Sentence examples for buffer communities from inspiring English sources

In other words, a greater number of species was ultimately required to buffer communities from the small perturbations that occasionally triggered mass extinctions on these highly ordered landscapes.

Coastal marshes buffer communities from storm surges.

By allowing plants to store propagules belowground until adequate germination conditions are met, seed banks can buffer communities against perturbations (Templeton and Levin 1979; Thompson and Grime 1979; Leck 2001) and their composition can be a useful metric for estimating the potential future composition of the vegetation community (Major and Pyott 1966).

Facebook groups and Slack chats like Buffer community and #nomads are best places to look for fellows with a strong community feel.

Neighborhood resources buffer community stressors (Israel et al. 1998; Kretzman and McKnight 1993).

Community resources help buffer community stressors and protect against environmental exposure, but when resources are inadequate, community stress arises.

Although it is tempting to assume that in the case of a severe pandemic, informal social distancing will be enough to buffer community transmission until a safe and effective vaccine becomes available our results indicate that for a large number of scenarios, this is not a reasonable assumption.

The disappearing land once buffered communities including New Orleans from catastrophic storm surges.

Both the partial and no cut buffer bird communities were more similar to the control than the clear-cut treatment.

Along Louisiana's coastline, where land the size of a football field is lost to the ocean nearly every hour, a coalition of environmental organizations and government agencies has been restoring land and working to protect the wetlands that help buffer seaside communities from storm surges.

The increase in species richness and complexity acts to buffer the community from environmental stresses and disasters, rendering it more stable.