Educators want to introduce students to topics that can be made comprehensible only by drawing on the ideas and methods of many scientific disciplines, one of the reasons climate change and other large-scale environmental problems are seen as holding so much potential in the classroom.
Among those are species associated with very specific habitats, such as charophytes, but also species that suffer from large-scale environmental problems of the Baltic, such as eutrophication effects (e.g. two key species found in hard-bottom habitats Fucus vesiculosus and Furcellaria lumbricalis).
Large, synthetic, reproducible databases, compiled from disparate, minimally accessible, datasets and well integrated with heterogeneous data sources, are required to address some of the most important large-scale environmental problems facing society.
Examples include threats to marine ecosystems, unsustainable production and consumption practices, climate change, obesity, inadequate health care – many of the large-scale environmental and social problems confronting mankind.
Large-scale, creeping environmental problems of a long-term and cumulative variety (Glantz 1994) such as droughts are more suitable for centralized systems whereas localized events like flash floods can be managed at the local level.
For the most part, researchers have looked to large-scale environmental changes.
As more details emerged it became apparent how unprepared the Ukraine was for a large-scale environmental catastrophe.
Until we left Novosibirsk, we had seen none of the large-scale environmental damage that Siberia is famous for.
The 2009 film, Lessons of the Loess Plateau, looked at the large-scale environmental restoration project undertaken in northern China.
To date, several large-scale environmental sequencing projects have been completed.
