Sentence examples for ecological path from inspiring English sources

Instead, he says, it was the rise of animals - sponges to be precise - that cleared the ecological path for algae.

For our purposes here, we define an ecological path to zero growth as that in which individuals become energetically constrained to the point where birth rates equal death rates.

Extra-metabolic energy is fundamentally different from the food energy that constrains the ecological path to zero growth, in terms of how it is acquired, the amounts that are involved, and the activities it fuels.

Shortages of water, disease, or violent conflicts could all play a role in limiting population size, or the population could become limited by food [29] and begin, again, to follow an ecological path to zero growth.

To continue to walk the current path of ecological destruction is not only folly; it is sin.

It is also on a steep path of ecological unsustainability.

Institutions necessarily respond to geo-political contexts, ecological and economic drivers, path dependencies and also to forces from other competing and complementary institutions.

And, in an approach known as gene drive, CRISPR could be used to permanently alter the genome of an entire species in ways that could shift its evolutionary path and ecological role, or even wipe it off Earth.

GIS may have such an influence through representational choices that guides ecology down a path where relations between attributes receive less emphasis than they would in traditional ecological models.

He is the author of Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order and The Logic of Sufficiency (both published by the MIT Press).

The Green Path was part ecological retreat and part pagan revival meeting, but mostly it was a memorial for its founder, Frank Cook, who had died a year earlier.