1.   The choice of materials by instrument makers, however, depends primarily on the local ecosystem.

2.   The issue was whether or not the bacteria in his body would contaminate the local ecosystem.

3.   After a new dam was built the local ecosystem warmed and that cause higher humidity.

4.   If all the grackles left, the sum effect on our local ecosystem would be less bird poop.

5.   Of course, nature constantly causes massive disruptions that ripple through a local ecosystem, like a forest fire or a Mount St. Helens eruption.

6.   So, how do they fit into the big picture in the local ecosystem?

7.   The next step, Costanza says, is to delineate more clearly the explicit linkages between particular local ecosystems and local economies.

8.   Harvesting the jellyfish will help the environment, Galil said, because the creatures are foreign to the local ecosystem.

9.   He also said that construction and landscaping were being carried out so as not to disrupt and stress the local ecosystems.

10.   Indigenous peoples still transmit sophisticated environmental knowledge of local ecosystems, and other religious groups are involved in reforestation projects, river clean-ups and recycling programs.