Sentence examples for ecological terms from inspiring English sources

In ecological terms, worse, perhaps very much worse, is on the way.

The costs of oil spills are considerable in both economic and ecological terms.

The peninsula is almost an island, in ecological terms: water on three sides, frost on the fourth.

While entomologists and beekeepers alike lament that development, quantifying the loss of the wild honeybee in purely ecological terms is difficult.

By talking about cancer in ecological terms, Pienta was, in the tradition of Paget and Fidler, urging his colleagues to pay more attention to the soil.

"In ecological terms, scientists refer to R-selected species and k-selected species," said Dr. Patrick Thomas, curator of mammals at the Bronx Zoo.

In ecological terms we are in "overshoot" of Earth's "carrying capacity" for humans, our demand exceeding the planet's absorptive and regenerative capacities.

The survey took place just five years after intense scallop dredging officially stopped there – a blink of an eye in ecological terms.

In macro-ecological terms, mussels and their bivalve kin are the intestines of coastal ecosystems.

Like other estuaries, the Severn Estuary is a deeply rich (in socio-ecological terms) landscape which includes the tidal liminalities of the lower reaches of the Severn river, the mid estuary, and the lower areas which merge into open sea.

14 15 In socio-ecological terms, the term whole systems may be conceptualised as nested cycles of system development, degradation or restoration.