Sentences with phrase «ecological interactions in»

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

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

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

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Connectedness as causal dependence also seems to be what Callicott has in mind when he says that our states of consciousness are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature (Callicott 1986).

Making the point in evolutionary terms Callicott reminds us that «the very structure of one's psyche and rational faculties are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature.»

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

Live music, colorful critters, and oodles of audience interaction make this show a fun ecological romp in the wild!

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

Dr Booth said studying the relationships between predators and prey, and the interactions between different predators that hunt the same prey, were important in ecological research.

The study «An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator - prey interactions in Holocene Australia» also involved Professors Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute and Professor Chris Johnson from the University of Tasmania.

Today, as a wildlife biologist for the National Forest Service and a presidential award winner, he travels the world studying the complex interactions that play out in ecological systems.

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.

Unraveling interactions and events in biological scenarios typically requires ecological perspectives; perhaps space weather, they thought, was one necessary component of the grander ecological conditions that lead to mass stranding events.

I researched the interaction in various areas between rabbits, arthropods, coyotes, plants, and weather information in order to determine how these factors interact with one another to create a complete ecological system.

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.

«Compiling such a highly resolved food web was possible for the Messel because of the exquisite preservation of soft body parts and ecological traces in the deposit,» she says, «and because my co-author, Conrad Labandeira, is one of the world's foremost experts on fossil plant - insect interactions.»

In the future, the understanding of this interaction between two brains would allow for the comprehension and analysis of very complex aspects of the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, or education, using the neural images within an ecological or real - world context.

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.

Recent Insights on Biological and Ecological Aspects of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Interactions — Antonietta Mello, Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant - Microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere: Mechanisms and Their Ecological Benefits — Kulandaivelu Velmourougane, Plant - Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives

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).

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

Biodiversity can also be explored by investigating how species» traits evolve in close interaction with the environment, for example by analyzing ecological niches.

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.

He began focusing his research on the interactions between wildlife and people in the Indian Himalayas; producing several landmark research papers on the complexities and ecological impacts of human natural resource use and conflicts throughout his career.

In: Ecological interactions between tropical coastal ecosystems.

(Properly speaking, TV and ecological crises are all the 22 characters have in common, though there are many references early on to doors being left open — a glancing reference to the more figurative portals that make the interactions between the various plots possible.)

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.

In the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankinIn the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankinin solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankind.

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

In my talk, I described the park as a positive example of what the biologist Erle C. Ellis calls «anthromes» — «ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.»

In North America these coupled interactions set the stage for changes in ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densificatioIn North America these coupled interactions set the stage for changes in ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densificatioin ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densificatioin the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densification.

by Judith Curry Health risks arise from the interaction of uncertain future climatic changes with complex ecological, physical, and socio - economic systems, which are simultaneously affected by numerous other changes, e.g. globalisation, demographic changes, and changes in land use, nutrition, health care quality.

Obviously it did to some extent, since an amount representing under half of total emitted fossil carbon remains in the atmosphere, but why it didn't take all, or why it took any, are lost in the details of the complex ecological interactions involved in the carbon cycle.

The lower Chesapeake Bay is especially at risk due to high rates of sinking land (known as subsidence).96 Climate change and sea level rise are also likely to cause a number of ecological impacts, including declining water quality and clarity, increases in harmful algae and low oxygen (hypoxia) events, decreases in a number of species including eelgrass and seagrass beds, and changing interactions among trophic levels (positions in the food chain) leading to an increase in subtropical fish and shellfish species in the bay.66

Finally, the impacts of climate change on plant growth could alter ecological interactions among species with potential cascading effects on food webs; integrating changes in suitable plant growing days and NPP within recently developed General Ecosystem Models [40] could provide some insights into the magnitude of these changes.

In other words, the human interactions that take place on their ecological environment may contribute for the development of the child and its peers, a perspective shared by Bronfenbrenner (1996).

• Professional Practice: Includes topics on the state of the profession, professional certification, ethics, and child rights • Relationships: Includes topics on the role of relationships in human development, empowering interactions, resistance to relationship building, and stages of relationship development • Communication: Includes topics on communication roadblocks, active listening, reflecting, and reframing • Documentation: Includes topics on observation skills, memory recall, non-judgmental and objective language • Guidance: Includes topics on the developmental needs, brain activation, emotional first aid, effective directives, tension reduction, and behavioral counseling • Development: Includes topics on developmental stages and tasks, ecological theory, developmental assets, cultural diversity, structure and supervision

To date, few studies have utilized electronic Ecological Momentary Assessment (e.EMA) as a methodology that allows siblings to record in real time and across everyday settings their patterns of interaction, including rule breaking behavior.

Our findings underscore one of the ecological perspective's main tenets, which is that in psychological research, interactions are often more telling than are main effects (Bronfenbrenner, 1977).

Ecodevelopmental theory consists of three overlapping components: (a) a social — ecological framework, based on the work of Bronfenbrenner (1979), that incorporates four levels of social context; (b) a developmental perspective emphasizing the changing nature of youth and families across time as a function not only of the current social context but also of changing conditions in the social context over time; and (c) a focus on social interactions between and among individuals in the youth's and family's social context.

Biopsychosocial regulatory processes in the development of behavior problems: Biological, behavioral, and social — ecological interactions