Sentence examples for wilderness ecosystem from inspiring English sources

Wolves, brought to near extinction by human predation, remain rare but have resurged since 1970 as their importance in the wilderness ecosystem has come to be appreciated.

By concentrating human population in cities, we will make it possible to preserve land for wilderness, ecosystem maintenance and agriculture.

Horses continuously recreate the wilderness' ecosystem, simply by virtue of being alive; the competing livestock does precisely the opposite.

The species-based approaches cover all species in the smallest area (Fig.  3a, Online resource 2), while the wilderness approach covers wilderness, ecosystem services, and megafauna more efficiently (Fig.  3b d).

The largest reservoirs in Biosphere 2 were the ocean/marsh with some 4 × 106 L, soil with 1 to 2 × 106 l, primary storage tank with 0 to 8 × 105 L and storage tanks for condensate and soil leachate collection and mixing tanks with a capacity of 1.6 × 105 L to supply irrigation for farm and wilderness ecosystems.

In this regard, Kowarik's Nature 1 is the 'old wilderness' (pristine ecosystems), Nature 2 is the 'traditional cultural landscape' (agricultural landscapes), Nature 3 is 'functional greening' (gardens and parks), and Nature 4 is the 'new wilderness'.

Wilderness areas and ecosystems, after all, are not alive.

Many environmentalists argue that holistic entities such as ecosystems, wilderness areas, and species all deserve moral consideration.

The animal welfare and animal rights movement argued for an extension of moral standing to at least some animals, and arguments followed to extend moral standing to plants and then to such ecological wholes as ecosystems, wilderness areas, species, and populations.

Mark Andrew Thomas is a Florida-based wildlife photographer who grew up near the Everglades, a tropical wilderness of varied ecosystems fed by a slow-moving "river of grass" some 60 miles wide.

It began with the scientist Wes Jackson, the president of The Land Institute, explaining that the prairie was a diverse wilderness, with a complex ecosystem that naturally supported all kinds of wildlife, until European settlers plowed it up and covered it with single-species crop farms, mostly wheat, corn or soybeans.