Marcario argued that the dredging scheme – which is yet to be given the go ahead – could "fundamentally damage a region of internationally significant ecological significance", namely the Great Barrier Reef marine park.
The potential for adaptive evolutionary response might also be substantiated for other quantitative traits of ecological significance showing significant VA and h values: head length, snout length, and eye diameter.
Urban lakes have attracted the attention of scholars because of their important landscape ecological value and significant impact on housing prices.
Niche identity tests indicated significant ecological differentiation between all sister species (Table 1) demonstrating that ecological niches between species pairs are not identical.
Dr. Fahnenstiel called the mussels' explosive growth the most significant ecological disruption in modern Great Lakes history.
The environmental longevity of many early insecticides was also found to cause significant ecological problems.
If partly assessed as an Olympic tourist tax, this money could help mitigate the significant ecological damages that even a smaller Olympics would have.
By the end of the year, Congress had passed the National Environmental Policy Act, known by the acronym NEPA, which requires federal agencies to file impact statements for all actions that could have a significant ecological effect.
The places in which you would expect to find most wildlife, and in which you would expect a significant ecological recovery, are those: a. where the human population is lowest b. which are furthest from the cities c. which are the least favourable for farming.
These areas are of significant ecological interest.
Appalachian forests are a globally significant ecological resource (Riitters et al. 2000).
