Sentences with phrase «ecological history»
See unusual landscapes, magnificent bird and wildlife, understand the cultural and ecological history of the areas, and experience the remote wilderness of the tropical Top End.
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Several PC «facturers are creating ecological history by inventing «Good Enough» computers that are extremely efficient when used in the proper niche.
Our record from Linsley Pond in Connecticut — a famous pond in ecological history studied by Yale biologist G.E. Hutchinson — lake sediments documents the first paleorecord discrimination between smoldering and flaming fires in the past and indicates the clear relationship to climate change.
Controlling fires is a part of US ecological history.
A call goes out for a new global effort to puzzle out humanity's ecological history over the last 50,000 years or more
Macquarie Island, which was named a World Heritage Site in 1997 (for being the only location in the world with mantle rocks actively exposed above sea level), has a long and difficult ecological history.
«The distribution of lifespan and growth with latitude might help explain one of the more fundamental patterns in the evolutionary and ecological history of animal life on the planet: the latitudinal diversity gradient.»
The veil has been torn from our past, and we start in astonishment to see the awesome downhill sweep of ecological history.
The gloss on estovers takes us to an ecological history of English woodlands and their human uses.
Flannery is the author of several books, including The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples.
But New York's ecological history should teach us a moral lesson.
From the forthcoming book Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg, to be published by Simon & Schuster.
Gotham Unbound The Ecological History of Greater New York Ted Steinberg Simon and Schuster, New York, 2014 Hardback: 539 pp., illus.
Her most fascinating sections explore the ecological history of hares in the British Isles.
Enjoy strolls and picnics along the lake, boutique shopping, gourmet cafes and bars with gorgeous mountain and lake views, soaking in hot pools, pampering yourself with thermal water beauty treatments and exploring Lake Taupo's rich cultural and ecological history.
Combining agriculture, ecology, architecture and photography, their projects often allude to the ecological history of the selected site, in addition to re-imagining potential forms that a site could take or possible stories that a site could tell.
Once ensconced at the conference center, I looked up Sicily's ecological history and, sure enough, found some accounts that described how ancient Athens sought to invade Sicily as a source of ship - building timber once other forests had been cut.
Susan is a professional zoologist who has studied the ecological history and evolution of many animals for more than 40 years, and has had a special interest in polar bears for at least half that time.
The management of land is a controversial issue tied deeply in our spiritual, social, economic, and ecological history, present, and future.
His best - selling The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of Australasian Lands and People (1994) described how Australians had been using up their ecological resources to the detriment of their future.