The authors assert, therefore, that refocusing our public law and policy to value, account for, and prevent erosion and loss of vital ecosystem services, rather than weighing, minimizing, or remedying functional losses primarily to private interests, is essential if we are to recognize and protect the nature, extent, and natural importance of these resources before their loss becomes irreversible.
MPAs are characterized by each of the seven criteria: designated use, quality of natural character, extent of protection throughout the year, extent of zoning into sub-areas for multiple uses, public access, extraction of resources, and size with respect to supporting critical ecological processes.
Six indices, three representing natural area extent characteristics and three representing natural area disturbance characteristics were developed.
To uncover the nature and extent of natural genetic modifiers in C. elegans embryogenesis, we individually targeted 29 maternal-effect genes in each of 55 wild strains from around the globe.
To assess the nature and extent of natural selection on these genes, we estimated the rates of nonsynonymous (d N) and synonymous (d S) substitutions by the Nei Gojobori method (Nei and Gojobori 1986) using PAML4 (Yang 2007).
Stimulation of these shales during hydraulic fracturing will modify natural rates, extents, and pathways of weathering.
Past semi-natural grassland extent is thought to have a major influence on contemporary species richness in rural landscapes.
The construction of a motorway around Ljubljana, Slovenia, has broken up, to a large extent, natural connectivity between urban vegetation and natural vegetation in the suburban landscape.
This seems natural, to an extent.
And timbre is definitely natural to some extent but it can also be trained.
