Sentences with phrase «role forests play»

Swiss experiment on the interdependence of trees gets to the roots of the role forests play in managing atmospheric carbon for the rest of the living world.

Kadyszewski presented ACR's Climate Leadership award to Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock senior scientist and former director of Winrock's Ecosystem Services Group, for four decades of work advancing the understanding of the role forests play in the global carbon cycle.

This means that all this time scientists have drastically underestimated the role these forests play in the greenhouse gas problem and climate change.

Accounting for biomass energy often ignores the critical role forests play as a sink for carbon dioxide that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere.

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In the key Lavigne vs. OPSEU decision of 1991, Justice Gérard La Forest explained that the unionization model in Canada ensures that unions have «both the resources and the mandate necessary to enable them to play a role in shaping the political, economic and social context within which particular collective agreements and labour relations disputes will be negotiated and resolved.»

Every single unique part in the forest plays a role in creating one of the most beautiful environments on the planet.

He commences every training with a brief lecture emphasizing the critical role farmers play in conserving forests and biodiversity.

Akpom too would be able to play these roles as recently he played a good wing role against Nottingham Forest.

Sharp played a pivotal role in securing Saints promotion back to the Premier League, before joining Nottingham Forest on loan for the season.

Following the fall of Sambisa Forest and the defeat of Boko Haram by the Nigerian Military, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has been awarded the African Leadership Magazine Award in recognition of the strategic and commanding roles he played in achieving the feat.

Lavine, who once lived and worked in Forest Hills, said he was especially pleased with Koslowitz when she led the battle to shut down the strip club Runway 69 on Austin Street in 1993 - 94, a move residents havesaid played a major role in revitalizing the area.

«Our forests are a much loved part of our national natural heritage, and will play a pivotal role in the green economy and our low carbon future,» shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said.

Ghana's efforts at restoring its forest sector will play an important role in meeting its commitments under the Agreement.

Koslowitz shut down the strip club Runway 69 in Forest Hills while in the Council, a move area residents have said played a major role in revitalizing Austin Street.

Low moisture played a role in the 2015 season, said Frankie Romero, a Forest Service fire and fuels specialist with the National Interagency Fire Center.

Parsing the exact role a changing climate played in the historic burns can be challenging, especially in Western forests overstocked with woody kindling due to decades of fire suppression and a relatively hands - off forest management policy.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

Populations of forests elephants, which play key roles in maintaining forest habitat, have declined 63 percent in Central Africa since 2001.

Beautiful creatures with soulful eyes, flying foxes play a crucial role in maintaining tropical forests because they ingest and distribute the seeds of local trees.

Furthermore, PES is going to play an even bigger role as the international community debates schemes to pay countries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).

Large areas of the Earth's surface are experiencing rising maximum temperatures, which affect virtually every ecosystem on the planet, including ice sheets and tropical forests that play major roles in regulating the biosphere, scientists have reported.

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.

This beautiful fungal fruit is edible but, more importantly, plays an essential role in a forest's nitrogen cycle.

They include some of the most conspicuous forest mushrooms, including the iconic, flaming red «fly agaric,» Amanita muscaria, and are of interest to bioenergy researchers, because they play roles in maintaining the health of candidate feedstock crop trees.

Changes in water yield were largely related to changes in climate, but disturbance - related shifts in forest species composition and structure over time also played a role.

«Selectively logged Amazon forests play important role in climate.»

Sea otters off the Alaskan coast play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems: By dining on sea urchins, the animals help preserve kelp forests that feed a range of species, from barnacles to bald eagles.

Photosynthesis — the process green plants use to convert energy from the sun that plants use to grow — from tropical forests, plays a huge role in determining global atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is closely linked the global temperature and rate of climate change.

Forests play a key role in offsetting U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, but that ability may shrink as the climate changes

Likewise, the passenger pigeons, whose numbers are estimated to have reached nearly 5 billion at the start of the 19th century, played a dramatic role in shaping the forests they inhabited.

«We also found out that the forest plays a dominant role in controlling warm near - ground temperatures in the summer, more than local topography.

Nonetheless mature forests do play an important role in the global carbon cycle as stable carbon pools, and clearance of forests leads to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

This particular forest is located between the rain forest of the Amazon Basin and the tropical Brazilian Savanna, so it plays a crucial role in both regional and global biogeochemical cycling.

J. Alan Pounds, a biologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and one of the researchers who originally put forward the argument that global warming played a role in the extinction of the golden toad, disagrees with the paper's conclusions.

Although they remain a relatively common bird, the species has been declining rapidly since the early 1970's and several researchers have suggested that fragmentation of forests in breeding grounds are playing a major role.

Ants play an important role in the ecosystem of forests, dispersing seeds and keeping soil aerated and as a food source for other animals, Pelini said.

They can therefore play an important role for the climate, especially in the great forest regions of the world such as the taiga or the tropical rainforests.

Wrasse consume many molluscs and crustaceans, and play a key role controlling populations of sea urchins that can deplete seafloor kelp forests — vital sanctuaries for many marine species including young cod.

«The real story here is that we probably need sea otters more than they need us, as they play key roles in the functioning and resiliency of kelp forest and estuarine ecosystems that provide a wide range of services to human societies,» said Dr. M Tim Tinker, a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is presenting an overview of the latest research on southern sea otters and is coauthor of several other new studies presented at the conference.

Sabah, Malaysia — Degraded forests play a crucial role in the future survival of Bornean elephants.

These forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle that allows Earth to be capable of sustaining life.

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Tropical forests around the world play a key role in the global carbon cycle and harbour more than half of the species worldwide.

These are the implications of a new study, which found that the world's forests play an unexpectedly large role in climate change, vacuuming up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) and storing the carbon in wood, according to research published online Thursday by the journal Science.

Riparian forests — the ribbons of trees that grow along river channels — play an important ecological role as refuges for endangered species in dry areas.

This suggests that the role that deforestation plays in sparking forest fires is diminishing over time, says Aragão:

In other words, there is a large role that wildland management can play in limiting the severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests even as the climate warms and conditions become right for larger and potentially more severe fires.

Fires play an essential ecological role in flammable ecosystems: some are managed to clear forests, promote grazing and establish plants6, while others are suppressed to protect human lives and property, regardless of how they ignite.

Passenger Pigeon Ben Novak, our staff scientist, has spelled out on our website exactly how the whole Passenger Pigeon revival will play out, from his current genetic and ecological research at UC Santa Cruz, through genome editing and chimeric parents, to eventual restoration of wild flocks to America's regrown eastern forest to take up their old role of forest regeneration.

Monday's study focused on forest dryness, identifying the commanding role it has been playing in driving fires.