Sentences with phrase «ecological history of»

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.

A website (www.whatismissing.net) acts as a nexus for the project, creating an ecological history of the planet and inviting people to share something they have personally witnessed diminish significantly or disappear from the natural world.

Her most fascinating sections explore the ecological history of hares in the British Isles.

Flannery is the author of several books, including The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples.

«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 gloss on estovers takes us to an ecological history of English woodlands and their human uses.

Not exact matches

New hires get introduced to the company's history, and to it's ecological commitment, on a bike ride that passes the three locations the brewery has held in its 20 year of existence.

Too much emphasis on history, therefore, pushes us in the direction of ecological collapse.

The second and perhaps most fundamental area requiring joint attention by ecological and political theologians is the problem of properly conceptualizing and expressing the relationship between nature and history.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

The ancient problem of evil, given the ecological character of history, is acutely a Christian problem.

In short, on the one hand, we end with the ecological crisis, and on the other hand, we end with the futile attempts of Derrida and other postmodernists to deconstruct the self's relation to history and nature so that it can create itself on the basis of nothing other than its own desires and preferences.

In the ecological model what has been achieved of value in cosmic history is saved.

The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve is a hidden gem that offers a fascinating glimpse into the history and ecosystems of the area.

He and his colleague Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque agree there was ecological upheaval.

He and Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque agree there was ecological upheaval.

A wide variety of natural history and conservation information posted by the Ecological Research & Development Group

For the first time in history humans are affecting the ecological balance of not just a region but the entire world, all at once.

«This is the first time anybody has described the ecological succession in the Mesozoic equivalent of a whale fall in detail,» says Richard Twitchett of the Natural History Museum in London, who led the study.

«We hope this report raises awareness about the lack of research into these ecological issues,» says Dr. James Collins, Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University and former Director of the Population Biology and Physiological Ecology Program and Assistant Director of Biological Sciences at NSF.

It now forms a special interest group of the British Ecological Society, and although its numbers fluctuate, the population sample size has been fairly stable over its entire history.

This is the first study of the life history of limpets living in the Okinawa Trough, including their reproduction and spread, and Dr. Nakamura's work provides insights into their ecological mechanisms.

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Larson's colleague Mark Davis, coordinator of the Collaborative Ecological Genetics Laboratory at the Illinois Natural History Survey, explains that every living thing is constantly sloughing off cells and all of those cells contain DNA.

Since much of Beringia, theorized to have been located generally between northwest North America and northeastern Asia, has been under water for more than 10,000 years, it has been challenging to find archaeological and ecological evidence for this «deep history,» as Sicoli calls it.

Callum Roberts of the University of York, UK, says trawling simplifies ecosystems, creating ecological instability, and has a history of destroying fish stocks like halibut and skate that rely on more complex seabed habitats.

Thus, the recovery interval resembled modern ecological successions in terms of active selection on size and related life histories.

Bison arrival in North America marks the beginning of what geologists call the «Rancholabrean Land Mammal Age,» which is used to discriminate between different ecological periods in the continent's history.

As part of the conference, Matt Schlesinger covers the natural history and ecological diversity of Plum Island and the importance of the island for rare species as the federal government decides on the sale of the island.

This frontier research needs to be furthered by conducting surveys and excavations in various environmental zones of Arabia in order to recover ecological data and information on hominin population history and changing adaptive behaviours.

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

Now, a greater effort to understand its ecological and population history has been made possible by the first, whole - scale genome sequencing efforts of 57 platypuses across Eastern Australia and Tasmania.

Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.

Not only was there a dramatic increase in brain size, but also in life history (shortened inter-birth intervals, delayed development), body size, shoulder morphology allowing throwing of projectiles [45], ecological flexibility [46] and social behaviour [47].

The evolutionary history of the diapsid lineage is quite complex; diapsids evolved into many shapes, occupying many different ecological niches since they first came onto the scene in the late Carboniferous Period (roughly 350 million years ago), when they were represented by the earliest diapsid, the tiny lizardlike Petrolacosaurus.

Trying to blame farmers for all the ecological «devastation» in the world is just ignorance of history and way too simplistic, all for the sake of attacking one way of eating and defending another.

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Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.

Nicolson owns the tiny Shiant Islands between the Outer Hebrides and the Isle of Skye; in this literary and ecological masterpiece, he recounts their human and natural history so vividly, sensually, and lovingly that they attain an immense spiritual presence.

Each tour of up to eight is led by two certified guides who share their ecological knowledge and bring the history of the Santa Cruz redwood forest to life.

It is home to a rich and engaging history as well as a variety of rare ecological wonders.

Experience the history and ecological wonders of San Diego in the comfort and security of our virtually unsinkable Hydra - Terras.

Experience the history and ecological wonders of San Diego in the comfort and security of our virtually unsinkable Hydra Terras.

During your kayak tour you will be with 8 to 20 other kayaks and this makes it nearly impossible to get near your guide that is supposed to be narrating the natural history and human history of the La Jolla Cove Ecological Reserve.

Her dissertation research was a study of the influence of pleistocene ice age history, biogeography, and micro-evolutionary and ecological processes in shaping population genetic structure of the California sea mussel, Mytilus californianus.

The identification of individuals within a population and the collection of reliable information on distribution, habitat use, and life history traits are the basic requirement for behavioral and ecological studies of a species.

If you make us your go - to resort for private or group tours of ecological wonders, wildlife preserves, exotic caves, scuba diving, Mayan ruin tours, tubing and other extraordinary experiences, you'll be doing exactly what our first visitor did: falling in love and spreading the word, so you too become part of our history.

Experience the history and ecological wonders of San Diego in the comfort and security of a Coast Guard - approved amphibious vehicle.