Sentence examples for ecosystems of conservation concern from inspiring English sources
Many ecosystems of conservation concern owe their unique characteristics to long-term management by indigenous peoples.
Cages controlled access of a top predator (native cancrid crabs) and an intermediate (or intraguild) prey (invasive oyster drills, Ocenebra inornata) to a resource (native oysters, Ostrea lurida) in order to explore the separate and combined effects of these predators on a native ecosystem engineer of conservation concern.
This study highlights the value of examining evolutionary processes and patterns as a bellwether for population or ecosystem changes of conservation concern.
Resource management budget emerges as a major determinant of the degree to which managers can sustain both necessary training environments – a DoD-specific ecosystem service – and a prairie ecosystem with species of conservation concern.
Among taxa which experienced consistent decreases, birds are of central importance, both for their value as ecological indicators and for the high number of species of conservation concern associated with agricultural ecosystems.
Given the relatively widespread occurrence of black bears in western North America coincident to the spawning areas of Pacific herring (Baja to Alaska), our study considerably broadens the scope of conservation concern, which now extends beyond marine ecosystems to include interactions with black bears and terrestrial ecosystems in general.
These landscapes typically fulfil different functions, including agriculture, ecosystem services and may also host species and habitats of conservation concern.
Natura 2000 areas are designated where habitats and species of conservation concern occur, and these areas provide co-benefits for balanced ecosystem service supply.
Such information may feed into ecosystem management plans seeking to achieve sustainable fisheries while minimising putative risk to non-target species (e.g. cetaceans, seabirds and elasmobranchs) and habitats of conservation concern.
