Sentences with phrase «ecological questions»

Numerous studies are devoted to the science of ecology but a great variety of ecological questions and problems are yet to be addressed.

I made the impossible choice to go back the following year to those same reefs, and pay the price of my own safety, to answer a more narrow, sophisticated ecological question.

NCEAS continues to look for new money, but in the current financial squeeze, the center post-NSF will likely be a smaller, different place, with an emphasis more on applied problems than fundamental ecological questions.

Herbaria have long been a valuable resource — traditionally to aid in identification of local flora — but more recently to address ecological questions including invasive species and the effects of climate change.

l) the disastrous ecological question is due to present day human regarding themselves as God and thinking they can use nature as they wish, without concern for the future of nature and of humanity.

This involves ecological questions as well.

In fact, no one seems to ask the serious human ecological question of why there are so many women proportionally to men.

This foundational course provides a broad overview of approaches in applied mathematics, covering both deterministic and stochastic methods, with an emphasis on ecological questions, and is taken by general mathematics students who wish to obtain an introduction to graduate - level applied math, as well as by our students who are specifically interested in mathematical biology.

An added benefit: the algorithm can be applied to any type of ranking, including other ecological questions, restaurants, schools, election schemes, search engines, and other science and engineering problems.

NCEAS was founded in 1996 as place for researchers to collaborate on the synthesis and analysis of existing data to answer key ecological questions (Science, 10 April 2009, p. 170).

However, the concept of wiping out an entire mosquito species also raises ecological questions, as it runs counter to preserving biodiversity.

«The coupling of citizen science approaches with global collaborations among researchers will provide the scale of information required to address some of the complex ecological questions that remain unanswered,» Roy says, explaining what the future holds for research related to the harlequin ladybird.

The idea that an extreme ecosystem would be provide an easy answer to basic ecological questions, «is one idea that I might have to abandon.

The list of ecological questions that herbaria can target is long, and includes biogeography, ethnobotany, tracking invasive species, plant diseases, and studying the impact of climate change on flowering times.

Fundamental ecological questions (WP5) include the study of the biodiversity of natural samples, cell - to - cell interactions, and gene complements of uncultured lineages that could explain their lifestyle and ecological function.

Scientists use model organisms to study critical biological processes, but Egan said the study of nonmodel organisms is often the key to ecological questions, including those related to how the environment influences natural selection and speciation.

Given the rapidly decreasing costs of sequencing, many more species are becoming sequenced, including emerging models important for evolutionary and ecological questions that could benefit from the functional insights that positional cloning can provide.»

As Whitfeld explains, «We wanted to highlight the relevance of herbarium collections for a wide variety of ecological questions, in order to highlight their importance across the biological and environmental sciences.»

«The work clearly shows that, despite their size, small rodents play a much larger role in seed dispersal for some tree species than previously recognized,» says Joshua Plotkin, a population biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who mathematically models evolutionary and ecological questions.

At the Lab, researchers are incorporating experimental and computational approaches to a wide range of evolutionary and ecological questions — mostly involving the application of genomic techniques — to better understand how species and populations such evolve through time.

Gut Love raises philosophical and ecological questions around post-individualism, contemporary medicine, and abjection through an array of surprising vehicles — from human waste to David Bowie to an iPhone app.

For Marxists, ecosocialism involves the recognition that the environmental / ecological question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don't recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.

Of particular note in all this, observing both the message and the messengers, is that what was predominantly an ecological question is now primarily an economic one.