resource

Buried minerals are a new resource for the future.

They were caught in a vise of overpopulation and dwindling resources.

Hmm, uh, maybe privatize the resource?

A private owner would want to manage the resource efficiently in a sustainable way.

Well, an individual owner might not properly assess the limits of the resource.

So they could be just as prone to overexploiting that resource as a group where lots of people have access to it.

Another possible solution, pass laws that regulate use of the resource.

When several individuals of the same species or of several different species depend on the same limited resource, a situation may arise that is referred to as competition.

No serious competition exists when the major needed resource is in superabundant supply, as in most cases of the coexistence of herbivores (plant eaters).

Furthermore, most species do not depend entirely on a single resource, if the major resource for a species becomes scarce, the species can usually shift to alternative resources.

If more than one species is competing for a scarce resource, the competing species usually switch to different alternative resources.

But it may also occur among totally unrelated forms that compete for the same resource, such as seed-eating rodents and ants.

The Russian biologist G. F. Gause performed numerous tow-species experiments in the laboratory, in which one of the species became extinct when only a single kind of resource was available.

Numerous seeming exceptions to this law have since been found, but they can usually be explained as cases in which the two species, even though competing for a major joint resource, did not really occupy exactly the same niche.

Competition may occur for any needed resource.

Experiments are under way to develop technologies for exploiting this resource.

However, in many places (for example, California, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, the rift valleys of Africa)the resource is potentially so large that its future will depend on the economics of production.

Although the potential is enormous, it is likely that in the near future geothermal energy can make important local contributions only where the resource is close to the user and the economics are favorable, as they are in California, New Zealand, and Iceland.

All had immediate access to the sea, and this had important implications for a significant international resource, fish, as well as for cheap transport, merchant marines, and the shipbuilding industry.

The hard volcanic stone was a resource that had been in great demand for many years, at least since the rise of the Olmecs (a people who flourished between 1200 and 400 B.C.), and it apparently had a secure market.

This unprecedented development of a finite groundwater resource with an almost negligible natural recharge rate—that is, virtually no natural water source to replenish the water supply—has caused water tables in the region to fall drastically.

Whatever the final answer to the water crisis may be, it is evident that within the High Plains, irrigation water will never again be the abundant, inexpensive resource it was during the agricultural boom years of the mid-twentieth century.

He is a man of great resource.

Being a workaholic robs a person of his most valuable resource—time.