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The ecological collapse which followed has been variously attributed to overpopulation, slave traders, European diseases ( including a smallpox epidemic which killed so many so quickly, the dead were left unburied and a tuberculosis epidemic wiped out a quarter of the population ), social upheaval ), understand that food supply can vary and also that other factors in the environment can alter humans ' need for food.
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Excessive erosion causes problems such as desertification, decreases in agricultural productivity due to land degradation, sedimentation of waterways, and ecological collapse due to loss of the nutrient rich upper soil layers.
The resulting loss of topsoil ultimately led to ecological collapse, causing mass starvation and the complete disintegration of the Easter Island civilization.
In Bulgaria, the collapse of the drying cotton thistle ( Onopordum acanthium ) stems on which the birds build their nests has caused high mortality ; this is thought to be an example of an ecological trap.
The collapse of the Mayans sent a historic message that even advanced cultures are vulnerable to ecological suicide — though Diamond argues now it was less of a suicide than an environmental climate change that led to a lack of an ability to adapt — and a lack of elite willingness to adapt even when faced with the signs much earlier of nearing ecological problems.
In this series, Earth has been destroyed almost totally by overpopulation and the ensuing ecological collapse.
While some suggest that an alien invasion, ecological collapse, or other disaster was the culprit, by the end it is strongly suggested that this event was a technological singularity, and that the human race had transcended to a different form of existence with the assistance of exponentially improving technology.
University of British Columbia professor of ecological planning William Rees wrote that Collapse < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s most important lesson is that societies most able to avoid collapse are the ones that are most agile ; they are able to adopt practices favorable to their own survival and avoid unfavorable ones.
" Neo-Malthusianism " may be used as a label for those who are concerned that overpopulation may increase resource depletion or environmental degradation to a degree that is not sustainable with the potential of ecological collapse or other hazards.
By the time that Raziel is revived 500 years after the game's opening cinematic, Nosgoth is on the brink of complete ecological collapse.
Then, in 1995 when Norway rats reached Fregate Island, ( final refuge of the last natural population of Seychelles magpie robin and a number of other vulnerable endemic life-forms ), alerted the island ’ s owner, and local and international conservation agencies to the fact that without intervention ecological collapse and extinctions were inevitable.
They stress a strategic and ideological alliance of racial separatists in the Western world, neo-Eurasianists in Russia, Islamists in the Muslim world, and autonomist and secessionist movements in the least developed countries to resist the " New World Order " — globalization viewed as an instrument of Jewish-dominated international banking and American imperialism — that is inevitably leading to global economic collapse and ecological collapse.
Ballard's 9th novel is set in the year 2114 AD, several generations after an ecological collapse has rendered North America virtually unlivable.
The deforestation is a fact of the island's history, which seems to have caused widespread famine due to ecological collapse, and a catastrophic drop in population, accompanied by wars between clans for control of dwindling resources.
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Around this time, he founded a group called Survivre ( To Survive ), which was dedicated to antimilitary and ecological issues.
One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.
About 17. 8 % ( 3, 100, 000 ha ) of the total forested area of Vietnam was sprayed during the war, which dramatically disrupted ecological equilibrium.
For this reason, activists talk about the issue of ecological debt which implies a sort of predatory economic system.
During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.
The order Squamata, which is represented today by lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, radiated into various ecological niches during the Jurassic and were successful throughout the Cretaceous.
In 2001, the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge was absorbed into the much larger Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, which is a cooperative effort between the United States and Canada to preserve the area as an ecological refuge.
The realized niche is the set of environmental plus ecological conditions under which a species persists.
Other important requirements include a sound ecological understanding of the system, including connectedness, ecological dynamics and the context in which the system is embedded.
Due to the severity of its ecological effects, and the scale on which it is occurring, erosion constitutes one of the most significant global environmental problems we face today.
It is a benign ecological approach which is gaining increasing attention.
Ultimately, a chemical park emerged at nearby Leuna which is one of the most modern sites of its kind in Europe with high ecological standards.
Other manners in which many North American pagans have got involved with the movement are through political and / or ecological activism, such as " vegetarian groups, health food stores " or feminist university courses.
* the highest competent authority of the country has taken steps to prevent or eliminate exploitation or occupation as soon as possible in the whole area and to effectively enforce the respect of ecological, geomorphological, or aesthetic features which have led to its establishment.
The atmospheric conditions have been significantly altered from the original conditions by the presence of life-forms, which create an ecological balance that stabilizes the surface conditions.
* Landscape ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology and geography that address how spatial variation in the landscape affects ecological processes such as the distribution and flow of energy, materials and individuals in the environment ( which, in turn, may influence the distribution of landscape " elements " themselves such as hedgerows ).
Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet.
The presence of nonreproductive helpers appears to be the most important factor in determining which mating system is used, as ecological and environmental variability have not been found to have a significant impact.
Sorre developed a schema of society related to the ecological idea of habitat, which was applied to an urban context by the sociologist Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe.
A more analytical ecological approach on human geography was the one developed by Edgar Kant in his native Estonia in the 1930s and later at Lund University, which he called " anthropo-ecology ".
" He discusses checks to such increase including complex ecological interdependencies, and notes that competition is most severe between closely related forms " which fill nearly the same place in the economy of nature ".
The goals are to manage tigers as a single metapopulation, the dispersal of which between core refuges can help maintain genetic, demographic, and ecological integrity, and to ensure that species and habitat conservation becomes mainstreamed into the rural development agenda.
The site also has major additional significance, because of the presence of Lake Natron and the volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, which have immense ecological, geological and cultural value.
In Dashhowuz Province, which has suffered the greatest ecological damage from the Aral Sea's desiccation, bacteria levels in drinking water exceeded ten times the sanitary level ; 70 % of the population has experienced illnesses, many with hepatitis, and infant mortality is high.
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A typical supply chain begins with ecological and biological and political regulation of natural resources, followed by the human extraction of raw material, and includes several production links ( e. g., component construction, assembly, and merging ) before moving on to several layers of storage facilities of ever-decreasing size and ever more remote geographical locations, and finally reaching the consumer.
This was followed by A Good Day to Die ( 1973 ), an ecotage novel and statement about the decline of American ecological systems, and Farmer ( 1976 ), a Lolita-like account of a country school teacher and farmer coming to grips with middle age, his mother ’ s dying, and complications of human sexuality.
The complete clearcut of this ecologically fragile area, followed by extensive wildfires and overgrazing, exacerbated by the ecological stresses of the elevation, have prevented quick regeneration of the forest which has taken decades to recover.
The watershed surrounding the river was quickly recognized to be of exceptional ecological significance, and Glacier National Park was established in the area in 1886, followed by Mount Revelstoke National Park in 1914.
Plant ecological processes in Korup are strongly seasonal with flowering typically occurring between January and July ( peak March – May ), followed by peak fruiting season.
Because of their higher reproductive rates and ecological opportunism, primary colonisers typically are r-strategists and they are followed by a succession of increasingly competitive flora and fauna.
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