Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems.
Another notable complication threatening visual function is CNV [ 4].
In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt became the "trust buster" because the power of monopolies was threatening the functioning of our economy and government.
As more and more anthropogenic chemicals are released into the environment threatening the functioning of ecosystems worldwide, the importance of the scientific field of ecotoxicology is growing.
Owing to land reclamation, these D. angustifolia wetland ecosystems are rapidly shrinking on the landscape, threatening ecosystem functioning and regional ecological security.
Humans are converting natural ecosystems and appropriating an increasingly large portion of the net primary productivity of the Earth's ecosystems, leaving a rapidly expanding footprint on the environment and threatening the functioning of ecosystems and the ecological services they provide.
Beyond their direct impacts on native species, these invasive species can indirectly lead to cascading effects within a community [ 4], thereby threatening ecosystem functions.
In other ways, though, the Games threaten to function with an ominous smoothness; the new Javelin train, which spirits visitors from a central rail station to the gates of the Olympic park, takes six minutes to complete its journey, whereas many British trains squall to a leisurely halt whenever snow, leaves, or persons unknown fall onto the track.
Innovant statistical approaches may be used to identify patients in whom this drug combination is safe, and others in whom it may seriously threaten kidney function.
Renal artery stenting procedures have evolved from a treatment mainly for renovascular hypertension to a maneuver capable of recovering threatened renal function in patients with 'ischemic nephropathy' and improving management of congestive heart failure.
