Sentence examples for biodiversity modification from inspiring English sources

Dominant woody species are identified and discussed in relation to their provision of amenity, support of biodiversity, modification of urban microclimate and amelioration of air pollution to help establish the benefits and disadvantages of naturally established woody vegetation as part of an overall urban forestry strategy.

Also, the effects of the biodiversity modification on the Baltic Sea ecosystem cannot yet be determined.

The high density and small size of CDs will allow the detailed reconstruction of landscape and biodiversity modifications in the region for the two last millennia.

Opportunities to improve the ecological functioning of agricultural landscapes in the U.S. Midwest exist, and could include the restoration of native plant communities to improve biodiversity or the modification of agricultural production systems to enhance the provisioning of ecosystem services to society.

Plantations that have already been established by traditional design can also conserve biodiversity via small modifications to operations.

These activities have taken many forms but the most devastating anthropogenic direct drivers affecting global biodiversity are: (1) habitat modification, fragmentation, and destruction; (2) pollution; (3) climate change; (4) overexploitation of species; and (5) the spread of invasive species and genes (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment MEA 2005; World Wide Fund for Nature WWF 2012).

The determination of architectural indices allowed us to distinguish a modification of biodiversity along a disturbance gradient for population level.

A number of other classification and evaluation schemes for ecosystem services have emerged in recent years (Robinson et al. 2013), including the TEEB Assessment (2010; The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), which proposed a modification of the MEA scheme.

Notably, it was shown for the first time that virus diversity decreased and prevalence increased during the process of emergence from a pristine rainforest habitat into surrounding areas of less host biodiversity due to anthropogenic modification [ 7].

Although GM rice may increase the efficiency of modern agriculture and provide other benefits, not all global markets fully accept GM products for a variety of reasons, including the introduction of new allergens, the possible development of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, and the modification of environmental biodiversity [ 11].

The development of effective conservation management plans that encompass entire landscapes requires a detailed understanding of the biodiversity consequences of land-use change and landscape modification [33], [34].