Sentences with phrase «ecological interactions with»

- MPG — Establishment of an International Max Planck Research School in Jena, «The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques»

The best starting point is expanding our knowledge of the passenger pigeon's ecological interactions with other species.

«This article provides a new perspective on how to do that, considering microbial ecological interactions with the host, other microbes, and the environment.»

Not exact matches

Connectedness as causal dependence also seems to be what Callicott has in mind when he says that our states of consciousness are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature (Callicott 1986).

Making the point in evolutionary terms Callicott reminds us that «the very structure of one's psyche and rational faculties are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature.»

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

We need to have our thought checked and corrected by deconstructive postmodernism and enriched and developed through interaction with Asian, communitarian, ecological, and feminist thought as well as that of primal peoples.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

They have little experience with sustainability per se, have done hardly any research into growing various crops under different native shade tree species and densities, and have very little * ecological * perspective (i.e., multi-year, cyclic, prey - predator and tree - weed interactions etc.).

It's a city with a living, evolving «ecological web of interactions» between man and animal, according to Gavin Van Horn.

Anyone affiliated with a research institution can win up to $ 400 for a photo or visualization image that best captures the aesthetics of ecological interactions.

I researched the interaction in various areas between rabbits, arthropods, coyotes, plants, and weather information in order to determine how these factors interact with one another to create a complete ecological system.

One common tool is applicable to the vast array of ecological and social science interactions at the critical wildfire / urban interface: more effective land - use planning, along with the regulations that guide it.

We expect that the results of in vivo selection may differ when mice are pre ‐ colonized with a microbiota due to changes in nutrient availability and other ecological interactions, including competition or syntrophy.

Biodiversity can also be explored by investigating how species» traits evolve in close interaction with the environment, for example by analyzing ecological niches.

In the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankind.

With a focus on child and teacher factors, interactional and school wide processes, and community interactions, the Certificate Program employs an ecological approach that fosters child emotional and academic learning through a systemic lens.

His poetic voice seeks to connect the audience directly to political, social and ecological priorities as a result of their interaction with his work.

In my talk, I described the park as a positive example of what the biologist Erle C. Ellis calls «anthromes» — «ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.»

In North America these coupled interactions set the stage for changes in ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densification.

by Judith Curry Health risks arise from the interaction of uncertain future climatic changes with complex ecological, physical, and socio - economic systems, which are simultaneously affected by numerous other changes, e.g. globalisation, demographic changes, and changes in land use, nutrition, health care quality.

the global ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.

At best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualistically).

Finally, the impacts of climate change on plant growth could alter ecological interactions among species with potential cascading effects on food webs; integrating changes in suitable plant growing days and NPP within recently developed General Ecosystem Models [40] could provide some insights into the magnitude of these changes.

Dyadic models emerging from the longitudinal structural equation modeling tradition: Parallels with ecological models of interspecifc interactions