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Biodiversity impacts can occur at the species level and at the ecosystem level.
FORBES: Operationalizing the Precautionary Principle for Biodiversity
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Many factors must be considered to understand how shifts at the individual or species level might ripple through an entire ecosystem and affect ocean services and resources.
UNESCO: International coordination to address ocean acidification | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The objectives are to quantify the ocean soundscape on global scales, determine behavioral change thresholds of various species, and examine the functional relationship between sound and the viability of key marine organisms, at an individual scale, a species scale and the ecosystem level.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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However, when researchers looked at the 14 bird species that lived in both regions, they found that the same level of radiation was associated with twice as large a drop in bird numbers in Fukushima as in Chernobyl.
ECONOMIST: Radiation and evolution
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As I indicated above, in order to successfully uplift another species, changes are going to have to be made to the DNA at the embryonic level, if not earlier.
FORBES: Is It Ethical to Make Animals As Smart As People?