Sentence examples for ecosystem structuring from inspiring English sources

Two case studies of ancient invasions, the Late Devonian Biodiversity Crisis (~375 million years ago) and the Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion (~446 million years ago), provide insight into the effect of invasive species on extinction, speciation, and ecosystem structuring.

Thus we conclude that ecosystem structuring enables the increase of the complexity despite the presence of an information threshold.

Novel species assemblages can also substantially alter ecosystem structure and function and the distribution of ecosystem services.

Floodplains are a mosaic of productive shrubland and forest that serve as a major habitat for moose (Alces alces), which influence ecosystem structure and function.

Seasonally snow-covered regions are especially susceptible to climate change as small changes in temperature or precipitation may result in large changes in ecosystem structure and function.

Changes in terrestrial plant and animal species ranges are shifting the location and extent of biomes, and altering ecosystem structure and functioning.

In the future, design will increasingly be re-defined in light of climate change, shifts in ecosystem structure and function, water scarcity, as well as human rights violations, among other issues.

The notion of ecological disturbance has deep historical roots in ecological thinking; the first conceptual disturbance-related model in modern ecology was ecological succession, an idea emphasizing the progressive changes in ecosystem structure that follow a disturbance.

One of the by-products of this unprecedented phenomenon is that the world's urban areas are expanding into environmentally sensitive locations, where they alter ecosystem structure through pollution and land-use conversion of natural habitats.

"The enlargement of the canal will increase the number of invasions from the Red Sea resulting in a diverse range of harmful effects on the ecosystem structure and functioning of the whole Mediterranean sea, with implications to services it provides for humans," Bella Galil, a marine biologist at Israel's National Institute of Oceanography, told the Guardian.

The ecosystem structure of a gang can reveal how it operates.