Sentences with phrase «understanding ecological change»

According to the project's led developer, Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland, the map represents a significant advancement toward understanding ecological changes that accompany changes in forest cover.

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The Rethinking School Lunch Guide provides ideas and strategies for changing your school meal programs, promoting health, and increasing ecological understanding.

Her highest priority is to encourage scientific critical thinking by using the farm as a living laboratory to understand sustainability, climate change, and ecological issues throughout New England.

work with education providers to ensure climate change policies fully recognise the role of education and schools in delivering behaviour change, and bring more understanding of ecological issues into our schools.

In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change.

«Understanding climate change impacts is vital to help protect marine ecosystem services that humans rely on so heavily such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism» said Dr. Rob Ellis, an ecological physiologist also based at Exeter University.

Co-author Marianne Nyegaard, an ichthyologist at Australia's Murdoch University, says this type of clarification is vital in biology and «important in understanding, for example, the ecological consequences of climate change.»

To understand where interior forest has been lost and therefore where risks from forest fragmentation might be greatest, the researchers used global tree cover data to map the forests of 2000 and 2012 and examined the patterns of change across ecological regions and biomes.

As climate change continues to be responsible for out - of - sync bee emergence with flowering periods and bee - specific pollination events, pollination ecology has become an ever - increasing valuable field of study that helps us understand the ecological impact of these environmental changes.

Some gaps in the research include getting a better understanding of the distribution of species and habitats, understanding how marine populations respond to stressors and looking at how changes in climate can affect individual species and ecological communities.

Together they built field - based ecological frameworks for understanding changing animal human interactions through time focusing on mice and donkeys.

To predict the implications of these changes will require, in part, understanding the ecological and evolutionary forces that act on the skin microbiome.

The Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network is a grassroots network of more than 600 members in 50 + countries conducting innovative science to understand, predict, and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global environment.

Introducing NEON: The National Ecological Observatory Network was created to understand and forecast the impacts of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on continental - scale ecology by providing an observational infrastructure to support research, education, and environmental management in these areas.

So there is a need to understand the full behavioural and ecological flexibility of the lemurs before reaching firm conclusions about their ability to survive climate change.»

Born and raised on Martha's Vineyard, Tom brings a deep understanding of land - use change to the conservation of Massachusetts's coasts, including making residential landscapes more supportive of essential ecological processes.

«In fact, understanding abrupt change in ecological systems is among the biggest challenges in contemporary ecology.»

Currently some of the important ecological factors needed to understand population change are not recorded on a regular or systematic basis.

The grove's status was changed to a natural reserve in 1964 when a greater understanding of its ecological significance prompted a more protective management of the resource.

[10] Characterization of a plant association is helpful to botanists as a guide to plant identification and other ecological research; furthermore, understanding of a plant association is critical to studies of plant succession, where environmental changes in a given landscape lead to a series of plant communities, before a stable equilibrium is attained.

Future generations will pass a harsh judgement on a generation that looked at the evidence on climate change, understood the consequences and then continued on a path that consigned millions of the world's most vulnerable people to poverty and exposed future generations to the risk of ecological disaster.»

Over the next 30 years, these sites will collect hundreds of terabytes of ecological data annually to help understand the impacts of climate change, land - use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity.

The diverse pattern of poorly understood biotic responses to ocean acidification found thus far makes it problematic to reliably predict the ecological and biogeochemical changes that will result from continued oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2.

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

This is the first of three articles on understanding complexity, and how our energy, economic and ecological systems, like unruly children, tend to defy our attempts to change them.

Improved understanding of ecological and social responses to climate change is needed, as is understanding of how ecological and social responses will interact.19

Objective 1.2 aims to advance use - inspired science (defined as science necessary to improve fundamental understanding in areas important to society) to assess the vulnerabilities to global change, understand the societal and ecological characteristics that confer resilience in the face of these changes, and support the adaptation and mitigation responses to the risks these changes pose.

The calculator, she says, «helps students understand the relevance of sustainability and global ecological overshoot to their own lives and careers, making them realize that sustainability and climate change is their problem too — and not something to leave to «someone else».»

This effort is a critical component of NOAA's research into the future of the earth as a system under the influence of anthropogenic forcing to better understand how emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, land use decisions and climate and ecological interactions will determine future carbon dioxide levels and the corresponding climate change.

Ecological restoration is rooted in the understanding of past ecosystem dynamics, and paleoecological reconstructions provide a long - term perspective on landscape change, vegetation dynamics, and fire history.

Also, a recent article on climate - vegetation dynamics concludes that, due to poor scientific understanding of ecological thresholds and their relationship to climate change, we can not accurately predict how or when vegetation will change due to global warming, or even whether these changes will be reversible (Maslin, 2004).

The Land Stewardship & Environment area of interest enables Albertans to understand and respond to changing land use patterns, growth pressures, air and water management issues and to enhance the ecological quality of their communities.