Sentences with phrase «with ecosystem resilience»
A select set of strategies will be explored to deal with ecosystem resilience relative to security of energy, food, and water resources.
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With the rainfall in 2016 there was increased scope to improve the health and resilience of aquatic ecosystems using a top up of Commonwealth environmental water within the Namoi River Valley.
My research addresses this need by (1) Characterising the spatially explicit functional role of reef fish; (2) Evaluating the interaction of fish with coral reef structure across spatial scales; and (3) Uses this information to evaluate the effectiveness of cross-scale diversity of function in fish as an indicator of resilience in coral reef ecosystems.
Just like with rainforests and other ecosystems, experts believe that gut microbiome diversity may contribute to our overall health and resilience.
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Ecosystem stability is based on interdependence among constituent species and with biodiversity loss, resilience to change is reduced.
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The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.
These focus in particular on building the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change in ways that allow them to moderate potential damage, to take advantage of new opportunities and to cope with the consequences of climate change, and on enhancing the resilience of communities and the ecosystems on which they depend.
In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.
• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management
With over $ 35,000 in prizes, NASA, in partnership with USGS, will host the Climate Resilience Data Challenge — an effort to spur data innovation in support of resilience in communities and ecosystWith over $ 35,000 in prizes, NASA, in partnership with USGS, will host the Climate Resilience Data Challenge — an effort to spur data innovation in support of resilience in communities and ecosystwith USGS, will host the Climate Resilience Data Challenge — an effort to spur data innovation in support of resilience in communities and eResilience Data Challenge — an effort to spur data innovation in support of resilience in communities and eresilience in communities and ecosystems.
Minimum tillage with biological nutrient recycling, as opposed to plowing and chemical fertilizers, could sequester 0.4 — 1.2 GtC / year [176] while conserving water in soils, building agricultural resilience to climate change, and increasing productivity especially in smallholder rain - fed agriculture, thereby reducing expansion of agriculture into forested ecosystems [177]--[178].
The objective of the programme was to strengthen the capacities of these countries to build ecosystem resilience by promoting EbA options and to reduce the vulnerability of communities, with particular emphasis on mountain ecosystems.
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This preparatory work is an essential part of permaculture (short for «permanent agriculture»), a way of designing and maintaining «agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems» (in the words of workshop organizers) that emphasizes working with the land rather than fighting against it.