Sentence examples for ecosystem distinctions from inspiring English sources

Hence, the clusters were selected according to animal population and ecosystem distinctions between and within the wilayas and the 'liberated territories' regions.

The rationale behind the cluster definition was guided by the RVF epidemiology (i.e. vector biology and virus ecology), by local ecosystem distinctions, as well as by the peculiarities of the Sahrawi pastoralist system.

Determining the value of crop pollination ecosystem services requires distinction between the value derived from the use of managed pollinators, and value derived from wild pollinators.

For example, according to De Groot et al. (2010), contextually there is almost no distinction between ecosystem services and landscape functions.

To identify potential endpoints for Everglades restoration, two alternative ecological characterizations of the ecosystem were developed using the familiar distinction between function and structure.

A distinction between human and ecosystem well-being in this regard may not be easy or useful, but instead humans embedded in ecosystems should be addressed as a whole.

Although A. mollis generally shows limited evidence for geographically structured morphological phenotypes, there is of course the exception of the morphological distinction between individuals from the puna ecosystem and the rest of populations.

Of course, one could define "ecosystem services" to capture all these aspects, but making clear distinctions helps to avoid possible conceptual confusions arising when everything is forced under the ecosystem services umbrella (where any human benefit from any place becomes an "ecosystem service"; for related discussion, see ).

Whether the excess N is accumulating in the ecosystem or lost through denitrification will be difficult to determine, but the distinction has important implications for the local ecosystem and global climate.

Other studies also indicated the distinctions of beta-AOB community compositions between freshwater and marine ecosystems (Bollmann and Laanbroek 2002; Coci et al. 2005; Grommen et al. 2005).

This concept is subject to criticism from several authors, particularly because underlying ecological concepts are weak and the distinction between natural variability and the effects of anthropogenic activities on ecosystem function will become increasingly artificial.