Sentence examples for preserve ecosystem services from inspiring English sources

In order to preserve ecosystem services and still provide for human needs, it will be necessary to integrate natural and human-controlled biomes in ways that will influence both positively.

There are clearly some cities that have—Zhongshan is a good example down in the south that has really done a very, very good job in trying to preserve the environment, preserve ecosystem services.

This basic knowledge underpins watershed management decisions that, for example, are intended to safeguard drinking-water quality, ensure sustainable freshwater consumption, and preserve ecosystem services that depend on healthy riparian corridors.

Adaptation will require exploring genetic varieties of crops that can withstand new climate extremes, creating conservation corridors to facilitate species' migration, and providing incentives to preserve ecosystem services.

Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasilia, says 2030 is "too late" to stop deforestation, and that the current level of 5000 square kilometers being cleared per year is still too high to preserve ecosystem services.

Payments to preserve ecosystem services date to at least the early 1980s, when the United States implemented wetland and stream credit banking, but the idea really took off in the mid 1990s.

Limiting the loss of biodiversity and preserving ecosystem services requires the preservation of hotspots.

In contrast, of the 49 projects against invasive plants, 98% (48) provided benefits to protection of biodiversity, while 47% (23) protected products, and 25% (12) preserved ecosystem services, again with many projects contributing to several goals.

Of 21 insect projects, 81% (17) provided benefits to protection of biodiversity, while 48% (10) protected products harvested from natural systems, and 5% (1) preserved ecosystem services, with many projects contributing to more than one goal.

Goals are commonly expressed in terms of maintaining ecosystem integrity, achieving restoration, preserving ecosystem services, and protecting wildlife and other ecosystem characteristics (CCSP 2008).

At the same time, grassland production faces competition from requirements for arable land, competition between food and feed production, requirements for bioenergy and the need to preserve biodiversity and maintain ecosystem services (Thornton, 2010).