Consider this stirring quotation and its possible ecological implications:

Developed as many of the ecological and social implications of global development were first widely understood.

It invites us to imagine the social, economic and ecological implications of catastrophic global warming for Australia and its region.

Dominance of bacterial biomass in the Sargasso Sea and its ecological implications.

In previous years, the World Bank was strongly criticized by environmental groups for pushing projects with little regard for their ecological implications.

"We're just beginning to really investigate the actual physiology of what's going on and the ecological implications."

The introduction of invasive species may have environmental, economic, and ecological implications.

The ecological implications of the scheme, which will not be completed until 2000, have not yet been analysed by the embryonic Spanish environmental movement.

I would like to stress once again that we are dealing here with extremely long-term damage which may also have ecological implications.

Nothing on that scale has ever been done, and there's no way to know what the long-term, widespread ecological implications might be.