Sentences with phrase «do ecological studies»

I can take my students outside to do ecological studies in the wetland adjacent to our school.

Not exact matches

Finally, employers are investing in their future work force by supporting breastfeeding; some studies have indicated that breastfed babies have potentially higher IQ's and better academic accomplishments than bottle - fed babies.Because of the far - reaching positive ecological, health, and social impact breastfeeding can make on our planet, it is imperative for anyone interested in protecting our children and our environment to do whatever possible to support, protect, and promote breastfeeding.

Even if the loss of one species does not directly cause knock - on extinctions, the study shows that this leads to simpler ecological communities that are at greater risk of «run - away extinction cascades» with the potential loss of many species.

Most fundamentally, Moran's study sheds more light on the basic mechanisms of Darwinism: How do animals adapt to their changing world and ecological habitats?

Previous ecological studies have shown that Timema do not migrate long distances.

Barros and his team did not investigate why reproductive success was so much lower in the oiled colonies, but speculate from their knowledge of other studies that it resulted from wider ecological damage.

«The original ecological footprint is a good metaphor and a good way of getting us thinking about overusing the planet, but what you really want a footprint to do is to be a management tool,» says Peter Kareiva, co-author of the study, published November 5 in PLoS Biology.

«Monkeys are cute, but can devastate systems that don't have the proper predators or other ecological means to keep their populations in check,» said Jane Anderson, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and the lead author on this study.

But, one reviewer for Ecological Entomology (which rejected the paper) didn't agree: I felt a bit cheated here... It was almost as if the authors were trying to sneak this study in to readers expecting something else!

A more recent study using individuals sampled across the hybrid zone and 22 markers showed that some loci are characterized by concordant and stepped clines that do not co-localize with any obvious physical or ecological barriers [27], suggesting an overall barrier to gene flow likely to be primarily maintained by selection against intrinsically unfit hybrids.

This study of course does not take away very different concerns related to stratospheric aerosol SRM geoengineering, like possible damage to the ozone layer [which in turn would be good news if you hate waiting for that spring tan] and the fact that allowing CO2 concentrations to keep rising presents other problems, like the necessity to never stop with the active process of SRM geoengineering, and increasing ecological damage caused by ocean acidification.

ARS Administrator Edward B. Knipling states, in relation to climate change effects, that «Studies like this also show us that these ecological shifts don't stop at crop production.

The study was conducted in the ecological environment (at school) according to standard IRB protocol and did not cause any change of school routines.