Sentence examples for ecosystem loses from inspiring English sources

Yet if it's a bad sign when an ecosystem loses its large mammals, it is proba-bly an even worse sign when it can no longer support its insects.

By measuring the concentration of chemicals in the stream water and multiplying these concentrations by the volume of water leaving the watershed, you would have a measure of the rate at which the whole watershed ecosystem loses nutrients.

Imagine how a bio-diverse ecosystem loses its vibrancy when all the species are the same.

Microsoft learned a hard lesson when it failed to maintain the health of its PC software ecosystem, losing out to the Linux community in cloud services.

Moreover, once ecosystems lose key species, they are not likely to recover their full function and biotic variety in less than about 10 million years, according to a new analysis by Dr. James W. Kirchner, an earth scientist at the University of California at Berkeley and Dr. Anne Weil, a vertebrate paleontologist at Duke University.

But marine ecosystems lost only about half of their species, and freshwater environments lost a mere 10% to 22%, says William Lewis, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ecosystems lose carbon much faster than they accumulate [5] so that the protection of the existing carbon stocks would be an alternative effective mitigation strategy in the land use sector [6, 7].

As ecosystems lose species, however, associated declines in functional redundancy increase the vulnerability of these ecosystems to further change (Reich et al. 2012).

Ecosystems lose carbon much faster than they accumulate [ 5] so that the protection of the existing carbon stocks would be an alternative effective mitigation strategy in the land use sector [ 6, 7].

Our results therefore indicate that not only did agro-ecosystems lose a significant number of weed species in the recent decades, but those that remain also are the most generalist, which could lead to a decreased differentiation of weed communities found in different crop types in the longer term.

The UNEP supported Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study estimates that ecosystem services lost to deforestation in China alone cost their economy about $12bn£7.5bnbn) annually between 1950 to 1998.