Sentence examples for views of ecosystems from inspiring English sources

The multiple and ambivalent views of ecosystems such as peatlands seem not to stem necessarily from lack of knowledge, but to be linked to biophysical characteristics, history, trade-offs between different uses and differences in personal relationships with nature.

Here we examine the degree to which the dynamic view of ecosystems is incorporated into the design of REDD+ initiatives.

Ecosystem models provide a platform for this progression, potentially offering a holistic view of ecosystems where, guided by the mechanistic understanding of processes and their connection to the environment and biota, large-scale questions can be investigated.

Trophic levels are part of the holistic or complex systems view of ecosystems.

Reviewer 1: This is a rather intriguing paper, suggesting a novel view of ecosystems as a special class of neural-like networks.

Frequent use of terms like 'degraded' reflects a normative view of ecosystem change that is based on the idea that a former 'pristine' state has been shifted in a linearly negative way to a 'lower' condition and remains in that lower state as long as the driver of change remains, returning to a higher state once the driver is removed.

Nevertheless, information about a site which is important from the point of view of ecosystem services may also contribute to this site's protection, including when this information is spread by the services' users.

In the anthropocentric view of landscape, ecosystems fulfil important societal needs similarly to urban systems.

Use of excessively simple and therefore unrealistic conceptual models in education and management can easily lead to distorted views of how forest ecosystems develop and what kind of structural variation they naturally display.

Phytophthora ramorum itself is new to science, but it is also rampaging in a part of the new world where the basic long-term ecology -- the historical view of the ecosystem -- is poorly understood because scientists have been living in it for such a short time.

"It's a great catch-all way for me to have all my stuff in one place, and it lets me see a more comprehensive view of the ecosystem of my friends," said Ms. Brooks, 39, a business development director at an online video start-up company in San Francisco.