Further exploration is required to quantify the distribution of natural resources on Saba Bank and to elucidate the ecological processes which are at play in the biological communities of this unique ecosystem.
Further, significant developments may be undetectable also on relatively longer time-scales whenindicator values are influenced by ecological processes, which are slow to respond to changes in corresponding pressures (i.e., eutrophication, Figure 5).
The science of biocrusts has advanced greatly in recent decades, as evidenced by this special publication of Ecological Processes, which is devoted to biocrusts, as well as other major publications for both scientists and land managers (Belnap and Lange 2001; Belnap et al. 2001a; McCune and Rosentreter 2007).
"But that puts people outside of the ecological process, which isn't quite right".
Human dominated landscape is a kind of Social-Economic-Natural Complex Ecosystem dominated by human behavior, sustained by natural life support system, and vitalized by ecological process, which is called ecoscape.
While these models can bring insights on the links between habitat and dispersal, the quality of model outputs will depend on an appropriate characterization of ecological processes, which can only be obtained through empirical evaluation.
Speciation is a very complex process which is affected by many different factors (genetic, ecological, developmental, environmental, etc).
Forest succession is a fundamental ecological process which can impact the functioning of many terrestrial processes, such as water and nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration.
The classification relies on the concept of terrestrial ecological systems [ 73], which are groups of vegetation communities that tend to co-occur in landscapes as a result of the action of common ecological processes, substrates, and/or environmental gradients.
Other examples include some commercial agricultural processes; ecological activities, such as ecotourism, which are part of some tourist services, and so forth.
This contributes to a new understanding of the process through which the government takes on the role of ecological management, to which is applied self-theory.
