Sentences with phrase «ecological context»

We know intuitively that the nature and form of natural selection changes with ecological context, but how it changes is rarely studied explicitly.

However, children's friendships extend beyond the classroom within a broader ecological context.

These results show how similar ecological contexts can result in the repeated evolution of highly adaptive strategies across species and regions.

«We also need to think about the surrounding ecological context of the evolutionary process.»

Alternative reproductive tactics contribute less to fitness when considered in ecological context, and evolve only under strong selection

Understanding factors associated with bullying and peer victimization in Chinese schools within ecological contexts.

Then four scenarios were created using the same lizard signal in different plant environments and weather conditions to explore how these different ecological contexts affected signal effectiveness, explained Dr Tom Chandler from Monash University.

No other film, however, has examined the dissolution of the human self as closely or in the same specific ecological context as Annihilation.

We are employing a developmental - ecological conceptual framework, which considers the influence of ecological contexts on children's developmental trajectories.

The internal structure and ecological context of coparenting: A framework for research and intervention.

Developmental theory posits that these individual characteristics transact with those of their broader ecological context, including family and other social systems in which persons belong.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

An organic model can interpret «the relation between God and world in ways commensurate with an ecological context».

Rachel also provides natural dye education with a particular interest in foraging for dyes with an ecological context through workshops and online tutorials.

It does not make sense to the Menominee to think of animals as divorced from their ecological contexts, Waxman says.

According to the study, the ecological context of the birds» habitat in Barcelona — a highly urbanised and industrialised area — can increase exposure to lead.

Moreover, the scientists showed that calcium signaling can be studied directly in intact plants in different physiological and ecological contexts, which helps to better understand its role as a secondary messenger in plants.

In this study we've uncovered a new use for it in an ecological context.»

The paper crosses disciplinary boundaries by explicitly exploring how the ecological context of a population shapes the evolutionary pressures it experiences.

Martin, R. D. Human brain evolution in an ecological context.

In their study, which was recently published in the scientific journal «Earth - Science Reviews,» the team of scientists presents the first comprehensive inventory of all Cladocera fossils in an ecological context.

The options are to write about the artwork's meaning in an ecological context afterwards, or incorporate words into the drawing as the artwork proceeds.

Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, jaw, and vision problems are increasingly plaguing bodies that have been removed from the ecological context in which they existed for millennia.

«Some conservationists claim that cats are the single largest threat to biodiversity regardless of ecological context,» Linn continued.

Still, some conservationists claim that cats are the single largest threat to biodiversity regardless of ecological context.

For example, they commented that Schweingruber's collections were largely based on a couple of campaigns in which they flew into sites for a couple of days, cored trees and flew off to the next site, without any ecological context.

They criticized the lack of ecological context and descriptions by the dendro community associated with Hughes and particularly disliked the metaphor of tree ring width series as an «archive».

We are engaged in a number of collaborative projects to answer questions about steering collective actions to fit specific political, economic, and ecological contexts.

Ideally, this research and development of new non-toxic materials would be accompanied by an educational effort that would put materials science in an ecological context and incorporate ideas of green chemistry and biomimicry.

Minteer added that bringing back species takes them out of their ecological context and natural timescale.

A combined approach that explores the biological and psychological functioning of individuals and at the same time locates the individual in an ecological context which is at the heart of an indigenous contribution to best practice.

When investigating possible causes and origins of aggressive behaviours through assessment, it is important to understand the child's socio - ecological context.

Like any type of behaviour in children, there is often a mixture of the origins and causes mentioned above within the child's socio - ecological context.

In a family - centred approach to services, assessment and treatment are guided by the ecological context of the family, incorporating information about formal and informal community supports (Winters and Metz 2009; Winters and Pumariega 2007).

A potential concern is that (1) by framing the problem as one of family adaptation to caring for a child with ID and (2) by treating the social and ecological context in which families live as a background given, research on the resilience of families caring for a child with ID has certain predictable outcomes.

Among them, there is the investigation centered on the understanding of the ecological context that regulates social behaviors, in an attempt to show how the physical and social characteristics of the environment have influence on the relationship between people and vice-versa.