This is going to alter the entire dynamic for China, much bigger than any industrial change – this is fundamental ecological restoration.
The populations and communities of inland waters other than freshwater lakes are similarly complex but markedly different in all except their fundamental ecological roles.
Species abundance is a fundamental ecological descriptor.
We refer to the ecological spatial scale as the geographical extent of fundamental ecological processes (see Cumming et al. 2006).
To resolve this paradox, it is extremely important to first identify the fundamental ecological niche of this fungus.
Restoration of the fundamental ecological characteristics of ponderosa pine ecosystems should intentionally include variably sized mosaic-meadows.
Little is known about the effects of soil contamination, in particular, on microbial cells, which play a fundamental ecological role.
NCEAS continues to look for new money, but in the current financial squeeze, the center post-NSF will likely be a smaller, different place, with an emphasis more on applied problems than fundamental ecological questions.
Forest succession is a fundamental ecological process which can impact the functioning of many terrestrial processes, such as water and nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration.
The damage is human-caused, and it has altered fundamental ecological processes that maintain the structure and function of whole ecosystems.
The adherence to doctrines that exclusively accept or select observations and disregard fundamental ecological principles for supporting scientific claims imposes serious limitations on their conclusions and has been a hindrance to progress in agricultural research [85].
