Sentences with phrase «threaten ecosystem services»

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Climate change and diminishing ecosystem services have diminished the resiliency of the Mississippi River Basin ecosystem, threatening the livelihoods of those who live in the region and around the world.

The loss of ecosystem services is detrimental to quality of life and threatens the livelihoods of our future generations.

The document highlights that, with demands on forests increasing and climate change threatening, efforts to maintain ecosystem services and benefits from forests should focus attention on effective management at the field level.

Regardless of approach, all projections indicate an eventual sea ice - free Arctic with continued emissions of greenhouses gases, threatening the invaluable ecosystem service the Arctic sea ice provides while simultaneously exacerbating global warming.

One - third of Africa is threatened by desertification, and land cover changes since 2000 are responsible for half to three - quarters of the value of lost ecosystem services.

The Third Section, entitled «Human System threatens to overwhelm the Carrying Capacity and ecosystem services of Earth System», describes examples of changes in the Earth System that may impact the Human System seriously, as well as missing feedbacks from the Earth System onto the Human System.