Sentences with phrase «ecological data from»

I also recall reading somewhere that records and ecological data from 1800 - 1900 show about 0.8 C warming trend; while 1900 - 2000 was about 0.4 C.

And ecological data from living U.K. birds showed that over the past 26 years, their beaks have lengthened about a tenth of a millimeter.

Eva Hoffman, now a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues at Yale University looked at behavioral and ecological data from 178 modern primate species.

Not exact matches

This is quite hard to tell the pattern of vote switching from one party to another from the aggregate ward - level data alone because of the well known ecological inference problem, but some insights can be gleaned from the pattern of correlations in the changes in party shares.

«Using Multicountry Ecological and Observational Studies to Determine Dietary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease,» a review article from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition presents the data.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

The National Science Foundation — sponsored network, called the National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, will link 20 field stations selected to provide data from 20 distinct U.S. biomes as well as 40 portable stations that can be moved from site to site.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

More specifically, she focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to identify the determinants of disease transmission in different ecological settings, providing evidence for the improvement of current control policies, as well as the development of new ones.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

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.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specdata - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specData by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

Vegetation data has many applications, from weather and ecological forecasting, to understanding best practices for land use.

But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.

It also allows for the incorporation of data from different disciplines, factoring in socioeconomic, ecological and environmental factors, for example.

Such analyses enable researchers to use data from leaf variation to predict whole - tree and ecosystem responses to ecological changes.

To conduct the study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879 individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.

I retrieved data on multiple species from various research sites, and through comparative analyses of these data I explored trends and made assumptions that allowed me to sketch out various ecological interaction models.

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

To understand where interior forest has been lost and therefore where risks from forest fragmentation might be greatest, the researchers used global tree cover data to map the forests of 2000 and 2012 and examined the patterns of change across ecological regions and biomes.

A combination of genetic, anatomical, and ecological data convinced researchers that Pongo tapanuliensis, named for the Tapanuli districts where it is found, is distinct from the two accepted species of orangutan.

The extensive data from these collections constitute the foundation for all taxonomic - systematic, ecological, biogeographical or biostratigraphic basic research as well as for applied, environmentally relevant research.

Future work will also focus on developing methods for collecting data from multiple sources to construct integrated maps of the many different factors that determine disease transmission and the emergence and spread of resistance, such as epidemiological and ecological data.

This is an «ecological study», where they compare data from different countries.

(so she says the conclusions are faulty b / c they're drawn from purely ecological data...... hmm....

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

With a wilderness over twice the size of Yellowstone comprised of complex and abundant ecosystems, Katmai offers a wealth of ecological data for everything from the habits of brown bears to the adaptations of tundra plants.

Shi, A. (2003) The impact of population pressure on global carbon dioxide emissions, 1975 - 1996: evidence from pooled cross-country data, Ecological Economics, 44, 29 - 42.

Prior to working with NIDIS, Kat worked at the National Ecological Observatory Network developing web and print communication resources and improving the usability of online interactive data visualization tools in conjunction with staff from the National Geographic Society's FieldScope Program.

About in 2000 I started to analyze my long - term ecological data sets (50 years long data sets, among the longest from the North).

: Ecological Modelling 171 (2004) Climate change: detection and attribution of trends from long - term geologic data Craig Loehle Mathematical Geology, Vol.

The new calculator is based on the latest data and methodology from Global Footprint Network, which tracks the ecological resource use and resource capacity of more than 200 countries and regions from 1961 to the present.

According to the most recent data from the Global Footprint Network, humanity as a whole is currently in ecological overshoot, demanding one and a half planets» worth of Earth's biocapacity.

Multi-spectral and active microwave data from satellites, plus an effective network of ecological plots, appear capable of monitoring response to climate change.

This requires comparing changes observed over decades and centuries to long - term ecological baselines of change interpreted from relevant prehistoric records — much as the climate community has done with comparing recent changes with prehistoric proxy data (Barnosky et al., 2012; Hadly and Barnosky, 2009).

Using an ecological framework, authors used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to identify individual, family, and school factors related to early delinquency among a diverse, national sample of children.