wallet plays a key role to help the ecosystem go mainstream.

Our Corporate Open Innovation program, which enables corporations to have a front row seat to these startups and their innovations, has brought Driscoll's Berries, Trimble, Land O'Lakes, Wells Fargo, Coca Cola, Wilbur Ellis, Verizon, Yamaha, Corteva, and other key leaders to the conversation and the continued development of the ecosystem.

At Thomson Reuters, we have developed an ecosystem of blockchain partnership with hundreds of entrepreneurs and start - ups as well as with key industry organizations.

There are key differences in utility of these blockchain ecosystems.

Coupled with Disney's already well - known properties, including «Star Wars» and Marvel's hit films, the additions create a new pipeline of content for Disney's forthcoming streaming service — a key aspect of its strategy to sell direct to consumers instead of through the pay TV ecosystem that has long fueled the media industry.

«Creating a modern, digital financial ecosystem, is a key element of this drive to build back better.»

Hosted by the Consulate General of Canada in New York, the 48 Hours in the Alley program provides high - growth Canadian companies a chance to become fully immersed in the New York City technology ecosystem and meet with key contacts.

Our sponsors are key players in the development of the future of Atlanta's technology ecosystem, and make this event possible.

Key to our ecosystem is the innovation of REAL Tokens, a unique Blockchain - secured digital asset with inherent value as a secure cryptocurrency, which may be traded or used to participate in Crowdfunding by purchasing Real Estate Participations...

Gary Clubb, head of Tmall international business development, said «working directly with the winery itself is key to a robust supply chain and allows us to leverage the power of the Alibaba ecosystem to pioneer innovative sales and marketing campaigns to the 367 million buyers on our platforms.»

Calgary will be a key hub for our operations in the west where there is an expanding and vibrant technology ecosystem taking root with a number of seed stage investment opportunities.»

Investing in human capital is just one piece of the entrepreneurial ecosystem puzzle, and has to date not been a key focus area in the region.

With nearly 90 % of all the seafood consumed by Americans coming from imports and nearly 50 % of these imports coming from often unregulated aquaculture sources *, Dock to Dish Key West is dedicated to engineering a fundamental change in the seafood marketplace through a revival of traditional values and principles, while focusing on freshness and transparency under an ecosystem - based management approach to sustainability.

This course will specifically target seafood alternatives as a challenge in creating texture alternatives (a key element in the pleasure of eating is texture) and in addressing the vulnerable status of marine ecosystems.

the key function of the dairy sector in the management of terrestrial ecosystems and the need to address environmental degradation and climate change, and to support biodiversity;

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.

Conduct research, analysis, and synthesis of the scientific literature to assess implementation processes and their effectiveness related to key elements of responsible commodity supply chains (e.g., curtailing deforestation and ecosystem destruction, avoiding forest degradation, promoting ecosystem restoration, improving land governance, and protecting human rights);

With this year's focus on key topics of «Sports & nutrition» and «Green proteins» the innovative power of the Dutch food ecosystem was highlighted for establishing UK partnerships.

Air quality is key to the health of humans and ecosystems.

«The Ulster Unionist Party strongly believes in the principle of securing strong animal welfare practices, however whilst many can not appear to accept this, to us country sports have a key role in supporting our often fragile local ecosystem through managing animal populations.

A key goal of current research is to predict how these changes will affect global ecosystems and the human population that depends on them.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

The organic (carbon - containing) compounds they studied in that patch of Colorado forest play a key role in atmospheric chemical processes that can affect air quality, the health of the ecosystem, and the climate itself.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

Now building on a large scale, the answer is a global Earth observatory, consisting of 1,000 or more well - equipped ground stations around the world that track environments and key ecosystems fully and continuously.

Schlesinger noted that as the ecosystem changed, key nutrients in the soil — such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and various organic elements — accumulated beneath the canopies of the mesquite bushes, forming what he called islands of fertility and starving out the surrounding grasses.

This collision may also have triggered Earth's plate tectonics, key to the recycling of carbon dioxide through our ecosystem.

Jellyfish populations appear to be exploding in several parts of the world, U.S. and Russian scientists reported, raising fears that they are taking over ecosystems that nurture key commercial fish stocks.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

The key lies in organic materials found in fossil bones, which contain evidence for how ancient ecosystems functioned, according to a new study available online and in the September issue of the Journal of Herpetology.

Nitrogen is an important nutrient for crops and a key ingredient in fertilizer, but nitrogen often washes away into rivers and other bodies of water where it is detrimental to aquatic ecosystems.

One of the key findings from the research expedition is that temperature shapes which species are present in a given plankton ecosystem, a fact that could take on increasing importance in the face of climate change.

«The results of our study suggest that efforts to mitigate local perturbation such as nutrient enrichment in the Baltic Sea could pay off in the future, because it might help key species such as the bladder wrack to better cope with the effects of climate change and to maintain their ecosystem services.»

A study of California mussels, a key species in the rocky intertidal ecosystems of the West Coast, indicates that the effects of ocean acidification will vary from place to place along the coast depending on a range of interacting factors.

Alligators and the Everglades go hand - in - hand, and as water conditions change in the greater Everglades ecosystem, gators are one of the key species that could be affected.

«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.

Ocean acidification expected to accompany climate change may slow development and reduce survival of the larval stages of Dungeness crab, a key component of the Northwest marine ecosystem and the largest fishery by revenue on the West Coast, a new study has found.

«They make up 20 percent of all of Earth's land mammals and therefore monopolize key resources needed to maintain Earth's fragile ecosystems.»

«Our work shows why biodiversity may be key to conservation of an entire ecosystem,» Brosi says.

However, when all three key species were present, the average rate of all functions — a measure of overall ecosystem health — rose simultaneously.