The increased warmth and aridity expected to accompany climate change in the North American southwest will likely retard the already slow wood decay process on naturally functioning desert river floodplains.
The creation of large protected areas from naturally functioning ecosystems that are largely without anthropogenic activity is viewed as an important option for maintaining the persistence of biodiversity and for allowing natural ecological and evolutionary processes to continue.
Your body has a naturally functioning internal clock, and the more you do to align your diet with it, the more you'll be able to harness your full potential during the day.
For instance, managers of carbon-sequestration projects might be tempted to replace naturally functioning forests with tree plantations, which in biological terms are comparatively poor and sterile, with little of the biological richness and variety of the wild woods.
Most notable was his work with the Broads Authority to return the Norfolk Broads, a much-valued system of inter-connected lakes and rivers, to a cleaner, more naturally functioning landscape for future generations to enjoy.
In Southeast Florida, alteration of beaches for human activities has resulted in substantial loss of naturally functioning beach habitat and reduced biological diversity.
Peatlands abandoned after being exploited for horticultural materials can be characterized by soil water deficits that challenge the establishment of appropriate plant species, thus rewetting is an important step to restoring them to naturally functioning ecosystems.
Cultural differences do not refute computational approaches, but they raise a question: if some cultures tend to rely on formal principles and others rely on stochastic approaches to reasoning, then we should not by default assume that the mind naturally functions like a classical computer as opposed to, say, a connectionist computer.
One possible explanation could lie within the fact that NFATc2 naturally functions in an auto-inhibitory manner by promoting the expression of regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1).
Omp85 Ngo naturally functions in the assembly of β-barrel proteins into the outer membrane of Neisseria, together with several accessory lipoproteins [ 23].
For example, Lim and co-workers redesigned the modular allosteric protein N-WASP (which naturally functions as an AND gate) to function as AND and OR gates for new inputs.
