Sentence examples for ecological utility from inspiring English sources

Great scientific and public interest surrounds the potential use of top-predators as biodiversity conservation tools, and it can often be difficult to separate what we think we know and what we really know about their ecological utility.

The concept of multifunctional land use helps merging those two focuses by emphasising on the rule that economic action is per se accompanied by ecological utility: commodity outputs (CO, e.g., yields) are paid for on the market, but non-commodity outputs (NCO, e.g., landscape aesthetics) so far are public goods with no markets.

However, all such approaches seek to achieve the same thing - to broaden our conception and consideration of what is valuable for delivering economic, social and ecological utility.

Ecological Expected Utility and the Mythical Neural Code.

Assigning value to species is a nearly impossible undertaking, because it involves a bewildering number of variables, including ecological importance, utility (coral reefs can act as breakwaters during coastal storms), the species' place in our heritage, even its beauty or symbolism.

Temperate forests are important regionally for their ecological services, economic utility, and recreational, tourism, and aesthetic benefits.

Helton, AM; Ardón, M; Bernhardt, ES, Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns., Ecology Letters, vol. 18 no.

We also examined the utility of ecological niche modeling (ENM) based on human and animal C. gattii disease surveillance data.

In addition, public access to collected information must become available on centralized databases to increase its utility in ecological and evolutionary research.

This study illustrates the utility of combining ecological niche reconstructions with archaeological data to identify and evaluate diachronic trends in cultural continuity for situations where such patterns may be missed when the focus of study is restricted solely to lithic technology and typology.

In this paper, we point out the utility of the ecological resilience definition for describing some psychological and psychiatric phenomena; for instance, bipolar disorder.