Sentences with phrase «species loss»

I'm also aware that the process of species loss occurs in slow motion, as well.

A meta - analysis of ecosystems finds that species losses in any given place do not yet translate to large changes in the number of different species in that place.

He looked back at his guests, who were now trading statistics on species loss as the rain forests of the world were cut down.

In order to mitigate risks of further species loss and to work towards recovery of threatened butterfly populations, the review ends by recommending twelve management measures favourable for many butterflies.

Using these patterns, we estimated the resulting gross vegetation carbon emissions [2, 5] and species losses over time [6].

However not all is well in the end because human - induced species loss caused impacts the predictability of biomass production.

As with trees, species losses occur gradually as habitats change, the researchers found.

Artists are also responding to the increasing dominance of science and technology in daily life, and to the growing sense of urgency in the face of climate change and mass species loss.

Overall the research shows that the best way to protect against species loss is to keep global temperature rise as low as possible.

Because of this, the ecological effect from bird species loss is potentially far reaching.

The researchers also found species loss could be offset by maintaining areas of forest that contain distinctly different populations of plants and animals that, while different, complement and help sustain each other.

If the current rate of species loss continues, people will lose several biodiversity benefits within three generations.

There is no doubt that there will be tremendous species loss, human suffering, and conflict that arises from compromised landscapes... the world will change beyond what most of us can comprehend.

As long as care is taken is selecting suitable new locations, such radical steps should help slow down rising species loss.

Data gaps create hurdles and impasses for tracking progress towards meeting targets, including benchmarks for protecting fisheries, ensuring freshwater quality, agricultural sustainability, preventing species loss, fostering climate adaptation, and managing waste.

That study underestimated the rate of current species loss, and overstated the natural rate over the past 10 to 20 million years.

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear «threshold» for forest cover below which species loss becomes more rapid and widespread.

And the worse news is that the world's countries have not lived up to their pledge under the Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce the rate of species loss by 2010.

The researchers hope the findings will stimulate new thinking about the effects of nonnative habitat - forming coastal plant species, which are likely to become increasingly common as human activities accelerate rates of native species losses and nonnative introductions in coastal areas.

Invasive species are also the second greatest cause of plant and animal species loss globally.

They stress that this does not negate the reality of the wave of species loss under way in an increasingly human - dominated planet:

Negative impacts will also include increased risk of inland and coastal floods and extensive species losses in mountain areas.

A 2015 study found that humans activities are driving species loss at a rate 100 times faster than historical baseline levels — which the researchers behind the study characterized as...

The polar bear has been the poster child of species loss risk from climate change, but the emergence of the extremely rare «grolar bear,» the offspring of a grizzly and a polar bear, is new evidence of how climate affects species.

Researchers say that the focus should be shifted to maintaining 50 % cover — just half the forest — but over entire landscapes rather than individual farms, in a bid to stop whole regions losing untold biodiversity by slipping below the 43 % threshold at which species loss accelerates.

New research shows that the loss of biodiversity can increase the risk of «extinction cascades,» where an initial species loss leads to a domino effect of further extinctions.

«Normally we mourn species losses, but without introduced rats and mosquitoes, Palmyra Atoll is as close to paradise as you could imagine,» explained lead author Kevin Lafferty, an USGS ecologist and an adjunct EEMB faculty member at UCSB.

Australia does it too, and the European Union is about to publish recommendations for habitat banking as part of its strategy to halt species loss.

Species loss lessens the total amount of biomass on a given parcel, suggesting that the degree of diversity directly impacts the amount of life the planet can support

Then we see that functional diversity drops way down from tropics to poles; it parallels species loss in a way that's totally different from the big extinctions.

If the variation between teeth decreased over time, the team reasoned, this loss of diversity would indicate that the ecosystem was declining and may have paralleled a long - term species loss.

Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions.

Though Wilson praised the work done by conservation organizations who have stemmed the tide of endangered species loss and by scientists who continue to discover new additions to the 2 million species already identified, species today are going extinct 100 times faster than they did before the coming of humanity, and that rate is increasing, Wilson said.

The next step, says Sax, is to test the predictions of the endemics - species relationship against actual observed species loss.

Traditionally, conservation biologists have relied on field observation and sample and statistical analysis to help them understand the dynamics behind species loss, but today genetics is taking on an increasingly important role in helping quantify the biodiversity around us and even save some threatened species.

It's time to stop pretending otherwise, to stop pretending that we haven't already entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age marked by massive species loss (already achieved) and climate change (in progress).

Clearing land for livestock production will spur species loss in countries rich in biodiversity

According to real - world observations, we had 16 species losses per decade during 1500 to 2000 C.E.. We've had 0.6 species lost per decade since 2000.

Rapid loss of biodiversity in recent times indicates that a sixth mass extinction event is underway on the Earth, whereby the average rate of vertebrate species loss is now up to 1000 times higher than background rates [1].

«Unsafe» is defined as an average species loss of more than 20 percent.

► 75 % species loss = mass extinction

This meditation on biodiversity passionately details species loss caused by the ravages of human activity and offers hope for preserving the richness of life on earth.

Visitors can witness the incredible recovery of the island's plant life and wildlife after years of habitat and species loss due to ranching and farming activities, including the introduction of nonnative plants, rabbits, and cats.

While non-SLR consequences like drought, flooding, crops, ecosystem migration and species loss look bad enough, 2m or more sea level rise should be the most dramatic, a good place to focus attention.