"sustain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ranganathan, R. J. Ranjit Daniels, M. D. Subash Chandran, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily (2008) Sustaining biodiversity in ancient tropical countryside.
- While most in the community of conservation science "stress the importance" of sustaining biodiversity, there is debate on how to prioritize genes, species, or ecosystems, which are all components of biodiversity (e.g. Bowen, 1999).
- The project is aware of the need to include neighbors of the park, to create a broad-based cultural appreciation for wilderness and biodiversity conservation, as well as demonstrating how an agrarian economy, carefully matched to local conditions, can help sustain biodiversity and create economic opportunity.
- In 2000, the Convention on Biological Diversity, an international treaty aimed at sustaining biodiversity which has been adopted by 193 member countries, selected the mean trophic level of fisheries catch as one of eight indicators for immediate testing.
- This topographic range combined with a tropical moisture sustains extremely high biodiversity and high degrees of endemism, probably the richest botanically in the world's temperate regions.
- IITA collects diverse plant genetic material or germplasm on major African food crops that can be mined for beneficial traits and characteristics to increase crop yields and sustain biodiversity.
- "So in each case the question is the same: how are we to adapt existing structures - canals, dykes, mill-wheels, pumping systems etc - to sustain biodiversity."
- Is Canada fulfilling its obligations to sustain marine biodiversity?
- As a non-renewable resource, it is of the utmost importance in sustaining biodiversity, as a source of raw materials and also as a storage and filter medium for nutrients and water.
- The conservation ethic advocates management of natural resources for the purpose of sustaining biodiversity in species, ecosystems, the evolutionary process, and human culture and society.
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