Sentences with phrase «valuable ecosystems»

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.

Focusing on great global forests and oceans we aim to preserve, protect and restore the most valuable ecosystems for the climate and for biodiversity.

To help mitigate climate change and to maintain valuable ecosystems, they should stop illegal logging and reduce, and eventually halt, deforestation.

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.

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.

And given the ecological importance of grassland prairies, the idea of a protecting valuable ecosystems while also obtaining a yield is pretty darned compelling.

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.

A new research article published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzes the positive impact of long - term nutrient reductions on an important and valuable ecosystem in the Chesapeake Bay.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

As the NOAA notes, «coral reefs are some of the most diverse and valuable ecosystems on Earth.

Now conservationists, led by Ducks Unlimited, are trying to get some of that money dedicated to enhancing wildlife habitat and preserving other valuable ecosystems.

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.

CEO David Cohen reflected the early success of CLOUT, saying «'' The CLOUT Network aims to create the largest and most valuable ecosystem within the Cryptocurrency Community.

In many parts of Australia, Indigenous lands are adjoining pristine national parks that host many of our intact valuable ecosystems.

«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.

Enjoy brunch, lunch or sunset cocktails aboard Amansara's lake boat and discover the varied plant, fish and bird life that help make this vast inland lake one of Cambodia's most valuable ecosystems

«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.

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.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder David Papps said World Wetlands Day on 2 February is an opportunity to celebrate the key role of wetlands as critical breeding grounds for fish and birds, and the benefits of providing environmental water to protect these valuable ecosystems.

Kelp beds and forests, valuable ecosystems that house all sorts of marine life, may help buffer the effects of warmer and increasingly acidic waters (SN Online: 12/14/16).

«The protection of California's Bay - Delta system will continue to be a top priority for maintaining the state's agricultural economy, water security to tens of millions of users, and essential habitat to a valuable ecosystem,» said USGS Director Marcia McNutt.

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.

Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss.

«We're deeply committed to supporting a diverse and valuable ecosystem of third - party Apps and making them easy to discover,» explained Underwood.