Sentences with phrase «of modern ecosystems»

Whatever the cause, this major evolutionary event led to a wide range of biological innovation, including the origin of modern ecosystems, a rapid increase in animal diversity, the origin of skeletons and the first appearance of specialist modes of life such as burrowing and swimming.

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A financially inclusive world, made by possible by blockchain startups like Telcoin, will advance an entire new ecosystem of modern finance.

Krasner: I kind of imagine the district attorney's office that, like a lot of government agencies in modern times, becomes part of an ecosystem of nonprofits who surround it and can provide important services.

Clearly, the Asia - Pacific region is at the forefront of modern technology and innovation, with businesses and governments looking for opportunities to establish healthy innovation ecosystems, learn how to catalyze entrepreneurship, and to create collaborative opportunities with trusted trading partners like Canada.

Since 2011, Dara Albright has been helping set the direction of the financial services industry through trendsetting articles, white papers, acclaimed conferences, roadshows and influential webinars that introduce new digital financing techniques and modern alternative asset classes such as equity crowdfunding and p2p notes to the financial ecosystem.

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

Francis points to the destruction of species and entire ecosystems as examples of a «cheerful recklessness» (59) that characterizes modern financial and industrial culture.

Indeed, modern ecosystems depend on the persistence of bacteria and fungi and other relatively very simple and archaic life forms to break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients.

Over the last century, however, modern intensive agriculture, with its high input of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and monocrop specialization, has been detrimental to the diversity of genetic resources of crop varieties and livestock breeds, to the diversity of wild flora and fauna species and to the diversity of ecosystems.

Agriculture, especially in its most extreme modern form of industrialized monoculture, modifies landscapes and damages the ecosystem's goods and services, including biodiversity at all levels.

Another paper will cover the impact of modern agriculture on ecosystems.

The innovative bottle brand nanobébé is poised to revolutionize the baby feeding industry with the introduction of their groundbreaking ecosystem of essentials for today's modern parent.

But our modern love of light - filled nights casts a long shadow — wasting energy, disrupting ecosystems, and in some cases harming human health.

The scientist from Tübingen reached the conclusion that, on the one hand, modern man was the cause of these giant terrestrial animals» extinction, and on the other hand, humans took over part of the animals» ecosystem functions.

Today, there is no modern terrestrial ecosystem like that of ancient Abaco, with reptiles filling the roles of largest herbivore and carnivore.

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

But when his team compared DNA sequences from the bacteria in the rock samples with those available in databases, he discovered an entire microbial ecosystem consisting of a wide variety of both archaebacteria and eubacteria, common «modern» bacteria that normally take up residence in lush places such as cheese and humans.

«This is despite the fact that 48 million years of species turnover and evolution separate the Messel lake ecosystem from modern ecosystems.»

As no other taxonomic group contains terrestrial animals in the size classes of the large modern mammals, the functional loss of large mammals can rarely be compensated, leading to permanent ecosystem changes [49].

This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.

In Israel, David will be researching the evolution, age, and past sea level history of submerged fossil terraces in the Gulf of Aqaba, which form the basis for the Israel's critical modern mesophotic coral reef ecosystems.

Modern aquatic ecosystems are infiltrated with diverse mixtures of pollutants that can act together as a multiple stressor to alter biotic systems at all levels of biological organization, including individuals, populations and communities.

Studying the wildlife of a modern East African savanna ecosystem provides students an analog for studying the ancient environment of the Lake Turkana Basin, which millions of years ago was much more lush and green than today.

May 2, 2011 The winners of mass extinction: with predators gone, prey thrives In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species.

In fact, most skin problems (from acne to eczema) likely affect the skin microbiome and may be a result of changes to this ecosystem due to modern lifestyle.

Unfortunately, the Standard American Diet of processed foods, an overload of environmental toxins and chronic stress - harbingers of the modern world - have created an epidemic of unhealthy inner ecosystems.

For microlearning to be successful, each segment needs to be considered as part of the broader ecosystem, which the modern learner dips into at the point of need.

The quality of life for modern society is vitally dependent on the provisioning of ecosystem services and their degradation has a dramatic environmental, economic, and social impact.

There's a lot of talk of ecosystems with modern smartphones and the war raging around where you buy your content and where you consume it.

BookBub is a major influencer in the modern bookselling ecosystem: in particular, when it comes to the discoverability of ebooks, BookBub is without a doubt the single most significant third - party player, outside of the retailers themselves.

A far more likely reason would be some kind of underlying structural alteration in the modern bookselling ecosystem: a recent change in the relative discoverability of ebooks by different categories of publisher, that has tilted the digital - sales playing field.

Since the advent of the modern printing press an ecosystem has been established, with key institutions like publishers and libraries existing side by side.

Modern American environmentalism shares two unusual characteristics with the animal advocacy movement: a need for allies to speak on behalf of those who lack political power of their own (ecosystems, farmed animals) and a strong focus on consumer change (recycling, veganism).

The mix of modern and luxurious accommodations and intimate excursions into some of the most pristine marine and land ecosystems in Latin America leaves travelers feeling refreshed and rejuvenated by the trip's end.

With the prevalence of online gaming in the modern gaming ecosystem, this comes down to the player install base.

It's the closest modern Zeldas come to an enemy ecosystem, live and messy and full of clashing bodies as they all scramble to get you.

What is the basis of your hope that modern industrial civilization will suddenly change its stripe and use all energy supplied to it to do only things that don't endanger ecosystems?

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

To this end, Kareiva advises conservationists to craft «a new vision of a planet in which nature — forests, wetlands, diverse species, and other ancient ecosystems — exists amid a wide variety of modern, human landscapes.»

As behaviorally modern Homo sapiens spread out of Africa more than 50 000 years ago, their advanced hunter - gatherer societies helped to cause the extinction of more than half of Earth's mammalian megafauna, yielding trophic cascading effects on ecosystems coupled with the direct effects of landscape burning to enhance hunting and foraging success.

Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health.

Furthermore, it demonstrates the extent to which modern agricultural practices have degraded soil natural capital — which has profound implications for the loss of ecosystem service provision (Loveland & Webb 2003; Lal 2004), including reduced structural stability, water and nutrient holding capacity and impaired regulation of N mineralization and supply to plants (Quinton et al. 2010; Dungait et al. 2012).

Conversely, modern technologies, by using natural ecosystem flows and services more efficiently, offer a real chance of reducing the totality of human impacts on the biosphere.

The other is that while modern economies may be highly adaptable, the same may not be true of ecosystems.

What is more, modern climate modeling has been traditionally implemented by people with a technological background and little knowledge of ecosystem functioning.

Fe is an essential nutrient for ocean ecosystems, and its supply limits the productivity of large areas of the modern ocean (11).

It envisions the platform becoming the backbone of a modern law firm's technology stack and the hub of an ecosystem of what are now nearly 70 integration partners and that will continue to grow.

Clio sees its platform becoming the backbone of a modern law firm's technology stack and the hub of an ecosystem of what are now nearly 70 integration partners and that will continue to grow.