Sentence examples for ecological effect from inspiring English sources

The impact of herd immunity on cost-effectiveness was seen as the most important ecological effect to measure.

The United Nations has criticized Russia, saying it ignored the ecological effect of construction projects for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

By the end of the year, Congress had passed the National Environmental Policy Act, known by the acronym NEPA, which requires federal agencies to file impact statements for all actions that could have a significant ecological effect.

This division in color has an ecological effect: red aphids are more likely to be eaten by predators, while green ones are more likely to be invaded by parasites.

Whatever is going on in that 80 percent of the country's urban space — as Groffman puts it, "the natural processes happening in neighborhoods" — has a large, cumulative ecological effect.

Then he presents the material case for symbiosis, which turns on the proposition that the ecological effect of removing "keystone species" -- which means all of these alpha groups -- is downwardly destructive; disorganizing to the fitness of the predators two, three and four steps lower; and leading ultimately to an unpleasantly, and dangerously, simplified natural world.

The main steps that can be taken are split into four groups: reducing the number of areas that are lit; in those which are lit, reduce the duration of lighting; change the type of light being produced so that it has the lowest ecological effect; change the design of lights (eg shielding them so that they only light a very specific area) to make them more friendly to local species.

The wider ecological effects could be serious.

More alarming to some experts are the potential ecological effects.

A girl begins to grasp the rippling ecological effects of her choices.

Further spread of the industrial agricultural model is also likely to have devastating ecological effects.