Ecosystems provide a variety of goods and services upon which people depend ; the principles of ecosystem management suggest that rather than managing individual species, natural resources should be managed at the level of the ecosystem itself.

* Ecosystems Climate Alliance, an alliance of eleven NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact

A feature distinguishing it from prior economic regimes is the direct valuation of natural capital and ecological services as having economic value ( see The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Bank of Natural Capital ) and a full cost accounting regime in which costs externalized onto society via ecosystems are reliably traced back to, and accounted for as liabilities of, the entity that does the harm or neglects an asset.

The museum's Powdermill Nature Reserve was established in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations, and now forms the core of the museum's Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems.

** Ecosystems: biodiversity — biome — habitat — plankton — thermocline — carbon cycle — water cycle — nitrogen cycle — food web — trophic level — saprobe — decomposition

While its focus is on the overarching areas Energy & Climate, Development, Ecosystems and the Role of Business in Society, it also executes sector specific projects on cement, urban infrastructure initiative, tires, corporate reporting, water, energy efficiency in buildings, forest solutions, and electricity utilities.

Ecosystems in these regions have typically evolved to support high water demand grasses in the winter, when water availability is high, and drought-adapted trees in the summer, when it is low.

Ecosystems continually exchange energy and carbon with the wider environment ; mineral nutrients, on the other hand, are mostly cycled back and forth between plants, animals, microbes and the soil.

Ecosystems are no different than other bodies economically except insofar as they are far less replaceable than typical labour or commodities.

Ecosystems engineers, such as earthworms, modify their environment and create habitat for other smaller organisms.

Currently, Dr. Church is chair of the scientific committee of the World Climate Research Programme studying sea-level rise and is leader of the Sea level Rise Project at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.

Ecosystems are composed of dynamically interacting parts including organisms, the communities they make up, and the non-living components of their environment.

Ecosystems maintain biophysical feedback mechanisms that modulate metabolic rates and evolutionary dynamics between living ( biotic ) and nonliving ( abiotic ) components of the planet.

Ecosystems regenerate after a disturbance such as fire, forming Mosaic ( ecology ) | mosaics of different age groups structured across a Landscape ecology | landscape.

Ecosystems, for example, contain populations of individuals that aggregate into distinct ecological communities.

Ecosystems are habitats within biomes that form an integrated whole and a dynamically responsive system having both physical and biological complexes.

Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems where the interaction of life processes form self-organizing patterns across different scales of time and space.

Ecosystems are broadly categorized as terrestrial, freshwater, atmospheric, or marine.

Ecosystems are controlled both by external and internal factors.

Ecosystems are dynamic entities — invariably, they are subject to periodic disturbances and are in the process of recovering from some past disturbance.

Ecosystems in similar environments that are located in different parts of the world can end up doing things very differently simply because they have different pools of species present.

Ecosystems are controlled both by external and internal factors.

Ecosystems are dynamic entities — invariably, they are subject to periodic disturbances and are in the process of recovering from some past disturbance.

Ecosystems in similar environments that are located in different parts of the world can end up doing things very differently simply because they have different pools of species present.

Ecosystems provide a variety of goods and services upon which people depend.

Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Addison – Wesley.

Ecosystems are composed of a variety of abiotic and biotic components that function in an interrelated way.

Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary approaches for evaluating ecoregional initiatives.

A. Estes, M. T. Tinker, T. M. Williams, D. F. Doak " Killer Whale Predation on Sea Otters Linking Oceanic and Nearshore Ecosystems ", Science, October 16, 1998: Vol.

T. namibiensis overcomes this problem by harboring large vacuoles that can be filled up with life-supporting nitrates to sustain its life.

*( 1 ) The interrelationship between the Hauraki Gulf, its islands, and catchments and the ability of that interrelationship to sustain the life-supporting capacity of the environment of the Hauraki Gulf and its islands are matters of national significance.

However, in 2002, the Fullerton Review concluded that " the Assembly could no longer sustain having the majority of its operational functions located in and around Cardiff.

All of these functions taken together form a survival mechanism that causes us to sustain the body processes that BMR and RMR measure.

Death is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism.

"... to consider the structure of Local Government in England, outside Greater London, in relation to its existing functions ; and to make recommendations for authorities and boundaries, and for functions and their division, having regard to the size and character of areas in which these can be most effectively exercised and the need to sustain a viable system of local democracy ; and to report.

However, agricultural biodiversity, sometimes called Agrobiodiversity, " encompasses the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms which are necessary to sustain key functions of the agroecosystem, its structure and processes for, and in support of, food production and food security ".

They need to consume only small amounts of silicate minerals to sustain their functions.

" Strangely enough, despite being an android, Yung-Star is partial to bowls of " granite crunchies "-rocks in a slimy green goo ; he consumes these frequently, leading Zelda to call him gluttonous since, as stated, the Guk androids need only to consume small amounts of silicate minerals to sustain their functions.

Additionally, Barda also possesses a Mother Box, a sentient, handheld supercomputer that has a vast multitude of functions, such as opening Boom Tubes, energy manipulation, healing it's owner, take control over non-sentient machines and evolve them, sustain it's user in hostile environments, as well as other uses.

The ability to become aware of distracting stimuli – both internal and external – and sustain effort over time also involves metacognitive or executive functions.

These three functions are directly related to cultural capital because through schooling children are discriminated by social class and cognitively placed into the destination that will make them fit to sustain that social role as they grow.

Many in the industry allege that this dense concentration of talent, entrepreneurship and supply stores functions like an ecosystem in which each of the parts help sustain the whole.

Earthquake or seismic performance defines a structure's ability to sustain its main functions, such as its safety and serviceability, at and after a particular earthquake exposure.

In the United States Army, the term combat service support was until 2008 defined as the essential capabilities, functions, activities, and tasks necessary to sustain all elements of operating forces in theater at all levels of war.