Sentences with phrase «ecological relationships of»

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean.

Geisen is one of dozens of European scientists who recently completed an extensive investigation, called CODENET, of the biology and the ecological relationships of several coccolithophorid species.

Not exact matches

The second and perhaps most fundamental area requiring joint attention by ecological and political theologians is the problem of properly conceptualizing and expressing the relationship between nature and history.

If what is needed in our ecological, nuclear age is an imaginative vision of the relationship between God and the world that underscores their interdependence and mutuality, empowering a sensibility of care and responsibility toward all life, how would it help to see the world as the body of God?

Those who are doubtful point to the deepening misery of the poor, the loss of traditional values and community relationships, the looming ecological crises, and the structural dependence of prosperity on decisions made in financial centers in other parts of the world.

It is interesting to note in this context that family therapy broke out of purely intrapsychic relations into wider systems of relationships that characterize and condition us all; and now we see the more recent birth of «ecological» therapy, where the concern broadens to include human relationships to the fullest extent possible (see FFT 256ff.).

It means restoring a good relationship between humanity and its ecological home, stirring the heart, setting about work in a spirit of thanksgiving, discovering power under the authority of the Spirit, confronting evil with confidence in the sovereignty of God and sharing in the generous economy of God so that nothing is wasted.

The power of nature — and of women — to give and withhold life epitomizes the inescapable connection between the two and thus the necessary relationship of justice and ecological issues.

The word «ecological» is added because of the emphasis on relationships in the development of postmodern thought that has been influenced by process philosophy and in particular the thought of A.N. Whitehead.

In this paper, I shall present a more adequate mechanistic position based on a contemporary image of a machine and attempt to show its relationship to the ecological model of Birch and Cobb.

The author presents a mechanistic position based on a contemporary image of a machine and attempts to show its relationship to the ecological model of Birch and Cobb, in which a classical mechanism is presented based on an outdated image of a machine.

Relationship, as we now see more clearly in the emergence of ecological consciousness, is the substance of all being and of life itself.

The ecological model would encourage a measure of separation at the congregational level but would then emphasize patterns of relationship among these congregations that are currently rare.

It could also be called ecological in that it starts from a network of relationships between interdependent beings, rather than from separate beings or dialogic pairs.

The basic images grow out of ecological studies of the relationships of organisms to each other in physical space.

It demands a knowledge of the ecological dynamics and the relationship that humans have in each region.

Our teacher naturalists work with students to help them develop an appreciation for native plants and animals and their habitats as well as the relationships of these ecological communities to our agricultural practices.

Before I thought carefully about it, the ecological impact of my breastfeeding relationship was simply an added bonus.

While previously there was a general understanding that ecotheology surfaced only in the late 1960s, Pihkala found many examples of earlier ecological engagement in the texts contributing to achieving a sustainable human - earth relationship from the early 20th century archives both in Europe and beyond.

«We intended to create not just a place for classes but rather a building that would help to redefine the relationship between humankind and the environment — one that would expand our sense of ecological possibilities,» said David Orr, the director of Oberlin's Environmental Studies program, at the center's groundbreaking ceremony in 1999.

«We expect that a closer look at ant - other arthropod relationships will yield numerous examples similar to ours and provide a better understanding of the complexities of microhabitat choice and its ecological ramifications.»

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

Whether he is recounting the relationship between fungi, vole faeces and fir - tree regeneration, or the complexities of fire dynamics, it is, Pastor says, natural observation, those backstories and the painstaking work of recording that are the keys to the storehouse of ecological knowledge.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

The human relationship with caffeine is relatively recent, however, and thus its impact on our brains is likely a by - product of its true ecological role.

«The simple relationship between the temperature and the global land carbon sink should be treated with caution, and not be used to infer ecological processes and long - term predictions» adds Dr. Reichstein, head of the Department.

This idea understands the relationship and interconnectivity between many different facets of life; ecological, social / cultural, economic, and institutional.

Furthermore, only recently have researchers been able to consider both the ecological relationships among krill predators (e.g., niche overlap) and the potential effects of climate change on those relationships, specifically as they relate to the availability of their krill prey [14].

Today, many ecological and evolutionary studies depend on a wide range of molecular tools to infer phylogenetic relationships, uncover population structure within species, and track quantitative traits.

We undertook a multi-disciplinary study to elucidate the ecological relationships between krill and baleen whales relative to oceanographic processes in the embayments of the Antarctic Peninsula at the onset of winter.

«Birds are ideally suited for such a test, as they are one of the only groups of animals for which the relationship between large brains and enhanced behavioural response to ecological challenges is best understood.

A symbiotic relationship is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two (or more) different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each species.

Studies on the ecological and evolutionary processes that structure the diversity of deep - ocean benthic communities, including larval dispersal, colonization, habitat utilization, genetic connectivity, and the evolutionary relationships of invertebrate fauna.

These dramatic advances in spring flowering were successfully predicted by historical relationships between flowering and spring temperature spanning up to 161 years of ecological change.

Exploring the ecological and evolutionary consequences of the relationship between individual fitness and population size is the focus of Andrew Kanarek's research as a postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS.

Ecological studies such as these need to be interpreted alongside other studies investigating the association between calorie intake (including from HFCS), weight and diabetes at an individual level, so that the full picture of the relationships involved can be established.

The critical ecopedagogy of scholar / activists such as Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder, Tina Evans, and David Greenwood operates within an overall dialectics of justice in which environmental justice and ecological justice (the former relating to the unequal distribution of harmful environments between people and the later referring to the relationship between humans and the rest of the world).

To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.

While our food is rooted in a vast chain of ecological relationships, it's also part of an increasingly complex and problematic system of our own design.

Validating the ecological assumption: The relationship of measure scores to classroom teaching and student learning.

Michael Moon is the ranch manager, and he began the morning by speaking to the group about the mission of Chico Basin Ranch, a working cattle ranch dedicated to working collaboratively with neighboring ranches and with people and organizations in the local community and nearby cities to establish relationships that enhance the ecological and economic stability of this ranching operation.

Our goal is to promote relationship building among farmers, restaurants, grocers, individuals and organizations through the frame of ecological farming and food justice.

Ji's particular focus is the harsh realities of life in China today as traditional relationships between its people and the land have been unmoored by social, political, economic and ecological upheavals.

Both authors will discuss the relationship of the idea of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)

By utilising complex audio and video editing techniques, Rose explores the interwoven nature of history, memory and geography, and tackles the urgent ecological issues of humanity's changing relationship to the natural world and the advancement of technology.

On a Saturday in November of 2016, during his exhibition Continuous Services Altered Daily at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut (May 1, 2016 — February 5, 2017 and on view at the Bemis Center in Omaha June 1, 2017 — August 26, 2017), David Brooks, an artist recognized for his commitment to illuminating our complex human relationship with the natural world, sat down with Greg Lindquist to talk about his current show, ecological activism, and scientific fieldwork.

The goals of the NYC Urban Field Station's Arts and Humanities Residency Program are to bring perspectives from the arts and humanities to urban social - ecological systems and to incubate new relationships with artists and writers to inform our research and land management.

The delicate relationship we have with our ecological environment and the imbalance we are creating are some of my biggest concerns.

But to those who had a closer relationship to the river, the working - class residents who could not afford to vacation in far - away places, or the recreational and commercial fisherman, the river was the depository of a tremendous ecological diversity and was in fact capable of being restored to a healthier state.

Empowered by knowledge of the Ecological Footprint from my studies at UC Berkeley and work at Global Footprint Network, I now consider Earth Hour as a great opportunity for everyone to review our relationship with the entire ecosystem and at the same time raise environmental consciousness.