Sentence examples for ecological service from inspiring English sources

But people are coming to realize that these seemingly wasted plots where land meets water provide a valuable ecological service.

But to many Americans, they are buzzards, bottom feeders and flying rats that carry disease and eat disgusting things -- never mind their vital ecological service.

Yet only a few people recognized that tigers perform an ecological service by keeping populations of large crop-raiding herbivores in check.

It is spending $250m on buying land to prevent development, and paying farmers $100m a year to minimise water pollution.Many of the valuation studies done since then have involved water, probably because it is so obviously a valuable ecological service.

Wildfires are the only natural disturbances (ie, disasters) man has been able to routinely control, allowing industrialisation of forest and rangeland ecosystems to provide food, water and shelter while limiting both the societal nuisance and ecological service associated with fire on the landscape.

Demand-side thinking sees water as a finite ecological service that has other competing users.

Local knowledge about seagrass ecology and its ecological services was quite consistent with scientific descriptions.

Given their deep knowledge of local resource distribution and ecology, pastoralists could be key partners in maintenance of ecological services and biodiversity conservation (Foggin 2012).

"[They] deliver a host of ecological services that are fundamental to the survival of humankind.

Last month, for example, saw the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the first global survey of ecological services.

The idea is to harness the ecological services that trees provide.