Since its publication in 1971 "The Lorax," by Dr. Seuss, has occasionally been caught up in squalls of controversy, most of it cooked up by people choosing to be outraged by the book's mild allegorical moral of ecological responsibility.
The positive association between floods and poverty is likely due to the fact that mild annual floods bring ecological and economic benefits including improved dry season paddy production and freshwater fish catches (Kimsun and Bopharath 2011).
Vegetation cover was estimated and soil samples were collected from three age categories (open sites, 10- and 27-year-old exclosures), two agro-ecological zones (mild and cool) and in three landscape positions (lower, mid and upper).
This evaluation should be extended to the relative benefits and risks of replacing non-native species with native ones in aquaculture and enhancement, considering that risks associated with using the current set of non-native species are increasingly well known and appear mild-to-moderate, whilst ecological and genetic risks of releasing domesticated types of native species are poorly known.
As biotechnological methods are considered as cost-effective and environment-friendly, an interesting alternative to these techniques is microbial degradation, due to the lower cost, mild process conditions, lack of the ecological hazard and the output of potentially relevant products.
He was the champion of Kyoto and author of a chicken-little polemic warning of "an ecological Kristallnacht" and "wasteland" that looks mild compared to the toxic dreams of the Houston Oilers.
Ecological damage was widespread but generally mild.
Although the responses of infauna to fertilization and predator removal were largely independent and of similar mild intensity, our data suggests that the effects of ecological stressors vary across the marsh landscape.
Tourist operations were generally uninterrupted by the storm, while ecological and environmental damage, if any, was mild.
Subclinical or mild diseases observed in the laboratory may have significant ecological fitness consequences in the field.
