Sentences with phrase «widespread ecological change»

A review of the fossil record, they said, shows that rarity of previously abundant organisms is the only factor tied with certainty to the widespread ecological change observed across extinction boundaries, and because of this, the magnitude and extent of rarity may provide the best comparison of the current biotic crisis to those of the past.

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John Hobbie, director of the Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research Project at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, notes that the widespread changes identified by the researchers began after millennia of biotic constancy.

Such thinking — recently popularised by Timothy Morton's book «Being Ecological» — has emerged partly from the environmental crises of the moment: climate change, mass extinction and widespread plastic pollution.

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.