Sentence examples for biodiversity modifications from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

Biofuel feedstock production can be a significant driver of landscape modification, ecosystem change and biodiversity loss.

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].

However, important questions remain regarding biodiversity offsets to such anthropogenic modifications.