Sentence examples for define ecosystem from inspiring English sources

Our study addresses rather typical restoration works in Australia (i.e., returning natural/native ecosystems following agricultural development), and some of the difficulties faced when attempting to define ecosystem development toward a given restoration target.

Barbier: Another important point here is how we define ecosystem services.

We define ecosystem attributes as aspects of ecosystem state and function relevant to the EBM goal of maintaining a healthy, productive, and resilient ecosystem [11].

Of course, one could define "ecosystem services" to capture all these aspects, but making clear distinctions helps to avoid possible conceptual confusions arising when everything is forced under the ecosystem services umbrella (where any human benefit from any place becomes an "ecosystem service"; for related discussion, see ).

Foundation tree species are dominant and define ecosystems.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) report defines ecosystem services as benefits that people obtain from ecosystems (Fig. 1).

In this sense also, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ([2005]) has defined ecosystem service as benefits to humanity from ecosystems.

First, we measured the functional fit between the defined ecosystem and legislation through a quantitative analysis based on text revision and network analysis.

He defined ecosystem scarcity and ecosystem vulnerability factors which "give information on the intrinsic biodiversity value of an area", as well as a criterion for including present conditions for biodiversity in an area.

The microbial community at the rim of the JTC colony differed greatly from the one at the center, despite a distance of only 30 cm and mirrored the sharp biogeochemical gradients and defined ecosystem boundaries.

Defining ecosystems Sinai is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez to the east and west, and the Red Sea to the South.