Sentence examples for Ecological disruption from inspiring English sources

Proponents of Bt cotton claim that it reduces the input of disruptive insecticides and greatly reduces ecological disruption, but ultimately, this has not proven to be the case as year 2013 insecticide use is at year 2000 levels [69] (Additional file 1: Table S1).

This biology reduces and usually obviates the need for Bt cotton and disruptive insecticides (see Figs. 3 and 5), thus avoiding ecological disruption and outbreaks of bollworm and other secondary pests (sensu [11]) that may be far more damaging and difficult to control than PBW [8, 9].

Dr. Fahnenstiel called the mussels' explosive growth the most significant ecological disruption in modern Great Lakes history.

"They are like gypsy moths and kudzu — they cause major ecological disruption," Dr. Marra said.

The hopeful news for coccolithophores, however, does not overturn the gloomy predictions for corals or negate ocean acidification as an impending ecological disruption, Dr. Iglesias-Rodríguez said.

Travel, transportation, trade, pollution, and ecological disruption all play a role in assuring the constant flow of disease from one part of the world to another.

Ecological disruptions can halt this education.

What causes such ecological disruptions is still controversial.

As I wrote in 2009: [The move] is aimed at avoiding big ecological disruptions as the expanding summer retreats of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean expose virgin waters.

Sometimes it's been indirect, as in the human transport of invasive species around the world – either as pets or unwitting hitchhikers – causing enormous ecological disruptions from the Everglades to Australia.

Ideological transformations are thus commonly interpreted as adaptive or reactive responses to social, political, and ecological disruptions.