Sentence examples for ecosystem loss from inspiring English sources
He is right to highlight the "massive and accelerating" biodiversity and ecosystem loss, as well as climate change.
Also, we detected a differential ecosystem loss, both in type and magnitude, up and downstream of the dam.
Including biodiversity and ecosystem loss in risk assessments while lengthening the term over which investors and companies in all sectors make risk assessments.
In order to evaluate the ecosystem loss due to this impounding, we generated two maps of land use/land cover from Landsat satellite images: 1987 (prior to the dam) and 2011 (after the final height was reached).
Our work is the first one to address ecosystem loss in the Yacyretá area and our results should help to improve management policies, such as the design of the current network of compensatory reserves.
The method is based on the computation of spatial indicators using a Geographical Information System (GIS) to predict and quantify critical impacts, such as ecosystem loss and fragmentation, soil erosion, geomorphologic hazards, interference with flora and fauna, and visibility.
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"Climate change is already exacerbating chronic environmental threats, and ecosystem losses are constraining livelihood opportunities, especially for poor people," wrote the authors.
The framework consists of two elements: (1) an a priori optimization model for selecting projects that minimize present value loss in ecosystem services subject to a budget constraint; and (2) an a posteriori model for determining the extent to which implemented projects have decreased ecosystem losses.
The accumulating scientific evidence regarding climate change, ecosystems loss, water shortages, and other changes is disheartening.
One recent paper estimates a likelihood of about 2.5% that average temperature increases could exceed 14 ºF; a change that would probably lead to the collapse of global ecosystems, loss of civilization, and possible human extinction.
