| The cycle of carbon movement between the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere is a complex and important global cycle. |
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| But biosphere is also the name of a man-made and sealed environment, which simulates the earth's biosphere. |
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| Vernadsky defined the biosphere in a rigorous way, from the standpoint of geology. |
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| At their most intense, they can suggest new ideas of relationships of humankind to nature, artefact to place, technology to the biosphere. |
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| In fact, the current scientific environment often demands of interdisciplinary team work to develop and test hypotheses involving the biosphere. |
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| It starts with the lithosphere, goes on to atmosphere and hydrosphere, and ends up with the biosphere. |
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| Chapters devoted to how the biosphere is energized and how that energy powers biogeochemical cycles follow. |
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| Machines would be used only to sterilize and purify water that has already been cycled through the artificial biosphere. |
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| A space station is a biosphere that provides basic human needs to sustain life. |
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| He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere. |
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| The system of universes could be even more intricate and complex than the biosphere of our planet. |
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| The levels in this ecogeographic hierarchy include individuals, populations, communities, bioregions, bioprovinces, and the biosphere. |
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| Appreciable amounts of nitrogen are present in the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. |
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| He tells the story of Earth's 4.56 billion-year history as a complex co-evolution between the geosphere and biosphere. |
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| Even most of earth is lifeless once you get past the thin film of the biosphere on the surface. |
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| The second reason is that it's the mixing place between the biosphere and the atmosphere. |
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| War, of course, besides being bad for children, is also bad for other living things, and one nuclear bunker-buster can ruin your whole biosphere. |
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| However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere. |
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| Berkelium does not occur naturally in the biosphere and so normally never presents a risk. |
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| The toxification of the biosphere by man-made poisons is one of the litany of ecological disasters that is bringing us undone. |
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| And therefore, humanity, which comes into the picture with cognition, depends upon this living part of the planet, the so-called biosphere. |
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| Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth's biosphere and atmosphere during the past few hundred years. |
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| If we catch it, the potential to expand the biosphere beyond Earth to the rim of the solar system and beyond can be realized. |
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| One is the Union government's move to create biosphere reserves in areas spread across more than one State. |
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| The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms. |
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| Moreover, a successful biosphere would prove to be an important step in the direction of space colonization, terraforming and remedial ecology. |
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| Examples of places where a biosphere might be built include the moon, other moons of the solar system, and planets such as Mars. |
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| An artificial biosphere should have different zones that represent different parts of an ecosystem. |
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| We can not simply go out, helter-skelter, and try to transform the biosphere, transform this planet, without knowing what we're doing. |
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| Trends can be seen either as lineage trends in evolving lineages, or biosphere trends affecting the evolution of life as a whole. |
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| The transformation of the biosphere seemed to be as slow as the transformation of the geosphere. |
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| He looked at this problem of living processes in the biosphere from that standpoint. |
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| The biosphere is a basically closed system in terms of matter but an open system in terms of energy. |
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| The peculiar reflectance of infrared radiation by plants forms the main source of remotely sensed information about the biosphere on land. |
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| It nestles in the midst of breathtaking protected areas of natural beauty such as the Mittlere Elbe biosphere reserve and a NATURA-2000 area. |
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| The aerosphere represents one of three major components of the biosphere. |
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| The terrestrial biosphere is, indeed, a vast natural carbon store, but its capacity to take up substantially increased quantities of CO2 is severely limited. |
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| Living outside the biosphere are mostly transmigrants and the indigenous people that capitalists from the city often hire to fell trees in the forest. |
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| So man is now changing the planet, for the better, just as living processes improved the planet, so man by acting on the biosphere improves the planet. |
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| The storage of sulfur in the various compartments of Earth and its biosphere, and the many transfers occurring among them, is referred to as the sulfur cycle. |
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| Another major biological feature often considered as organized hierarchically is the pattern of distribution and association of organisms in the biosphere. |
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| In certain areas, mankind is presently consuming these mineral resources more rapidly than they are being transmitted from the interior of the planet to the biosphere. |
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| At worst, the biosphere could even be destroyed by what nanotechnologists call grey goo, as a result of self-replication, which is a key goal of genetic engineering. |
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| He recognized that, just as life transforms non-life, so the human mind is unique among all living processes, in the way it transforms the biosphere. |
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| For example, the discovery of hydrothermal vents in the 1970s offered a clear proof of significant dynamic connections between the lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. |
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| Seal the container, create a label itemizing the contents of your biosphere, and glue the label to the lid. |
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| More than 4,000 people live in the biosphere reserve, depending mostly on agriculture, stock raising, hunting, gathering, and fishing. |
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| There are six UNESCO biosphere reserves and nine UNESCO World Heritage sites. |
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| This monumental work focuses largely on the biosphere reserve concept and tourism experiences from biosphere reserves. |
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| This biosphere reserve and national park covers a vast area of tropical rain forest in northern Sumatra. |
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| It is an elastic environment in continuous vibration due to the energy that allows the gyration, the movement of components of the biosphere. |
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| Today the aim is to design new models for careful management of the biosphere. |
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| The archipelago where Darwin learnt the lessons of evolution is an archetypical biosphere reserve. |
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| Gaps do exist in tritium environmental science, but they are not significant for people or the biosphere at current, low levels of exposure. |
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| Cultural and biological diversity cohabit and coevolve within one single world-wide living system, the biosphere. |
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| Furthermore, the Council approved 25 new biosphere reserves, including the first intercontinental biosphere reserve of Morocco and Spain. |
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| Major objective is to prevent the release of radionuclides to the biosphere over a very long time scale. |
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| She added that the other biosphere reserves would be completely reorganized to meet the criteria. |
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| Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans. |
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| The flip side, of course, is a vision of dystopia: ruined economies, invisible monitors everywhere, and rogue nanobots eating up the biosphere. |
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| Five transboundary biosphere reserves have been established in Europe and more recently two in Africa. |
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| Illegal logging activities continue in both protected and unprotected areas, and its status as a biosphere reserve and national park is effectively in name only. |
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| The Earth's climate is characterised by many modes of variability, involving the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and biosphere. |
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| A thin living skin, it is the essential interface between the biosphere, the atmosphere, the lithosphere and the hydrosphere. |
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| I don't think people fully appreciate the extent to which life has played a role in geology, how the biosphere and the geosphere co-evolved. |
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| The Bureau thanked the Algerian authorities for having provided a zonation map using the biosphere reserve terminology. |
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| Even today, bacteria and archaea are probably more important than eukaryotes to the smooth running of the biosphere. |
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| Placing your biosphere on a window sill is fine providing it does not get direct sunlight. |
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| The biosphere and human life are at risk, and the conviction that this must change is widespread, and growing. |
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| The biosphere reserve operates with members of the community who have been volunteering their services for a number of years. |
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| Within this program, a network of biosphere reserves was created that includes remarkable continental, sea and mixed ecosystems. |
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| Accounting for natural capital like the value of ecosystems and the biosphere will require new ways of measuring value. |
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| Geochemical interaction between the geosphere, hydrosphere and the biosphere depends partly on sorption processes and partly on chemical speciation. |
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| Knowledge of the Earth's deep biosphere and how it survives such environmental extremes could also help astrobiologists searching for life on Mars, where the planetary surface is known to be hostile for living organisms. |
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| The base upon which we have built all of this is a stable biosphere. |
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| And social or ecological reform in the absence of a spiritual awakening is proving to be fatal, as if the biosphere could be protected while the soul of humanity perishes. |
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| The Anthropocene is the unofficial name that has been given to our time to describe the depth of humanity's ecological footprint on the biosphere. |
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| I have long said that we must stop the fiction, that we can continue to expect our biosphere to assimilate unlimited amounts of waste without consequence. |
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| Mammals in the biosphere include the pygmy shrew, water shrew and harvest mouse. |
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| Natural carbon sinks are an integral feature of the natural carbon balance of the biosphere, and these can be augmented by human action, such as forestation projects and growing energy crops. |
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| An increasing number of natural disasters are clearly linked to the fact that we are placing ever greater demands on the global ecosphere and biosphere. |
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| Study sites will include the 30 biosphere reserves identified up to now, all of which are of sufficient altitude to comprise a nival zone offering permanent snow cover and an alpine zone. |
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| When considering sustainable management of the biosphere, massive destruction of human dejecta that is justified for means of water purification is a kind of collective suicide. |
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| We live within and are dependent upon the biosphere, which we understand as a diverse and dynamic system with limits that human societies must respect. |
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| It is only by taking into account the entire biosphere, that we can hope to understand how we can change things given the dangers facing humanity, that humanity has brought upon itself. |
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| At the largest scale, these include the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. |
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| The biosphere is fundamentally a globally interconnected, open system, of whose laws and behaviour we currently only have limited knowledge and control. |
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| Under pretext of «energy valorization» or «water purification», the ongoing massive destruction of biomass is progressively unbalancing the biosphere towards a point of rupture. |
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| Following the German reunification, the biosphere reserve had been extended in 1997 to cover a longer section of the River Elbe, thus corresponding to a 'riverscape' biosphere reserve. |
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| Africa has over 3,000 protected areas, with 198 marine protected areas, 50 biosphere reserves, and 80 wetlands reserves. |
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| We also investigate the many interactions which exist between the various parts of the system, the geosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere and finally the biosphere. |
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| During its 20 months in orbit, this Earth explorer will gather valuable data on the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cyrosphere and interior. |
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| Lotman's conceptualization of the semiosphere was inspired by Vernadsky's and Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the biosphere and the noosphere. |
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| There are 28 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Russia, 40 UNESCO biosphere reserves, 41 national parks and 101 nature reserves. |
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| Our geologists and mineralogists provide new information on the evolution of geological environments, and on links between the geosphere and the biosphere. |
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| At the same time, the natural environment will play its regenerating role by avoiding biodiversity loss and waste accumulation in the biosphere and the geosphere. |
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| Rhön biosphere cattle' and 'Rhön goats' have not only turned out to be excellent gastronomical ambassadors for the biosphere reserve but are also helping to preserve the landscape. |
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| In general, the Advisory Committee considered that the functioning of the Iranian biosphere reserves was not fully satisfactory, and in particular that the zonation pattern was not always complete. |
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| He shows how fetishization of the concept by environmentalists in particular undermines their efforts and the integrity of the biosphere. |
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| As the principal component of the terrestrial biosphere, the angiosperm flora determines many features of the habitat, some of which are available food, aspects of the forest canopy, and grazing land. |
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| Environment refers to everything that surrounds us and consists of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. |
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| The environment and the biosphere also will be less affected over the long term by virtue of ecotourism experiences than by most other kinds of tourism. |
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| Fireflies believes that the human is not an isolate being as modern individualism would have us believe, but is part of an interconnected web of life that includes humans, plants, animals and the entire biosphere. |
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| Unlike our predecessors, who acted in ignorance of the consequences of their action, we are now aware that we are endangering the survival of the biosphere and of future generations. |
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| The setting-up of this biosphere reserve has enabled the Masai populations who live in this area to become associated with the management of the whole reserve area and benefit from part of the tourism revenue. |
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| The period marked a steep change in the diversity and composition of Earth's biosphere. |
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| I said in my recent book that perhaps the only tool we had to bring carbon dioxide back to pre-industrial levels was to let the biosphere pump it from the air for us. |
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| Things look set to change, though, as the country opens up – an airport opened recently on Ometepe island, a Unesco biosphere reserve known for its twin volcanoes. |
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| However, if we are too ambitious at the beginning and think that we can cover the whole biosphere, then we would not be serving environmental interests. |
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| Nuclear waste requires sophisticated treatment and management to successfully isolate it from interacting with the biosphere. |
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| With regard to responsibility towards the biosphere, a special reference to future generations is made in the text to the safeguarding of interests in biodiversity and the biosphere that extend beyond the present generation. |
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| It was there, in the heart of Africa, that Member States first said that account also had to be taken of that gift of the biosphere, an unrepeatable gift if ever there was one. |
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| Without functioning diverse ecosystems, at every scale from gene to biosphere, the ecosystem services on which both human life as well as quality of life depend, will not endure. |
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| The isotopes 134 and 137 are present in the biosphere in small amounts from human activities, differing by location. |
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| In the safety philosophy of underground disposal of wastes the main concept is isolation of the waste from the biosphere, as well as natural attenuation of any pollutants leaking from the waste. |
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| One extension and one change in the borders of an existing biosphere reserves have also been approved, illustrating the vitality of the network to continuously improve existing sites. |
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| The protected estuaries, beaches and foreshore gravel bars in the biosphere reserve all form part of one of the largest protected coastal areas in British Columbia. |
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| This representation of the world, though schematic, is extremely interesting as an illustration of the interdependence of the economy and society with the biosphere. |
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| Protected areas is meant for affording protection to wild animals and their habitat which also includes forest reserves and biosphere reserves. |
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| The biosphere is divided into a number of biomes, inhabited by broadly similar plants and animals. |
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| According to the estimates of a recent study, the biosphere now needs a year and three months to renew what humanity takes from it in a single year. |
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| The thought process was this: we have a bloodied biosphere. |
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| The author explains the radiation flux in the free atmosphere and biosphere and concentrates on such processes as photosynthesis and photoperiodism. |
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| Lignocellulosic materials represent the most significant fraction of the terrestrial phytobiomass, the largest source of organic compounds in the biosphere. |
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| Evidences for a far infrared electromagnetic theory of communication and sensing in moths and its relationship to the limiting biosphere of the corn earworm, Heliothis zea. |
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| Physical geography deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. |
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| Earth's biosphere produces many useful biological products for humans, including food, wood, pharmaceuticals, oxygen, and the recycling of many organic wastes. |
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| A strategy for survival is needed to replace man's present role as an unrestricted superdominant of the biosphere, for this role is a strategy for self-defeat. |
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| As the connecting bridge between two vast land masses, the Panamanian biosphere is filled with overlapping fauna and flora from both North and South America. |
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