"To change an ecosystem" means to alter the natural balance and structure of a specific environment where various plants, animals, and other organisms interact with each other. This change can be caused by human activities, natural events, or climate change, and it may have significant effects on the health and sustainability of the ecosystem.
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The increases of temperature will
change ecosystems across many parts of the country, and it will lead to an increase in heat - related human deaths.
No... it doesn't cast doubt on peer reviewed science of many decades that show ocean acidification to glacial loss to
rapidly changing ecosystems.
Causing companies to assess how they must adapt in order to remain part
of changing ecosystems, as well as, new emerging market ecosystems.
Some activities cause biodiversity loss due to ecosystem changes (e.g., reduced coral reef health commonly is associated with reduced populations or even extirpation of some organisms), whereas others may
change ecosystem function because of alterations in diversity - either up or down (e.g., due to invasive species).
It is possible that multicellular species may find more opportunities to adapt successfully to
drastically changing ecosystems that might wipe out a less mobile or less complex unicellular species.
But life hitching a ride between continents might have a dark side, the researchers noted: Debris could transport invasive species,
forever changing ecosystems.
► In this week's issue of Science, Jeffrey Mervis reported that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking for a new contractor to complete the $ 434 million National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), «an ambitious effort to
monitor changing ecosystems across the United States.»
«Viruses impact important microbial processes in plankton — killing their cells, moving genes from one cell to another and reprogramming the cells to
change their ecosystem output,» said Sullivan.
1 Key vulnerabilities to
climate change Some ecosystems are highly vulnerable: Coral reefs, marine shell organisms Tundra, boreal forests, mountain and.
Despite its scale, the Amazon is also one of the
fastest changing ecosystems, largely as a result of human activities, including deforestation, forest fires, and, increasingly, climate change.
The scientists, who are part of the Norwegian Polar Institute, wrote that this is another instance of how «the warming of the Arctic is
significantly changing the ecosystem and relations between species.»
The loss of sea
ice changes ecosystems, opening the door to invasive species, and alters habitat and plankton blooms, affecting Alaska's commercial fishing industry, which leads the United States in the value of its catch.
These findings give us a new understanding of how an invasive plant can acquisition soil biota to its own advantage, altering the environment and
changing the ecosystem in the process.
Key to assessing the health of today's
rapidly changing ecosystems is understanding their history, which can only be read from the fossil record, or the paleobiology of the region, the scientists argue.
Therefore, the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions have to be quantified, in order to predict the consequences of either
changing ecosystem functions or decreases in biodiversity.
«I try to learn how to read the historic moments that we live in and document this kind
of changing ecosystem.»
«When you have this combination of tremendous global transport of people and goods,
changing ecosystems, and changing climate,» Balbus says, «it raises the possibility of emerging diseases.»
«We will continue to see shifts in the range of marine populations, and the shifts will
change the ecosystem, those who fish for these species in the ecosystem inbcluding the coasta lcommunities supporting the fisheries, and the management systems regulating the fisheries,» Fogarty said.
Melting ice and
changing ecosystems will pose complicated new questions, says National Research Council
«This is an interesting study, because it calls into question what happens to an ecosystem when you change climate quickly: Is it just large - scale averages that
change the ecosystem or do particular daily interactions also contribute to the change,» Oliver said.
Rapidly
changing ecosystems are threatening wildlife and the indigenous populations that depend on it, while thawing land and melting ice are shortening shipping routes and opening up new areas for development of fossil fuels and minerals.
Are the organisms able to maintain their functions within
the changing ecosystem,» Dr. Gattuso wonders.
More moose are loose and on the move as they invade previously uninhabitable areas of the Alaskan tundra, according to a new study that revealed how global warming continues to
change our ecosystem.
PULLMAN, Wash. — As the largest dam removal in U.S. history brought Pacific salmon back to Washington's Elwha River for the first time in nearly a century, scientists were considering
the changing ecosystem's impact on those foundational Elwha Valley dwellers: insects.
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There's an ever -
changing ecosystem to the world that's brought about by the sudden appearance of an elder dragon, the towering, building - sized wyverns that round out every Monster Hunter's story.
It also asks the «what ifs» of
changing an ecosystem and the effects of that change.
If they don't, they'll offer no significant value in
the changing ecosystem in which they find themselves, at which point they will become extinct.
In other words, the switch from print to digital is an emergent property of
the changing ecosystem, not a matter of consumer preference.»
Subarctic cetaceans in the Southern Chukchi Sea: Evidence of recovery or response to
a changing ecosystem.
Climate Change Making Calendars Run Amok People in Central Asia are recalibrating their system of time to adapt to
a changing ecosystem.
We talked with Scripps Institution marine biologist Miriam Goldstein, who has just completed a study of how plastic is
changing the ecosystem in the North Pacific Gyre, about myths and realities of the Pacific garbage patch.
Still, this week's anthrax outbreak further emphasizes the reality of the Arctic as one of the front lines of climate change, and the questions inherent in a rapidly
changing ecosystem.
And remember, these extreme events can
CHANGE ecosystems, apparently sometimes irreversibly.
The «rapid, unprecedented rates» of change in the Arctic make the region «home to and a cause for a global suite» of trillion - dollar impacts, ranging from global trade to
changing ecosystems to national security concerns, according to the report.
Warming temperatures could
change ecosystem of word's forests faster than they could adapt, researchers say.
In order to create competitive advantage and deliver superior financial returns, law firms need to understand and adapt to
the changing ecosystem in which they now live, as well as forecasting what that ecosystem will look like 10 or more years down the road; long term vision and strategy have therefore never been more important for law firms.
There are still tons of targets of patent trolls who can't afford to even take advantage of the provisions of the SHIELD Act, but what it does is
it changes the ecosystem.