Sentences with phrase «term ecological processes»

«A major factor in choosing this image as the winner is that it manages a seemly impossible task: to visualise an immensely long - term ecological process in a single static shot.

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«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.

«The simple relationship between the temperature and the global land carbon sink should be treated with caution, and not be used to infer ecological processes and long - term predictions» adds Dr. Reichstein, head of the Department.

This session addresses the long - term interactions among past climate conditions, ecological processes and human activities.

We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long - term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes.

The network of protected areas is large enough to maintain the necessary ecological processes and support the BBRRS for the long term.

First, the trees are found, marked and felled in a process that all too often involves clear - cutting, resulting in massive habitat destruction and long - term ecological damage.Mega - machinery comes in to remove the logs from what used to be forest, either by logging trucks or even helicopters in more remote areas.

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.