Sentences with phrase «valuable ecosystem services»

High biodiversity is a trademark of ecosystems that are healthy, resilient to stress, and those that provide valuable ecosystem services like clean air, water, or food.

Bats perform valuable ecosystem services to humans, in terms of suppression of insect populations that can be agricultural or forest pests and these bats do eat some insects that are annoying or pose health risks to humans.

«There are dozens of native ant species in the preserve that provide valuable ecosystem services like decomposition and pest control,» said Solomon, an ant expert, co-principal investigator on the grant and associate teaching professor of biosciences.

Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a range of valuable ecosystem services, ranging from fisheries and coastal protection, to carbon stocks that are important for mitigating climate change.

Oysters Much More Important Than Simply Food If oysters weren't just a currently and historically important human food source this would all be bad enough, but oyster reefs also provided several valuable ecosystem services.

«This is important because trees need to grow in order to perform valuable ecosystem services, such as removing pollutants from the air and storing carbon,» says Steve Frank, an associate professor of entomology at North Carolina State University and co-author of the paper.

But even if oyster farming does not become a major solution to reducing nitrogen in Great Bay, Grizzle emphasizes that oyster farming still provides valuable ecosystem services.

In this view, carbon storage as organic matter in soil is a valuable ecosystem service to society at every political scale, from sub-watershed to municipality to region, nation, and world.

Local governments are looking for ways to better manage their nature and the valuable ecosystem services nature provides.

Environmental and social advocacy organization Navdanya has stated concerns that expanding Jatropha cultivation on wastelands will simply be a land grab by corporations, and that so - called wastelands actually provide valuable ecosystem services, and I tend to take such concerns seriously.