Sentences with phrase «ecological processes in»

A professor of biology and ecology who has earned an international reputation for his work in biogeochemistry, aquatic ecology, and remote sensing, Melack has written more than 200 publications describing research emphasizing ecological processes in lakes, rivers, wetlands, and catchments in Brazil, Africa, Australia, Japan, Central Asia, and the United States.

(C) describes and prioritizes proposed conservation actions to assist fish, wildlife, plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapting to, and better withstanding those impacts;

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

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.

Both of these approaches let us examine evolutionary and ecological processes in ways that would be difficult with real living populations.

Given the rapid spread of coastal pollution, field studies on their multi-faceted effects on ecological processes in coral reefs deserve a high priority.

«A major factor in choosing this image as the winner is that it manages a seemly impossible task: to visualise an immensely long - term ecological process in a single static shot.

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«The concept of «maintaining ecological function» refers to the balance of ecological processes necessary for the reef ecosystem as a whole to persist, but perhaps in a different form,» a spokesperson for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority explained, «noting the composition and structure may differ from what is currently seen today.»

The point here is that in its conception of God, process theology is indebted, not only to the ecological dimensions of Whitehead's philosophy, but also to the traditions of Moses.

In The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community, one of the most creative encounters between science and the relational vision, John B. Cobb, Jr., a process theologian, and Charles Birch, an Australian biologist and quite a lay theologian of the process persuasion in his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the scienceIn The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community, one of the most creative encounters between science and the relational vision, John B. Cobb, Jr., a process theologian, and Charles Birch, an Australian biologist and quite a lay theologian of the process persuasion in his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the sciencein his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the sciences.

While this is a matter of some dispute among theologians, those of the process persuasion tend to take Lynn White's criticism with the utmost seriousness, and respond with the development of a relational, ecological vision that goes beyond the encouragement of responsible stewardship in external relations to the non-human natural world.

The word «ecological» is added because of the emphasis on relationships in the development of postmodern thought that has been influenced by process philosophy and in particular the thought of A.N. Whitehead.

However, the traditional Western - Christian paradigm of nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categories.

The author's thesis is this: dialogical encounter with Buddhist tradition — in this case illustrated by the esoteric teachings of Kukai — and Western ecological models of reality emerging in the natural sciences and Christian process theology, may energize an already evolving global vision.

In the profoundly ecological vision of process thought, organisms always interact with their environments.

True to the holistic, ecological character of the process - relational vision, its adherents have advocated equally holistic practices in education.

He then clarifies one of Whitehead's key concepts: «prehension», that is, the way in which one momentary experience incorporates or takes account of earlier such moments, and considers its implications for process theology and the ecological movement.

A truly ecological civilization will do as little damage as possible to weaker and poorer people in the process of supplying its own needs.

Two challenges seem to loom large in the modern world including India which is in the process of modernization; one, of humanizing the technological revolution to serve the poor and protect the ecological basis of life; and the other, of building a secular state and common civil society with openness to religious insights in a situation of religious pluralism.

Dr. Joseph Needham and Dr. W.H. Thorpe, Cambridge authorities on biochemistry and zoology; Dr. A.R. Peacocke, biologist in Cambridge; Professor L.C. Birch, Australian expert on evolutionary changes in the realm of living matter; and Ian Barbour, American physicist, whose special interest has lately been turned toward the ecological problem — these are but a few of the many who have publicly avowed their acceptance of a process way of looking at humankind and the world.

The presented topics focused on: - Economical, ecological and social implications of apiculture - Legal norms and guidelines / official and private standards - Perspectives of organic apicultural production - Conversion problems, risk assessment and evaluation - Specific apiary operations - Quality management and assurance in organic apiculture - Inspection and certification processes - Labeling / packaging and marketing - Endemic Iranian bees and their potentials for honey production - etc..

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

The stochastic spatial processes interfere with the classic ecological theory of predictable dependence, resulting in de facto independence.

«However, this is a costly process that can result in excessive nitrogen runoff into waterways, sometimes causing severe ecological damage.»

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

«These results highlight the importance of examining ecological processes, in addition to political ideologies or self - interest, for understanding economic preferences,» says Dawtry.

Variation in insect diet has implications for numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including effects of environmental disturbance, the stability of networks of interacting species and the top - down effects of predators being controlled by the level of herbivore diet specialization.

This is the only way to create new global - scale maps, which are needed to better understand these ecological processes and to predict the roles they will play in Earth's future,» Asner said.

When man breaks good ground for agriculture, he effects a deflection in the natural process of ecological succession.

The rise of industrial systems in the past century has transformed the majority of the terrestrial biosphere into intensively used anthromes dominated by novel ecological processes.

But Alaska salmon falls short and lags behind some of the world's fisheries in how it benefits local fishermen, processing workers and nearby rural communities, according to a new assessment that ranks the vitality of a fishery by looking at its economic and community benefits as well as its ecological health.

«Our lack of knowledge about how synthetic chemicals alter ecological processes represents a critical blindspot in the rapidly developing field of global ecology.»

«They provide us with an echo of real ecological processes, like adaptive radiations, when an organism rapidly diversifies due to a change in environment or to fill a new niche,» O'Dwyer said.

In contrast to the often narrowly defined single - objective nature of flood control, they observe that SFM places an emphasis not only on reducing risk (to people, economics and the environment) but also on seeking opportunities to working with natural processes and promoting multiple benefits across a range of criteria (ecological, societal and economic).

Examining the peer - review process for every paper submitted to Functional Ecology between January 2004 and June 2014, authors Charles W. Fox and C. Sean Burns of the University of Kentucky in Lexington and Jennifer A. Meyer of the British Ecological Society in London, United Kingdom, which publishes the journal, found that most of the Functional Ecology reviewers were men, but female reviewers became more numerous over the period studied.

«We won't be able to fully understand the extinction dynamics until we understand what normal ecological processes were going on in the background.»

A team of evolutionary biologists at Rice University, the University of Sheffield and eight other universities used a combination of ecological fieldwork and genomic assays to see how natural selection is playing out across the genome of a Southern California stick insect that is in the process of evolving into two unique species.

«We are the first to examine all important ecological processes of forest regeneration in a global meta - analysis of existing case studies,» explains Dr. Eike Lena Neuschulz, the lead author of the study from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center.

The research group, along with government and NGO partners in Sabah, are in the process of generating a portfolio of ecological maps, ranging from forest carbon stocks to plant and animal biodiversity.

The volume, which grew out of an August 1998 symposium in Crested Butte, Colorado, provides a good overview of how butterflies can serve as model systems for understanding ecological and evolu - tionary patterns and processes.

«This is possibly one of the best examples of ecological speciation, that is the process by which selection generates new species, in the marine environment because the species evolved by adapting to different ecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics Reseecological speciation, that is the process by which selection generates new species, in the marine environment because the species evolved by adapting to different ecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics Reseecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics ReseEcological Genetics Research Unit.

The ecological processes described by our hypothesis may therefore become even more prevalent in the future.»

Through a new Phytobiomes journal review paper, titled «Translating Phytobiomes from Theory to Practice: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations,» Drs. Christine Hawkes and Elise Connor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas propose applying ecological theories to improve the process of microbial technology deEcological and Evolutionary Considerations,» Drs. Christine Hawkes and Elise Connor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas propose applying ecological theories to improve the process of microbial technology deecological theories to improve the process of microbial technology development.

Microbial communities in marine sediments control ecological processes, affecting the availability of nutrients and the chemistry of the soil.

«In essence, we need to work towards restoring the natural balance of ecological and geomorphic processes on coral reefs.

It gives us an insight into how evolutionary and ecological processes jointly structure biological communities in a broad sense.»

Another finding was the frequent association between nematodes and bacteria that play important roles in nutrient cycling, an essential ecological process for life on Earth.

Mayflies are common aquatic insects that play key roles in stream food webs and other ecological processes.

Smith has publicly questioned at least 50 specific research projects — including a $ 340,000 (# 221,000) grant to examine the ecological consequences of early human - set fires in New Zealand — and demanded to examine the agency's peer review process underlying those awards.