Sentence examples for ecosystems engineering from inspiring English sources
Two technological ecosystems, engineering practices, and ultimately assumptions about what kinds of businesses are possible.
"All solutions must start with changes in local practices and then be implemented at a global scale, or we will get nowhere," says coauthor David Graham, a professor of ecosystems engineering at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
Ecologists interested in ecosystem engineering study environmental change caused by biota and the consequences for the engineer, other organisms, and ecological processes.
The researchers said ecosystem engineering by beavers in the form of dam-building might offer a natural mechanism for restoring degraded streams, but had to be weighed against the potential for occasional negative impacts on land use or fisheries.
New research may now have yielded a more credible explanation for the fairy circles as examples of natural ecosystem engineering by a particular species of sand termites, Psammotermes allocerus.
Cheatgrass, introduced in the nineteenth century in wheat seeds, is a powerful agent of ecosystem engineering.
The topic of the meeting was zoogeomorphology and ecosystem engineering.
More than 200 years of ecosystem engineering have created novel relationships between pastoralists and wildlife in California.
Jones et al. (1994) suggest that using the concept of ecosystem engineering to understand ecosystems is justified when it improves understanding of ecological interactions.
This biogeomorphic ecosystem engineering phenomenon is at least partly contingent on the geological setting.
Consequently, the invasion of Spartina alterniflora weakened the ecosystem engineering effects of mangrove crabs.
