Sentences with phrase «among ecologists»

Disputes have broken out among ecologists over a study that suggests climate change might not increase the range of tropical diseases after all

And it has created disagreement among ecologists, who have questioned this term's usefulness and generality.

Not exact matches

This suggests that the criticism of animal rights advocates may not be as much a matter of shared principle among deep ecologists as I have supposed.

Despite Naess's openness to Whiteheadians, the objection to any gradation in the valuation of other species is widespread among deep ecologists.

His own views, so influential among deep ecologists, are opposed to the judgments of relative intrinsic value that seem inescapable to most Whiteheadians.

Based on his experience as a marine ecologist and Congressional Fellow, he authored «Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease» (2012), among several other recent books.

Ecologists have unraveled an intricate skein of interactions among forest species that may govern upsurges of Lyme disease and tree - ravaging gypsy moths.

Among the first scientists to promote gastronomy as a tool to combat invasion was Joe Roman, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont.

In 2012, recognizing that there might be hidden photographic gems among all the data slides in ecologists» collections, the journal BMC Ecology established a photo contest.

More than a decade ago, ecologists established a framework to measure and quantify the calculus between fast - and slow - growth strategies among plant species.

Until recently, the consensus among forest ecologists was that before European settlers arrived in the Sierra, the forests were mostly open conifer forests dominated by big trees and low - to - moderately severe fires every eight to 12 years.

Among the first recipients was Frauke Ecke, a landscape ecologist.

«Among 171 species, most are shifting upwards to recover temperature conditions that are optimum,» says ecologist and lead study author Jonathan Lenoir of AgroParisTech in Nancy, France.

The results challenge dogma among behavioral ecologists that «if you're being lazy and stealing, you must not be a very good feeder,» says ecologist Paul Brunkow of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

In this week's issue of Science, marine ecologists describe a partnership among seagrasses, lucinid clams, and bacteria living in the clams that likely keeps toxic sediments from building up and killing the seagrass.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

«Every ecosystem I've studied is unrecognizably different from when I started,» says Jeremy Jackson, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who has spent more than three decades among the reefs and turtle - grass meadows of the Caribbean.

Tim Clutton - Brock, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge, and his colleagues tracked reproductive cooperation and conflict among more than 400 meerkats belonging to some 20 groups over a seven year period.

Physiological ecologist Andrew Richardson, leader of this expedition, slips from the driver's seat and grabs gear to ascend a metal tower among the trees.

In 2012 ecologists Laura Kelley and John A. Endler, both then at Deakin University in Australia, confirmed that among the great bowerbirds in Queensland, how well a male generates these illusions can predict his mating success.

«If there are no clear patterns regarding how bird songs change in response to noise among closely related species, it will greatly limit our ability to predict how a species may change its song in new acoustic environments,» says Clinton Francis, an ecologist at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Alyssa Crittenden is the Lincy Foundation Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNLV, and a behavioral ecologist and nutritional anthropologist who works among the Hadza hunter - gatherers of Tanzania, East Africa.

A new study carried out by ecologists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), among others, indicates that if the world's religious leaders wished to bring about a change, they would be ideally positioned to do so.

A research breakthrough at Queen's University Belfast has sparked interest among aquatic biologists, zoologists and ecologists.

Among them are mechanical engineers, microbiologists, environmental chemists and marine ecologists, as well as immunologists and scientists engaged in fighting tropical and infectious diseases.

Behavioral ecologists have hypothesized that among - individual differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) may predict consistent individual differences in mean values for costly behaviors, or for behaviors that affect energy intake rate.

William Louis - Dreyfus was described by Karen Wilkin in Hyperallergic as «a passionate lover of art, an eager collector, a published poet, a committed supporter of the underprivileged, a defender of social justice, a lover of trees, an ecologist, a fruit farmer, a maker of excellent preserves, and a plain - spoken, unpretentious man of ineffable, self - deprecating charm — among many other things.»

They established a worldwide network among biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners, politicians, and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues about ideas and solutions, which support biodiversity and community development.

At the same time, though, this week saw rare agreement among libertarian and some environmental groups and forest ecologists on at least one point: that the destruction in the fire zones was the clear result of much more straightforward and real - time human actions — both the way we treat forests and where and how we build communities (not to mention arson, of course).

How a plant optimizes among these competing functions can have major ecological implications, which have been under - appreciated by ecologists compared to the focus they have given to leaf function.