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"It is common modern ecological strategy, and these guys were doing it in the earliest animal ecosystems on this planet, " she said.

Hurricane Katrina showed us how much we depend on healthy natural coastal ecosystems for shoreline protection.

She said the plastic is impacting ocean ecosystems, though she doesn't yet know to what extent.

Disturbance is one of the driving forces of forest community succession, and of significance in forest ecosystems.

Beginning to design urban ecosystems holistically rather than piecemeal might alleviate some of the pressure on natural ecosystems.

Through the atmosphere, all parts of terrestrial ecosystems, forests, grasslands, are linked in a very effective way.

To demonstrate that an understanding of stability in ecosystems can be applied to help understand stability in other situations.

Land used in the production of biofuels often replaces much-needed farmland or is cut out of important ecosystems around the world.

Mangroves are among the most biologically important ecosystems on the planet, and a common feature of tropical and sub-tropical coast lines.

And if the ecosystems were more chaotic than he might have liked, they were also more powerful and more profitable.

When birds move, the insects or plants they eat often do not, possibly upsetting ecosystems unchanged for thousands of years.

This means that each of you and the ecosystems that surround you need to be completely realigned.

His recent focus, which has brought him to Greenland and Antarctica in a single year, is global warming and its impact on ecosystems.

Because at random was exactly how humans were trying to restore ecosystems.

The idea is to see how ecosystems respond to changes in climate and land use, and to the arrival of new species.

Bats are the hidden guardians of Britain's ecosystems and scientists fear they might be in peril.

As long linear extensive mode of economic development, lead to the excessive consumption of energy and the unsustainable of ecosystems.

Management of these ecosystems as a whole is needed to ensure the sustainability of commercial fish stocks.

New Guinea is centred in a region known as the Coral Triangle which supports the most diverse marine ecosystems on Earth.

The grassland ecosystem is one of the main ecosystems on the land.

Areas like this, where freshwater meets the ocean, create dazzlingly diverse ecosystems called estuaries.

Among the coastal ecosystems threatened by the spill are the Chandeleur Islands (image right center).

Given its awesome size, Brazil offers the tourist the opportunity to see many different ecosystems.

Visitors will experience close encounter with a diversity of wetland ecosystems around the world.

Plant growth should be expected to be limited by nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability in most terrestrial ecosystems.

In natural ecosystems, plants constitute suitable habitats and niches for the colonization of a diversity of microorganisms.

As land mingles with sea over these vast distances, it embraces at least three distinct ecosystems.

It's not just going to be animals and ecosystems that are impacted but human systems: roads, power production and health care.

Net primary productivity(NPP) estimation is one of important study fields of global change and terrestrial ecosystems.

There are now no undisturbed ecosystems in the region the Nazca used to call home.

Some ecologists argue that feral cats are so terrible for urban ecosystems that they really ought to be euthanized.

But I've always had an interest in how we improve people's ecosystems -- whether it's civics or education or economics.

And so it was kind of odd to have a culture that would take advantage of different ecosystems and expand over such a large region.

Designed by Urban Ecosystems, the Air Tree pavilion is to be built from recycled materials and will be 100% energy self-sufficient.

There really is a sense in which ecosystems are balanced and harmonious, with some of their constituent species becoming mutually dependent.

Coastal salt marshes are the important intertidal ecosystems at the land-ocean interface.

Tourism accounts for a large piece of coastline economies and medicines are being found in reef ecosystems everyday.

All this misses the point: there are too many people for the Earth's fragile ecosystems.

They use a sort of "Digital DNA" approach to information and are built as flexible evolving ecosystems.

In the transition to a green and inclusive economy, human development can be advanced and the integrity of ecosystems maintained.

This helps slow the rate of global warming but increases ocean acidity, posing a potentially disastrous threat to marine ecosystems.

The animals cause more than US$10 million a year in damage to fragile outback ecosystems.

Ozone is an important part of the upper atmosphere that protects both humans and ecosystems from harmful UV-B radiation.

Ecosystems are delicate and easily damaged. Around the world, areas are endangered by the large numbers of tourism who visit them.

He likes to compare fisheries to banking, both parts of essentially unstable ecosystems whose workings are only partially understood.

The review, published in the journal Conservation Biology, highlights destruction and degradation of ecosystems as the main threat.

Creating whole new ecosystems that mix natives with transplanted exotics might be risky.

Andso it was kind of odd to have a culture that would take advantage ofdifferent ecosystems and expand over such a large region.

Discussion on the Main Types of the Formation and Succession of Agricultural Ecosystems and Their Spatial Distribution.

Interpretation of the area's hydrology is articulated through the rehabilitation and creation of wetland, prairie, and forest ecosystems.

That's the idea behind artificial ecosystems, all the way up to the infamous Biosphere II.

At times the characters are tough to track, since their relationships unfold across the social ecosystems at seven different schools.

About 120 of those are known to be wreaking havoc on native ecosystems despite efforts to stop them.

Wolves should be reintroduced in U. S. national parks to help restore damaged ecosystems.

But, in private, they express significant confusion and frustration regarding the loose way that these ecosystems are often discussed.

They believe it may be a "missing piece in the evolutionary story of fish, mammals and ocean ecosystems" .

The scientists say short-term human impacts can leave permanent changes in ecosystems and a species' genetics.

During the past several decades, these ecosystems have been damaged and reduced in most countries along the Indian Ocean.

What the mobile ecosystems of today have done is to unmask the reality that it's the back end that matters.

Both those political ecosystems are now collapsing, with the euro-zone crisis, the advent of Arab people power and the war in Libya.

Similar to ecosystems, marketing system (MS) is the ecotone of an enterprise and its environment.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the most significant and largely intact ecosystems left on the earth.

Although small in size, these little animals are part of our biodiversity which forms the basic foundation of healthy ecosystems.

Because of the special nature of their environment, Oasis system is more vulnerable than general arid zone ecosystems.

"In Amazonian archaeology you always have this idea that you find different peoples in different ecosystems, " study co-author Schaan said.

Forest ecologists have been more concerned than agronomists with the inner mechanisms of natural and artificial ecosystems.

Both for the well-being of the individual, and for the conservation of the species and their ecosystems.

Almost 90% of the world's plant activity, by some estimates, is to be found in ecosystems where humans play a significant role.

Environmentalists want to increase the amount of water flowing downstream to help restore ecosystems damaged by the dams.

Pershing says Roman's work is bound to get scientists thinking more about the role of large marine mammals in ocean ecosystems.

The equivalent to the Stern report for biodiversity is called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB).

These stunningly beautiful natural wonders are among the world's oldest, most diverse, and most productive ecosystems.

To ensure the implementation of the above provisions, all necessary measures shall be taken to protect habitat and ecosystems.

Aquatic ecosystems share a number of basic structural and functional characteristics with terrestrial ecosystems .

The results have implications for lake ecosystems, which can be adversely affected by even small water temperature changes.

After 1492, the world's ecosystems collided and mixed as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.

In the Miocene seas, kelp forests made their first appearance and soon became one of Earth's most productive ecosystems.

During the reconstruction of various ecosystems, invasive alien species should be prevented.

Also heavy metals in ash and its cement products are not at high risk of exposure and effects on aquatic ecosystems.

Ecosystems are no longer considered as closed, self-regulating entities, which at their mature stage reach an equilibrium.

Sharks, at the top of the predator line, play an important role in maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems.

That's not just bad for you, it's bad for the farmers and the tropical ecosystems in which the coffee is grown.

Climate change will have "significant negative consequences" on Russia's population, economy and ecosystems, the report concludes.

The exact role of these interactions in transport and cycling of metals in aquatic ecosystems is also discussed.

The riparian ecosystems are facing the dangers of degrading or even collapsing due to the unreasoned water utilization by human being.

Vegetation ecosystems in Western Ordos Plateau are endangered and measures should be taken to protect from further disturbance urgently.

Already much of China suffers from an environmental crisis that threatens its citizens' health and its natural ecosystems.

Bioassays are used in environmental toxicology to examine the effects of man-made contaminants on individual organisms and ecosystems.

The economic demands of the fishing industry together with the recent surge in house building, has impacted on coastal ecosystems.

Habitat fragmentation often reduces the diversity of frugivores, but this situation does not happen in all ecosystems.

Depends on whether one worries about climate change or persistent plastics in terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

These ecosystems need to be managed by a core company that has the scale and skills to provide technological leadership.

The same level of complexity confronts researchers studying the body's myriad proteins, the human brain and even ecosystems.

The results for other regions of the bio-capacity to improve and maintain the equilibrium of ecosystems to provided case studying reference.

The nitrogen source and its uptake by plants in terrestrial ecosystems are controlled by their types and habitats.

Evaluations solely from aquatic exposure concentrations are not adequate to account for potential secondary effects in marine ecosystems.

Sparse snow patches in Taylor Valley Antarctica may be an important source of moisture for soil ecosystems in this extreme environment.

Any geo-engineering project would necessarily be enormous, and would therefore cause plenty of disruption to ecosystems.

For more than a month, thick sediment has poured into the ocean depositing chemicals and pesticides onto fragile marine ecosystems.

Two domestic agriculture research networks mainly studied the water and nutrient cycling in agro-ecosystems.

Platforms need apps to thrive and developers are the growth engine of the smartphone ecosystems.

In general, the outbreak is an "alarming" reminder of how such emerging pathogens can devastate whole ecosystems.

During long periods of time ecosystems have been evolving. The evolution of an ecosystem is caused by factors inside and outside it.

And Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems DataNet, designed by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.

What's still missing from the new indicator, Dasgupta says, is a calculation for the complete range of services that ecosystems perform.

We've already passed a safe threshold for coral reef ecosystems in terms of climate change.

Ecosystems sometimes have fairly discrete boundaries, as is the case with a lake or island.

The power created though tidal generators is generally more environmentally friendly and causes less impact on established ecosystems.

BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY: WHY IS THERE A DISCREPANCY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS?

Covers ecosystems, water, health and safety, conservation, waste, recycling, air, US environmental law, and includes a dictionary.

Error cascades can explain why complex ecosystems (like rainforests) tend to be more fragile than simple ones (like savannahs).

But environmentalists will cheer that, at last, there may be some respite for the world's dwindling resources and hard-pressed ecosystems.

Coupling relationship between water and salt of waters ecosystems in arid zone : A case study in Xinjiang Tarim River basin .

Mr Govindarajan's idea is so powerful because he treats houses as ecosystems that provide light, ventilation and sanitation.

Quebec's Forillon National Park protects a range of varied ecosystems, including natural prairies, seaside cliffs, lakes, and marshes.

"We're concerned about the shifts in energy flows in ecosystems towards this so-called trophic dead-end of jellyfish, " Graham said.

Goals of the project are to make major additions to the size and improve wetland ecosystems in nearby lands.

At the current rate of deforestation, tropical rain-forests would virtually disappear as functioning ecosystems within 100 years.

Other companies are developing their own ecosystems in a bid to make people's mobile-computing experience even more seamless.

It said many of the current supposedly protected ecosystems were mere "paper parks" that lacked any means to stop logging and hunting.

Parasitic plants are an important component of terrestrial ecosystems, and widely distributed in most terrestrial ecosystems.

Plant metabolism of CO2 and air pollutants and gas fluxes in plant ecosystems influence global gas cycles as well.

Today's mobile platforms win and lose by the strength of their ecosystems of developers, service and content providers.

how cause and effect interact in complex ecosystems where small changes may be synergistically amplified.

You've just told us a different story of this tragic arms race that's happening, and maybe whole ecosystems gone forever.

Our health, well-being and sustainable future depend on this intricate, delicate web of ecosystems and life.

Diurnal dynamics of soil respiration in three ecosystems were different, but their seasonal change was similar with unimodal pattern found.

And constructing entirely new ecosystems is another discipline at which the U. S. excels.

Leaders must think far outside buildings to redefine neighborhoods, ecosystems, value chains, and communities.

Improve the environment and rehabilitation and reconstruction of damaged ecosystems are becoming a major issue among people.

The sector also threatens "enormous pressure on ecosystems, biodiversity, land and forest resources and water quality" .

Perhaps dug out canoes or rafts would also be suitable for fitting in with the ecosystems.

The researchers estimate that 100 years of whaling removed 23 million tons of carbon from marine ecosystems.

This has potential to displace local marine species, threaten ecosystems and cause billions of dollars in damage and preventive control.

The Living Machine works by mimicking one of nature's most productive ecosystems: tidal marshes.

Closer to the shore, many natural ecosystems, most notably coral reefs and mangroves, act as natural shock absorbers and wave breakers.

Understanding how ecosystems work is an important but challenging task for scientists.

Even genetic variation within the same species has been shown to affect how well ecosystems pull up their socks and repair themselves.

Many more ecosystems need assessment before there's enough data to include these factors in a wealth analysis.

He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Other freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems have been degraded by pollution.

The view and ecosystems designed to reflect the mankind's new esthetics view and value-persons and kind relation of the natures.

As in so much of the world's oceans, these ecosystems are at risk.

Interplanetary travel probably means that astronauts will need to carry ecosystems along to supply food and oxygen.

Cities are shaped by natural ecosystems, social ecosystems, economic ecosystems posed by complex ecosystems.

What are the major mechanisms by which the microbial loop regulates the metabolism of freshwater ecosystems ?

The challenge now is to preserve threatened ecosystems before these species, and others yet unknown, are lost.

Watersystems are forever effected--usually negatively--fishing industries--ecosystems destroyed--fish spawning, etc.

It's not uncommon for invasions to occur when humans connect ecosystems that have naturally been kept separate.

Its sources include wetlands resources regulations and wetlands ecosystems protection laws.

In terrestrial ecosystems, the largest changes occur when the intruder brings quite different traits from those of native species.

He ends with a plea to protect endangered species and threatened ecosystems.

The CO2 produced by the photochemical mineralization in the process of photodegradation is the main mechanism of the C loss from ecosystems.

Because the changes will be rapid, natural ecosystems-wetlands, rain forests, savannas-may be unable to adapt.

Agrochemicals had destroyed the natural cycles of nutrient renewal that intact ecosystems use to maintain themselves.

Oxford University's interdisciplinary unit relating to both teaching and research on energy, climate and ecosystems .

On a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems can be represented as networks of species.

Stolzenburg says the islands essentially serve as metaphors for how the world's invasive species can irreparably alter fragile ecosystems.

Such ecosystems normally develop over million of years through a slow process of co-evolution.

He says the changes to marine ecosystems will affect how the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide.

Ecosystems will find themselves subject to climates far removed from those they evolved in, endangering many species.

He did applaud efforts by some Chinese companies to build platforms, or 'ecosystems, ' in the 'cloud, ' like Alibaba and Tencent.

Water efficiency provides long term water security by making use of the water we already have to sustain our communities and ecosystems.

these concentrations lie in coral reef ecosystems that , like their terrestrial counterparts , fall in the direct path of human actions.

There will always be some uncertainty about a system as complex as the world's climate and diverse as the world's ecosystems.

"Sharks are a top predator and play a very vital role in marine ecosystems, " said Long.

Maintaining populations of target species to enable their natural role in ecosystems and to enable sustainable reproduction rates.

Seagrass beds are important coastal ecosystems characterized by high biomass and primary production.

Actual sources of agricultural GHG emissions: in sufficient detail (e. g. by agro-ecosystems &aggregated by countries).

More than 90% of marine species went extinct, and land-based ecosystems suffered almost as much.

Nutrient distribution and accumulation pattern of Chinese pine plantation ecosystems in the loess region .

The species that make up natural ecosystems usually display a wide range of genetic variability .

Algal blooms trigger by eutrophication due to Nitrogen runoff choke river ecosystems.

This change in climate is leading to more frequent wildfires, which could devastate the region's ecosystems.

This paper reviews the research history of acid deposition, and summarizes the effects of acid deposition on forest ecosystems.

They maintained biological productivity rates similar to outside ecosystems.

Termites are important decomposers of lignocellulose in tropical ecosystems.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

Eric Sanderson studies ecosystems and how landscapes create livable environments for plants and animals.

For more than a month, thickasediment has poured into the ocean depositing chemicals and pesticides onto fragile marine ecosystems.

The work of restoring the tarnished ecosystems of the Gulf Coast is just beginning.

Jaramillo added that it wasn't global warming that spelled trouble for the world's ecosystems but human activity.

Isn't it surprising that all humans share only three predominant gut-bug ecosystems, given our diverse diets, lifestyles and gene-profiles?

Conservation of ecosystems and the species within them could help to maintain the natural balances disrupted by recent human activity.

Tides provide energy for the ecosystems, but estuaries are protected from waves and storms by islands, mud, or sand.

Conversion of terrestrial ecosystems resulting from land-use practice plays an important role in global carbon cycling.

Ecosystems are particularly affected by large-scale fishing, freshwater use, and agriculture.

Marshes are a critical ecosystem to human living, at the same time, representing one of the most productive ecosystems in the world.

"We've put in place a number of measures to ensure that ecosystems and biodiversity are maintained, " says Smith.

Flowing waters like rivers and streams are called lotic ecosystems; standing water like lakes and ponds are lentic.

The soil seed bank can partly reflect the history of communities, and plays an important role in the restoration of degraded ecosystems.

Once the fire is out, the grass and shrub ecosystems should return quickly.

The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems is particularly sensitive to climatic changes in autumn and spring.

A relatively intact landscape has helped keep ecosystems intact and let animals retain flexibility in what they eat and how they migrate.

Changes to ecosystems due to wildfire, the ocean becoming more acidic, flooding and drought.

Organic matter accumulation in forest floors is important for carbon and nutrient storage and cycling in forest ecosystems.

But the species serve as health indicators for ecosystems, he stressed, which are also critically important for Haiti's people.

Tides provide energy for the ecosystems, but estuaries are protected from waves and storms by island, mud or sand.

They and others have discovered that the human body actually comprises a couple dozen mini-ecosystems.

When top predators like sharks disappear from their environments, ecosystems fall out of whack.

Sustained and intensive human activities have serious impact on the health and security of aquatic ecosystems.

But even this method runs the risk of altering the acidity of soil or marine ecosystems unless precautions are taken with disposal.

The report goes on to say that "it is more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems . . . such as tropical savannas. "

So, too, the atlas looks at giant mountain chains of the seabed that spew hot lava and power bizarre ecosystems.

The Everglades has an amazing and magnificent array of ecosystems to explore, I love having the opportunity to Wet Walk in the Glades .

This is one of the reasons why the fate of coral reefs may be more easily assessed than open-water ecosystems.

Disturbance is a frequent, intrinsic characteristic of ecosystems.

"InAmazonian archaeology you always have this idea that you find differentpeoples in different ecosystems, " study co-author Schaan said.

The newcomers changed the way land was managed and introduced new plants and animals that were harmful to the Australian ecosystems.

Marine ecosystems lost their regulatory abilities, and changes in climate and weather followed.

Companies can build on each other's services, creating new loosely coupled, process- and industry-centric business service ecosystems.

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth sustained by different ecosystems.

Research on water pollution control by aquatic ecosystems is a focus of wastewater treatment in recent years.

Coral reefs, whose profusion of life and diversity of ecosystems make them the rainforests of the sea, have suffered most of all.

Nitrogen turnover from grazing livestock excreta is the key process in the nitrogen cycle of pasture ecosystems.

Forest ecosystems are being destroyed by logging, burning for subsistence farms, and poaching.

In those ecosystems heavily impacted by whaling, the populations of smaller species increased.

Increase productivity while decreasing damage to ecosystems.

Suspending particular matters of shrimp culture in enclosure ecosystems.

So the arid land ecosystems of the wetland is the root of the wetland system's environmental problem.

As the world heats up, ecosystems are visibly struggling to cope with the rapid ecological changes.

It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is dominant.

WwW. zIdiR. coM Forest, as the one of the most important parts in terrestrial ecosystems, possess both ecological and economic benefits.

Flying foxes can have a wingspan of up to 1. 5m and are crucial for the rainforest ecosystems in this part of Asia.

Forests are the main terrestrial ecosystems, the Earth's lungs.

Scientists have warned of an alarming increase in the extinction of animal species, because of threats to biodiversity and ecosystems.

Forests are not only trees, and forest ecosystems are more fragile, longer-lived and less closely controlled than crop fields.

They registered energy efficiencies similar to larger ecosystems.

Marine ecosystems are intricate webs of life, with each species dependent on others for survival.

Discoveries in hot springs or in deep ocean vents, for instance, hint at entirely new and unexplored ecosystems.

Equally significant, are the vital natural services thatthe world's ecosystems provide.

The World Health Organization will publish this report, examining the linkages between ecosystems and human health.

Where oil reaches the coast, it will damage ecosystems on which many people rely for livelihoods.

This is bound to outstrip the ability of many societies and ecosystems to adapt.

Many marine ecosystems don't fare well with rubber tires, paint cans, and disinfectants planted on the seabeds.

Temperate forest ecosystems occupy a position of prominence among all ecosystems.

Ecosystems contain a natural harmony, each part fitting into the overall scheme.

Sites that can't play in these new ecosystems will likely lose out to their early-adopter-friendly competitors.

Fluorescence could also lead to breakthroughs in scientists' understanding of how carbon cycles through ecosystems.

Possible consequences include flooding and damage to both cities and ecosystems.

There are forests on the top level and desert areas down below. They provide support for several different ecosystems.

However scary sharks may seem, they are a vital part of the ocean's ecosystems.

Agricultural fertilizers often drain into aquatic ecosystems and spur a frenzy of growth.

which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.

Previous efforts to quantify the effect of climate change on U. S. ecosystems have generally focused on particular areas or industries.

Acid deposition has serious damaged the terrestrial ecosystems.

Like biological ecosystems, a computer ecosystem is more viable when it has more participants and more diversity.

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences.

In this paper stable isotope techniques applied to forest ecosystems were overviewed.

This circulation adds energy to the marine ecosystems and moves nutrients around.