Sentence examples for ecological portion from inspiring English sources

All told, the ecological portion of the landfill project cost about $20 million.

The ecological portion of the project helped restore the shoreline, bluffs and ravine and included the installation of breakwaters offshore to keep the sand in place, park district officials said.

A substantial portion of "ecological forests" are dual landscapes intended to accomplish both environmental and socioeconomic goals.

"What is the impetus to occupy new portions of ecological space if not to avoid competition with the species in the space already occupied?" Stearns asked.

Some might call this empty lip-service to Earth Day, which takes place today and probably would be better served by Google powering down a server farm or two for a few hours, but the concepts highlighted (including ride sharing, composting, energy conservation and diet modification) are solid ones and would have genuinely beneficial ecological effects if adopted by large portions of the community.

This chapter presents the 17 biocomplexity tenets that describe the predicted functioning of epigean portions of riverine ecosystems on ecological timescales from species to landscape levels.

International Expeditions used Tropic Ecological Adventures, www.tropiceco.com, in Quito for the Andean portion of our trip.

The distribution model predicts that a significant portion of the continental United States provides ecological conditions suitable for the snakes.

The rhizosphere is the most active portion in soil, which has important ecological implications for soil function, including biogeochemical cycles.

This work presents a new phylogenetic framework for a speciose and morphologically diverse group of freshwater fishes of significant ecological and evolutionary importance across the Neotropics and portions of Africa.

Since 2003, DNA barcoding has been applied to a long-standing morphological and ecological inventory of Lepidoptera from the 140,000 ha terrestrial portion of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr).ac.cr