Sentence examples for non-living environment from inspiring English sources

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication relies on the physical objects (e.g., satellites, sensors, and so forth) interconnected with each other, creating mesh of machines producing massive volume of data about large geographical area (e.g., living and non-living environment).

Soil ecosystem functions are derived from plant, animal and microorganism communities and the non-living environment interacting as a unit.

Paleoecology is an extension of the discipline of ecology, attempting to understand the interactions of organisms with their environment, using geological (the rocks tell you what the soil was like, and thus tell a lot about the abiotic (non-living) environment) and paleontological (what plants and animals are found as fossils tell you a lot about the biotic (living) environment) evidence.

Thus, evolutionary changes in one species will affect others and vice versa, resulting in a sort of 'adaptation arms race' qualitatively different from the one-way response of the plant population to external changes in a non-living environment.

Twenty years ago, the United Nations proclaimed the "ecosystem approach" as the primary framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD; United Nations 1992), which proposed a holistic way to assess and manage ecosystems considering all plant, animal and bacterial communities and their non-living environment.

The idea of comprehensiveness can also be extended to the non-living environment (Noss, 1990; Bonn & Gaston, 2005).

The temporal changes in growth rate, and the relatively high growth rates of test species in filtrates from media, where resource concentration should already be low, both highlight the significance of understanding the dynamics of the non-living resource environment and the habitat modification of organisms.

There didn't seem to be any goal set for me during this portion, and I didn't care – I was having a delightful time trying to hunt boars, take enemies by surprise, and see just how my actions would affect objects (living and non-living) in the environment.

Collectively, these land-use changes make pastoral communities more vulnerable and less resilient to changes in the biophysical environment (living and non-living components of the environment) (Reid et al. 2014).

We believe the attempts to construct living artificial cell will reveal the boundary state of the transition from non-living to living matters that actually happened in the early Earth environment.

In this definition, TEK is considered a knowledge "base," or body of knowledge, though one embedded within multiple relationships among living beings, non-living things, and the environment.