Sentences with phrase «ecological conditions under»

Not exact matches

Under contemporary American conditions, an ecological approach to social policy can not be a simple laissez - faire policy.

Thus, it has been difficult to establish confidence in whether specific avian traits — such as vocal learning, predatory behavior, or adaptations to aquatic or terrestrial habitats — reflect single or multiple independent origins and under what ecological conditions these events have occurred.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

They are sensitive to their social and ecological environments, and under certain conditions they can inhibit one response and favor another.

Species within an ecological community may respond differently to climate change, meaning the competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites that a given species encounters under the new climatic conditions may also change.

«The ecological importance of sharks remains a contentious topic, but here we've shown that they can cause trophic cascades under select conditions,» Rasher said.

In the «APV Resola» project, researchers are investigating the economic, technical, societal and ecological aspects of the technology in a pilot plant under real conditions for the first time.

Based on our results, we hypothesize that ecological conditions that dramatically reduced population size under natural conditions could have interacted with human exploitation in causing the passenger pigeon's rapid demise.

Inclusion of paleontological data into the modeling of ecological niches of living species might show that many of them could live under very different conditions than today, that their ecological niche is much bigger as assumed.

I am interested in ecological neuroscience: trying to understand the challenges of visual information processing that animals face under natural, evolution - relevant conditions.

«There is little doubt,» Linn conceded, «that under particular geographic and ecological conditions, outdoor cats can threaten native species.»

Ecological succession and biological evolution would also provide hysteresis (for example, I read of an idea that under some conditions, bogs will tend to take over forests; these bogs will have a higher albedo than forest when snow falls, thus potentially bringing an ice age...).

To be sure, it is unlikely that the effects of ecological degradation in our time, though enormous, will prove «apocalyptic» for human civilization within a single generation, even under conditions of capitalist business as usual.

Highlights the focus of PBS on ecological validity; that is, the practical application and translation of science - based knowledge to natural agents of change in natural settings under natural conditions (e.g., teachers and administrators in school, parents and family members at home and in the community).