Sentences with phrase «what land ecosystems»

«We need to be less sure about what land ecosystems will do and what we expect in the future,» says ecosystem ecologist Peter Reich of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, who led the study.

Volk: Well, yeah, some is going into the ocean, but as you point out, there are mysteries still there about what the land ecosystems are doing to the CO2.

Not exact matches

If there is a spill on land or water, what assurances do Burnaby and the Lower Mainland of B.C. have that its ecosystem can ever be fully restored?

The survival of ecosystems and species, of land and air and water, depend now on what we do and what we refrain from doing.

Given the emphasis on ecosystems or biotic communities that is so central to the land ethic, what is the moral status of the individual organism?

And yet what effect do fragments of plastic have on ecosystems «on dry land»?

By, for example, examining what people in the area use different trees and shrubs for and look at how the landscape changes, we can better understand how land use, social change, climate and ecosystems interact, even in ways that can be unexpected,» says Lowe Börjeson, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Alaska Ecosystems Program announced findings this week that may explain what the marine mammals are looking for when they swim hundreds of kilometers from land in search of food.

As non-native species, land development, and climate change remodel river ecosystems, it is no longer easy to define what is «natural» for river systems.

By 80m years ago these mega tyrannosaurs were terrorising what is now North America and Asia, spreading into all ecosystems on land, displacing smaller predators, and eating whatever they wanted.

Whether dealing with historically intact or novel ecosystems — the 47 percent of Earth's ice - free land that has been altered by humans — scientists need to look at the paleobiology of the region, that is, what the ecosystem looked like before humans altered it, and seek to rebuild it to some degree toward that natural balance, Barnosky said.

It quickly became obvious that the vast majority of the bacteria released by people in the hospital die shortly after landing in what is a remarkably inhospitable ecosystem.

Although it is absolutely necessary to change the economic incentives if land is to be managed as an ecosystem, what I want to suggest is that the definition of a PES as well as of ecosystem valuation needs to take into account that services from ecosystems have very different characteristics from a loaf of bread.

What is more, Pocket Card Jockey and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 are scheduled to land on Nintendo's ecosystem soon enough.

I started to really unpack just how much land there was in the game, filling out my map and establishing a sense of the game's ecosystem, and what I was or wasn't ready to handle.

What I think just about everybody underestimates is 1) the historical difficulty of «living off the land», and 2) the degree to which that is compounded by ecosystem disruption and «weather weirding.»

This means that the land ecosystems took up 120 GtC and returned 120 GtC (the exact numbers don't matter here, what matters is that they are the same).

And we do that by the mapping and figuring out where important species live and how much land, or what kind of functioning ecosystem they need to survive.

What we do now can save species, ecosystems, arable land, and communities that will otherwise be lost to sea - level rise.

JS: In the Himalayas, there's very rapid warming to the point where their whole ecosystems, environments, land use and agriculture are changing without them really realizing what's happening.

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Join GLOBE EU, the Global Legislators Organization for Balanced Environment and Global Footprint Network in marking Earth Overshoot Day — the date when humanity's annual demand for the goods and services that our land and seas can provide exceeds what Earth's ecosystems can renew in a year.

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Although the time resolution of old air locked in ice cores is not enough to preserve seasonal cycles, there is no doubt that the seasonal cycle, which is mostly caused by photosynthesis and respiration of ecosystems on land, was similar to what we observe today.