Sentences with phrase «ecological interactions»

Anyone affiliated with a research institution can win up to $ 400 for a photo or visualization image that best captures the aesthetics of ecological interactions.

How does their adaptive evolution alter ecological interactions in the oceans?

Besides affecting the species themselves, such changes could have wider effects by limiting the movement of nutrients and altering ecological interactions.

But in the wild they could restore missing ecological interactions.

The studies analyzed the reaction of plants to certain ecological interactions in a manner that brings together molecular biology and ecology.

She earned her PhD from the UV focusing on land - sea ecological interactions.

Equally important, but harder to measure, is the anthropogenic elimination of ecological interactions.

This image by Hara Woltz, a conservation biologist from Columbia University (US), was taken while researching ecological interactions between species and landscapes in the archipelago, and depicts a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) on Santa Cruz Island utilizing a human road.

Their move into northern California, Oregon and Washington — at a time when salmon stocks are depressed — is a concern to scientists like Benoit - Bird, who studies ecological interactions among marine species.

The PhD student, who is a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School «Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques,» is the first author of the publication.

The roles of other ecological interactions in shaping divergent phenotypes during such radiations have received less attention.

That will give researchers a chance to monitor their eating habits and other ecological interactions before the tortoises can breed and disperse across the island.

Urban Transformation — these projects work to create new types of social - ecological interactions around urban space.

«This article provides a new perspective on how to do that, considering microbial ecological interactions with the host, other microbes, and the environment.»

But our research shows that a decline in large vertebrate populations and the loss of key ecological interactions also poses a serious risk for the maintenance of tropical forest carbon storage.

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.

All three authors worry about the message laid plain by the study: «What this really suggests is that to save ecological interactions, we may need to conserve much larger areas than for just maintaining e.g. plant diversity.

Hybridization between genetically modified Atlantic salmon and wild brown trout reveals novel ecological interactions.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

I love thinking about the feedbacks that arise as ecological interactions generate selection pressures, while selection modifies those same interactions.

A study of ecosystem interaction chains in a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean suggests that human disturbances, such as forest conversions, can corrupt the links that tie together ecological interactions and cause the chains to become radically shortened or go extinct.

Observations from other systems suggest that many long ecological interaction chains may be vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbances, although the effects will depend on the nature of the perturbation and the properties of the system.

The findings of this study will be very useful to direct future studies on diversity of butterflies, ecological interactions between species and to improve their conservation by prioritising and avoiding mixing of divergent lineages.

He argued that if his theory was correct then «widespread amphibian extinctions in seemingly undisturbed highland forests may attest to how profound and unpredictable the outcome can be when climate change alters ecological interactions.»

- MPG — Establishment of an International Max Planck Research School in Jena, «The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques»

We expect that the results of in vivo selection may differ when mice are pre ‐ colonized with a microbiota due to changes in nutrient availability and other ecological interactions, including competition or syntrophy.

Ian Baldwin summarizes: «Ecological interactions in nature are extremely complex.

By enabling scientists to reversibly control local population abundance, daisy drives could become a valuable tool for the study of ecological interactions and the likely consequences of releasing global RNA - guided suppression drives.

Our ability to assess biological diversity, ecosystem health, ecological interactions, and a wide range of other important processes is largely dependent on accurately recognizing species.

«We found that the local presence and abundance of a species reflect not only its need for particular temperatures and environmental conditions but also its ecological interactions.

«These findings suggest that hunter - gatherers of the Natufian culture, rather than later Neolithic farmers, were the first to adopt a sedentary way of life and unintentionally initiated a new type of ecological interaction — close coexistence with commensal species such as the house mouse,» Weissbrod said.

Several studies have described the ecological interactions between krill and penguins [7], [8] and krill and seals [9] in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula during summer months and over spatial scales of hundreds of kilometers.

Changes in the physical structure of the marine ecosystem around the Antarctic Peninsula may have profound effects not only on the abundance of krill and baleen whales, but also on the ecological interactions among all krill predators and their prey.

The best starting point is expanding our knowledge of the passenger pigeon's ecological interactions with other species.

In: Ecological interactions between tropical coastal ecosystems.

One of the main challenges to the scientific community involved in biology conservation is to demonstrate that the loss and damage of habitats, ecological interactions and species generates a prejudice (present and future) that far exceeds the profits from the exploitation of natural resources and agricultural production.

We need to demonstrate the loss of habitats, ecological interactions and species generate bigger losses than profits from natural resources and agricultural production's exploitation.

Understands how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples

However, for students to understand, and communicate, some of the important ecological, conservationist arguments, they benefit from a conceptual understanding of food webs, ecological interactions, and natural selection.

Based on an extended investigation of Sapelo Island, located off the coast of Georgia, it is another of the artist's meditations on place — in this case, habitats overwritten by generations of human and ecological interactions.

On that issue, the potential complexities regarding phytoplankton community composition, ecological interactions, and anthropogenic impacts (such as changing iron supply, pollution, fishing) make definitive statements extremely uncertain (and I would guess one of the sources of humility in the reviewers that would allow them to acknowledge the possibility that the Boyce result was possible).

If green building focuses as much on biophilia as it has on saving energy and water in the past, it could help us rediscover the ecological interaction and relationship we need to thrive.

«That's totally reorganized the communities, so that ecological interactions are nowadays quite different,» said Moritz.

This effort is a critical component of NOAA's research into the future of the earth as a system under the influence of anthropogenic forcing to better understand how emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, land use decisions and climate and ecological interactions will determine future carbon dioxide levels and the corresponding climate change.