Sentences with phrase «ecological communities»

The results also indicate that resource managers will have sufficient time to complete extensive biological surveys of ecological communities in mountain streams so that conservation planning strategies can adequately address all species.

«We need to be concerned not only with the impacts on ecological communities, but also with society,» he says.

Often we can do this for whole ecological communities simultaneously and without even seeing or capturing them.

Despite the stigma attached to bugs, many of them perform services necessary for a productive ecological community.

The researchers say this will make currently distinct ecological communities much more similar to each other in many regions by the end of the century.

The same ecological community will therefore move up the mountain, where it will find a different spatial composition, both in terms of available area and connectivity.

This ability to disturb ecological communities should come as no surprise.

Over the course of time, ecological communities adapt and immigrant species become native to their place.

Despite the new direction, NCEAS will try to serve the broader ecological community as before, Davis says.

Post added that he and his team intend to study other ecological communities living near sea ice in future research.

Embark on one of the park's many walking trails behind the dunes and explore the region's bush and wetlands to explore some of the park's six endangered ecological communities including coastal saltmarsh and oak floodplain forest.

ecotone transition area between adjacent ecological communities (e.g., between forests and grasslands), usually involving competition between organisms common to both

Population system - An ecological system (not ecosystem) determined by the dynamics of a particular vagile species that typically cuts across several ecological communities and even entire biomes.

In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change.

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.

In the article «Ecological communities by design,» Fredrickson discusses how synthetic ecology — the design and construction of microbial communities with desirable properties — requires new knowledge on how communities function.

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

The Assistant Minister has approved the inclusion of Coastal Swamp Oak Forest of New South Wales and South East Queensland in the Endangered category on the list of threatened ecological communities, under the Environment Protection and...

Yet they embody a coherent school of design — a common form of organization that brings the living concerns of the human and ecological communities into the world of property rights and economic power.

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.

«We have robust ecological communities that appear to be thriving in these areas,» said Mike Deliz, NASA remediation project manager.

«Over the past century, the typical approach to conservation was to try to preserve historical ecological communities, but it's challenging to do that when conditions have changed so much,» says Steve Beissinger, a UC Berkeley conservation biologist who helped organize a conference last year on science in the national parks.

The aim — and what sets such assisted colonisation aside from zoos — is to move species into existing complex ecosystems, and to even transplant whole ecological communities where appropriate, for example by moving fish and invertebrates to artificial coral reefs.

A snapshot view in 2008 indicated that the MPAs were enhancing ecological communities, but we didn't have enough data to assess the long - term changes.

Plus, Renée Duckworth discusses the role of maternal effects on species replacement in ecological communities shaped by forest fires.

Bacteria may segregate into single - species biofilms, or they may, as in the case of dental bacteria, join together in groups that function like miniature ecological communities, competing and cooperating with each other.

«We had quite sophisticated ecological communities back then, even if they were just tiny little microbes,» says astrobiologist Roger Buick of the University of Washington, who discovered the North Pole stromatolites.

To that end, Magurran and colleagues are establishing what they're calling the BioTIME Database, a repository for information about ecological communities and populations, and how they're changing over time.

Their work is starting to reveal how diverse ecological communities can change and adapt over time, putting to the test ideas developed out in the field about how organisms adapt to one another as well as to their environment.

The shortcomings of the EISs in terms of quality of information regarding distribution and contaminant transfer for biota, plants, animals and occurrence of specific indicator species at the sites, as well as the characterization of the wetlands and other ecological communities integral to the Decommissioning Plans are well identified by Environment Canada and other commentors.

«We used a mathematical model to show that positive feedback loops between fire frequency and savanna trees, alone or together with grasses, can stabilize ecological communities in a savanna state, blocking conversion of savannas to forest,» said the study's leading author Brian Beckage, associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Vermont.

«If we don't look at nocturnal ecological communities,» Longcore said, «we're only getting half of the environmental story.»

Half of the income generated for Shorebank from the card goes to «Salmon Nation» an economic, cultural and ecological community collective in the bioregion that contains Pacific salmon spawning grounds.

The notion of rainforests as a climax ecological community, Stott argues, «has probably been one of the most persistent, yet pernicious, concepts in world ecology.»

As the humans disintegrate the natural ecological communities in the course of civilisation development, the stabilising regulatory mechanism of the natural biota becomes less and less efficient.

«There is growing recognition that the loss of animals from ecological communities, known as defaunation, poses a threat to carbon storage in tropical forests, but much of this understanding is derived from patterns seen in South American forests alone,» said Mahesh Sankaran of the faculty of biological sciences at the University of Leeds, UK, one of the co-authors.

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

All profits from the calendars will be directed towards ANPC projects aiming to raise community awareness of threatened plant species and endangered ecological communities.

Ecotone - Transition area between adjacent ecological communities (e.g., between forests and grasslands).

The finding «has implications for the population and the broader ecological community,» says physiologist Matthew Milnes of Mars Hill University in North Carolina, who was not connected to the research.

It restores, enhances and revitalizes the very social and ecological community in which it is based, in what is call the restoration or living ECOnomy.

It is a community in the sense noted above: an ecological community of people living in meaningful degrees of harmony with one another and with the earth.

We have spoken of the power of religious naturalism to extend our moral concern to care for the totality of ecological communities, to help us develop and nurture a land, water, and sky ethic.

Fermented foods are having a big moment, prompted in part by a flood of new research on the human microbiome — the ecological community of microorganisms living in the human body — and the benefits

1.1 the presence of threatened species and ecological communities, and listed migratory species; and