Ecological diversity

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To summarize, the most probable explanation of the C isotope spread in the shallow-water facies of the Manjeri Formation (Spring Valley and Shavi sediments and Rupemba (Spring Valley) stromatolites), and in the Cheshire Formation stromatohtes and black shales is thus that carbon isotope fractionation records a diverse ecology that existed based primarily on oxygenic photosynthesis, but with associated organisms... 

Sousa, W.P. (1979) Disturbance in marine intertidal boulder fields the non-equilibrium maintenance of species diversity. Ecology, 60, 1225-1239. 

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Biogeography an emerging cornerstone for understanding prokaryotic diversity, ecology, and evolution. Microbial Ecology S3,197-207. 

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The methodology for impact assessment is widely accepted and ISO standards have been established to compare and quantify the various weighing factors. The assessment consists of weighing the classes to integrate the environmental profiles such as effects on GHG emission, ozone depletion, acidification, or eutrophication. It is however unrealistic to desire unification into one environmental impact number for widely diverse ecological and economical effects. 

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