Sentences with phrase «ecological changes at»

Madhur Anand, Ph.D., is an associate professor of global ecological change at the University of Guelph and a Young Scientist of the World Economic Forum.

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Dr. Joseph Needham and Dr. W.H. Thorpe, Cambridge authorities on biochemistry and zoology; Dr. A.R. Peacocke, biologist in Cambridge; Professor L.C. Birch, Australian expert on evolutionary changes in the realm of living matter; and Ian Barbour, American physicist, whose special interest has lately been turned toward the ecological problem — these are but a few of the many who have publicly avowed their acceptance of a process way of looking at humankind and the world.

I don't think the week at Quillasascut changed any of my viewpoints on food necessarily, but through it I was able to move away from hyper - focusing on what any one food was doing to me individually and instead look at it from a broader lens, taking into consideration the communal and ecological connections to what I was eating.

Whoever's in charge come May 8th, unless they put climate change at the heart of their programme for office the UK will be building up huge economic and ecological problems for the future.

«Ecological Impacts of Climate Change: The Importance of Temporal and Spatial Synchrony» by Christopher K. Wilke, Curators» Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Missouri

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

The plan would create a Ministry of Ecological Environment: a «positive development» that would put a single entity in charge of policies related to climate change, water resource management, and pollution, says Dabo Guan, a climate change economist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.

Stephen Schneider A senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, Schneider assesses ecological and economic impacts of human - induced climate change to identify potential political and technological solutions.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

«Understanding climate change impacts is vital to help protect marine ecosystem services that humans rely on so heavily such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism» said Dr. Rob Ellis, an ecological physiologist also based at Exeter University.

► The National Science Foundation (NSF) has warned the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Inc., «the Boulder, Colorado — based group overseeing the multisite [NEON] project aimed at monitoring long - term environmental change across the United States,» that it has until 1 December to finish the project, Jeffrey Mervis reported Monday at ScienceInsider.

Co-author Marianne Nyegaard, an ichthyologist at Australia's Murdoch University, says this type of clarification is vital in biology and «important in understanding, for example, the ecological consequences of climate change.»

John Hobbie, director of the Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research Project at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, notes that the widespread changes identified by the researchers began after millennia of biotic constancy.

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scaleAt the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scaleat population, community, and ecosystem scales.

In a press conference Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, three researchers discussed how detailed satellite observations have facilitated ecological studies of change over time.

Published on 20 June 2013 in the journal Current Biology, the work provides important insights into the evolution of ecological communities at a time when certain are being disrupted by climate change and the arrival of invasive species.

«We see an ecological cascade of effects across the whole pollinator community, fundamentally changing the structure of plant - pollinator interaction networks,» says Berry Brosi, a biologist at Emory University and lead author of the study.

Jedediah Brodie, a scientist at the University of British Columbia and study co-author, said a next step of research is determining which ecological changes in the Arctic are completely a result of ice loss, as opposed to climate change factors such as temperature increases.

Although an evolutionary innovation can open up new ecological niches, traits which are essentially beneficial can put species at a disadvantage in the context of rapid environmental changes.

Some gaps in the research include getting a better understanding of the distribution of species and habitats, understanding how marine populations respond to stressors and looking at how changes in climate can affect individual species and ecological communities.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

Organisation and dynamics of biocoenosis; biodiversity patterns at various scales; hydrobiology of running and standing waters and wetlands; ecological effects of climate and land use changes; conservation biology and restoration ecology; new plant resources; natural vegetation in Hungary; maintenance of the Botanical Garden.

Toby Tyrrell, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study, said: «In the future ocean, the trade - off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.

It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution warns that non-native trees invading a rain forest can change its basic ecological structure — rendering it less hospitable to the myriad plant and animal species that depend on its resources.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The earth and its ecological processes are changing at unprecedented rates due to human activity; the effects of these changes are uncertain.

Knowledge of these thresholds is key to the sustainable management of ecosystems and to anticipating irreversible changes and / or ecological collapse,» wrote Alfredo Huete, a researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia, in an accompanying commentary on the study in Nature.

Located in the heart of the plantation system and at the crossroads of global inequality and climatological change, the research center aims to become a vector for a social and ecological shift.

Also featuring: Francesca Tarocco reports on recent changes in urban culture and queer aesthetics across the Sinosphere; Evan Calder Williams investigates the films of Johan Grimonprez, which probe the mechanisms of the arms trade; Turner Prize - winning artist Helen Marten responds to Ed Atkins's latest work, Old Food, at Martin - Gropius - Bau in Berlin; Alice Rawsthorn unpacks the ecological innovations of Studio Formafantasma's new project, Ore Streams, at the inaugural NGV Triennial in Melbourne; and Nick Thurston compares the interactive experiences spurred by collectives Blast Theory, Forced Entertainment and Slavs and Tatars.

Addressing contemporary social issues in light of political, economic and ecological changes, Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho embark on a quest towards an unknown future that is at once an end and an origin.

I assume you mean global civilization's and or economic and political collapse and that you have at least a smidgen of hope that humanity might still come to it's senses and and implement radical paradigm change to avoid global ecological collapse.

Future generations will pass a harsh judgement on a generation that looked at the evidence on climate change, understood the consequences and then continued on a path that consigned millions of the world's most vulnerable people to poverty and exposed future generations to the risk of ecological disaster.»

At the day - long symposium, which will be shown live on the web, environmental luminaries including Lonnie Thompson and IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri will introduce the film, and discuss the ecological changes taking place in Tibet.

Julie Brigham - Grette, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, focused on past climate and ecological changes, wrote:

From one extreme, some maintain at all costs the myth of progress and say that the ecological problems will be solved simply by new technical applications, not by ethical considerations or fundamental changes.

Ecological specialists and species that live at high altitudes and latitudes are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

John, I think his point in 128 is that the «new ecological niche» you suggest will be created in an ice - free Arctic is likely at first to be a biological desert, because of the rate of change.

Our governments and state planners in the overconsumptive nations financing huge domestic ecological deficits have always aimed at devising methods to maintain this disparity (read George Kennan's 1948 speech; nothing has changed).

In North America these coupled interactions set the stage for changes in ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densification.

For example, many mechanistic models used to simulate the ecological effects of climate change operate at spatial resolutions varying from a single plant to a few hectares.

«But as I commented at scienceprogress, the way I see the ledger, the religious Right gets a handful of anti-science points for views on evolution (and related rationalizations about the age of the earth, etc.), and for some dismissal of climate change theory, but the Left gets many more anti-science points for exaggerating the health and ecological risks of POPs; DDT; GMOs; plastics and plasticizers; pesticide residues; conventional agriculture; low - dose EM radiation; high - tension powerlines; climate change; population growth; resource depletion; chemical sweeteners; species extinction rates; biodiversity decline; and I'm sure the list could go on.

The second reason is the possibility that the ecological effects of climate change (the portion that is already manifesting itself) are currently already larger than thought — something that can be masked by looking at individual species and is better assessed when looking at ecosystems or entire biomes.

And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

At PIK, researchers in the natural and social sciences from all over the world work closely together to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems.

The News: The ever - increasing roles of the private sector and businesses in protecting coastal areas and maintaining their ecological integrity were the main topics of discussion at a learning event of the ninth regional meeting of the Mangroves for the Future initiative titled «Resilience, Climate Change and the Private Sector in Sustainable Coastal Management».

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing suchChange Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing suchchange on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing suchchange; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing suchchange impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.