Sentences with phrase «term ecological conservation»

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Conservation groups challenge Bush - era «energy corridors» that threaten wilderness areas, including a long - term ecological study site

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

International efforts are currently underway in Antarctica to build long - term monitoring systems for land and coastal organisms from an ecological conservation standpoint.

The den visit was part of the ongoing long - term ecological study on snow leopards in Mongolia's South Gobi province that's been conducted by the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, Snow Leopard Trust, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences since 2008.

First launched in 2006, the Urban Field Station provides a location for this long - term research partnership promoting applied science on urban ecology, conservation, stewardship, and ecological literacy to support ecosystem management and human well - being.

M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.

The field of conservation biology identifies four objectives that must be achieved to ensure the longterm viability of an ecosystem: 1) all native ecosystem types must be represented in protected areas; 2) populations of all native species must be maintained in natural patterns of abundance and distribution; 3) ecological processes such as hydrological processes must be maintained; and 4) the resilience to short - term and long - term environmental change must be maintained.