Sentence examples for ecological frontier from inspiring English sources

Palawan is often called the Philippines' last ecological frontier, as it is home to most of the nation's remaining forests and its waters are renowned as a global biological hotspot.

By 1500 most of the farming communities had stabilized in roughly their present-day habitats, reaching their ecological frontier on the dry southern Highveld of South Africa and gradually clearing the coastal forests.

Matthew Gandy expresses this joint economic and ideological shift while discussing the 1842 opening of New York City's Croton Aqueduct: "with the extension of the city's ecological frontier into upstate New York, the urbanization of nature and the naturalization of the urban could advance in tandem" (Gandy 34).

We need more science, a better understanding of risks and impacts, and more deliberate application of that science in implementing a sustainable management regime for this final ecological frontier.

Understanding the consequences of intra-specific genetic variation and genotypic diversity within plant communities on the local diversity and abundance of insect pollinator communities is an important ecological frontier and there are many reasons why this represents a critical research direction to explore.

Brooks also describes the ecological impact of frontier settlement and the evolution of private land development based on the decision either to clear land for farming or to harvest forest products for potash, lumber, maple sugar, fuel wood, and scrub pasture.

Because of the more well-known history of the Great Wall, which marked a transition between the ecological and cultural frontier between China and Inner Asia, the ancient peoples who lived north of this monumental first millennium BC construction were assumed to have been barbarians.

THE ETERNAL FRONTIER: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, by Tim Flannery.

His work these days is helping articulate ecological ethics at the frontier of interreligious dialogues.

Or as Dr. Taylor puts it: "As an ecological war-zone, the frontier farm was not a pretty sight.

The expansion of a commodity frontier involves ecological changes and demands access to natural resources along different processes of the commodity chain - from extraction (here we use the term extraction frontier to refer to the space where the crop cultivation takes place) to disposal - that may result in severe socio-environmental impacts in specific sites at the local level.