Sentence examples for functional ecosystems from inspiring English sources

In densely populated places, he added, restoration ecology can improve the quality of human life by replacing ecological wastelands with functional ecosystems.

Functional ecosystems in which dynamic living processes prevail are likely to be more resistant to climate change than stagnant collections in virtual glass cases.

Top predators play an important role to preserving healthy and functional ecosystems.

It is imperative that Jewish communities address the morality of investing in fossil fuel companies, whose fundamental operations imperil humanity and functional ecosystems.

First, unlike previous attempts to legislate on fish farming at the national level, the bill would ensure that U.S. aquaculture adopts a science-based, precautionary approach that establishes a priority for the protection of wild fish and functional ecosystems.

Despite the apparent good capacity at an institutional level, a different picture emerges at the level of functional ecosystems [34].

A vertical farm would behave like a functional ecosystem, in which waste was recycled and the water used in hydroponics and aeroponics was recaptured by dehumidification and used over and over again.

They wondered if some plants might be more important than others in preserving a functional ecosystem.

In this study, Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve was used as the reference site which represents a natural functional ecosystem (Fig. 1).

Indigenous species are preferable to exotics because they are most likely to fit into a fully functional ecosystem and are climatically adapted (Chaney et al. 2007).

Consequently, the aspired indicandum is the self-organising capacity of ecosystems, and the indicator sets represents an aggregate of structural and functional ecosystem features in a developing environment.