He added: "The Canary Islands' deep-sea ecosystems are unique and they sustain species that are vital for the tourism and fisheries in the area.
They are useful, if sad, indicators of the health of the oceans, as fish eaten by the terns also sustain species important to people, such as cod and tuna.
Thus the question arises whether canals can provide, at least partly, suitable habitat space to sustain species diversity and functionality of floodplains.
For the spatially homogeneous environments modelled here, competition-recruitment trade-offs will always sustain species differences.
Previous studies have shown the importance of L. dimidiatus for sustaining species diversity and abundance on patch reefs [44], [45].
Conserving biodiversity during such a period of ecological upheaval poses many new challenges and will require a considerable increase in the resources available, especially to achieve the increase in the area that is protected for wildlife that will be necessary in order to sustain species as they adjust their ranges in response to climatic change.
As Phragmites continues to expand, small relict communities that are Phragmites free both within the created wetland and regionally will be important sources of propagules for sustaining species (e.g. van der Valk et al. 2009).
This short communication presents zoned selective coppice (ZSC) as a novel management system for developing and sustaining species-rich forest edges with graded profile.
According to him variation is a function of time, hence the region containing the greatest variation in a species would have supported and sustained that species for a longer time than the other regions suggesting that region to be the Center of Origin and/or Diversity.
The processes perspective is to determine how we look at biodiversity: "…applied to biodiversity policy, we can focus on the processes that have created and sustained the species and elements that currently exist, rather than on the species and elements themselves" (2001; p. 90).
For example, trees living in the equatorial regions of the planet supply oxygen into the atmosphere that sustains species living in distant polar regions of the planet.
