• 1.An increasing number of studies indicate that microbial diversity plays a crucial role in the mediation of ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in natural ecosystems. (datadryad.org)
  • From Kenya to Madagascar, Uganda to Nigeria and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, secondhand clothing imports are causing strain on natural ecosystems because the supply far outpaces the demand. (ncronline.org)
  • The dynamics of natural ecosystems are difficult to study because while scientists can make observations about how species interact with each other, they usually can't do controlled experiments in the wild. (mit.edu)
  • Gore's lab specializes in using microbes such as bacteria and yeast to analyze interspecies interactions in a controlled way, in hopes of learning more about how natural ecosystems behave. (mit.edu)
  • As they worked up to studying larger communities, Gore became interested in trying to test some of the predictions that theoretical physicists have made regarding the dynamics of large, complex ecosystems. (mit.edu)
  • Ubiquitous marine organism has co-evolved with other microbes, promoting more complex ecosystems. (mit.edu)
  • Its focus is on making intensive use of 35 selected sites and platforms in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal ecosystems, combined with observational data from an additional 50 sites, for studying ecosystem and socio-ecological responses to globally-relevant environmental challenges in terms of ecosystem integrity and ecosystem services. (europa.eu)
  • Their research focuses on advancing understanding of key processes in coastal ecosystems with the aim of improving models that predict the future of coastal environments in a warming climate. (azocleantech.com)
  • 1. The role of innovation ecosystems. (edu.au)
  • Evaluate the elements and boundaries of existing innovation ecosystems and networks to identify what enables or constrains their capacity to drive innovation. (edu.au)
  • Develop management and communication strategies that will sustain participation in innovation ecosystems and networks. (edu.au)
  • We want that baseline snapshot of where we are right now," said Julie Heath, the IEDC's vice president of entrepreneurial ecosystems. (ibj.com)
  • The high rates of dynamics mean that static snapshot ecosystem service maps provide limited information for assessing and managing multifunctional, dynamic landscapes, such as forests. (nature.com)
  • Perhaps the greatest opportunity to diversify forests for the future lies in the vast areas of young second-growth stands, primarily lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) in the southern interior, which are amenable to silvicultural practices to accelerate ecosystem development. (gov.bc.ca)
  • It will also create a European network through which PES schemes can be facilitated, extended and improved, for example by incorporating other ecosystem services linking with aims of the wider forests-carbon policy nexus. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • The paper focuses on the long-term viability of forests in this region. (who.int)
  • Input-output balances, proton budgets and critical loads suggest that the long-term sustainability of forests in the region is threatened unless atmospheric emissions of anthropogenic substances can be controlled. (who.int)
  • I'm proud to lead this legislation with Senator Merkley, which will establish a scientific foundation and ongoing monitoring system to inform coordinated management and conservation actions for threatened Great Basin saline lake ecosystems and the communities who depend on them. (senate.gov)
  • As work in this area matures, we expect that trait‐based approaches integrating palaeoecology and neo‐ecology will improve understanding of past ecologies and provide a deeper insight of their implications for present‐day and future ecosystem management and conservation. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Networking, joint research activities, and transnational, remote and virtual access are the three main pillars of the EU-funded eLTER PLUS project that will address biodiversity loss, biogeochemical controls of ecosystem functions, the climate-water-food nexus and socio-ecological systems. (europa.eu)
  • New research shows that this diminutive creature's metabolism has evolved in a way that may have helped trigger the rise of other organisms, to form a more complex marine ecosystem. (mit.edu)
  • Green ocean: What does this mean for the marine ecosystem? (weforum.org)
  • Here we show high rates of short-term dynamics of three key forest ecosystem services: wood production, bilberry production and topsoil carbon storage. (nature.com)
  • Wood production showed higher rates of short-term dynamics than bilberry production and carbon storage. (nature.com)
  • We advocate that dynamic, spatially explicit tools to assess and manage ecosystem service dynamics be further developed and applied in post-2020 biodiversity and ecosystem service policy supporting frameworks. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 1: Rates of short-term dynamics of single forest ES shown as probabilities of sites changing between categories over a ten-year period. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 2: Rates of short-term dynamics of single forest ES for different forest age classes. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 4: Joint short-term dynamics of combined ES quantified as the probabilities of sites changing to another category over a ten-year period. (nature.com)
  • Finally, we discuss the benefits and limitations of trait‐based reconstructions of ecosystem temporal dynamics and suggest future directions for research. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • This stratification is a crucial factor in shaping plant community, biodiversity, metabolic processes and ecosystem dynamics for montane ecosystems. (wikipedia.org)
  • To provide a clear, comprehensive, and sustained view of the deep dynamics changing our world, Deloitte LLP' s Center for the Edge has developed a Shift Index consisting of three indices and 25 metrics designed to make longer-term performance trends more relevant and actionable. (urenio.org)
  • Sustainability: a contested concept relating to the ideas and practices aimed at ensuring, within and between generations, the long-term viability of humanity and ecosystem integrity. (lu.se)
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  • The first is to record trait data for organisms present in modern ecosystems, and the second is to reconstruct temporal variability in FTs from palaeoecological datasets, capturing changes in trait composition over time. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • A symbiotic (read: long-term and partly beneficial) relationship between organisms, where one organism benefits from the relationship, and the other receives no harm or benefit. (shmoop.com)
  • 2.Here, we compiled promising strategies for the targeted exploitation of the associations between microbial diversity and EMF of agricultural soils using samples from two long-term (more than 30 years) experimental field sites in southern China. (datadryad.org)
  • Specifically, a positive linear relationship was observed between microbial diversity and EMF, which was mediated by long-term fertilization management via changes in soil microbial communities and physiochemical properties. (datadryad.org)
  • The industrialization of food animal production, specifically the widespread use of antimicrobials, not only increased pressure on microbial populations, but also changed the ecosystems in which antimicrobials and bacteria interact. (cdc.gov)
  • MIT researchers studied ecosystems of up to 48 species of bacteria and discovered how the communities shift from stable to unstable states. (mit.edu)
  • William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but for scientists at MIT the smallest of all photosynthetic bacteria holds clues to the evolution of entire ecosystems, and perhaps even the whole biosphere. (mit.edu)
  • An ecological perspective on U.S. industrial poultry production: the role of anthropogenic ecosystems on the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria from agricultur al environments. (cdc.gov)
  • Currently, the main tools for assessing and managing ecosystem services at large scales are maps providing snapshots of their potential supply. (nature.com)
  • Science for managing ecosystem services: beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. (nature.com)
  • An indicator framework for assessing ecosystem services in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. (nature.com)
  • Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union. (nature.com)
  • Conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. (nature.com)
  • Progress in understanding, managing and securing current and future ecosystem functions and services is challenged by fragmented and dispersed ecosystem research, operated using narrow disciplinary perspectives that prevent a holistic understanding of complex eco- and socio-ecological systems. (europa.eu)
  • In spite of their perceived value, the widespread implementation of ecosystem services assessments has been limited because of perceptions of being too technical, too expensive, or requiring special expertise. (nih.gov)
  • For example, federal estuary management programs have widely used ecosystem services concepts to frame management issues and communicate with stakeholders. (nih.gov)
  • Approaches are needed which expand the range of ecosystem services that can be considered, link ecosystem services explicitly to different stakeholder groups, facilitate effective communication with economists and other social scientists, and expand the array of available valuation techniques. (nih.gov)
  • We applied the concept of final ecosystem goods and services to review the broad suite of ecosystem services and their beneficiaries relevant to the management of two federal programs for estuary management, the National Estuary Program (NEP) and the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). (nih.gov)
  • The Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Classification System provided a structured framework for connecting ecosystem services to their beneficiaries and the environments providing them. (nih.gov)
  • Document analysis of management plans assessed the degree to which these programs consider ecosystem services, their beneficiaries, and habitats within the estuarine watershed. (nih.gov)
  • The hierarchical list of final ecosystem goods and services generated from document analysis serves as a tool for defining management goals, identifying stakeholders, developing meaningful indicators, and conducting valuation studies in estuarine management planning efforts. (nih.gov)
  • Though developed here for estuarine management, the keyword hierarchy and final ecosystem goods and services approach have broad applicability and transferability to other environmental management scenarios. (nih.gov)
  • final ecosystem goods and services. (nih.gov)
  • The aim of the PESFOR-W COST Action is to synthesize knowledge, provide guidance and encourage collaborative research to improve Europe's capacity to use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to achieve Water Framework Directive (WFD) targets & other policy objectives through incentives for planting woodlands to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution to watercourses. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are flexible, incentive-based mechanisms that could play an important role in promoting land use change to delivery water quality targets. (forestresearch.gov.uk)
  • Montane ecosystems also exhibit variation in ecosystem services , which include carbon storage and water supply. (wikipedia.org)
  • A tech ecosystem is a connection of systems that IT teams and businesses use to provide products and services that are cohesive and interdependent. (deskdirector.com)
  • Together, we can better connect our Cash App and Seller ecosystems to deliver even more compelling products and services for merchants and consumers, putting the power back in their hands. (squareup.com)
  • Long-term multidisciplinary studies of places with such specific characteristics are of great value, especially in areas most impacted by global warming like the European Arctic (ACIA 2005 ). (springer.com)
  • The senators' legislation, the Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act of 2020 , would fill a critical data gap regarding current and future stressors in saline lakes that has made it nearly impossible to address a variety of problems caused by declining water levels. (senate.gov)
  • On 2020-03-26 I led a 2-hour virtual playshop with a lively group of CoachVille members on how to grow your coaching business ecosystem. (coachville.com)
  • The Long-term Ecological Observatory (LEO) is a project off the coast of New Jersey, United States, which monitors the processes in the ocean with online IT systems, spearheaded by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. (wikipedia.org)
  • The emerging European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological systems Research Infrastructure (eLTER RI) was evaluated by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) as having high potential for closing this gap in the European RI landscape. (europa.eu)
  • Trait‐based approaches can be used to reconstruct ecosystem properties from long‐term ecological records and contribute significantly to developing understandings of ecosystem change over decadal to millennial time‐scales. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and wildfires) span multiple jurisdictions and are characterized by complex patterns of social and ecological interdependencies. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • On the basis of research in the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Protected Area-Centered Ecosystem, we address this gap by utilizing exponential random graph modeling to analyze the social and ecological drivers of polycentric wildfire governance. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • This perspective emphasizes multiple modes by which IFAP has altered microbiomes and also suggests a means of generating hypotheses for understanding and predicting the ecological impacts of IFAP in terms of the resistome and the flow of resistance within and between microbiomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Afterpay, the pioneering global 'buy now, pay later' (BNPL) platform, will accelerate Square's strategic priorities for its Seller and Cash App ecosystems. (squareup.com)
  • Afterpay will help deepen and reinforce the connections between our Cash App and Seller ecosystems, and accelerate our ability to offer a rich suite of commerce capabilities to Cash App customers. (squareup.com)
  • We propose a framework for reconstructing long‐term variation in ecosystems by means of analysing FTs derived from palaeoecological datasets. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Schofield O, Bergmann T, Bissett P, Grassle JF, Haidvogel DB, Kohut J, Moline M and Glenn SM (2002) "The Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory: An Integrated Coastal Observatory", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 27 (2): 146-154. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wilkin JL, HG Arango, DB Haidvogel CS Lichtenwalner, SM Glenn and KS Hedström (2005) "A regional ocean modeling system for the long-term ecosystem observatory" Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C06S91. (wikipedia.org)
  • doi:10.1029/2003JC002218 The Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory - A Key Piece of an Integrated Observing Network Puzzle Underseas Research Program, NOAA. (wikipedia.org)
  • Long-term ecosystem research is essential to improve our knowledge of the structure and functions of ecosystems and their long-term responses to environmental, societal and economic drivers. (europa.eu)
  • Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest: II. (gov.bc.ca)
  • This legislation will help us secure the studies and science we need to put long-term plans into action and ensure our saline lakes ecosystem remains healthy for generations to come. (senate.gov)
  • Yet, current consensus among scientists is that we need a better understanding of short‐ and long‐term (temporal) variation in ecosystem properties to plan effective ecosystem management and predict future ecologies. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Palaeo‐trait research offers insights into questions related to short‐ and long‐term ecosystem functioning, environmental change and extinction and community assembly rules across time. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Earlier and greater accrual of long-term conditions (LTCs) may be influenced by the timing and nature of exposure to key risk factors , wider determinants or other LTCs at different life stages. (bvsalud.org)
  • The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases , causing the ecosystem to stratify. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to the unique climate conditions of montane ecosystems, they contain increased numbers of endemic species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. (nature.com)
  • Washington, D.C. - Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) are introducing legislation to facilitate an integrated regional assessment of saline lake ecosystems-bodies of water that line wetlands across the West Coast, serving as habitats for a diverse array of wildlife and providing important economic and social benefits to nearby communities. (senate.gov)
  • Their assessment will show us our strengths, our areas of opportunity and a sense of how we compare to other ecosystems around the globe. (ibj.com)
  • Research over the past decade has shown that quantifying spatial variation in ecosystem properties is an effective approach to investigating the effects of environmental change on ecosystems. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. (edu.au)
  • Geo-STEM learning ecosystems (GLE) are communities of transformation engaging educators and learners in the geosciences to address local geoscience issues by bringing together current research and place-based education. (carleton.edu)
  • Martínez-Harms, M. J. & Balvanera, P. Methods for mapping ecosystem service supply: a review. (nature.com)
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  • Adding more species to the ecosystem led to instability and large fluctuations in population. (mit.edu)
  • However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ecosystems can be predicted based on just two pieces of information: the number of species in the community and how strongly they interact with each other. (mit.edu)
  • During that time, his lab has gradually built up from studying one or two species at a time to larger scale ecosystems. (mit.edu)
  • One of those predictions was that ecosystems move through phases of varying stability based on the number of species in the community and the degree of interaction between species. (mit.edu)
  • A region in the Hengduan Mountains adjoining Asia's Tibetan Plateau have been identified as the world's oldest continuous alpine ecosystem with a community of 3000 plant species, some of them continuously co-existing for 30 million years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using case reports and a new serologic assay that enables multispecies comparisons, we examined exposure to and illness caused by B. anthracis in different species in the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania during 1996-2009 and the utility of serosurveillance. (cdc.gov)
  • Exposure patterns in dogs reflected known patterns of endemicity and provided new information about anthrax in the ecosystem, which indicated the potential of dogs as indicator species. (cdc.gov)
  • Maps have an air of authority': potential benefits and challenges of ecosystem service maps at different levels of decision making. (nature.com)
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  • In the first phase of the project, Startup Genome will study Indiana's startup ecosystem to determine its areas of strength and weakness, and to identify areas where the state might see the most success in accelerating innovation and startup technology. (ibj.com)
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