ecological efficiency

Whether this position gets filled depends upon the ecological efficiency of the species filling it however.

The ecological efficiency of an ecosystem is as a result often no better than an approximation.

However, ecological efficiency is reduced to zero by the restrictions imposed on it!

Theoretically, it is easy to calculate ecological efficiency using the mathematical relationships above.

Hence, by the late 1940s, British colonial authorities were debating the overall ecological efficiency of the lake.

Bringing together economic, social and ecological efficiencies will also put an end to the ultra-liberal free trade model that is currently destroying family farms.

Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.

Ecological efficiency is a combination of several related efficiences that describe resource utilization and the extent to which resources are converted into biomass.

I welcome the proposal to adopt ecological efficiency standards in administrative management, and the call to adopt much more ambitious information and communication policies.

The Nile perch, however, does not eat this detritus, and it was argued that its introduction would do little to improve the over-all ecological efficiency of the lake.

Everyone can increase their ecological efficiency by efforts to reduce how many kilocalories they use-this is the old Southern argument against the energy consumption of the Northern industrial nations.

Ecological efficiency is the exploitation efficiency multiplied by the assimilation efficiency multiplied by the net production efficiency, which is equivalent to the amount of consumer production divided by the amount of prey production ()

Much criticism of the index has been due to commentators falsely understanding it to be a measure of happiness, when it is in fact a measure of the ecological efficiency of supporting well-being (see, for example, the following blogs in Heavy Lifting and Spiked).

I'm referring not just to the sociability it promotes, which Jane Jacobs identified, or to the density it allows, which Rem Koolhaas celebrates, or even to the ecological efficiency it sustains, which now makes New York, on a per-capita basis, a very green place.