Sentences with phrase «terrestrial aquatic ecosystems»

What this finding about Lake Hazen is telling us is that there can also be pretty substantial impacts in terrestrial aquatic ecosystems that are directly connected to the glaciers.

Not exact matches

Environmental water holders are supporting the integration of land and water management to improve environmental outcomes for both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Moreover, agricultural intensification has had major detrimental impacts on the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world.

The Army Corps of Engineers warned before the work started that it would «destroy and disturb the natural terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem, have long - lasting effects upon the environment and encourage further floodplain development» according to a Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper 2002 report.

In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems.

Documenting and understanding resources that travel from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems «is now critical as we manage for resilient ecosystems in the second century of stewardship at Acadia,» Jackson said.

Floodplains are important because they lie at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and serve as a crossroad for a variety of beneficial processes that protect surrounding lands.

Initially specializing in aquatic research, the station has grown in scope to include research on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

In the environment, ammonia can damage terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des Antilles)-- together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany — have shown that Parisian street gutters are oases of microscopic life, home to microalgae, fungi, sponges, and mollusks [1].

«These results indicate that protection of natural habitats at a watershed level, including wetlands and forests, will increase the proportion of rare species and reduce the risk of extinction, which is much greater in aquatic than in terrestrial ecosystems,» Passy said.

Parts of the vast rain forest are as much aquatic as terrestrial ecosystems.

Both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems were covered, with emphasis on the tools used.

The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna has gathered an exceptional number of renowned experts over the past years with complementary research areas in microbial ecology, functional genomics and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem research.

It has been written by a large international team of researchers and uses case studies and examples from all over the world, and from a broad range of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

In an accompanying News & Views, Max Troell and colleagues discuss some of these additional considerations, noting that «the extent to which such aquatic food production is connected to both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems needs careful consideration.»

Learn about terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems.

God gave mankind a divine duty to protect all the animals in the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Manufactured pet foods are profitably derived from the human food and beverage industries that continue to rely on the use of increasingly contaminated, hazardous and depleted terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds.

Delta del Orinoco, Venezuela, is characterized by great biological diversity in its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, home to more than 2,000 plant species and a wide array of land and water fauna.

Members of the Helotiales thrive in various ecosystems and cover a broad range of niches, and helotialean fungi have been described as plant pathogens, endophytes, mycorrhizae, fungal parasites, terrestrial saprobes, aquatic saprobes, root symbionts, and wood rot fungi.

Wetland - A transitional, regularly waterlogged area of poorly drained soils, often between an aquatic and a terrestrial ecosystem, fed from rain, surface water or groundwater.

Long - term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter - term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth - enhancing, water - conserving, and stress - alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

A range of impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems has been suggested under climate change (see, for example, Leemans and Eickhout, 2004), some of which are summarised in Table 9.1 (for further details see Chapter 4; Nkomo et al., 2006; Warren et al., 2006).

This deposition has altered the functioning of soil, terrestrial vegetation, and aquatic ecosystems worldwide.

«At mid - latitudes the ozone decrease would be up to 40 percent, which could have huge effects on human health and on terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.»