Sentences with phrase «neotoma paleoecology»

Engelman; along with Federico Anaya, professor of geological engineering at Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, in Potosí, Bolivia; and Darin Croft, anatomy professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, describe the animals, where they fit in the family, and their paleoecology and paleobiology in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.

Titled «Origin, Paleoecology and Extirpation of Bluebirds and Crossbills in the Bahamas Across the Last Glacial - Interglacial Transition,» the authors are Janet Franklin, distinguished professor of biogeography in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

For those five summers he taught a six - week field and lab - based course in marine paleoecology at Bodega Marine Laboratory in northern California — a course that drew students from all over the world.

Andrew M. Sugden Deputy Editor, Research; International Managing Editor Education: B.A., D.Phil., University of Oxford Areas of responsibility: General inquiries about editorial procedures and policies (environmental, life, and social sciences); ecology, paleoecology, archaeology, anthropology, conservation E-Mail: [email protected]

The relevance of crocodiles to Olduwan hominin paleoecology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

► The Illinois State Museum, which houses research projects like the Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community, «may be forced to close,» becoming «the innocent victim of a budget fight between the state's new Republican governor and the Democratic legislators who control the General Assembly,» Laura Olivieri reported in a Monday ScienceInsider.

Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator & Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have published a paper with colleagues in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found.

Surprisingly, only few additions to our knowledge of dodo anatomy, paleoecology and extinction have been made since Owen's 1866 seminal publication, a vast library of semi-popular works on the dodo notwithstanding.

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community — which takes its name from one of nature's premier accumulators, the pack rat — is one of many research projects based at the Springfield - based museum, which houses extensive collections showcasing the natural, cultural, and artistic history of the state.

Dr John Stewart, Associate Professor in Paleoecology and Environmental Change at Bournemouth University (BU), is part of a team which analysed data on rabbit bone remains, found in archaeological excavations of caves in the Iberian Peninsula.

Weissbrod's research involves analysis of microvertebrate remains from a wide range of prehistoric and historic sites in Israel and the Caucasus dealing with paleoecology and human - ecosystem interactions.

Szpak P, Gröcke DR, Debruyne R, MacPhee RDE, Guthrie RD, Froese D, Zazula GD, Patterson WP, Poinar HN (2010) Regional differences in bone collagen ∂ 13C and ∂ 15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe.

Her research interests include paleoceanography, paleoclimate, paleoecology, micropaleontology, abrupt climate and oceanographic changes, long time series, Arctic, sub-Arctic and subtropical areas.

Research interests: Paleoanthropology; Plio - Pleistocene hominin evolution; evolution of the genus Homo; paleoecology; taphonomy; Africa.

She is recognized nationally and internationally for her scholarly contributions and leadership activities in the areas of paleoecology and paleoclimate.

Late Quaternary sedimentology and benthic foraminiferal paleoecology of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Anderung C, Danise S, Glover AG, Higgs ND, Jonsson L, Sabin R, Dahlgren TG (2014) A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south - west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867).

Work continues on the paleoecology of the Passenger Pigeon to re-evaluate historic hypotheses of the species» biology.

Project leader Ben Novak begins researching the historical ecology of the Passenger pigeon, starting with population genetics studying the paleoecology of eastern N. American forests.

Core faculty members advise students and conduct research in primate and human paleontology, evolutionary morphology, paleoecology, dental anthropology, molecular systematics, genetics, phylogeography, and primate behavior and life - history.

CUNY faculty advise students and conduct research in paleoanthropology, paleoprimatology, human and primate population genetics, primate behavior and nutritional ecology, hominin behavior and paleoecology, comparative and functional morphology, bioarchaeology, systematics, geometric morphometrics, forensic and skeletal biology, and conservation biology.

His areas of expertise are paleoceanography of surface and deep - ocean circulation using micropaleontological and geochemical tracers; planktonic foraminiferal ecology and paleoecology; and paleoclimatology from cave deposits.

These include: 1) finding and describing new fossils in Precambrian strata, 2) using analytical tools to examine those fossils in order to determine taxonomic affinity, taphonomy, functional morphology, and paleoecology, 3) using modern analogs to determine phylogenetic relationships and physiology of early eukaryotes and animals, and 4) combining multiple sources of data to create a timeline of biotic and abiotic events in the Precambrian.

His complex works often deal with subjects that comprehend time in a precise and sometimes extravagant manner: mineral exploitation and island geopolitics, climate science and neo-imperialism, theories of economy as much as paleoecology.

paleoecology the branch of ecology concerned with identifying and interpreting the relationships of ancient plants and animals to their environment

This field guide focuses on the glacial geology and paleoecology beginning in the Paradise Valley and progressing southward into northern Yellowstone National Park.

Photo courtesy of the Montana State University Paleoecology Lab.

The text focuses on understanding the impacts of human - induced climate change, but draws on multiple lines of evidence, including paleoecology, modeling, and current observation.

I came across the ultimate Arctic paleoecology time - saver yesterday, a very readable 2012 review of Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg fossils by Eberle with free full text.

Peteet, D.M., 1999: Paleoecology.

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