Sentence examples for Less ecological from inspiring English sources

Playing the lesser-of-two-evils card, he blithely suggests vacationers not agonize about using plastic shopping bags because they cause less ecological damage than paper.

So it is outrageous for them to clamor for access to the pristine lands of the refuge at a time when they have barely begun to tap the significant resources in areas of far less ecological value.

Bioethanol might be produced more economically and with less ecological impact (with reduced exploitation of food crops) if we could increase the production of glucose from the cellulosic materials in plant cell walls.

104 learner drivers and 51 experienced drivers were randomly assigned either to a less ecological valid version (multiple choice task) or a higher ecological valid version (reaction task) of a hazard perception test.

As in southern Bali, people consider the mountain situated to the north to be sacred and the southern ocean unclean (Toru, 1993a, b, c, d).Compared with the land, the sea shows much less ecological resistance, so distant coastal populations and cultures still share similarities and more frequent movement and mixture adds difficulty in dividing waters.

The government has also been funding massive monoculture plantation drives across the state to arrest forest degradation which however is able to generate relatively less ecological and economic services to forest dependent communities when compared to mixed broadleaved forests and so the vicious cycle of forest degradation has remained unchecked.

Methodologically, this development has gone hand in hand with an integration of GIS-based archaeomorphological approaches, historical, geo-archaeological and, less commonly, ecological data.

The neuroecological literature informs us that hippocampal hypometabolism in animals invariably results in an alternate, less rigorous, ecological strategy and, like AD, is often accompanied by other physiological modes of energy conservation [ 74].

Third, the KiKK study is a case-control study (examining 593 under five year olds with leukemia together with 1,766 controls) which means its findings should take precedence over the Bithell and Laurier studies which were less reliable ecological studies.

2. Comparison of Q_R not only with Q and connectance but also with other network metrics, such as linkage density or dependence asymmetry  (and particularly those with a more or less clear ecological interpretation, such as H2').

Most photobiont species, especially from the genus Trebouxia, are cosmopolitan with more or less broad ecological preferences (Fernandez-Mendoza et al. 2011; Ruprecht et al. 2012) and this was true for the most commonly detected clades in this study.