Sentences with phrase «ecological research»

Our long - term ecological research is driven by a profound sense of place, and integrates across disciplines.

Two analyses of ecological research projects warn that natural processes in the soil increase the threat of global warming.

Indeed, recent years have brought new applications of tracking for ecological research and conservation.

After receiving a degree in biology, I was looking for a Ph.D. position in which I could do ecological research on this insect group and succeeded.

This course emphasizes applied ecological research conducted in partnership with local conservation agencies.

We are committed to doing ecological research that is applicable to management.

Much more ecological research needs to be done before we are in a position to know the nature of the real threats to these cycles.

Lately he has been contemplating how his extensive and mostly behind - the - scenes ecological research might be more directly incorporated into his artwork.

In this era of rapid environmental change driven by the pressures of expanding human population and a changing climate, long - term ecological research is more important than ever.

The article helped define the then - emerging field of ecological research and application.

This land will be made more accessible for ecological research.

To conduct the study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879 individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.

Ecologists Josh Adams and Jonathan Felis of the USGS Western Ecological Research Center shot this and other high - resolution digital telephotos from a research vessel and used the photographs to identify nesting and feeding behavior.

Decades of data collected as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program have turned up some puzzles, such as surprising chemical gradients in lake waters that didn't quite make sense.

A body funded by Australia's federal government plans to cut off funding for all 12 sites in the nation's Long Term Ecological Research Network at the end of this year.

«You'd expect animals around a more urbanized estuary, such as Monterey Bay, to have more exposure to oil products from cars or disease elements relative to Big Sur,» says co-author Keith Miles, a geneticist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center.

In the Parks Conservancy's partnership with Galileo Academy of Science and Technology (and other San Francisco high schools), environmental science students design and conduct ecological research projects in the Presidio, leveraging their national park as a classroom and lab.

Hunter is a Kuku Yalanji and Torres Strait Islander woman, working as an Indigenous social ecological research scientist with CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, with a focus on the resilience of communities in the Torres Strait.

Even defining problems to be solved, they argue, requires perspectives from ranching, community, and tribal groups, as well as insight from ecological research.

«It's fun to think about how the machine learning algorithms used to suggest music or social media friends to people could be re-interpreted to help with ecological research challenges,» Frasier says.

Winkler, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Irvine, was a recipient of a 2016 award from the Ecological Society's Forrest Shreve Student Fund, which supplies $ 1,000 - 2,000 to support ecological research by graduate or undergraduate student members of ESA in the hot deserts of North America (Sonora, Mohave, Chihuahua, and Vizcaino).

«Drones take off in plant ecological research: New review explores how to speed up and scale up plant research with aerial robotics.»

The Field Scale Evaluations of GM crops was one of the most controversial ecological research programmes ever undertaken, principally because the Government had indicated that their outcomes would have a major influence on whether GM crops were cultivated in the UK.

A previous study estimated that the R2 of most ecological research ranges was between 0.02 and 0.05, but few researchers will publish results with such small explanatory power.

Ecological research already carried out in these national parks and surrounding coffee plantations has shown the presence of more than 300 species of birds, (including endemic species, threatened forest specialists and birds of prey e.g. Black Hawk - Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus), 31 mammals species (some of them are endangered species such as the ocelot, cacomistle and Mexican porcupine), 26 reptile species, and 326 tree and bush species.

Merrit Turetsky conducts fundamental ecological research that also is of interest to stakeholders in the north.

«During my fellowship at the EPA in the Office of Research and Development, I had a great experience conducting policy relevant ecological research, but I found the most enjoyment in communicating about the science, meeting people from all over the world, and building collaborations.

Konza is an 8,600 - acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.

Williams sat down with Science to talk about creating a squirrel Fitbit, catching the animals in the wild, and how technology is improving ecological research.

Now a pilot study, in which more than 1,100 hours of birdsong were analyzed, is available in the journal Ecological Research which is the official journal of the Ecological Society of Japan and is published by Springer.

Related sites Science paper Dustin Rubenstein's Web page USGS stable isotope ecological research USGS document on stable isotope uses

Understanding how individuals resolve conflicts over contributions to, or exploitation of, common resources remains a major challenge in ecological research as well as in social sciences.

We are no less excited about NEON's potential to contribute to essential ecological research for decades to come.»

My task was to extract data from the Long Term Ecological Research Web site that could be used in an undergraduate curriculum.

In the year 2000, I once more got the opportunity to join Priscu's team in Antarctica as part of the Long Term Ecological Research LTER project.

NSF proposal competition results in addition of new Land Margin Ecological Research (LMER) site: Plum Island Ecosystem LTER

In Ross, R.M., E.E. Hofmann and L.B. Quetin (eds), Foundations for Ecological Research West of the Antarctic Peninsula, AGU Antarctic Research Series 70: 105 - 121 (1996).

He has published over 100 scientific journal articles and book chapters, chaired and been a member of numerous agricultural and ecological research grant review panels and been a member of two National Academy of Science National Research Council Committees on Agriculture.

[10] Characterization of a plant association is helpful to botanists as a guide to plant identification and other ecological research; furthermore, understanding of a plant association is critical to studies of plant succession, where environmental changes in a given landscape lead to a series of plant communities, before a stable equilibrium is attained.

In the past few decades, evolving wildfire science has led to a shift away from employing «fire suppression» as a one - size - fits - all fire - management strategy, and recent ecological research has also highlighted how changes in climate and land - management practices can affect fire regimes and their impacts.

Maine - based non-profit ecological research group Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) has established a new wildlife and renewable energy program to study and understand the movements of birds and bats and to assess the potential interactions between energy facilities and wildlife.

The work at Zackenberg is coordinated through the programme Zackenberg Ecological Research Operations with the following institutions as partners: