Sentences with phrase «early life history»

Her PhD research focused on the effects of suspended sediment on early life history stages of coral reef fish.

Chris obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Aquatic Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1996 and a Master of Science degree in Biology from the University of Houston in 2000 where he focused on understanding early life history of reef fish, marine protected area science, and climate change.

Here, we tested the effects ocean acidification in combination with elevated temperature on early life history stages of several spawning acroporids from the Great Barrier Reef.

The larval phase of a marine species is often the only time that coral reef inhabitants travel between habitat locations, an important early life history stage required to maintain healthy populations when environmental conditions fluctuate due to both natural and man - made factors.

Beyond cumulative risk: Distinguishing harshness and unpredictability as determinants of parenting and early life history strategy.

She says her first «breakthrough» with him came after she traveled to Jamaica and began piecing together his early life history.

The difference is in their degree of intensity and the early life history of your child, which is one of abandonment, time in an orphanage and / or foster care, and then adoption - all of which are impediments to attachment.

«This glimpse into the early life history of ancient coelacanths raises further questions about the life history of the modern coelacanth, Latimeria, which is known to bear live young, but whether they, too, are clustered in nurseries remains unknown,» explains Coates.

One caveat of the study is that the researchers did not control for the early life history of the adult macaques, even though many studies have shown that early life adversity can have lifelong effects on health, says Michael Kobor, an epigeneticist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved with the work.

To analyse the early life history of the fish, the researchers studied their otoliths, or ear stones, which are put down in layers similar to tree rings as the fish develop.

We conclude that near future ocean acidification levels is not an immediate threat to the early life history stages of Great Barrier Reef corals in the foreseeable future.

I have structured my thesis into 3 hypotheses: 1) the effects of ocean acidification on the early life history stages of spawning Acropora sp. 2) The effects of ocean acidification and warming on the early life history stages of spawning acroporids and 3) The early skeletogenesis of acroporid recruits under near future acidification and warming regimes.

Selina Ward studies the early life history stages of corals and the responses of reproduction and recruitment to environmental stresses such as temperature change, ocean acidification, elevated nutrients and Trichodesmium.

And the best predictor of that attachment becoming secure and predicting positive outcomes in each of these domains for your child is how you've made sense of your early life history.

Often, however, their relationship with their parent (s) is problematic, based on difficulties in the child's early life history.