Sentences with phrase «ecological factors»

The researchers used the model to test a simple scenario in which social interactions and cultural factors are excluded, revealing the influence of ecological factors alone.

Here, we review the importance of forest genetic resources as a source of evolutionary potential for adaptation to changes in climate and other ecological factors.

This link held up after ecological factors that also influence extinction, such as weather and habitat size, were taken into account.

Currently some of the important ecological factors needed to understand population change are not recorded on a regular or systematic basis.

Thus we see that neither on grounds of public health nor on ecological factors is climate change likely to be the most important problem facing the globe this century.

No discussion of security, development, technology, or economics was without at least the mention of ecological factors, whether from within or without the assigned panel of experts.

Moreover, they found that evolved brain expansion in the marine mammals predicts the breadth of social and cultural behaviors, as well as ecological factors, such as the diversity of their prey types and latitudinal range.

While BCDR promises some direct (climate) and ancillary (restoration, habitat protection) benefits, Pg C - scale implementation may be constrained by ecological factors, and may compromise the ultimate goals of climate change mitigation.

«One of the main obstacles to malaria eradication is the enormous diversity and adaptive flexibility of the Anopheles mosquito species, therefore a better understanding of the genetic, behavioral, and ecological factors underlying its ability to evolve resistance is key to controlling this disease,» Kamdem said.

Frey and his colleagues made use of mathematical models to analyze the complex interplay between ecological factors and population dynamics, and were able to demonstrate that populations can indeed respond in a coordinated fashion to chemical information even when the signal molecules are generated by only a subset of the cells.

«The food supply was there, there was a freshwater environment, and the climate became so warm that all of the background ecological factors were established to make it a great place.»

But no such ecological factors turned out to be responsible during the 2 decades that behavioral ecologists Charles Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown of the University of Tulsa have been studying cliff swallows along Nebraska's Platte River.

Research scientist Salkeld and Antolin, professor and chair of biology in the College of Natural Sciences, assert that the swirl of ecological factors driving plague outbreaks in prairie dogs can lend key insights into the study of zoonotic diseases.

Phylogenetic and ecological factors impact the gut microbiota of two Neotropical primate species.

«The $ 64 million question,» says Haile - Selassie, «is «What environmental and ecological factors triggered hominid species diversity between around 4 million and 3 million years ago?

«Raising Ground» is focused on the point at which natural / ecological factors begin to influence an artist's practice and the balance of art and ecology becomes weighted towards ecology, therefore beginning to dictate the artistic process and outcome.

Ecological factors include competition for water, nutrient, and light resources from other members of the plant community, as well as herbivory and trampling factors.

2012 — Present ABC Company — Houston, TX Botanist • Rummage around for classifying new species of plants and categorize plant specimens • Work with other botanists to build up drugs, medicines and additional products from plants • Examine the effects of ecological factors for example rainfall, hotness, sunlight, soil, topography, and infection on plant development • Prepare technical reports and papers • Supervise and organize the work of technical support staff

Among the social — ecological factors mentioned by the authors were family environment, social support, family members» adaptation, and utilitarian resources.

«Avian predation has long been recognized to be a factor in these cycles, but Koenig and Liebhold convincingly suggest a way for it to work together with other ecological factors to produce the synchronized and long 13 - and 17 - year life cycles,» adds Chris Simon, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, who has studied the cicadas» cycles but also was not involved with this work.

Environmental and ecological factors such as overcrowding, reduction in predators, food limitations, and genetic variations could have contributed to the natural selection for a smaller size.

There is a paucity of research evaluating interventions targeting social - ecological factors associated with psychological distress and dysfunction among families of children with intellectual or other disabilities.

In contrast, the editor of this volume — Stefan Bengtson of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden — argues for the importance of ecological factors.

We have also to take into account the ecological factor which socialists or capitalists never took seriously.

Winemakers call the ecological factors that define their product terroir.

«New model predicts fish population response to dams, other ecological factors.»

Several socio - ecological factors — including more frequent disasters, less prevalent infectious disease, and less climatic stress in poorer countries — were linked with individualism, but increased socioeconomic development was the strongest predictor of increased individualism over time.

Santos, Varnum, and Grossmann also looked at data on specific socio - ecological factors — including the level of socioeconomic development, disaster frequency, incidence of infectious disease, and extreme temperatures in each country — to examine whether they might account for any shifts in individualism over time.

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 highly vascularized tissue had previously been observed in Ophiacodon, but its presence had been written off to ecological factors, like its aquatic lifestyle, rather than to its fundamental physiology.

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

Strigul and Lienard plan to use LES to help forest managers determine which species of trees and other ecological factors are necessary for forests to reestablish themselves after being destroyed by wildfires and other disturbances.

Social and ecological factors — including cultural traditions of raw fish sharing, farming practices and open sewer systems that let the parasite flourish in community ponds, and a lack of community education about parasite transmission — went unaddressed.

We tend to discount how selection pressures on domestic plants and animals varied through time in response to different preferences or ecological factors.

Crosbie attributed the steep decline in cod since 1990 to «ecological factors», including unusually cold water, which he said were affecting the whole North Atlantic.

After taking evolution into account, Capellini's team found that ecological factors are more important than previously acknowledged.

Her principal areas of interest are in the use of analgesics in wildlife species and the ecological factors contributing to wildlife morbidity and mortality.

To date, a number of environmental and ecological factors have been identified as a cause for dog seasonal allergies.

Plant growth is governed by environmental and ecological factors.

With respect to ecological factors, habitat conversion continues to be the single largest demonstrated threat to species and biodiversity.

Burgess and Drais propose that child maltreatment is too complex to be explained fully by genetic relatedness alone and cite other reasons for child maltreatment, such as social factors, ecological factors and child traits such as disability and age.

Predictors of psychosocial well - being in urban African American and European American youth: The role of ecological factors