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English to Portuguese: How climate change affects biodiversity General field: Science Detailed field: Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
Source text - English Climate change is likely to have a number of impacts on biodiversity - from ecosystem to species level. The most obvious impact is the impact that flooding, sea level rise and temperature changes will have on ecosystem boundaries, allowing some ecosystems to expand to new areas, while others diminish in size. As well as shifting ecosystem boundaries, these changes will also cause changes in natural habitat - an outcome which will have a knock-on effect on species survival.
The impacts of climate change on biodiversity will vary from region to region. The most rapid changes in climate are expected in far north and south of the planet, and in mountainous regions. These are also the regions where species often have no alternative habitats to which they can migrate in order to survive. Other vulnerable ecosystems and species include small populations or those restricted to small areas. Coral reefs have already shown devastating losses as a result of increased water temperatures.
Coral Reefs and Global Climate Change
Coral reefs have the highest biodiversity of any marine ecosystem, and they provide important ecosystem services and direct economic benefits to large and growing human populations in coastal zones. Although the natural habitat of coral reefs can be a stressful environment, recent global increases in reef ecosystem degradation and mortality suggest that the rate and nature of recent environmental changes often exceed the adaptive capacity of coral reefs. This can lead to the replacement of the coral reef community by non-reef systems. Such ecosystem shifts are well advanced in the Caribbean region, where two major reef-building coral species have been devastated by disease and the Indo-Pacific region, where repeated episodes of lethal ‘bleaching’ have occurred.
This crisis is almost certainly the result of interactions between multiple stresses. These include increased nutrient and sediment loading, direct destruction, contamination, over-harvesting, disease and predation. Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in chronic stress and disease epidemics, as well as mass coral bleaching episodes and reduced calcification. Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can also inhibit calcification. It is difficult to separate the effects of global climatic and local non-climatic influences when considering reef condition or vulnerability.
Translation - Portuguese Como as mudanças climáticas afetam a biodiversidade
É provável que as mudanças climáticas tenham inúmeros impactos na biodiversidade – desde o nível dos ecossistemas até ao nível das espécies. O impacto mais óbvio é o efeito que as cheias, a subida do nível do mar e a mudança das temperaturas terão nas fronteiras dos ecossistemas, permitindo que alguns ecossistemas se expandam a novas áreas, enquanto outros diminuam de tamanho. Para além de mudar as fronteiras dos ecossistemas estas mudanças causarão igualmente mudanças no habitat natural – um resultado que trará consequências indiretas na sobrevivência das espécies.
Os impactos das mudanças climáticas na biodiversidade vão variar de região para região. As mudanças mais rápidas no clima são esperadas nos longínquos norte e sul do planeta e nas regiões montanhosas. Estas são também as regiões onde as espécies não têm muitas vezes habitat alternativos para os quais possam migrar para sobreviver. Outros ecossistemas e espécies vulneráveis incluem populações pequenas ou aquelas restritas a pequenas áreas. Os recifes de coral já demonstraram perdas devastadoras em resultado do aumento da temperatura da água.
Recifes de Coral e Mudanças Climáticas Globais
Os recifes de coral têm a maior biodiversidade do que qualquer ecossistema marinho e eles fornecem importantes serviços ao ecossistema, bem como benefícios económicos diretos a grandes e crescentes populações humanas em zonas costeiras. Embora o habitat natural dos recifes de coral possa ser ambientes de stress, aumentos recentes na degradação e mortalidade nos ecossistemas de recifes a nível global sugerem que o ritmo e natureza das recentes mudanças ambientais excedem, muitas vezes, a capacidade adaptativa dos recifes de coral. Isto pode levar à substituição da comunidade de recifes de coral por sistemas que não são de recife. Tais mudanças no ecossistema estão bem avançadas na região das Caraíbas, onde duas importantes espécies de coral construtoras de recife têm sido devastadas por doença, e na região do Indo-Pacífico, onde episódios repetidos de “despigmentação” letal ocorreram.
Estes episódios são quase de certeza o resultado da interação de múltiplos fatores de stress. Estes incluem aumento da carga de nutrientes e sedimentos, destruição direta, contaminação, colheita exagerada, doença e predação. A subida da temperatura do oceano foi dada como uma das causas de fatores crónicos de stress e doença na forma de epidemias, bem como de episódios de despigmentação massiva de coral e de calcificação reduzida. O aumento dos níveis de CO2 atmosférico pode igualmente inibir a calcificação. É difícil separar os efeitos climáticos globais e as influências locais não-climáticas, quando considerando as condições e vulnerabilidade dos recifes.
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Years of experience: 12. Registered at ProZ.com: Feb 2012. Became a member: Mar 2014.
I am a CIOL Associate Member and have a Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) in English to Portuguese (Portugal) combination: Science ("Merit") and Literature.
I have experience in the translation and proofreading of corporate and student surveys, glossaries related to real estate, survey related to coaching, client's feedback surveys, Summit's agenda and official emails, annual overview for employees of fashion brand, a website of a company of maintenance of boat engines, consulting and business texts, rugged smartphone promotional content, UI content for the website of a phone credit company, corporate presentation related to mining engineering, stationery material description and instructions • Translation of corporation announcements • Translation of IRS forms • Translation of qualification certificates, birth certificates, criminal records, powers of attorney, Mining Engineering specialised CV, Geology specialized CV, Guitar strings' package instructions, part of an e-scooter renting company's App content, MTPE of tracking vehicles' UI, Corporate Record, slightly technical resellers' instructions content for a motorcycle's brand, part of the website of the same motorcycle's brand, agricultural machinery marketing content, a Corporate Presentation related to Mining Engineering, marketing texts for a company that provides Internet VPN services, part of an industrial machinery brand website, part of the website of a store of sports items, cybersecurity compliance course, UI for a company specialised in the recruitment process • Translation of a leaflet of a surrogacy service company • Translation of annual overview for employees of fashion brand, CVs, instructions of use for a medical device, texts related to the optical and dentistry fields, Sales and Customer Service user guides for a customer data company, Survey relating to Cloud businesses, vaccination bulletin, Basic Police Certificates, Medical Certificates, and CVs for Oil and Gas related offshore work, a small comic book for children relating to the vaccination advantages, Website content from a company providing voice-over services and Web ads.
I'm Portuguese, I like challenges, but I'm also at ease with everyday tasks. I do Yoga (helps me to keep in shape and manage stress).
I can work with MemoQ or Trados Studio 2022, among many other CAT tools.
Keywords: science, marketing, UI translation, social projects, portuguese, translation, proofreading
Member since Mar '14
