Sentences with phrase «potentially ecological consequences»

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It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

In its 2012 statement on Climate Change, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has reconfirmed that there is compelling evidence of human impact on the climate system with potentially far - reaching consequences for ecological and political systems.

Cons: Wave power technology is primitive, can potentially result in negative ecological consequences, and is not yet economically competitive.

(a) Ecoclimate teleconnections propagate land - atmosphere energy disturbances from the local region of disturbance to remote regions potentially having ecological consequences (taken from [14]-RRB-.