Sentences with phrase «ecological research site»

The research was performed at the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Long - term Ecological Research site, which Robertson directs, and on commercial farm fields in Michigan.

The Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecology.

Warming may push carbon more deeply into the soil The researchers collected samples dating back to 1989 from greenhouses at the Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site, the longest - running whole system tundra warming experiment.

And she said some of her graduate students will conduct studies with her at the Moorea Coral Reef Long - term Ecological Research site in French Polynesia.

To conduct the study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879 individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.

So you tend to lose the sedges and the mosses and the lichens,» explained study co-author Ed Rastetter, a senior scientist at the MBL Ecosystems Center and principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska, where part of the research was conducted.

The researchers created 50 study plots in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico, at the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research site.

Konza is an 8,600 - acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.

While such a «study it all» approach is not novel (e.g., NSF Long Term Ecological Research sites), it has remained science fiction until technology and informatics became enabling.

Incorporated as an LTER site in 1980, Andrews Forest was one of the founding sites in NSF's national network of ecological research sites.

Not exact matches

«We also capitalized on data gathered by the Central Arizona Phoenix - Long Term Ecological Research program to accurately measure the degree to which the landscapes at each study site were natural or disturbed by humans,» added Giraudeau.

After a gap year spent as the assistant project director for a chimpanzee field site for ecological research in western Uganda, I began graduate school in my first - choice neuroscience program.

Other projects, such as Peru's plans to dredge rivers to improve navigability, could exacerbate the ecological impact by changing flows, disturbing spawning sites, and disrupting the river - forest connection, says Fabrice Duponchelle of the French Institute of Research for Development in Marseille.

That is more ambitious and potentially more scientifically fruitful than the previous such foundation project — the Long Term Ecological Research Network begun in 1980 — which largely answered specific questions about impacts in a specific region, albeit in a way that failed to allow comparisons with other sites.

«In the last decade, there's been a burst in new studies, including additional research sites and novel techniques, which demand that we reconsider the climatic, ecological and cultural developments that occurred.»

I retrieved data on multiple species from various research sites, and through comparative analyses of these data I explored trends and made assumptions that allowed me to sketch out various ecological interaction models.

«With fewer seeds, you get less regeneration,» says ecologist Joshua Rapp, affiliated with NSF's Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and lead author of the paper.

In 1980, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range of biomes.

NSF proposal competition results in addition of new Land Margin Ecological Research (LMER) site: Plum Island Ecosystem LTER

Interests: Role of animals in ecosystems, stable isotopes and food webs; conducts research on Brazilian streams and at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites at Plum Island (MA) and theresearch on Brazilian streams and at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites at Plum Island (MA) and theResearch (LTER) sites at Plum Island (MA) and the Arctic.

On February 28, 2013, the U.S. and French long - term ecological research networks sign a Memorandum of Understanding committing both networks to site and scientist collaborations

Built in June by Dr. Henry Loescher, the tower, located high on a ridge overlooking the Trans - Alaska Pipeline and Dalton Highway, is collecting data on prevailing wind directions and annual temperature variations that are crucial for the design and construction of a National Ecological Observatory Network research site.

This site presents insights from Opportunities to Use Remote Sensing in Understanding Permafrost and Related Ecological Characteristics (2014), a workshop report from the National Research Council's Polar Research Board.