Sentences with phrase «small ecosystems from»

Colour Maisch presents small ecosystems from porcelain and other materials, including snow fungus.

Not exact matches

This scenario plays out in every entrepreneurial ecosystem, from small app developers to Virgin Galactic.

Companies like Research In Motion and Nortel have been the exceptions, having created small ecosystems, but both have also fallen from grace, as tech companies often do, reminding us that a single company can not maintain an ecosystem indefinitely.

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.

Edible Pirate Ecosystem (Beach Ecosystem) inspired by Mabel Jones and the Forbidden City from Nerdy Mama Bug Hunt (with Free Printable) inspired by Small Wonders from Edventures with Kids

If civilization and planetary ecosystems are still functioning well 50 years from now (not a small if), what about the next 50 years?

$ 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

They added sediment and plankton collected from a nearby pond to establish a small freshwater ecosystem in each tank.

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.

Although the vultures» hooked beaks are sharp enough to pierce the hides of smaller animals, they're unable to access thick - skinned carcasses like this one without the help of larger scavengers like hyenas and wild dogs — animals still missing from this recovering ecosystem.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

Microbiome & Nanoscience: How Nanoscience Can Help Us Understand Nature's Many Microbiomes and Learning from Earth's Smallest Ecosystems (Webcast)

The complement of microbes that compose an ecosystem, from the human body's smallest nook to the world's largest ocean, microbiomes have become a focus of fervent scientific interest.

Framing the solution as a disruptive innovation — to start small with a small investment; gain organic adoption over time from the ground up; begin with a primitive solution and iterate to improve gradually and unpredictably as it grew and learned what customers did or did not in fact want; be patient for growth but impatient for evidence of success and sustainability; and avoid the limelight and pushback from an ecosystem's incumbent organizations — as opposed to being the one - perfect solution or infrastructure with a massive up - front cost, could result (and still may very well result for another start - up entity) in a vey different picture.

A small company called Kindle Lending Club plans to launch a beta site today or tomorrow that will let it profit from Amazon's e-book ecosystem.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands.

In fact, a brief examination of history shows the removal of cats from ecosystems — something that is impossible to do in large terrains but has been done at great expense on a handful of small islands — can cause more harm than good to other species.

Just a five - minute walk from Gili Meno's salt lake, take a leisurely stroll around the lake in morning or evening, you'll be blown away at the biodiversity of flora and fauna in this small ecosystem, on this small island.

This is a 1 - day getaway from the city and the perfect opportunity to observe Peruvian wildlife and experience a small ecosystem right on the border of the capital city.

His work focuses on lone individuals and small insular communities on the fringes of society, from hermetic existences found deep in the Scottish countryside to post-apocalyptic island ecosystems.

Among them, to you Leonard, are: what do you think constitutes «small AGW» and catastrophic AGW, and to what extent have you reviewed the biological / ecological literature that address the ecosystem's functional sensitivity of different warming levels (sufficient CO2 - driven ocean acidification alone likely qualifies as «catastrophic» — or are you separating warming from the other effects of high CO2?)

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

He is particularly interested in determining how small - scale properties and the microstructures of sea ice impact processes on a larger scale, from ecosystems to the climate system.

These results reflect two facets of our new media ecology: (1) in this media ecosystem, a small number of people can claim a large part of the discursive sphere, and (2) news is narrowcast rather than broadcast, with polarization growing from repeated exposure to similar sources.

New inputs of N into the terrestrial ecosystem come from fixation of atmospheric N. New inflows of P are small and come from weathering of mineral soils and rocks.

Variations during the year, and from one location to another, make only a very small difference in localized CO2 concentrations, thus to the Greenhouse effect as well as other forcings of the ecosystem.

The flow of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from land to sea typically accounts for a small fraction of an ecosystem's carbon budget compared with processes like photosynthesis and respiration.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have a severe negative impact on global water supply, agricultural yields, marine ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands (Kenya climate change action plan).

Opportunities for sustainable solutions range from small green business start - ups to large - scale ecosystem services.

Social, institutional, and ecosystem - based measures are increasingly being recognized and valued, accumulating across regions and governments, from the public and private sectors to the smallest, remotest communities.

Moreover, mortality resulted from increased precipitation through smaller, more frequent events, underscoring the importance of precipitation event size and timing, and highlighting our inadequate understanding of relationships between climate and ecosystem function in drylands.

Reflecting sunlight from the Earth by geoengineering would undoubtedly cool the climate - but how will this impact on small holder farmers who depend on un-manipulated nature and other ecosystem services for their nature based agriculture.

One would expect a major hit to the ocean ecosystem when it presumably got cut off from the Sun by a thick layer of ice, but only relatively small extinctions have been found.

Because this is a large region, various ways have been proposed for dividing it ecologically, from a few large ecosystems to many smaller ecoregions (e.g., [243], [244], [245]-RRB-.

The most recent Ecosystem Marketplace / Forest Trends «State of Voluntary Carbon Markets» report does track a small amount of offsetting related to livestock methane, but most of the methane transactions are related to «landfill methane ``, where companies earn carbon offsets by capturing methane from landfills, which are kind of like giant, man - made cow stomachs.

However, threats will emerge from smaller, more agile alternatives who can use the ecosystem to access the benefits of scale that were traditionally the preserve of established partnerships and, in the process, challenge these partnerships at their own game.

The Big Three — Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group — control a vast majority of that ecosystem, leaving just a small amount of revenue and zero profit for Spotify to recoup from its 70 million paying subscribers.

However, what Apple's doing with its expanded ban of templated apps is the equivalent of preventing small businesses from being able to compete in the same ecosystem as the bigger brands.

However, the next iPhone's «fast charging» will take place through Apple's proprietary Lightning connector port, according to the research, because Apple collects royalties from its accessory ecosystem, and that the Lightning port is actually smaller than a USB - C port.

The Moto Z2 Play is another solid mid-range offering from Motorola that follows in the footsteps of its predecessor quite well, but with a $ 50 price increase and a smaller battery, it may not be as compelling of a purchase without investing in the Moto Mod ecosystem.