Sentences with phrase «ecological relationships between»

We undertook a multi-disciplinary study to elucidate the ecological relationships between krill and baleen whales relative to oceanographic processes in the embayments of the Antarctic Peninsula at the onset of winter.

A symbiotic relationship is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two (or more) different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each species.

Not exact matches

The second and perhaps most fundamental area requiring joint attention by ecological and political theologians is the problem of properly conceptualizing and expressing the relationship between nature and history.

If what is needed in our ecological, nuclear age is an imaginative vision of the relationship between God and the world that underscores their interdependence and mutuality, empowering a sensibility of care and responsibility toward all life, how would it help to see the world as the body of God?

It means restoring a good relationship between humanity and its ecological home, stirring the heart, setting about work in a spirit of thanksgiving, discovering power under the authority of the Spirit, confronting evil with confidence in the sovereignty of God and sharing in the generous economy of God so that nothing is wasted.

The power of nature — and of women — to give and withhold life epitomizes the inescapable connection between the two and thus the necessary relationship of justice and ecological issues.

It could also be called ecological in that it starts from a network of relationships between interdependent beings, rather than from separate beings or dialogic pairs.

It is called «ecological» because it describes the relationship between two organisms, both mother and baby, and how they a effect each other.

Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population growth — something that can be broadly applied to infer how much resource loss a species can survive.

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.

This big - picture, ecological view on a growing healthcare concern emphasizes the important relationship between antibiotic resistance in the clinic and environmental microbiology, the researchers say.

«We intended to create not just a place for classes but rather a building that would help to redefine the relationship between humankind and the environment — one that would expand our sense of ecological possibilities,» said David Orr, the director of Oberlin's Environmental Studies program, at the center's groundbreaking ceremony in 1999.

Whether he is recounting the relationship between fungi, vole faeces and fir - tree regeneration, or the complexities of fire dynamics, it is, Pastor says, natural observation, those backstories and the painstaking work of recording that are the keys to the storehouse of ecological knowledge.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

Looking at the relationship between animal and human, Lestel argues that species loss has both an ecological and symbolic consequence on our culture, as every species contributes to our very being, our meaning.

The resulting stealth and fear dynamics — and the relationship between top predators and their prey — have profound ecological implications.

«The simple relationship between the temperature and the global land carbon sink should be treated with caution, and not be used to infer ecological processes and long - term predictions» adds Dr. Reichstein, head of the Department.

This idea understands the relationship and interconnectivity between many different facets of life; ecological, social / cultural, economic, and institutional.

Wolsko studies ecopsychology, a field that examines the relationship between humans and the natural world from both a psychological and ecological perspective.

«Birds are ideally suited for such a test, as they are one of the only groups of animals for which the relationship between large brains and enhanced behavioural response to ecological challenges is best understood.

These dramatic advances in spring flowering were successfully predicted by historical relationships between flowering and spring temperature spanning up to 161 years of ecological change.

Exploring the ecological and evolutionary consequences of the relationship between individual fitness and population size is the focus of Andrew Kanarek's research as a postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS.

Ecological studies such as these need to be interpreted alongside other studies investigating the association between calorie intake (including from HFCS), weight and diabetes at an individual level, so that the full picture of the relationships involved can be established.

We need in our schools to excavate the relationship between capitalism and ecological sustainability.

The critical ecopedagogy of scholar / activists such as Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder, Tina Evans, and David Greenwood operates within an overall dialectics of justice in which environmental justice and ecological justice (the former relating to the unequal distribution of harmful environments between people and the later referring to the relationship between humans and the rest of the world).

To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.

Ji's particular focus is the harsh realities of life in China today as traditional relationships between its people and the land have been unmoored by social, political, economic and ecological upheavals.

This time, the fair will focus on the broader natural zone, paying attention to the relationship between the ecological environment and public art.

With its focus on relationships between people, materials, and environments, Hassinger's art is frequently described as «ecological.»

Both artists are concerned with the relationship between our regional ecological foundation and cultural production.

Contrary to your all caps assertion Greenpa, the relationship between biodiversity and ecological function is equivocal.

It arises from a failure to make the cognitive leap from ecological thinking — the science of the relationship between organisms and their local environments — to Earth system thinking, the science of the whole Earth as a complex system beyond the sum of its parts.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

The emergence of the climate crisis seems sudden only because of a relatively recent discontinuity in the relationship between human civilization and the planet's ecological system.

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The fact that these findings are based on different types of real - life relationships (e.g., personal and work relationships, and even nonsocial commitments) supports the ecological validity of the link between relationship returns and relationship maintenance.

Among them, there is the investigation centered on the understanding of the ecological context that regulates social behaviors, in an attempt to show how the physical and social characteristics of the environment have influence on the relationship between people and vice-versa.

Objective To examine the longitudinal associations between supportive relationships with friends and parents and sexual risk behavior in adolescence based on an ecological — transactional perspective.

According to this approach, understanding adolescent behavioral risk and protective factors requires the consideration of ecological effects, that is the social contexts in which the risk and protection occurs (Bronfenbrenner, 1977; Cicchetti & Lynch, 1993), as well as transactional effects, that is the reciprocal nature of the relationship between adolescents» behavior and their social contexts (e.g., Cicchetti, Toth, & Maughan, 2000; Coatsworth et al., 2000; Sameroff, 1995).