Sentence examples for ecological functions in the from inspiring English sources
Since they serve different ecological functions in the water than they do in land, the loss of one amphibian species is equivalent to the loss of two ecological species.
As a long term phased development strategy covering the period from 2000 to 2050, the GWDS would, without a doubt, produce cumulative environmental impacts or risks to significant ecological functions in the western region.
The bacterial community in the Arctic Ocean consists, like in other marine waters, of few abundant and a large number of rare phylotypes, most of them with unknown ecological functions in the biogeochemical cycling (Pedros-Alio, 2006; Galand et al., 2009; Kirchman et al., 2010).
In our approach, only those species will be subjected to testing that end up being ranked highest regarding their importance for fundamental ecological functions in that crop and the greatest likelihood of significant exposure.
Although proteins in the green fluorescent protein family (GFPs) have been discovered in a wide array of taxa, their ecological functions in these organisms remain unclear.
The goal is that neither all nor too little is required for testing but a reasonable set of species with greatest relevance to the receiving environment and an important ecological function in the given cropping system.
Soils cover almost all of the terrestrial area on Earth and have an indispensable ecological function in the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur.
Species that we suspect to be major drivers of ecological functioning in the GoMA ecosystem (e.g., gelatinous zooplankton, euphausiids, mesopelagic fishes) are all understudied, yet remain critical elements of the food web in this region [6][15][16] and will require further attention for successful implementation of ecosystem-based management in the GoMA.
We illustrate the ACT framework by applying it to an ecological function in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, USA)—water flows in the upper Yellowstone River.
Meanwhile, Professor Eric K Fritzell puts it thusly: "I can think of a few other ecological functions in which the human animal could participate more intimately – gathering wild asparagus or defecating in the woods, for example – but none have the intensity of predation".
