Sentences with phrase «ecological site studies»

Not exact matches

«We also capitalized on data gathered by the Central Arizona Phoenix - Long Term Ecological Research program to accurately measure the degree to which the landscapes at each study site were natural or disturbed by humans,» added Giraudeau.

Conservation groups challenge Bush - era «energy corridors» that threaten wilderness areas, including a long - term ecological study site

«In the last decade, there's been a burst in new studies, including additional research sites and novel techniques, which demand that we reconsider the climatic, ecological and cultural developments that occurred.»

The researchers created 50 study plots in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico, at the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research site.

So you tend to lose the sedges and the mosses and the lichens,» explained study co-author Ed Rastetter, a senior scientist at the MBL Ecosystems Center and principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska, where part of the research was conducted.

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.

And she said some of her graduate students will conduct studies with her at the Moorea Coral Reef Long - term Ecological Research site in French Polynesia.

In 1980, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range of biomes.

While such a «study it all» approach is not novel (e.g., NSF Long Term Ecological Research sites), it has remained science fiction until technology and informatics became enabling.

The Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecology.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100716/full/news.2010.359.html Nature News article on work with Laura Martin on ecological study sites by anthromes.

Dr. Klemens» study demonstrated that the proposed project — which seeks to introduce 951 homes into a community with only 988 existing homes (per 2000 U.S. Census for Pine Plains)-- would have significant negative ecological impacts, including the eradication of rare reptile and amphibian species from the site.