Ecosystems in sentence

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These jobs are also done by the plants, the animals and the ecosystems on our planet, including the ecosystems I study: the tropical coral reefs.

And even if we succeed in grabbing the water from our rural neighbors, we're just transferring the problem to someone else and there's a good chance it will come back and bite us in the form of higher food prices and damage to the aquatic ecosystems that already rely upon that water.

But in real-life terrestrial ecosystems, less than 10% of plant matter is eaten while it's still alive.

Scientists are learning that this detritus is an unexpectedly huge energy source, fueling most natural ecosystems.

David Pearce has suggested that genetic engineering and other contemporary processes cannot only alter the way humans experience emotional and physical pain, but that world ecosystems ought to be redesigned so that animals don't suffer in the wild.

I guess I'm a matchmaker of sorts and as a photographer, I have the rare opportunity to reveal animals and entire ecosystems that lie hidden beneath the ocean's surface.

These higher temperatures are having an effect on animals, plants, people, ecosystems.

Fishing also has impacts on broader ecosystems.

Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves.

Ecosystems, food security, jobs, economies, and coastal cultures all depend on it.

These supercharged carbon recyclers, like plants, serve as the natural recyclers in their ecosystems where they thrive.

In those ecosystems, they take carbon and recycle it into the nutrients needed for those ecosystems.

And when those animals went extinct, you know, the ecosystems didn't stand still.

People have influenced ecosystems in the past, and they continue to influence them in the present, even in places where they're harder to notice.

So scientists have started calling ecosystems like these "novel ecosystems," because they're often dominated by non-native species, and because they're just super weird.

For so long, we dismissed all these novel ecosystems as trash.

And of course, pretty much all of Hawaii, where novel ecosystems are the norm, where exotic species totally dominate.

Together, they create a harmful stew called leachate, which can move into groundwater, soil and streams, poisoning ecosystems and harming wildlife.

For example, ecosystems change.

Protecting our ecosystems also protects biodiversity and safeguards planetary health and the oxygen that we breathe.

They're signs of an era in which the behavior of some humans is making a global impact on our ecosystems.

These are fragile ecosystems.

Ecosystems were crowded.

And birds help us so much, and they play very crucial roles in our ecosystems each day.

So by the end of the century, we have 11 billion people, we have wasted ecosystems that aren't really going to be able to handle all the load they have to take from agriculture.

Now, I had been working on other topics: the emergence of infectious diseases, which come out of the natural ecosystems of the Earth, make a trans-species jump, and get into humans.

Chris Anderson: I think at a previous TED, I think it was Nathan Myhrvold who told me that it was thought that because these trees are like, 2,000 years and older, on many of them there are ecosystems where there are species that are not found anywhere on the Earth except on that one tree.

You've just told us a different story of this tragic arms race that's happening, and maybe whole ecosystems gone forever.

Escaped fish can even disrupt local ecosystems as invasive species.

Their construction also frequently destroys important ecosystems like mangroves and marshes, which protect coastal areas from storms, provide habitats, and absorb tons of greenhouse gases.

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