Sentences with phrase «on ecosystem responses»

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.

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Her research is centered on relationships between community dynamics and ecosystem processes in response to human disturbances.

«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.

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.

«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.

«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.»

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

The metric they have developed, the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (VSI), allows a more quantifiable response to climate change challenges and how sensitive different ecosystems are to short - term climate anomalies; e.g. a warmer June than on average, a cold December, a cloudy September, etc..

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 impactON 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 impacton 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.

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.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

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.

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

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.

Studies show that this ecosystem on our skin serves as a first responder when something is wrong and exerts influence on immune response.

In response to this, Acer chairman JT Wang, who also happens to be the president of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), said that in the era of smart internet connectivity, Microsoft should quit setting rules on its own, and should do things based on various opinions reflecting the entire IT ecosystem.

Lazaridis said at the time the PlayBook was worth continuing because the tablet market is still «in its infancy and that «based on the positive response to the promotions that are underway in select markets, RIM believes this strategy will accelerate adoption» of its new operating system and help built the application ecosystem for devices planned for 2012.

«Seeing the response from both consumers and enterprises to the iPad, many vendors are trying to compete by first delivering on hardware and then trying to leverage the platform ecosystem,» said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.

5:10 p.m. Updated below A spirited discussion has built on Dot Earth and elsewhere in response to the potent weekend Op - Ed article by Roger Bradbury of Australian National University challenging hopeful visions of coral reef restoration and calling them «zombie ecosystems» — the living dead — in a human - dominated world.

Using the longest study to date, we show that species can take much longer times to respond than previously thought and that the impact of these responses on important ecosystem properties varies with season.

The first report knew, and commented on, the possibilities of gradual climate change pushing ecosystems or economies over thresholds and triggering abrupt responses, but the new report focuses on such tipping points in our societies and environment.

The structure of terrestrial ecosystems, which respond on even longer time - scales, is determined by the integrated response to changes in climate and to the intermediate time - scale carbon - nutrient machinery.

The ecosystem response of coral reefs to climatic and other disturbances is more complex than predicted by models based largely on temperature anomalies and thresholds only.

Although some researchers have raised concerns about possible negative effects of rising CO2 on ocean surface pH, there are several lines of evidence demonstrating marine ecosystems are far more sensitive to fluxes of carbon dioxide from ocean depths and the biosphere's response than from invasions of atmospheric CO2.

For the state his is developing measures of the value of the services provided to us by the natural ecosystem in Maryland and monitoring whether they are increasing or decreasing in response to the effect of human habitation on them.

I have worked on water quality in the GBR lagoon and coral and ecosystem responses for decades.

According to Responding to Oil Spills in the U.S. Arctic Marine Environment, a full range of oil spill response technologies is needed in order to minimize impacts on people and sensitive ecosystems.

Assessments of adaptation options generally focus on incremental, homogeneous ecosystem responses to climate even though climate change impacts can be big, fast, and patchy across a region.

Very few experimental approaches have assessed ecosystem responses to multi-factorial treatments such as listed above (Norby and Luo, 2004), and experiments on warming, rainfall change or atmospheric CO2 level are virtually absent in savannas, with many ecosystem studies confined mainly to temperate grasslands (Rustad et al., 2001).

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Coastal ecosystems may show acidification or basification, depending on the balance between the invasion of coastal waters by anthropogenic CO2, watershed export of alkalinity, organic matter and CO2, and changes in the balance between primary production, respiration and calcification rates in response to changes in nutrient inputs and losses of ecosystem components.

For the ice sheets the answer is probably no (but experts on the subject might have a better idea), but for the overturning circulation or the ecosystem changes, the answer is probably yes — i.e. a slower rate of warming could lead to a different response (allowing time for ocean mixing to mitigate the effects, or adaptation of species to the new conditions).

The crux of her current research focuses on the use of molecular fossils («biomarkers») and their isotopic composition to decipher mechanisms of (mass) extinctions, ecosystem response, and ecologic resilience during intervals of abrupt climate change.

Studies focus on several integrated ecosystem responses to the

Studies in both freshwater and marine ecosystems have demonstrated significant impacts of anthropogenic acidification on olfactory abilities of fish and macroinvertebrates, leading to impaired behavioural responses, with potentially far - reaching consequences to population dynamics and community structure.

Monitoring trends in biogeochemical indicators such as chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen, and nutrient concentrations is crucial for evaluating the oceans» response to global climate change and its effects on marine ecosystems.

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.

Bittrex, one of the leading cryptocurrency and blockchain asset exchanges has in response to the SEC report on ICOs as securities stated they're proud to operate in the growing digital asset ecosystem and recognize that it still has a great deal of uncertainty.

What is your response to Jeffrey Tucker's views on regulation and the cryptocurrency ecosystem?

The closure comes months after ViaBTC shut down its cryptocurrency exchange in response to a crackdown by Chinese authorities on the country's exchange ecosystem, a process that began just after the beginning of 2016.

Particularly environmental responses that rely on Indigenous peoples knowledge of biodiversity and ecosystem management.