Sentences with phrase «small ecosystem of»

With Jaguar's InControl app on my iPhone, I could access a small ecosystem of third - party apps on the XE's touchscreen.

Atlantic Canada's Innovation District Atlantic Canada has a vibrant but small ecosystem of entrepreneurs that have supported one another for generations.

Atlantic Canada has a vibrant but small ecosystem of entrepreneurs that have supported one another for generations.

Not exact matches

They also were social long before social media: selling tickets directly, creating an extremely engaged fan club, sharing personal details as well as fan - generated artwork and content through their mailing list, and creating an ecosystem of small businesses that traveled with the band and had a vested interest in the band's long - term success.

To support this exploding industry, several cyber-security ecosystems have developed around the globe, consisting of companies, venture capitalists, talent and expertise concentrated in small areas.

Just one year after it's launch, INADEM pumped as much as $ 658M into the local ecosystem, spread between as many as 620,000 entrepreneurs, micro, small, and medium businesses, leading to the launch of as many as 6,000 new companies and 73,000 new jobs.

«We know that in order to address the range of financial needs within all of our communities, we need to support and work with the ecosystem of organizations that serve small businesses,» said Jon Campbell, executive vice president, government and community relations for Wells Fargo.

Some members of the ecosystem believe that coin caps help create value through programmable scarcity over time, essentially leading to smaller and smaller block rewards.

«It's a little bit of a different ecosystem, there are a lot of smaller companies, indie developers, here in Toronto.

It is often framed as high - growth startups vs. mainstreet or lifestyle small businesses, but I think it runs much deeper than that.The consequences of not resolving this tension are very bad for the ecosystem.

It has had great success in helping mostly small, high technology businesses access and execute Federal contracts and grants, team with other businesses and grow the ecosystem of support among industry, government, nonprofits and academia — while simultaneously bringing innovative solutions to help America's warfighters achieve mission success and safety.

«They need to include a small subset of key players at first, what we call the «minimal viable ecosystem.»

Food - X is part of the larger SPUD ecosystem that includes home delivery, small store retail, commissary / food preparation services and distribution.

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.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

Most recently, he was awarded the first - ever Business Development Bank of Canada Entrepreneurship Champion — a national award that recognizes the achievement of a Canadian entrepreneur and community leader who has created and grown one or many successful small or medium - sized businesses while significantly contributing to the prosperity of the Canadian entrepreneurship ecosystem

While the «Silicon Valley of India», Bengaluru, is spearheading the growth of the startup ecosystem in the country, there are smaller «Valleys» coming up in different parts of the country.

The quarter also saw an uptick in smaller rounds - $ 250K - $ 1MM - perhaps a sign of renewed confidence in the ecosystem as investors take pre-seed bets on promising companies.

Agriculture and forestry services should focus on techniques that can make small farms viable productive units while protecting the integrity and productivity of land ecosystems.

You don't have to feel small in order to come to terms with an idea that we will once again become part of the universe in death, and give nutrients back to the ecosystems that have helped sustain life as we know it.

The Lodi Rules ™ Program certifies sustainable management of the ecosystem, soils, water, business practices, human resources, and pest control with an emphasis on reducing pesticide risk to farm workers, consumers, small aquatic invertebrates, birds, and bees.

Small farms also strengthen rural economies, preserve important ecosystems, and help to protect a way of life that is increasingly under threat.

«As the world continues to grow smaller, the importance of healthy, clean oceans, and our responsibility to maintain the ecosystems within them, can no longer be neglected.

Where our kids go to school is one small fragment of a much larger ecosystem of their life choices and values.

Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures

On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.

Only a small percentage of wildebeests drown as they cross the Mara River, but they provide resources for the river ecosystem for years after their deaths.

A group of small filter - feeding invertebrates had taken over on top of the heated panels, completely shifting the balance of the tiny test ecosystem.

Ecosystems left in the wake of a mass extinction that occurred about 359 million years ago (artist's representation shown) contained fish and other vertebrates that were much smaller than the species that lived before the die - off, a new study suggests.

Because these bulkheads block the small flow of health sediment, one section of bulkhead can impact fragile ecosystems for miles downstream.»

They found that although there was small leakage into the water, it was confined to a minority of the injected CO2, and the effects on the surrounding ecosystem were negligible.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

But it was before the explosion itself, «during these anoxic phases... that a lot of morphological novelty arises,» Erwin explains, likely in small, soft - bodied animals that existed on the sidelines of ancient ecosystems and which left little to no fossil record.

Other species like the American bison and many kinds of whales had once played central roles in important ecosystems but had been reduced to small remnant populations.

«Small predator diversity an important part of a healthy ecosystem.»

They then focused on the small wedges of coastal land, sandwiched between river drainages, where groundwater drains directly into the fragile ecosystems near shore.

Small lakes with a surface area of less than 100 m2 represent the majority of global freshwater ecosystems.

His center is constructing 30 different aquatic mesocosms — experimental, miniature ecosystems — where small amounts of nanoparticles will be released.

The more scientists look, the more they discover that microbiomes are the beating heart of every ecosystem, large and small.

Roads, for example, appear to directly affect only a relatively small strip of land, but they also cut ecosystems in half, altering the survival prospects of species living on either side of them.

Bryozoan skeletons - like coral's - usually build the basic structure of isolated small reefs (known as patch reefs) and contribute to the formation of the known coral reefs, fragile ecosystems that are sensitive to the ocean acidification.

Tidal wetlands and estuaries, despite being the smallest ecosystems in the study domain at 2.4 percent and 9 percent of the area, respectively, buried the majority of the region's carbon, the team found.

This is good news whether we love poodles or not, but it's also good news economically because the diversity of the ecosystem makes it a fertile environment for small players.

But even small webs can harbor complexities that can make the order of removals for ecosystem stability challenging to sort out.

Small ecosystems are more vulnerable to extinctions; their member species are fewer in number and have limited refuge, and so are at statistically greater risk of being eliminated by a single event, whether a hurricane or the introduction of a predatory snake.

At the heart of seagrasses» success — and the secret to efforts to restore the increasingly threatened ecosystem — may be a small clam.

Also, the native residents of these small ecosystems — surrounded by fewer species than their counterparts in large continental ecosystems — are evolutionarily less fit to compete against invaders.

Each hole is its own tiny world, an ecosystem unto itself that supports a host of life - forms, including tardigrades — or water bears — and other small organisms.

Coastal habitats, including mangrove forests and sea grass beds, cover only a small fraction of the world's surface, but these fringe ecosystems harbor an enormous amount of carbon.