Sentence examples for declining ecosystems from inspiring English sources
More attention needs to be given to the underlying drivers of risk such as poverty, inequality, weak governance, declining ecosystems and conflict.
Replacing our obsolete economic compass could help economics become part of the solution to reverse our declining ecosystems and biodiversity loss.
Ahmed Hassabelkreem Siddig (pictured at left) has earned a Student Dissertation Research Grant from the University of Massachusetts, to support his efforts to create a more informative measure of indicator species "effectiveness" for ecological monitoring and conservation in declining ecosystems.
Small Island Developing States around the globe are already bearing the brunt of the tragic impacts of climate change, suffering from rising sea levels, severe storm surges and declining ecosystems.
Given this, how are policy communities responding to the challenges posed by declining ecosystem services?
Since any effective reduction in species diversity under livestock would amount to a declining ecosystem function compared to native grazers (Bai et al. 2007; Bagchi and Ritchie 2010b), it can be addressed by site-specific restoration targets (Martin and Wilsey 2006).
We hypothesized that deforestation and lower percentages of forest cover (proxies for degraded environments) result in declining ecosystem services, which then open pathways to child undernutrition and poor health.
The changes in the landscape structure with LULC changes have altered the functional abilities of an ecosystem evident from lowered hydrological yield, disappearing perennial streams, higher instances of human animal conflicts, declined ecosystem goods, etc.
Through ongoing deforestation in the tropics, forest-related ecosystem services are declining, while ecosystem services provided by agricultural land uses are on the increase.
Wild seafood catch is declining and ecosystems are under siege from overfishing, pollution and global climate change.
Phosphorus (P) availability declines during ecosystem development due in part to chemical transformations of P in the soil.
