Ecosystem in a sentence

While Gretchen Daily 's original definition distinguished between ecosystem goods and ecosystem services, Robert Costanza and colleagues' later work and that of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment lumped all of these together as ecosystem services.

Payments for Ecosystem Services - Support the development of quantified ecosystem benefits and a voluntary, market-based, private-sector funding mechanism/incentive for ecosystem services.

It’s meant to be an ecosystem DAO where projects and people from across DeFi can come together to collaborate and build products the ecosystem needs.

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the largest intact temperate ecosystem in the world.

With this in mind, three entrepreneurs, Keith Laferla, Jessica Polidano and Jean Claude Muscat embarked on a project to create a digital ecosystem where doctors, pharmacists and patients can gain access to a shared ecosystem of healthcare apps.

Curtis-Scott laments that the renosterveld ecosystem in the Overberg is so degraded that it does not provide any ecosystem services that can be assigned a monetary value, so this cannot be used as an argument for its conservation.

Endless growth and a planet with finite resources, and a delicately balanced ecosystem, cannot co-exist, and the fallout will be horrifying when the ecosystem truly convulses under the abuse of capitalism.

In every individual ecosystem there is, at its core, a plant or an animal that is crucial for the survival of that ecosystem.

With Bithumb quickly being the most user-friendly digital asset ecosystem with a rock-solid cybersecurity system and massive liquidity, BT has a bright future ahead for their 8 million Bithumb Family users already participating within the ecosystem.

Her fellowship will combine multi-scalar institutional analysis, ecosystem service quantification, with probabilistic modeling to understand synergies and tradeoffs of ecosystem-based adaptation in peri-urban areas in Namibia and Tanzania.

There may be a variety of reasons for this—Android tends to dominate in lower-income markets—but the outcome remains the same: Apple’s ecosystem generates a lot more developer revenue than Google’s Android ecosystem.

A weighted index is created by giving 50% weight for environmental health objective (health) and 50% for ecosystem vitality (ecosystem); values range from 0-100.

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.

Keystone species tend to have an effect on ecosystem function that is disproportionate to their abundance in an ecosystem.

The abstract notion of ecological health attempts to measure the robustness and recovery capacity for an ecosystem; i.e. how far the ecosystem is away from its steady state.

The addition (or loss) of species which are ecologically similar to those already present in an ecosystem tends to only have a small effect on ecosystem function.

The ecosystem is the largest remaining continuous stretch of mostly undeveloped pristine land in the continental United States, considered the world's largest intact ecosystem in the northern temperate zone.

Thus, ecosystem processes are driven by the number of species in an ecosystem, the exact nature of each individual species, and the relative abundance organisms within these species.

While ecosystem goods have traditionally been recognized as being the basis for things of economic value, ecosystem services tend to be taken for granted.

According to Cargill’s executive chair of the board David MacLennan, each of these investments required confidence in the region’s industrial ecosystem and continued access to regional and global supply chains.