Sentence examples for ecological functions and processes from inspiring English sources

One piece of this puzzle is clarification that biocrusts are important to ecological functions and processes across the landscape.

Spatial heterogeneity, in the wide sense of pattern complexity and variability, appears to be one of the dominant influences of ecological functions and processes.

Soil restoration (e.g., fallow practices), flood regulation as maintained by trees, biodiversity functions (e.g., pest control and predation), and regeneration of high-valued timber trees are the ecological functions and processes most often expressed by actors during the role-playing games and participatory mapping activities.

We are now beginning to understand the adaptive mechanisms of these organisms, along with their ecological functions and evolutionary processes.

Instead of aiming to maintain a specific composition, the in-situ conservation of ecosystems defined by geophysical settings puts more emphasis on accommodating dynamic processes, maintaining ecological function and building adaptive capacity.

This process has many impacts on the ecological function and structure of the landscape.

Subsidence areas caused by coal mining activities and rapid urbanization process led to the losing of ecological function and decreasing of landscape connectivity in the city.

For example, in many systems we now have an exquisite understanding of genetic mechanisms and developmental processes underlying phenotypes (reviewed by Stern and Orgogozo 2008), but with far less knowledge of their ecological function and context.

We found that the variance CV of ecological functions processes (Production of Earthworm Biomass and Below-Ground Invertebrates, Soil Nutrient and Water Content) associated to belowground processes was not significantly decreased with increasing species richness.

Because of the linkages among ecological pattern, function and process, policy makers and land managers have increasingly sought measures of landscape pattern that may be used to quantify and monitor changes in forest cover associated with forest fragmentation at national or multinational scales.

Functional and ecological annotations were used to characterize the functions and processes encompassed by the statistically most robust adaptive genes.