Sentence examples for ecosystem boundary from inspiring English sources

Many types occur, ranging from small, short-lived rainpools of irregular occurrence to large, regularly flooded wetlands that persist for many months (see boundary ecosystem: Boundary systems between water and land).

Delineation of ecosystem boundaries can be problematic.

For the soil scientist studying microbiological processes, ecosystem boundaries may enclose a single soil horizon or a soil profile.

Frost, C. M. et al. Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries.

Bioaccumulation of contaminants can occur across ecosystem boundaries via transport by emergent aquatic insects.

Last, research activities are still quite restricted to the ecosystem boundaries.

As species and ecosystem boundaries shift to keep pace with climate change, improved and better-integrated research, monitoring, and assessment efforts will be needed at national and global scales.

The analysis has produced a unifying approach to transitional waters, by adopting and expanding the concept of ecotone to whole ecosystems, rather than ecosystem boundaries.

Human uses of ocean ecosystems have usually been divided into separate sectors fisheries, transportation, tourism, and recreation, for example—and ecosystem boundaries defined as much by politics as geography.

Given the essential role of damselflies in food web dynamics, these effects may potentially translate into local population impairments with subsequent bottom-up directed effects within and across ecosystem boundaries.

Ecosystem boundaries do not correspond with the boundaries drawn up by administrative plans.