He also pointed more positive signs on the ecosystem front, with now over 500,000 developers there working on iOS apps.
On the ecosystem front, the Nook tablets have access to the ~2.5 million books on the Nook Store, plus "a large selection of magazines and apps" (vs 275,000 native iPad apps, at the last Apple count).
But even I don't think it would be a viable strategy to put aggressive ecosystem protection front and center right now.
The tools to recreate the current financial ecosystem are certainly in front of us and they have never been easier to engage with.
In fact, by giving a slight tailwind to politics, tragedy, and crime, Facebook had helped build a news ecosystem that resembled the front pages of a tempestuous tabloid.
Combining indices from multiple colonies and/or different species might allow variations in breeding success due to localised factors (e.g. density dependence, or predation from introduced mammals) to be disentangled from those due to changes in the ecosystem of the Polar Front zone.
Or Facebook should seed the AR developer ecosystem by providing up-front payouts for exclusive content, much the way it did to get Facebook Live video off the ground by paying top news publishers.
Commercial fishing has ecosystem effects on three fronts: overfishing, often of multiple fishery species; physical impacts on habitats caused by fishing gear such as trawls, seines, and dredges and fishing practices that use dynamite or cyanide; and incidental take of non-targeted species (by-catch) (Table 2).
It may not sound as "cool" as venture capital, but if your business concept blossoms in a protected debt ecosystem without you having to front cash or give up equity, it will be beyond cool.
"Our ecosystem is just unravelling in front of our eyes, and the pace of environmental change can be really overwhelming," says Loarie.
The foraging overlap between the two species, and between populations, and the similarities in their foraging areas to those of other marine predators, suggests that these birds might be useful as indicators of aspects of the Southern Ocean ecosystem, particularly of the Polar Front zone.
