• Because of the impact of humans on the natural environment in the recent geological period, the term ecological crisis is often applied to environmental issues caused by human civilizations such as: the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution which have emerged as major global challenges during the first few decades of the 21st century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological reserves were designated following a multi-year inventory and assessment project coordinated by the Maine Forest Biodiversity Project, with staff assistance from The Nature Conservancy , the Maine Natural Areas Program, and the Bureau of Parks and Public Lands. (maine.gov)
  • While not being a new conservation topic, ecological connectivity has not been effectively reflected or implemented in the global biodiversity strategy that concluded in 2020. (cms.int)
  • The concept and the role of ecological connectivity has become increasingly important in the past decades due to habitat modifications, such as overexploitation and fragmentation that have led to the consequent decline of biodiversity. (cms.int)
  • The Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2019 revealed that maintaining and designing connectivity are essential for the functioning of many ecological systems and processes and highlighted how mainstreaming connectivity into economic growth and development is essential to achieve the 2030 Agenda. (cms.int)
  • Focus on important ecological and environmental topics such as climate change, biodiversity and conservation. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Accounting for ecological time lags in biodiversity targets and indicators will greatly improve the way that we evaluate conservation successes. (nature.com)
  • This document outlines the methods used to identify high biodiversity areas in Á lt' k a7tsem/Howe Sound and has an accompanying map book that shows the areas of high ecological value identified through the process. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • Insects comprise the most diverse and successful group of multicellular organisms on the planet, and they contribute significantly to vital ecological functions such as pollination, pest control, decomposition, and maintenance of wildlife species (for a discussion of the biodiversity of microbes, see Nee 2004 ). (bioone.org)
  • Forests are valued not only for their economic potential, but also for the biodiversity they contain, the ecological services they provide, and the recreational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities they provide. (routledge.com)
  • Achieving biodiversity net gain by addressing governance gaps underpinning ecological compensation policies. (bvsalud.org)
  • Biodiversity compensation policies have emerged around the world to address the ecological harms of infrastructure expansion, but they have historically experienced weak compliance . (bvsalud.org)
  • To be ecoliterate means understanding the principles of organization of ecological communities (i.e. ecosystems ) and using those principles for creating sustainable human communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • [5] David W. Orr has stated that the goal of ecological literacy is "built on the recognition that the disorder of ecosystems reflects a prior disorder of mind, making it a central concern to those institutions that purport to improve minds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological restoration , the process of repairing sites in nature whose biological communities (that is, interacting groups of various species in a common location) and ecosystems have been degraded or destroyed. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological restoration focuses on repairing the damage human activities have caused to natural ecosystems and seeks to return them to an earlier state or to another state that is closely related to one unaltered by human activities. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological restoration is distinguished from the practice of conservation , which is primarily concerned with preventing further losses to ecosystems. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological forecasting is a tool that can be used for understanding and predicting changes in populations, communities, and ecosystems. (carleton.edu)
  • Macrosystems ecology recently emerged as a new sub-discipline of ecology to study ecosystems and ecological communities around the globe that are changing at an unprecedented rate because of human activities (IPCC 2013). (carleton.edu)
  • In many Australian ecosystems, extinctions and declines of mammals have been dramatic, with formerly abundant species now "functionally extinct" - that is, too rare to continue to play important ecological roles. (edu.au)
  • To better understand the significance of the new Global Ecological Land Units (ELUs) map and the data behind it, I recently met with project leads, Roger Sayre , Ph.D., Senior Scientist for Ecosystems, USGS, and Randy Vaughan, Manager of Content Engineering, Esri. (esri.com)
  • Tapestry of World Ecosystems: This story map introduces ecological land units and explores more than 100 places where diversity is highest. (esri.com)
  • While ELUs do not definitively characterize ecosystems at multiple scales, they do provide information and pointers to the ecological patterns of the globe. (esri.com)
  • Ecological Restoration is the process of guiding the recovery of degraded or destroyed ecosystems in agricultural, urban, and mined landscapes and associated waters. (vt.edu)
  • But ecological economics measures welfare and sustainability instead. (theecologist.org)
  • They give the state of play on a global conflict that is playing out at the local level in a special feature called The EJAtlas: Ecological Distribution Conflicts as Forces for Sustainability. (theecologist.org)
  • The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will present ten awards recognizing outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity, and lifelong commitment to the profession during the Society's 99th Annual Meeting in Sacramento, California. (esa.org)
  • The seminar will provide you will insights about the Landscape simulation and Ecological Assessment (LEcA) Tool for trade-off analysis and sustainability assessment of forest bioenergy options. (lu.se)
  • In this article, we investigate public support for eco-social policies combining goals of social justice and ecological sustainability. (lu.se)
  • According to Fritjof Capra , "In the coming decades, the survival of humanity will depend on our ecological literacy - our ability to understand the basic principles of ecology and to live accordingly. (wikipedia.org)
  • This entire module can be completed in one 2 to 3-hour lab period, two 75-minute lecture periods, or three 1-hour lecture periods for introductory undergraduate students in Ecology, Environmental Science, Ecological Modelling, and Quantitative Ecology classes. (carleton.edu)
  • Why macrosystems ecology and ecological forecasting? (carleton.edu)
  • Macrosystems ecology is the study of ecological dynamics at multiple interacting spatial and temporal scales (e.g. (carleton.edu)
  • New research from Japan published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology suggests that increasingly severe weather driven by climate change may push oceangoing seabirds to their limits. (esa.org)
  • Their results were published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. (esa.org)
  • They are: masculinities politics, deep ecology, ecological feminism and feminist care theory. (routledge.com)
  • however, lack of large-scale, comparative studies critically limits investigation of the socio-ecological drivers of neophobia. (lu.se)
  • Four of seven socio-ecological factors influenced object neophobia: (1) use of urban habitat (versus not), (2) territorial pair versus family group sociality, (3) large versus small maximum flock size, and (4) moderate versus specialized caching (whereas range, hunting live animals, and genus did not), while only maximum flock size influenced food neophobia. (lu.se)
  • These novel findings enable us, for the first time in corvids, to identify the socio-ecological correlates of neophobia and grant insight into specific elements that drive higher neophobic responses in this avian family group. (lu.se)
  • Ecological forecasting is an emerging approach which provides an estimate of the future state of an ecological system with uncertainty, allowing society to prepare for changes in important ecosystem services. (carleton.edu)
  • The connectivity of urban green spaces promotes their ecological functionality and the ecosystem services associated with it. (cms.int)
  • The ELUs and other potential ecological facet aggregations provide an accounting framework to assess ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and soil formation, as well as risks such as environmental degradation. (esri.com)
  • Considerations of Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management. (routledge.com)
  • Some of the important causes include: Degradation of an abiotic ecological factor (for example, increase of temperature, less significant rainfalls) Increased pressures from predation Rise in the number of individuals (i.e. overpopulation) The evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium sees infrequent ecological crises as a potential driver of rapid evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ELUs also lend themselves to the study of ecological diversity, rarity, and evolutionary isolation. (esri.com)
  • Biosphere dynamics ' are the ecological and evolutionary changes that occur as biological systems respond to, and contribute to, environmental change. (uib.no)
  • Here we present our perspective on the influence of ecological time lags on the assessment of conservation success and review the principles of time lags and their ecological drivers. (nature.com)
  • This is a comprehensive assessment of ecological forest management. (routledge.com)
  • Others have reiterated the urgent importance of ecological literacy in today's world, where young people are faced with escalating environmental challenges, including climate change, depletion of resources, and environmentally linked illnesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • Braids of Truth," published on June 19, 2014, is an exploration of traditional ecological knowledge, climate change and collaboration challenges. (bia.gov)
  • A short introduction to the 3-part series "Braids of Truth" an exploration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Climate Change and Collaboration Challenges. (bia.gov)
  • Elders, scientists, and cultural leaders discuss the effects of climate change on the earth, culture and peoples and the differences between western science and traditional ecological principles. (bia.gov)
  • The latter phenomenon can be temporary or permanent, depending on whether the environmental degradation that leads to the loss is reversible through ecological restoration/ecological resilience or effectively permanent (e.g. through land loss). (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to restore a deforested site, restoration ecologists often attempt to reverse the ecological changes caused by the removal of trees and other plants, the displacement of animals, and changes to the now-exposed soil (which may be more prone to drying and erosion after deforestation). (britannica.com)
  • Ecological restoration is the art and science of helping degraded natural areas recover to healthy condition and function. (greenbiz.com)
  • This new push for ecological restoration also created jobs for engineers, surveyors, hydrologists and foresters as well as opportunities for investors, construction companies and others who specialize in rehabilitating nature. (greenbiz.com)
  • Restoration professionals have their own industry association, the Ecological Restoration Business Association (ERBA), which advocates for environmental policy and regulatory frameworks that open the door for companies to make a business out of conservation. (greenbiz.com)
  • This month, leaders in the industry are heading to Washington, D.C., for an event convened by ERBA that aims to position ecological restoration as the answer to several big challenges facing the United States right now, including much-needed investment in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, and protecting communities and their assets from disasters such as the one that hit Houston this summer. (greenbiz.com)
  • Mitigation banking, a subsector of ecological restoration, has posted a history of reliable demand and strong performance in meeting or exceeded projected internal rates of return for investors. (greenbiz.com)
  • Both could spell opportunity for the ecological restoration industry: After all, restoration companies have years of experience working with developers and regulators to ensure that environmental permits are issued as quickly and smoothly as possible. (greenbiz.com)
  • Policy-makers must look for innovative procurement mechanisms to be used in conjunction with the increased level of private-sector capital focused on providing high-quality ecological restoration," explained Elliott Bouillion, president and CEO at RES . (greenbiz.com)
  • It's important for the ecological restoration industry and its members to remain relevant during so much political change in D.C. (greenbiz.com)
  • It's important for the ecological restoration industry and its members to remain relevant during so much political change in D.C.," said Travis Hemmen, vice president of business acquisition at Westervelt Ecological Services and an ERBA board member. (greenbiz.com)
  • The curriculum accommodates both in-class and field-based learning designed in conjunction with the Society for Ecological Restoration's and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner In-Training program (CERPIT). (vt.edu)
  • Systematical and Ecological Biol. (cdc.gov)
  • Ecological harms are not something that happens to our environment, 'out there,' as if it is separate from human existence," said Celia Deane-Drummond, director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute at Oxford University's Campion Hall. (ncronline.org)
  • Referring to a community of plants and animals that is relatively stable in its species composition and biomass , ecological climax is the apparent termination of directional succession - the replacement of one community by another. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Assessing Abundance, Biomass, and Complexity in the Context of Ecological Forest Management. (routledge.com)
  • Ecological Footprint analysis is one method to compare human consumption patterns with our environment's biocapacity to produce food, fibre and forest products and to assimilate the carbon emissions resulting from fossil fuel combustion. (mdpi.com)
  • Upon running our Marxan computer modelling analysis, we identified approximately 43 areas of high ecological value in Átl' k a7tsem/Howe Sound. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Ecological Modelling and the International Journal of Forestry Research , and is also associate editor of Ecoscience . (routledge.com)
  • Our proposal for setting and evaluating conservation targets is to use milestones, or interim targets linked to specific ecological mechanisms at key points in time, to assess whether conservation actions are likely to be working. (nature.com)
  • This conservation analysis of Ált' k a7tsem/Howe Sound identifies areas of high ecological value that have the best opportunity to catalyze conservation action. (davidsuzuki.org)
  • We estimate the annual value of these ecological services provided in the United States to be at least $57 billion, an amount that justifies greater investment in the conservation of these services. (bioone.org)
  • Ecological Masculinities works with the wisdoms of four main streams of influence that have come before us. (routledge.com)
  • Featuring contributions from experts on the three main forest types-boreal, temperate, and tropical-this book presents in-depth coverage of important issues in ecological forest management and includes case studies addressing ecological and socioeconomic issues. (routledge.com)
  • The framework for ecological literacy is based on how the knowledge of the environment is necessary for informed decision-making. (wikipedia.org)
  • The more recent framework of ecological literacy also emphasizes ecological thinking, cognitive thinking, and particularly scientific inquiry. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Global ELUs map portrays a systematic division and classification of the biosphere using ecological and physiographic land surface features. (esri.com)
  • Ecological Tapestry of the World online explorer application: Explore the ecological data behind the land unit map and begin planning how it can be used in your work. (esri.com)
  • Previous research has highlighted governance gaps that risk undermining the policy 's ecological outcomes and explore the risks caused by capacity constraints in regulators. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. (fws.gov)
  • We can reach conclusions about specific local areas, and that is valuable, but much of our current ecological wisdom on populations and communities relies on the faulty model of non-random sampling. (ubc.ca)
  • In the face of the increasing capacity of industrial systems to destroy habitats and the climate system , the explicit declaration of the principles of ecological literacy - and the resulting awareness of the importance of living within the ecological carrying capacity of the earth, is increasingly necessary. (wikipedia.org)
  • It illustrates how ecological forest management is a complex process that requires broad ecological knowledge while giving readers a deeper understanding of basic principles and applications. (routledge.com)
  • Ecological Connectivity is the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on Earth. (cms.int)
  • The Facets were then characterized (attributed) with four input layers that drive ecological processes: bioclimate, landform, lithology, and land cover parameters. (esri.com)
  • In this paper the authors discuss the relationship between Ecological Psychology (or Environmental Psychology ) and the context of daily life events. (bvsalud.org)
  • Both the community engagement approach and the social ecological model recognize the complex role played by context in the development of health problems as well as in the success or failure of attempts to address these problems. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, restorationists must understand the ecosystem's pattern of ecological disturbances. (britannica.com)
  • The principal causes of ecological degradation, Carson insisted, were "the gods of profit and production. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In other words, the ecological crisis is in every way a crisis of education. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today the rapidly accelerating planetary ecological crisis, which she more than anyone else alerted us to, calls for an exploration of the full critical nature of her thought and its relation to the larger revolt within science with which she was associated. (monthlyreview.org)
  • I could find few papers in the ecological literature that discuss this general problem of inference from the particular to the general (Ives 2018, Hauss 2018) and only one that deals with a real-world situation (Ducatez 2019). (ubc.ca)
  • An ecological or environmental crises occurs when changes to the environment of a species or population destabilizes its continued survival. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other ecological regions of Burundi include Malagarasi-Moyowosi, Lake Tanganyika, and Kagera-Lake Victoria Basin. (worldatlas.com)
  • I investigate social-ecological relations in the Magdalena basin in Colombia, especially focusing on rivers that were dammed in the 1980s and 2010s. (lu.se)
  • Ecological literacy (also referred to as ecoliteracy ) is the ability to understand the natural systems that make life on earth possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological literacy and systems thinking implies a recognition of the manner in which all phenomenon are part of networks that define the way that element functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Systems thinking is necessary to understand complex interdependence of ecological systems , social systems and other systems on all levels. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2014). These characteristics necessitate novel approaches for making predictions about how systems may change to improve both our understanding of ecological phenomena as well as inform resource management. (carleton.edu)
  • A. Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory looks at the development of a child as happening within an intricate system of relationships affected by various levels of their environment. (bartleby.com)
  • The two factors as mentioned previously are the foundation of Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. (bartleby.com)
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory encompasses every aspect of Adam Lanza's development. (bartleby.com)
  • Protection of natural ecological systems, provision of extensive recreational opportunities for people in urban regions and rural districts, provision of economic benefits and protection of cultural values and historical heritage are the advantages of designing and creating greenways inside cities. (scirp.org)
  • The present paper which was conducted with descriptive-analytical method tried to explain design dimensions of ecological greenways in three urban physical, environmental and social-economic systems by studying suitable experimental concepts and samples in the world. (scirp.org)
  • Natural systems provide ecological services on which humans depend ( Daily 1997 ). (bioone.org)
  • We propose to define ecological sin as an action or omission against God, against one's neighbor, the community and the environment. (ncronline.org)
  • Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is inclusive of a comprehensive familiarity and knowledge of fire's biogeochemical cycling, the scale of effects on ensuing forest population dynamics, and the ability to recognize and forecast future forest implications. (bia.gov)
  • HOPE concentrates on ' ecological dynamics ' - the changes and interactions in the Earth life system expressed as changes in taxon distributions and abundances and in environment. (uib.no)
  • Traditional ecological knowledge is a cumulative body of knowledge and beliefs, handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and with their environment. (bia.gov)
  • Theologians who have examined ecological sin say this definition reinforces the idea that humans are a part of nature - God's creation - and not separate from it. (ncronline.org)
  • With this purpose in mind a historical development of Ecological Psychology is offered, since the contributions of Kurt Lewin, the pioneer Roger G. Barker and followers, up to the present expansions of the area. (bvsalud.org)
  • We can connect you to ecological scientists who are available for interviews and for providing on-call expertise to members of the media. (esa.org)
  • California growers surveyed in a study indicate a willingness to change their approaches to farm ing from "conventional" to "ecological", a sign that some see as a movement towards a more "sustainable" agricultur e. (cdc.gov)
  • Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions. (routledge.com)
  • But she was propelled by her understanding of the destructive ecological forces at work in modern society into the role of radical critic. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The fall semester is coming to a close, and the Society of Environmental and Ecological Engineers is proud to reflect on its achievements. (purdue.edu)
  • The bottom line is that if your supervisor or research coordinator criticizes your field work because your study areas are not randomly placed or your replicate sites were not chosen at random, tell him or her politely that virtually no ecological research in the field is done by truly random sampling. (ubc.ca)
  • Eco-social policies contribute both to providing a social floor or redistributing resources to where they are needed and to respecting an ecological ceiling by keeping human activities within ecological limits. (lu.se)
  • The planning and deployment of infrastructures need to consider their ecological footprints by maintaining the connections among the different elements of the landscape. (cms.int)
  • Steiner F (1991) The living landscape: an ecological approach to landscape planning. (springer.com)
  • Most people would agree that such an approach to generalizing ecological findings is tantamount to saying the problem is "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin", and in practice we can ignore the problem and generalize from the studied reefs to all reefs. (ubc.ca)
  • The Ecological Forest Management Handbook provides a comprehensive summary of interrelated topics in the field, including management concepts, forest models, and ecological indicators. (routledge.com)
  • Ecological Reserves are public lands set aside to protect and monitor the State of Maine's natural habitats. (maine.gov)
  • The Maine Natural Areas Program oversees the long-term ecological monitoring plans for these lands managed by the Bureau of Parks and Lands. (maine.gov)
  • Talking about it as ecological sin makes sure that we keep front and center that it is isn't just that we may be destroying or harming the natural world," she said - for instance, destroying the rainforest and with it, the homes of indigenous communities - "but it's that this breaks our relationship with God. (ncronline.org)
  • By recognizing this as ecological sin, Clark added, "It's a way of refocusing that ultimately the natural world does not belong to us but belongs to the Creator. (ncronline.org)
  • But ecological sin shows how the relationship can also be broken with the natural world, too. (ncronline.org)
  • One of these strategies is use of ecological green axes, which has multiple environmental, historical and cultural and recreational goals in addition to creation of continuity between natural and historical structures and protection of them and leads to stability of natural and historical structures. (scirp.org)
  • Instead of writing a general autobiography covering different facets of my life, I decided to focus on my relationship with the natural world-or what some might call our ecological identity. (freelancewriting.com)
  • I chose the ecological focus because of my ongoing fascination with the natural world. (freelancewriting.com)
  • By the time I wrote the last section of my ecological autobiography, I had arrived at certain understandings about my essential self and where I stand in relation to the natural world. (freelancewriting.com)
  • In this article we focus on the vital ecological services provided by insects. (bioone.org)
  • There has been significant growth in ecological/environmental labelling of products and services internationally in recent years. (who.int)
  • In HOPE these are called ' ecosystem or ecological properties ' and represent HOPE's major research focus. (uib.no)
  • Does this make our research less useful for achieving ecological understanding - probably not. (ubc.ca)
  • A farmer-participatory research, which lasted for seven weeks, was carried out at Machache, in the Foothills Agro-Ecological Zone of Lesotho to examine the effect of forage based diets supplementary feeding on the performance response and milk quality of lactating ewes during dry lambing season. (who.int)
  • Grasslands, savannas, and shrublands are a far more common biome throughout South Sudan still yet, and include 5 different ecological regions therein. (worldatlas.com)
  • Within the flooded grasslands and savannas biome, South Sudan has one ecological region, the Saharan Flooded Grasslands. (worldatlas.com)
  • The montane grassland and shrubland biome in South Sudan contain one ecological region, the East African Montane Moorlands. (worldatlas.com)
  • The globe was divided in cells (Ecological Facets) at a base resolution of 250 meters. (esri.com)
  • The Facets were then aggregated into 3,923 ecological land units (ELUs). (esri.com)
  • While I chose to focus on my ecological identity, there are many other facets of life that might be chosen. (freelancewriting.com)
  • The social ecological model conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health. (cdc.gov)
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  • Rose D, Steiner F, Jackson J (1979) An applied human ecological approach to regional planning. (springer.com)
  • Writing an ecological autobiography helped me understand more fully some of the decisions I made over the years in both my personal and professional life-including decisions about where to live and how to invest my time and energies. (freelancewriting.com)
  • While more modern technology and tools have their place, Indigenous ecological knowledge is actively being reintroduced by Tribal elders and community members to help teach and better understand the historic relationship between fire, the environment, and people. (bia.gov)
  • The ecological system theory developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner views the child development as being in a system of connections affected by many levels of the surrounding environment (Berk,2006). (bartleby.com)
  • Why Is Ecological Connectivity Important? (cms.int)
  • Another core piece to understanding ecological sin is looking at it not just through personal actions but also its social dimensions. (ncronline.org)
  • CDC uses a four-level social-ecological model to better understand violence and the effect of potential prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Sometimes, it's difficult to disentangle what were the exact situations or factors that shaped that "LUMES" perspective on social-ecological issues. (lu.se)
  • The social ecological model understands health to be affected by the interaction between the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments (Israel et al. (cdc.gov)
  • To inform its health promotion programs, CDC (2007) created a four-level model of the factors affecting health that is grounded in social ecological theory, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, socio-economic and knowledge-based models have the most significance for policies that could be understood as being either social or environmental, while value-based models have significance across potentially perceived policy divides and hence to a greater extent explain support for policies targeting an ecological ceiling and a social floor. (lu.se)