The prime goal was a fresh assessment of ice, ocean and
ecological conditions on the stretch of Antarctic coast south of Australia and New Zealand a century after an arduous expedition led by Sir Douglas Mawson did the same.
Not exact matches
After hearing evidence and considering submissions for 180 days, the Board arrived
on 209
conditions it deemed necessary to mitigate the risks and adverse socio -
ecological effects associated with the pipeline and its associated infrastructure to ensure the project is in the public interest.
In 2012 — 13, environmental water holders and managers have sought to build
on the Basin's positive
ecological response to wet
conditions over the past two years.
It relies
on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local
conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects.
It relies
on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local
conditions, rather thanthe use of inputs with adverse effects.
It relies
on ecological processes, biodiversity and nutrients, energy and water cycles adapted to local
conditions, rather than
on the use of external inputs with adverse effects.
They used these location data to define each species»
ecological niche based
on four
conditions: temperature, precipitation, elevation, and vegetation.
«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an
ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow
conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow
on microbes.»
Although matters can sometimes get complicated — the evolution of higher choosiness in one sex can either promote or impede selection for choosiness in the other, depending
on the
conditions — the researchers find that, if the
ecological circumstances are such that individuals spend a large part of their lives searching for mates (e.g., male Mormon crickets, many male spiders), then the cost of choosiness is also high — and individuals can be expected not to be particularly choosy (it takes too much time).
The results showed that the ability of mussels to cope with more acidic
conditions depends largely
on how much food is available to them, and both factors vary from place to place in a complex geographic mosaic of environmental and
ecological conditions.
«Correctly identifying an invasive species as either native or non-native is important for developing sound policy, management and scientific research programs, because effective responses depend
on knowing whether the species» dominance is caused by
ecological or evolutionary novelty, changes in environmental
conditions that facilitate it or both,» Taylor said.
Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author
on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the
ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.
Based
on our results, we hypothesize that
ecological conditions that dramatically reduced population size under natural
conditions could have interacted with human exploitation in causing the passenger pigeon's rapid demise.
The responsibility of each citizen and community to ensure meaningful decision - making that is based
on the twin principles of
ecological integrity and socio - economic equity,
conditioned in the interim by a «common but differentiated responsibility» in which those currently rich within the country take
on a greater role and / or are incentivised or forced to to give up their excessively consumptive lifestyles in order for the poor to have adequate levels of human security.
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The protection of these fragile island resources was ensured when Congress, in the act that created Channel Islands National Park in 1980, established a long - term
ecological monitoring program to gather information
on the current health of resources and predict future
conditions.
These works have a strong
ecological message and reflect
on the anxiety surrounding our current environmental
conditions.
Below you can go
on a bit of a tour of one ancient sequoia grove in Kings Canyon, just before a prescribed fire was set to try to reestablish somewhat normal
ecological conditions.
Whether named «environmental» or «
ecological,» participatory membership in societies whose habits contribute to the deterioration of living
conditions on the planet means taking part in a process of transformation.
In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research
on polar bear populations and their
ecological interrelationships with seals and sea ice
conditions began in the fall of 1970.
In December 2017, we visited the Galápagos to survey coral reefs and to gather
ecological information
on their extent and
condition.
Don't forget, it was the evolution of the total forestry based
ecological system (based
on everything from algae to hard wood trees) that slowly
conditioned the earths ecology to its current state from a primordeal soup.
Highlights the focus of PBS
on ecological validity; that is, the practical application and translation of science - based knowledge to natural agents of change in natural settings under natural
conditions (e.g., teachers and administrators in school, parents and family members at home and in the community).
Ecodevelopmental theory consists of three overlapping components: (a) a social —
ecological framework, based
on the work of Bronfenbrenner (1979), that incorporates four levels of social context; (b) a developmental perspective emphasizing the changing nature of youth and families across time as a function not only of the current social context but also of changing
conditions in the social context over time; and (c) a focus
on social interactions between and among individuals in the youth's and family's social context.