Sentences with phrase «ecological questions including»

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.

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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.»

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.

Key outstanding questions regarding CRISPR - Cas biology include the ecological roles of microbial adaptive immunity, the high rates of CRISPR - Cas horizontal transfer, and the coevolution of CRISPR - Cas and phage - encoded anti-CRISPR proteins.

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.

Our results call into question the current emphasis on social rather than ecological explanations for the evolution of large brains in primates and evoke a range of ecological and developmental hypotheses centred on frugivory, including spatial information storage, extractive foraging and overcoming metabolic constraints.

She teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including Environmental and Molecular Analysis of Disease, Ecological Analysis with GIS, and Where the City Meets the Sea, where students are challenged to develop research questions, collect data and communicate their scientific findings.

Duration: Approximately 30 mins 27 slides covering: • The Origin of Energy • Solar Energy and Producers • Ecological Pyramids • Number Pyramids • Biomass Pyramids • Energy Pyramids Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation.

Works variously informed by social and political questioning, countercultural histories, the deconstruction of media and art history images include sculpture by Eva Rothschild and installations by Alan Phelan and Garrett Phelan for whom political and ecological activism is central.

But as it becomes increasingly clear that the world's political institutions are unwilling and unable to effectively address the climate crisis, many activists, including Pope Francis himself, are questioning the underlying economic forces that are perpetuating the ecological destruction of the planet.

a. (i) The perceived safety risks attaching to nuclear power (including the prospective leakage of hazmat now or at some unspecified time into the future and the associated legacy question, localised epidemiology, catastrophic plant failure, work - based OH&S, prospective terrorist attack, hazmat spillage in transit through populated or environmentally sensitive areas, ecological damage form uranium mining)

Answering this complex question will require integrating many levels of analysis including ecological, sociological, demographic, economic, psychological and biological.