Sentences with phrase «ecological role of»

Mechanisms and ecological role of carbon transfer within coastal seascapes G. Hyndes, I. Nagelkerken, R. McLeod, R. M. Connolly, P. Lavery & M. Vanderklift.

Now that the unique ecological role of the passenger pigeon compels us to pursue de-extinction, we need to figure out how best to reintroduce a new generation of pigeons and restore that ecology.

This project aims to heighten awareness among relevant countries of the ecological role of large carnivores, their socio - economic impacts and the potential benefits of their presence.

Further studies are needed in order to confirm the true ecological role of this fascinating hermit crab.

«This paper's theme is about management and is essentially encouraging the use of fire at times and places when it can be used to reduce fuels, to thin forests and restore the ecological role of fire and to help reduce the occurrence of very severe fires in forests where those fires were not characteristic in the past,» Fulé said.

The work is the latest volley in a long - running debate about the ecological role of whales and how their return to the oceans may affect global fisheries that face myriad threats.

«The sheer amount of organic matter that is made available is astonishing,» says deep - sea ecologist Paulo Y. G. Sumida at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, who studies the ecological role of whale carcasses.

The research illustrates the context - dependent ecological role of sheephead in Southern California kelp forests.

The decision to lower the allowable catch by 37 % is being driven by recent overfishing and recognition of the ecological role of menhaden.

The commission has also asked a technical committee to devise a strategy to preserve the ecological role of menhaden.

«I was particularly curious of the ecological role of this root adaptation,» explained Frida Piper, a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist at the remote research center Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP) in Coyhaique, Chile.

They also call for more research comparing the ecological role of top predators on the edge of their geographic range, especially in human - modified environments.

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.

Although the study is interesting, says Eric Dinerstein, a biologist with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., he argues that information about the ecological roles of subspecies may be an even more important criterion than genetic makeup in designing conservation strategies.

Scrutinizing the biological and ecological roles of small molecules in oral biofilm communities.

This result agrees with the different habitats and ecological roles of each strain, being F113 a rhizospheric bacterium with biocontrol activities (32), similar to UM270; while UK4 is a biofilm former with no attributed plant - associated activity (15).

But appreciation of the ecological roles of street dogs & coyotes, exposing dog - eating and puppy mills, opposition to indiscriminate lethal animal control, introduction of high - volume low - cost spay / neuter and anti-rabies vaccination, introduction of online adoption promotion, encouraging the formation of thousands of new humane societies worldwide, etc., are not to be confused with pit bull advocacy.

Not exact matches

He deals in more detail with his own personal role in the decision of the Chinese government to announce its goal of making of China an «ecological civilization.»

Ecological theology will not limit its concern for the environment to its role in the sustaining of human societies.

Despite the second - class status of ecological economics, it is beginning to play a role in policy formation.

[The role of ecological agriculture in development of Croatian rural areas.]

Many ecological studies support the key role of structural diversity (sometimes referred to technically as floristic heterogeneity) in increased biodiversity — of many types in many ecosystems well beyond the realm of coffee growing.

Weeds like Umbelliferae, Leguminosae and Compositae play an especially important ecological role as they provide food and thus improve reproduction of many arthropod species34.

work with education providers to ensure climate change policies fully recognise the role of education and schools in delivering behaviour change, and bring more understanding of ecological issues into our schools.

Lichens play a variety of important ecological roles and are often a dominant biological component in extreme environments.

Although different species came and went, the same ecological roles were filled over the 1.5 million year span of the Dinosaur Park Formation.

Whether the newcomer will fill the dorado's ecological role or prey on different fish and thus skew species assemblages is unclear, says Carlos Cañas, a river ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society here, who plans to monitor the migration of large catfish in the watershed.

More recently, I have worked on the role of dispersal and disease as mechanisms that help support and maintain ecological diversity.

«If we could raise the ecological literacy of the public and our officials to see beyond the surface value of these animals to their ecological or even utilitarian role,» Stokes says, «that would be really valuable.»

Because large animals play an important role in the ocean food web, «a threat profile focused on the largest species is particularly concerning from an ecological perspective,» said lead author Jonathan Payne, an associate professor in the school of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.

«It's easy to sympathize with the prey,» Laidre says, «but at the same time, there's a lot of ecological roles that that sort of action has.»

Even so, he and others warn against dismissing the role of ecology in speciation, because the method here needs refinement and there are counterexamples in which ecological differences have driven populations apart into species.

Like Charles Darwin's famous finches, which evolved a wide range of beak shapes and sizes to exploit the different foods available in the Galápagos Islands, these cichlids represent a textbook example of what biologists term an adaptive radiation — the phenomenon whereby one lineage spawns numerous species that evolve specializations to an array of ecological roles.

Ecosystems are delicately balanced, and losing ecological roles throws a system out of whack: Think of a forest damaged when the deer population explodes because the wolves that prey on them are removed.

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

The researchers specifically examined the role of grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), a predatory species commonly associated with coral environments but whose wider ecological role has long been debated.

Bay mussels play a key ecological role in the natural world, said Brian Gaylord, a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory.

«It is all about getting a much deeper understanding of sharks» ecological role in the ocean, which is important to the health of the ocean and, by extension, to our own well - being.»

UNSW's Associate Professor Suzanne Hand, who is a specialist in extinct bats and their ecological role in Riversleigh's ancient environments, says the bats could have played a role in the extraordinary preservation of the ostracod sperm cells.

The researchers note, for example, that the modern ocean is full of ecological «ghosts» — species that are now so rare that they no longer fill the ecological roles they did previously, when they were more abundant.

Dense «dog - hair» stands (so - called because of the large number of short trees growing closely together, like the fur of a dog) are not usually valued, but they may play an important ecological role not previously recognized, Turner adds.

That's especially mysterious because Enantiornithines were exceptionally abundant (they apparently outnumbered the ancestors of modern birds before the asteroid struck) and had presumably played the same ecological roles as the ancestors of modern birds, which survived the mass extinctions.

Weta, giant flightless grasshoppers native to New Zealand, ingest and disperse seeds --- an ecological role played by small mammals in other parts of the world.

The human relationship with caffeine is relatively recent, however, and thus its impact on our brains is likely a by - product of its true ecological role.

Hence, models of speciation which can act in the absence of complete geographical isolation, such as ecological speciation, have likely played an important role in the evolution of marine biodiversity.

While the larger size of the New Guinean bent - toed geckos seems to be an evolutionary trend, the role of potential factors such as competition, ecological diversification, isolation and dispersal remains quite a mystery.

The study — the first to experimentally investigate the role of flower shape and size in sexually deceptive orchids — is published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology.

Queen and worker ants develop from the same sets of genes, but perform completely different ecological roles.

The scientists said they are currently working on analyses to model the ecological role that nonhuman primates play in maintaining the diversity of astroviruses, particularly in places where they share the environment with humans and other animals.

Those marine worms play a key ecological role as an important source of food for other animals.