Sentence examples for ecological disruption from inspiring English sources

Proponents of Bt cotton claim that it reduces the input of disruptive insecticides and greatly reduces ecological disruption, but ultimately, this has not proven to be the case as year 2013 insecticide use is at year 2000 levels [69] (Additional file 1: Table S1).

Identification : Miconia calvescens is a highly invasive and ecologically damaging introduced plant which has caused tremendous ecological disruption in Tahiti and threatens the Hawaiian Islands.

This biology reduces and usually obviates the need for Bt cotton and disruptive insecticides (see Figs. 3 and 5), thus avoiding ecological disruption and outbreaks of bollworm and other secondary pests (sensu [11]) that may be far more damaging and difficult to control than PBW [8, 9].

Another ecological disruption is also being remedied.

The potential for ecological disruption by ocean thermal energy conversion is enormous.

"They are like gypsy moths and kudzu — they cause major ecological disruption," Dr. Marra said.

Ecological disruptions can halt this education.

What causes such ecological disruptions is still controversial.

We've done a lot since the first Earth Day to curtail the ecological disruptions we cause.

Ideological transformations are thus commonly interpreted as adaptive or reactive responses to social, political, and ecological disruptions.

As I wrote in 2009: [The move] is aimed at avoiding big ecological disruptions as the expanding summer retreats of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean expose virgin waters.