Sentences with phrase «urban ecosystems»

It stresses that animals can be both a nuisance and a benefit, serving several direct and indirect functions in urban ecosystems, each with different priorities at household, city and national level.

The research can be useful in future studies on how resilient urban ecosystems are to extreme weather events.

Homeowners have been feeding wild birds for a long time, but only now are scientists finally beginning to understand just how that affects urban ecosystems.

Scientists here generated new insights about urban ecosystems, such as improved storm - water management approaches, that urban planners and policymakers have used to design cities.

In consideration of themes and programming for the 2017 congress, the local organizing committee envisions a broad and inclusive view of topics on environmental and sustainability education that will highlight the impact of urban ecosystems and local, place based initiatives that can be translated into practices on a global scale.

In addition to offering areas for recreation and benefits to mental and physical health, urban green spaces «filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events,» according to the agency, whose recent assessment on urban ecosystems concluded that «with the right policies and tools, urbanization does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond.»

I hope we can start watching urban ecosystems for problem insects and using that information to stand forewarned about future ecological changes in natural areas.

Interpreting Ecosystems NGSS: LS2, ESS3 Get outdoors and investigate various urban ecosystems on the Nature Museum's Nature Trails!

While it is generally accepted that trees and plants benefit urban environments, until now researchers have had very little data to work with in order to quantify the extent that street trees regulate urban ecosystems.

For some 30 years, scientists would collect a continuous stream of information from towers and sensors installed at sites within 20 ecological domains, including tropical forests, wetlands, high desert prairies, and even urban ecosystems.

Some point to the helpful roles they play in complex urban ecosystems, in which dumpsters, rats, and mice far outnumber meadows.

This sculpture, like so many other works by Dion, investigates what happens to animals as they adapt to and thrive in our newly developed urban ecosystems, and when human environments intersect with nature.

Community gardens and farmers» markets are part of a healthy urban ecosystem and have the added benefit of bringing communities together.

Simmons and collaborators published their findings online Friday on the Web site of the journal Urban Ecosystems.

A report released on September 4, 2014, Optimizing Urban Ecosystem Services: The Bullitt Center Case Study, found that just six of the building's green features will produce up to $ 18.5 million in benefits to society over the life of the building....

The designers say that the larger idea is to create something that can participate in a larger urban ecosystem:

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION Los Angeles State University, Baton Rouge, LA Bachelors of Science in Horticulture Science Major: Urban Ecosystems Minors: Plant Propagation, Pest management, Arboriculture GPA: 3.7

The Plug - In Ecology project sets out a direction for healthy biological exchanges with urban inhabitants, and to contribute to the life of urban ecosystems.

«It's very encouraging because it suggests that we may be able to make smart management decisions to mitigate the damaging effects of extreme weather events on urban ecosystems.»

This year, students are try to answer the question «Why are big trees important, especially in an urban ecosystem?»

Most of the research has been conducted in the temperate zones of Europe and North America, but little is known about how trees contribute to urban ecosystems in tropical regions.

The company says this robot vehicle is both a vehicle and a transport service but also plays an integral part of the urban ecosystem.

Yet most species evolved before the Holocene and the contemporary ecosystems that sustain humanity are agroecosystems, urban ecosystems and other human - altered ecosystems that in themselves represent some of the most important global and local environmental changes that characterize the Anthropocene.

[M] ost species evolved before the Holocene and the contemporary ecosystems that sustain humanity are agroecosystems, urban ecosystems and other human - altered ecosystems....

Community - Based Environmental Management, Urban Ecosystems, Environmental Education, Program Management

Proposals by Chris Hardwicke for Ravine City and Farm City integrate visionary ideas for an urban ecosystem of collective housing that restores and enhances the ravine system of Toronto with a new kind of architecture that would enable the city to feed itself.

Quote attributed to Sean Becketti, Vice President and Chief Economist «The nature of the San Francisco Bay Area's urban ecosystem will be shaped in large part by how it reacts to the likely net loss of lower - and middle - income families over the next few decades.