Sentence examples for ecosystems debate from inspiring English sources

Highlights include a balanced introduction to the equilibrium/non-equilibrium ecosystems debate which concludes that it involves not so much a disagreement about theory, as the result of different types of empirical experience.

While of course all species are invaluable for our ecosystem, the debate is designed to raise awareness about conservation by asking the audience to vote for just one of the species to receive a fictitious cheque for one trillion pounds to be spent on their conservation.

To oppose effects of diversity components to effects of species identity ("selection" or "sampling" in the context of the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate), we described similarity among flumes with regard to community composition at flume level (gamma) by computing Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrices between flumes.

Because novel ecosystems have stimulated debate and disagreement among ecologists, this paper offers a new perspective on the issue.

However, the previously mentioned authors (Spehn et al. 2000; Fridley 2003; Lorentzen et al. 2008; Vojtech et al. 2008) used seeded, experimental plant communities and the applicability of results from these young, immature plant communities on real-world ecosystems is currently debated (Schmid 2002; Thompson et al. 2005; Hector et al. 2007; Mokany et al. 2008; Jiang et al. 2009).

While MC have been quantified in numerous aquatic consumers across a variety of ecosystems, there is still debate whether biomagnification or biodilution of MC generally occurs in aquatic foodwebs.

I don't recall hearing them defend such ecosystems when we were debating putting the rig into the water.

Abstract: "Molecular phylogenies are available for more taxa and ecosystems, but it is debated whether they can be used to estimate separately speciation and extinction rates.

Consider this the "Off Broadway" or Fringe Festival of MWC, where you get to actually talk about the real issues in the mobile startup ecosystem in a lively debate format.

The role of rainfall variability on dryland ecosystems is still highly debated (Wehrden et al. [2012]; Vetter [2005]), and there is still limited understanding of interactions between livestock systems and climatic variability, especially how they may evolve in response to climatic changes in the future (Thornton et al. [2009]).

The impact of the end-Permian extinction on terrestrial tetrapod ecosystems has been hotly debated in the last decades.