Sentences with phrase «community ecologist»

«If you have a lot of extinctions, you may make systems vulnerable to further extinctions by removing sources of stability,» says community ecologist Robert Holt of the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

To conduct the study, Thomas Davies, a community ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his team traveled to the Menai Strait, a narrow, shallow stretch of water that separates the mainland of northwest Wales from the island of Anglesey, an area that remains largely unaffected by light pollution.

The key message is the need to improve biosecurity to prevent such invasions, says Lori Lach, a community ecologist at James Cook University, Cairns, in Australia.

«They stay where they are,» says Pierre Legendre, a community ecologist at the Université de Montréal in Canada, and the study's lead author.

The idea that an organism's success in an environment might be a matter of chance has been heavily debated by scientists recently, says community ecologist Stephen Hubbell of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

Grazers such as zebra and buffalo congregate in these spots, fertilizing them further with their dung, says one of the paper's co-authors, community ecologist Todd Palmer of the University of Florida, Gainesville.

asks community ecologist Jeannette Zamon of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Hammond, Oregon.

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When they do so, they give less attention to the value of justice, which concerns political theorists, the value of community, which concerns sociologists, the value of human fulfillment, which concerns psychologists, and the value of ecosystems, which concerns ecologists.

Hence, despite the wide - ranging agreement between Whiteheadians and deep ecologists, despite the generous inclusion of Whitehead by Naess and Shepard, and despite the importance of working together on our shared agenda, it seems better to think of two separate communities concerned to reshape the modern Western attitude and behavior toward the natural world.

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.

The second sort of mechanistic ecologist says the units in the game are not individual organisms at all but communities or ecosystems.

John Mathai, lead author of the overarching carnivore community paper in the supplement and a wildlife ecologist from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, studies Hose's civet in the highlands of Sarawak.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

«This happens because the presence of microbial cheaters ultimately reduces the total amount of enzymes produced by the microbial community, while the total amount of microbial biomass stays about the same» explains University of Vienna ecologist and IIASA guest researcher Christina Kaiser, who led the study.

Ecologists may be able to use this tool or ones like it as a quick and inexpensive approach to monitoring the status and health trajectories of coral reef communities.

«The extra nutrients are good for fishers but are potentially disruptive to the rest of the benthic community,» says John Bruno, a marine ecologist from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

«When an ecologist says, «There goes a badger,»» Elton wrote, «he should include in his thoughts some definite idea of the animal's place in the community to which it belongs, just as if he had said, «There goes the vicar.»»

Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities.

Fla., N.Y. have problems Katie Arkema, an ecologist with the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University and a co-author of the paper, said the research assumes that all natural barriers would disappear to show how individual states, counties and communities would be affected if it happened.

While historical land connections are the most surprising factor in determining the make - up of a geographically - clustered ant community, ecologists also have to consider current and recognized influences, such as the temperature.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

Diverse plant communities are more successful and enable higher crop yields than pure monocultures, a European research team headed by ecologists from the University of Zurich has discovered.

It's long been clear to ecologists that the number of plant species can determine the makeup of an ecological community.

For more than 2 decades, mathematical models used by ecologists have predicted that populations in complex communities will fluctuate wildly, leading some species to go extinct.

This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.

The comprehensive data, spatial extent and remote sensing technology provided by NEON will enable a large and diverse user community to tackle new questions at scales not accessible to previous generations of ecologists.

How could an ecologist, a pharmacologist or a climate researcher otherwise communicate his or her findings regarding a given species to the international scientific community?

By bringing together microbial ecologists, biogeochemists her group examines the influence of microbial communities on coastal ocean processes, especially in light of a changing climate.

Jon Riley, Technical Director at The Ecology Consultancy said: «The School Ecology Workshops are a great way for developers to work closely with ecologists on important community engagement and CSR activities.

In their recent comment, Lepczyk et al. suggest that conservation biologists and wildlife ecologists «look to the evolutionary biology community» [1] for an example of how to influence policy.

Working with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners, and other artists, the Harrison Studio initiates collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions that support biodiversity and community development.

Moderator: Heidi Neilson, artist and founder of SP Weather Station Panelists: Liz Barry, urban designer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of TreeKIT, and Co-Founder and Director of Community Development at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science Ingrid Burrington, artist - in - residence at Data and Society Research Institute and fellow at Autodesk / Pier 9's Experimental Research Lab Eric W. Sanderson, director of the Mannahatta Project, author, and Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Natalie Campbell, independent curator and co-founder of SP Weather Station

For nearly fifty years, the Harrisons have produced work across a vast range of disciplines, working in collaboration with biologists, ecologists, historians, activists, architects, urban planners and fellow artists to initiate dialogues and create works exploring biodiversity and community development.

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.

They have worked for almost 40 years with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners, and other artists to collectively initiate promising dialogue to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development.

An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.»

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).

The panel is comprised of biologists and ecologists, a materials engineer and members of the business community.

The work of 22 authors, ranging from physicists, epidemiologists and ecologists to cultural historians, the paper aims to push beyond the «fire community» to present landscape fire into a central position in the earth sciences — «it demands that we think about its history.»

Such far - off effects are accepted in the atmospheric sciences community, Swann said, but the idea is only beginning to be accepted by ecologists.

«With the theft of their land, or environmental damage caused by industries like mining, agribusiness, or logging, it's harder for women to grow food or access clean water, and the work that they're already expected to do to support their families and communities increases,» said Global Witness» Alice Harrison in a recent interview with The Ecologist.

Ecologists and activists have been vocal about the problem of plastic pollution for years: plastic pollution invades our communities as «litter,» harms wildlife, and 8.8 million tons of it end up in our waterways and oceans every year.

Moreover, ecologists are finding that communities of species do not migrate together in response to warming, meaning the delicate balances between predator and prey stand to be substantially disrupted by global warming.

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)