Sentence examples for ecological legacy from inspiring English sources

For example, a couple of years ago I spent three days in the library looking for papers which mention the ecological legacy of elephants in Europe.

Recent studies in Prince William Sound suggest that, in small ways, the ecological legacy of Exxon Valdez persists to this day.

In 2010, the year Merwin became poet laureate, he, his wife; his publisher, Copper Canyon Press; and the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust took steps to protect it, forming the Merwin Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Merwin's literary and ecological legacy.

The goal of this study is to investigate patterns of and potential mechanisms in post-outbreak forest change in order to better understand the ecological legacy of the recent outbreak in the context of its implications for resilience to future disturbances and adaptation to climate change.

Allendorf et al. (1997) suggested that the 'native assemblage' of which a population is part of could be used to evaluate the ecological legacy of that population for conservation prioritization.

The use of the information that we have collected on each population is best viewed as a method of conservation priority in the absence of factors related to actual threat status, that is, they relate more closely to assessments of the genetic, evolutionary, and ecological legacy of the species (sensu Allendorf et al. 1997).

(3) Restoration and conservation practice must be tailored to the unique mechanisms and post-disturbance ecological legacies that determine the trajectory and tempo of successional change in each particular ecosystem.

Contemporary forest management practices are increasingly designed to optimize novel objectives, such as maximizing biomass feedstocks and/or maintaining ecological legacies, but many uncertainties exist regarding how these practices influence forest carbon (C) cycling.

Here, we describe a process to capture information on the ecological and evolutionary legacy relevant to conservation prioritization within species using a salmonid fish as a model system.

Finally, when attempting to rank populations in terms of conservation and if those population are already compromised and/or susceptible to existing or future threats, then clearly other factors (e.g., rate of decline, population viability analyses, number and degree of threats) need to be considered in addition to measures of ecological and evolutionary legacy (cf. Allendorf et al. 1997).

It was a shock to learn that he died a couple of weeks ago; he leaves an invaluable legacy of ecological wisdom.