The results
show ecosystem responses relating to primary productivity, movement of organic matter and habitat for fish and macroinvertebrates.
Not exact matches
«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.»
Studies
show that this
ecosystem on our skin serves as a first responder when something is wrong and exerts influence on immune
response.
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.
From what I know about boreal
ecosystem, trees at the coastal treeline, for example, when exposed to predominantly northern cold winds like these,
show a very clearly articulated
response with all foliage developed at the southern part of the tree and only bare stems facing the wind.
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.
The second study, published April 25, 2018, in Environmental Science & Technology Letters,
shows that chemical alteration of oil by sunlight significantly lowers the performance of chemical dispersants, a
response tool that helps break up oil into droplets and lessen the amount of oil that reaches coastal
ecosystems.