Both illustrate how social, biological, and cultural factors in
different ecological contexts (e.g., family, school, community) jointly influence children's development.
Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across
different ecological contexts.
Then four scenarios were created using the same lizard signal in different plant environments and weather conditions to explore how
these different ecological contexts affected signal effectiveness, explained Dr Tom Chandler from Monash University.
Not exact matches
Moreover, the scientists showed that calcium signaling can be studied directly in intact plants in
different physiological and
ecological contexts, which helps to better understand its role as a secondary messenger in plants.
I've had a great time learning from, and sometimes debating with, two smart people with very
different areas of expertise and vantage points: the blogging meteorologist Eric Holthaus and Jacquelyn Gill, who studies past climates in the
context of
ecological change.
I'm used to using PCA in an
ecological context with a multivariate dataset where you might have all sorts of
different types of data like various species abundances, and you plot PC1 vs PC2 to look at how
different communities fall out.
Currently, monitoring is taking place in a variety of
contexts, and some data - sharing and uniformity of data sharing is emerging with efforts such as the National
Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).23 But in general
different things are being monitored in
different ecosystems, and there is little coordination among
different groups.