Sentences with phrase «provided by ecosystems»
There are countless other examples of ecosystem services - value provided to humans from natural resources and processes provided by ecosystems.
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In standard economics, the value of services provided by ecosystems are known as externalities, which are usually outside the market price system, difficult to evaluate and often ignored.
This approach pays landholders or farmers for actions that preserve the services to public and environmental health provided by ecosystems on their property, including services that contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Ecosystem services are broadly defined as the benefits provided by ecosystems to humans; they contribute to making human life both possible and worth living (DAILY, 1997).
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Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed long - term optimism on the Chinese market, despite strong competition provided by WeChat's software ecosystem, which works on Android or iPhone devices.
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The mission of UMSL Accelerate is to foster a community of thought leaders by providing a vibrant ecosystem through a three - pillar structure of Educate (curriculum), Innovate (non-curriculum), and Collaborate (Accelerate).
In this article, Yaletown looks at how the maturity of Canada's technology ecosystems varies in different provinces and provides observations on the diverse capital needs by region to advance Canada's innovation economy.
We also believed that VCs should play a role in accelerating the creation of world - class tech ecosystems by providing support beyond the companies for whom they wrote cheques, so we rolled up our sleeves and built projects that served founders» needs.
Cardano is a blockchain project founded by Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of ethereum, to «provide a more balanced and sustainable ecosystem» for cryptocurrencies.
Helvetia has shown commitment to advance the startup ecosystem by itself as well as by integrating their resources and knowledge into the platform START Global provides for founders, students, startups, investors and corporates.
The future of finance is an ever increasingly converged ecosystem where consumer and small and medium enterprise financial services are provided by banks and by platform companies with roots in e-commerce.
Platform businesses provide the necessary common infrastructure upon which an ecosystem of businesses, products and services can be accessed by users, customers, vendors and partners.
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.
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.
ShapeShifts simple - to - use exchange plays an important role in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and its extensive API is used by many third parties as the back - end to power services helping to provide liquidity to cryptocurrencies.
Yet in response to my post regarding the weakening of Criterion 2.8 for coffee farms, a Rainforest Alliance representative stated: «The current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.»
In practice, the current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.
By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years aheaBy providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years aheaby sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years aheaby storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.
JumpStart's work within Northeast Ohio has focused in two areas: 1) providing resources (in the form of intensive technical support and investment capital) directly to high potential entrepreneurs leading early stage companies, and 2) supporting the creation and growth of a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, which increases entrepreneurs» access to equity capital, government grants, and other resources, and is delivered by a variety of collaborators across the region.
This fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship problems by applying his or her multidisciplinary background toward solutions to societal issues ranging from ecosystems and population to sustainable development and climate change.
«Species like the tapir and peccary provide an important ecosystem service by dispersing seeds,» she said.
«Coastal ecosystems around the world depend greatly on the services provided by oysters,» Kimbro said.
Just as researchers have used genetics to improve food production, it can also provide solutions that maintain biodiversity and protect the services provided by native ecosystems.
«This work on a federally listed species provides managers with a more complete view of ecosystem services affected by consolidation drainage.»
To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value of ecosystem services provided by land resources such as food, poverty reduction, clean water, climate and disease regulation and nutrients cycling.
«There has been little evidence to date that the environmental services provided by tropical forests are really conditional on fully functional forest ecosystems that can retain a full complement of wildlife species, but this study shows that biodiversity and natural ecosystem services are inextricably linked.
If people want to restore self - managing varied landscapes, they can draw on the knowledge provided by the new study about the composition of natural ecosystems in the past.
Developed by Harvard geneticist George Church, a modified E. coli strain provides what's known as codon security: Biosensors can't spill their tweaked genes into the ecosystem because a segment of their genetic code has been made incompatible with all living organisms.
«Our work provides the first real - world experimental evidence that these natural enemies of plants can play a dramatic role in lowering ecosystems» tipping point by killing drought - weakened vegetation and preventing plants from recovering,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
This ecosystem, which alone provides 5 to 10 % of the world's catches, owes its exceptional productivity to the nutrients provided by upwellings of deep, cold, nutrient - rich water along the coasts.
Materials provided by Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Gaining traction are projects to quantify the value of «services» provided to us by oceans, forests and other ecosystems, determine the economic hit to a nation once they run out, and then paying would - be consumers to conserve those assets.
«Humans rely heavily on a diversity of services that are provided by ocean ecosystems, including the food we eat and industries that arise from that,» says project leader Professor Ivan Nagelkerken, from the University's Environment Institute.
The researchers measured five benefits provided by cover crops — ecosystem services — in each cover crop system to assess the relationship between species.
«The establishment of regional MPA networks in the deep sea could potentially benefit both mining and biodiversity interests by providing more economic certainty and ecosystem protection.»
The plants and their carbon uptake help the landscape provide certain «ecosystem services,» including food production, biodiversity and wildlife habitat, all of which are severely degraded when the landscape is denuded by oil and gas development.
«Placing these results on the larger scale of socio - economic systems makes evident to what extent nature supports our individual and community well - being by providing ecosystem services for free,» said one of Endreny's co-authors, Professor Sergio Ulgiati of University Parthenope of Naples, Italy.
The list includes a variety of measures of biodiversity; of the pressures leading to the loss of species, genetic diversity, populations, and ecosystems; of the responses by governments and other organizations; and of the benefits or services provided by biodiversity.
Materials provided by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
Honey bees carry out fundamentally vital roles in nature by providing essential ecosystem functions, including global pollination of crops and native plants.
The project will develop ways to quantify the amount of carbon that these marine ecosystems can sequester, and to value the ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats.
«[T] he high seas provide a range of ecosystem services, from driving weather systems and modulating the climate to the production of a high percentage of the oxygen we breathe,» states a letter signed by hundreds of marine scientists, including conservation icon Sylvia Earle, in support of the Law of the Sea approach.
Princeton University research suggests that termite mounds can help prevent the spread of deserts into semi-arid ecosystems and agricultural lands by providing a moist refuge for vegetation.
The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.
L.H.: ORCID aims to transform the research ecosystem by providing a registry of persistent, unique identifiers for researchers, integrated into a variety of research workflows (such as manuscript or grant submission) and supporting automated linkages to and reliable attribution of research objects such as publications, grants, datasets, and patents.