Furthermore, protected areas supply a range of ecosystem services to societies such as clean water, wild food and genetic material.
Increased soil erosion and sedimentation rates can also jeopardize the array of ecosystem ser-vices provided by the watersheds.
Ehrhart said the breakdown of ecosystem-dependent livelihoods is likely to remain the main driver of forced migration during the next few decades.
Scientists say understanding bat populations provides an important indicator of ecosystem health.
With this sort of ecosystem in place, Amazon has much more to gain from ensuring meaningful penetration of its tablets by selling them cheaply.
Together, these groups and others are stitching together an ecosystem not unlike the kind of ecosystem that a startup needs to navigate its own world.
They offer a wealth of ecosystem functions and services (freshwater, biodiversity, forest products, minerals, habitats for threatened species), and landscapes and cultures of exceptional value.
Then you have a Media Center PC that's even beyond that in terms of storage and the kind of ecosystem that exists in the PC world.
This changes the reef into an entirely new type of ecosystem whose habitat is no longer suitable for many of the fish that once inhabited it.
This type of ecosystem behaviour is increasingly characterised as fail fast fail cheap, a Darwinian process where projects fail in order that management can refine products and objectives.
To us it looks like a new generation of ecosystem, one that resonates more with the new, more open philosophy of ecosystems that is now permeating and transforming business.
Our Advisory Board consists of Jonathan Cole (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies), Karin Limburg (SUNY-Syracuse), David Pimentel (Cornell University), W. Kenneth Smail (Kenyon College) and Madeline Weld (Population Institute Canada).
Biodiversity, which includes species, ecosystems, and ecological processes, is essential for the long-term maintenance of ecosystem services like photosynthesis, nutrient recycling, soil fertility, provision of fresh water, disaster prevention, and many others.
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"There's now venture capitalists, education, workshare facilities - the kind of ecosystem you would expect to see in Silicon Valley, " says Eric Hippeau, a managing director at Lerer Ventures, which invests in the earliest stages of a start-up's life.
Working at the interface of science and environmental policy she will bring together long term data sets on biodiversity, the environment and human impacts to explore spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem functioning and help identify where conservation attention needs to focus in the future.
"It is important because - depending on the rate of change, and the type of species that are found in the forests - it will influence a lot of ecosystem services and processes, " explained co-author Brian Enquist from the University of Arizona.
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Instead, they hope Rent-to-Own will be part of an ecosystem of financing approaches that unlock the potential of rural entrepreneurs.
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"We believe in the strength of that ecosystem, of software and hardware companies that work together to deliver selection and choice, " Mr. Ballmer said.
Of course, MiSeq will still have the advantage of the huge ecosystem of Illumina-compatible kits and protocols.
The local population is deeply committed to maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem through the practice of ecologically sustainable agriculture.
The good news is that despite the divergent approaches of the different open core heads, there is really one set of Hadoop APIs that all three heads agree on (for now) and that are the foundation of a thriving ecosystem of projects.
The first Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report, released in March, warned that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem supporting life on Earth was being degraded or used unsustainably and that the consequences of degradation could grow significantly worse in the next half century.
Internationalised Domain Names form a vital part of the ecosystem necessary to foster the growth of local languages online and consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Cyrillic.
While Microsoft might not best Apple at every point of audio ecosystem -- and the glaring lack of an iPod Touch or iPhone competitor makes much of this irrelevant for many people -- Apple's refusal to build a subscription service makes Zune Pass one of our few choices for a well-integrated player and subscription software combo.
Still, it's hard not to get excited about the direction such a device signals both in the development of an ecosystem for the company and for the future of home 3D printing in general.
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"The orders of magnitude in which we are moving will help us to have a future vision of how the marine ecosystem of El Hierro would adapt to such changes, " he said.
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As developers placed the first generation of their apps (and data) on Windows, and as the amount of Microsoft OS based data grew, so did the value of the Windows ecosystem and of each successive generation of apps.
They called on the Welsh government to ensure that the ecosystem approach is used across the government and to promote the value of the ecosystem approach to the Welsh public and businesses in Wales.
The shift towards ad revenue and a new platform for helping listeners discover music is considered by most involved to be an essential evolution of the iTunes ecosystem as sales of digital downloads have slowed.
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