Sentences with phrase «as ecologists»

As ecologists and environmental scientists go back to the drawing board, we suggest a number of practical guidelines for selecting and improving ecological indicators.

As much as ecologists like to claim that their studies are science, ecology is also a normative science and a political movement.

Led by Professor Steve Redpath of the University of Aberdeen, the study involved grouse managers and conservationists as well as ecologists.

Typically, as ecologists we document the effects of things such as DDT after the fact, after it's had widespread effects.»

Hunting and habitat loss are killing off big carnivores around the world, just as ecologists are discovering how important they are for keeping ecosystems in balance.

As an ecologist with a degree in biological research, she is fascinated to watch the adventure of human birth incarnated in her own body.

As an ecologist myself, I am more comfortable that SMBC offers the more stringent, reliable assurance that coffee is grown sustainability if one is comparing certification schemes.

It will be very interesting for me, as an ecologist, to see how these topics are handled and received by those in the coffee industry.

As both an ecologist and long - time freelance science writer, I know how difficult it can be to interpret and summarize scientific analyses for public use, and the Rainforest Alliance impacts report is a fine effort.

She has worked in more than fifty countries as an ecologist, environmental negotiator, professional communications and leadership development trainer, and programmatic analyst.

«As an ecologist, I love working on species of conservation concern,» he says.

«As an ecologist with a love of all things science, I am passionate about helping people connect with science.

For close to 3 decades, as an ecologist at Pondicherry University — not far from her hometown — she has been doing research that conservationists can use to combat the loss of biodiversity.

As ecologist Donald Strong — the beetle's namesake — showed in the 1970's, each beetle species leaves a unique chew mark on the plant's leaves.

As an ecologist, he wanted to find out more about the biology and behaviour of bats.

I currently work for a large engineering firm as an ecologist.

She moved to Aiken from Montana about a year ago, when she retired from a successful career as an ecologist and soil scientist for the USDA.

Like many children, I wanted to become a veterinarian, but unlike many veterinary students, I did not finally decide to enter veterinary school until mid-life, after working as an ecologist for an international conservation organization.

Sharon has also worked as an ecologist and resource specialist with the National Park Service, a resource planner with the Presidio Trust, and as an environmental consultant.

Dr Parker said, «As an ecologist I've become very interested in the potential to use solar farms to boost biodiversity.

And as an ecologist I can attest that the IPCC impact chapters are weak — they even admit that forecasts of impact to forests really can't be made, for example.

Homogenized data suggested a rapid warming trend but as an ecologist, I knew homogenized temperatures are worthless for wildlife studies because the process eliminates natural temperature variations and alters the actual mean temperatures.

As an ecologist, I never trusted homogenized USHCN data because it alters trends in local mean temperature and removes local variability in an attempt to extract a presumed «real» climate trend.

As an ecologist and environmentalist for more than 45 years this is good enough for me.

Embracing such novel ecosystems can reignite the conservation movement, said Mascaro, speaking as an ecologist.

D'Oh as ecologist Homer Simpson might say.

«As an ecologist, I know how important these systems are to us as a society,» he says.

I wish to join a reputed firm as an ecologist to use my knowledge of ecology for the growth of the organization as well as my career path.

Not exact matches

Heidegger sometimes leans in this direction as well, but deep ecologists deny such a distinction.

The ecologist attacks the familiar picture of creation as a pyramid of power with the human being at its lonely apex.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

On the other hand, if we look at the Jewish scriptures in light of some of the more extreme expressions coming from deep ecologists and others, we do find an emphasis on discontinuity as well.

While exploiting the fear of environmental disaster, ecologists dismiss their opponents as short - sighted defenders of capitalist class interest.

The well - known ecologist Barry Common lists these three laws: (1) everything is connected to everything else; (2) everything has to go somewhere; and (3) there's no such thing as a free lunch.

The ecologists focused on natural systems and saw agriculture as a kind of necessary evil to be contained as much as possible.

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.

The lack of attention by deep ecologists to the relations of human beings to individual nonhuman subjects is connected with their distaste for ethics as usually understood.

This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.

As noted above, where Whiteheadians affirm a both / and, deep ecologists set up an either / or.

These comments suggest that Naess is personally open to entering ethical discussions in a relatively traditional way, If other deep ecologists follow him, the gap between them and Whiteheadians will narrow Meanwhile, however, this opening on the part of Naess can not be taken to characterize the movement as a whole.

(Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1990, p. 36) As the Ehrlichs point out, this is a frightening figure for ecologists, yet they are even more concerned about the rising fraction of potential plant production that is being lost for all life, including ourselves.

But ecologists are sure that the patterns that worked when the human economy was small in relation to the natural world will break down as the relationship changes.

It is to ask that economists learn ecology and that ecologists learn economics; that science meets religion and both learn from each other; that our innermost human problems are seen, not simply as some personal aberration, but as intimately linked with the sort of society we create for ourselves.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

Dickson Despommier, microbiologist and ecologist, and emeritus professor of microbiology and public health at Columbia University, is known as the «father» of vertical farming.

As the authors - including kangaroo ecologists Dr Dror Ben Ami, Dr David Croft and Dr Daniel Ramp - show, the number of kangaroos necessary to supplant meat production from sheep (more if cattle and goats are included) is simply ecologically unfeasible.

Our commitment to restoring the wetlands, along with the dedication of our Banrock Station ecologists and rangers, support from government and volunteer groups, as well

Coastal Ecologist, and Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project co-founder, Dr. Robert Buchsbaum talks about about birds and vegetation on salt marshes in this 6.32 minute video filmed by Rick Hydren, as part of his «Danger in the Reeds» video series.

I was simply applying the same standards to parenting information that I used in my work as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist.

He has been criticised by the Ecologist as «the worst environment secretary ever» and was mocked by Greenpeace activists afloat on the Thames by Westminster: