Sentences with phrase «biodiversity research»
Biodiversity research is the study and exploration of the variety of life on Earth. It involves understanding and investigating the different species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, as well as their habitats and how they interact with each other and the environment. Full definition
This opens up new pathways for the pursuit of biodiversity research.
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The theory has dominated biodiversity research for the past decade, and been advocated as a tool for conservation and management efforts.
But that premise often looks at creatures within a limited size range, says Myriam Hirt, a zoologist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig.
The specimen is part of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection at Tulane University's Biodiversity Research Institute in Belle Chasse, La., and it is hoped that further study of the specimen will lead to many new discoveries.
Researchers at the Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Germany report in the journal Ecology Letters that they selected plots of forest in Germany, Finland, Poland, Romania, Italy and Spain.
Stilianos Louca (Biodiversity Research Centre in Vancouver, Canada), the Grand Prize winner and Category winner of Ecology and Environment, presented his results on how the dynamics of metabolically important microbial genes can become independent of the taxonomic composition of microbial communities.
«We have been able to show that the deep sea is the largest long - time archive of DNA, and a major window to study past biodiversity,» writes Pedro Martinez Arbizu, a deep - sea biologist of the German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research in Wilhelmshaven and an author of the paper on South Atlantic DNA in an e-mail.
Royal School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK; The Animal Welfare and Biodiversity Research Group, Department of Natural Sciences, Unitec, New Zealand.
At Oregon State, Betts started the Oregon Forest Biodiversity Research Network to use big datasets to answer such questions.
But there is a «frustrating» limit to management options in the Arctic, says co-author Kit Kovacs, biodiversity research leader at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø.
Fauna & Flora International, Yangon, Myanmar; Institute of Eastern - Himalaya Biodiversity Research, Dali University, Dali, China; and German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany.
... It sets rules for sharing benefits with indigenous peoples when R&D leads to a product... while eliminating bureaucratic hassles and encouraging biodiversity research.
Anne Larigauderie, executive director of Paris - based Diversitas, a facilitator for biodiversity science, says that the IPBES could turn the «fragmented» field of biodiversity research into a more coordinated «common enterprise» that will lead to better models of future biodiversity changes.
«This project advances biodiversity research by providing an evolutionary foundation for a very diverse group of insects, with nearly 160,000 described species,» said Akito Kawahara, lead author and assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus.
Unlike previous urban biodiversity research, this study looks beyond the local impacts of urbanization and considers overall impacts on global biodiversity.
Participants are encouraged to submit their observations to iNaturalist or to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and contribute to biodiversity research efforts.
Dual - focus projects are being funded more often, but Veríssimo and his coauthors write that «this rise is relatively small and does not mitigate the plateauing expenditure on biodiversity research.»
«With this collective effort we showcase taxonomic discoveries as a route to bridging the gap between what we currently know and what is actually out there in terms of biological diversity, «explains special issue editor and contributing author Prof Xiao - Hua Jin, Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute (SEABRI), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
«This tells us that this hotspot is more diverse than we thought, so it is very important that basic biodiversity research is properly funded,» Dr. Torres - Carvajal concludes.
The National Science Foundation's Dimensions of Biodiversity research program provided funding for the study.
A constituent workshop for all project participants was held at the Synthesis Center (sDiv) of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle - Jena - Leipzig.
For instance biodiversity research, the study of the variety of life on Earth, is becoming more and more dependent on high - quality tissue and environmental samples for DNA sequencing.
She was project assistant for the Washington Gap Analysis Project, the first statewide assessment of biodiversity, and continues to conduct biodiversity research and implementation of NatureMapping data for county and community planning.
Bengtson has received numerous awards, including an Oregon Arts Commission Integrative Sciences Award and an NEA Individual Grant for Artists, and has held residencies at Djerassi, the Ucross Foundation, the Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station in the Amazon, and a Signal Fire Outpost Residency at the Arizona / Mexico border.
Maine - based non-profit ecological research group Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) has established a new wildlife and renewable energy program to study and understand the movements of birds and bats and to assess the potential interactions between energy facilities and wildlife.
Departments of Botany and Zoology, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
«Sand becoming a scarce resource is a key emerging issue for the global environment and society, but not yet fully recognized or understood,» said first author Aurora Torres, a research fellow at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle - Wittenberg.
The theory has dominated biodiversity research for the past decade,...
On a final positive note, there is enormous scope for future marine biodiversity research in South Africa.
E.O. Wilson spoke about the Encyclopedia of Life, a collaborative network of biodiversity research.
In addition, Senckenberg houses Germany's largest natural history collections with more than 38 million objects — an invaluable basis for biodiversity research in all its facets.
Previously, Atwood held both research and teaching positions, including at the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences in Plymouth, MA.; Antioch University New England in Keene, NH.; and the Biodiversity Research Institute in Portland, ME.
Edwards was nominated for the AAAS Scientific Freedom & Responsibility Award by Caren Cooper, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University and assistant head of the Biodiversity Research Lab at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig University carried out an experiment to simulate the warming of the soil in the forest and found out surprisingly: The warmer temperatures have no influence on the feeding activity of the soil animals.
Both are scientists at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and at the Leipzig University and have conducted their study together with colleagues from the United States and Canada.
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle - Jena - Leipzig.
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She has worked at the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City and as a wildlife research biologist for the Biodiversity Research Institute in Maine, researching mercury in forest songbirds.
This is one of the conclusions of an article published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series and signed by Blanca Figuerola, researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio), Piotr Kuklinski (Institute of Oceanology) and Paul D. Taylor (Natural History Museum, UK).
The first author of the article is Ana Riesgo, Juan de la Cierva researcher at the Department of Animal Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona.
A tissue sample was collected, and by tapping into the robust specimen collection of Tulane University's Biodiversity Research Institute, scientists were able to place the specimen into the genus Mollisquama.
NOAA worked with Tulane University's Biodiversity Research Institute to identify that, indeed, the specimen was a pocket shark.
«Our results show the necessity of updating the protection status of these species, whose threat from roads has previously been underestimated,» insists Prof Henrique Pereira from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin Luther University Halle - Wittenberg and the Portugal Infrastructures Biodiversity Chair / Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO - InBIO).
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle - Jena - Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
The San Diego Natural History Museum is home to the Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias.
Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.
This limits the invasion of the roots by nematodes, reduces the nematodes» fecundity and compromises the formation of root galls,» explains Dr. Ainhoa Martinez - Medina, first author of the study and scientist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich - Schiller - University Jena (FSU).