Sentences with phrase «ecological studies on»

Until now, theoretical ecological studies on the response of ecosystems to various perturbations have focused on the resilience of such ecosystems.

Accordingly, it would also be worthwhile to carry out comparative phylogenetic - ecological studies on various Swiss lakes.

The den visit was part of the ongoing long - term ecological study on snow leopards in Mongolia's South Gobi province that's been conducted by the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, Snow Leopard Trust, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences since 2008.

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When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

If approved by the City of Crystal Lake, Lakewood and the Crystal Lake Park District, the measure could be a bellwether for an increase in spending on ecological studies needed to keep the lake healthy, according to members of Watershed Management and Lake Ecology Agency.

Finally, employers are investing in their future work force by supporting breastfeeding; some studies have indicated that breastfed babies have potentially higher IQ's and better academic accomplishments than bottle - fed babies.Because of the far - reaching positive ecological, health, and social impact breastfeeding can make on our planet, it is imperative for anyone interested in protecting our children and our environment to do whatever possible to support, protect, and promote breastfeeding.

«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.

The study, published by EcoHealth Alliance's Dr. Kevin Olival and Dr. David Hayman from Massey University, reviewed all of the current literature on filoviruses — the class of viruses that include both Ebola and Marburg virus — and took a critical look at the ecological and virological methods needed to understand these viruses to protect human health.

The Akensons» research style is now being overshadowed by more abstract kinds of studies, which hinge on remote sensing and computer modeling of ecological and environmental processes.

«This study gives us a whole other avenue to understand the ecological effects of wolves on landscapes and animal communities,» said Ripple.

To conduct their analysis, they reviewed 158 previous studies on forest elephant behaviors and their cascading ecological impacts.

Even if the loss of one species does not directly cause knock - on extinctions, the study shows that this leads to simpler ecological communities that are at greater risk of «run - away extinction cascades» with the potential loss of many species.

In the study, «Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» which appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution, the authors discuss the factors driving these mating dynamics in a hybrid zone in southern California.

So reports a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, based on an exhaustive three - year analysis of the Colorado River in Glen and Grand Canyons.

The first ecological study of an entire glacier has found that microbes drastically reduce surface reflectivity and have a non-negligible impact on the amount of sunlight that is reflected into space.

The Foundation focuses on the alpine karst areas of North America and the rest of the world, mapping mountain cave systems and studying their physical, geological, biological, anthropological, and ecological aspects.

After a decade with nine of the lowest arctic sea - ice minima on record, including the historically low minimum in 2012, we synthesize recent developments in the study of ecological responses to sea - ice decline.

«Mass extinctions remove species but not ecological variety: Study could shed light on patterns for current mass extinction.»

Dr. Bachhuber is author of an ecological study finding a protective effect of medical marijuana regulation on opioid overdose mortality,

Most fundamentally, Moran's study sheds more light on the basic mechanisms of Darwinism: How do animals adapt to their changing world and ecological habitats?

«Overuse of groundwaters in Libya has already caused ecological disasters,» says Tony Allen from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, who is a specialist on Middle East water.

Other co-authors on the study, titled «Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans,» include Andrew Bush of the University of Connecticut and Doug McCauley of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

«It seems to have worked for at least one of the congeners studied,» says Tim Mattes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecological Engineering.

However, because it remains heavily contaminated by radiation, the region represents an accidental ecological experiment to study the effects of ionizing radiation on wild animals.

Despite this trend, U.S. ecological journals, meetings and funding sources still devote less than two percent of their pages, talks and dollars to studies on these chemicals, creating a disconnect between real - world needs and scientific focus.

The continuing study will yield useful information on ecological effects, although not necessarily on fire risk, as it will not study wildfire directly, according to forest scientist Philip Omi of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Parchman, who specializes in evolutionary and ecological genetics in in the University's College of Science, is the lead author on a recently published scientific paper in the journal Molecular Ecology detailing the study, a culmination of several years of work with his colleagues Alex Buerkle and Craig Benkman of the University of Wyoming, and Victor Soria - Carrasco of University of Sheffield, UK.

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.

The Blue Mountains case study is part of an open access special issue on «Social - ecological systems in mountain landscapes» published online in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.ecological systems in mountain landscapes» published online in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2018.16.issue-S1).

Now, a first - of - its - kind field study by Elbroch and Davis colleague Heiko Wittmer has shed new light on the puma's ecological role.

«Monkeys are cute, but can devastate systems that don't have the proper predators or other ecological means to keep their populations in check,» said Jane Anderson, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and the lead author on this study.

«It now focuses the lens just a bit more on what life history, energetic and ecological attributes we should examine in other well - studied ape populations,» Schwartz says.

Brauner and Ou worked with pink salmon for their study as it's the most abundant salmon species on the West Coast and of high economic and ecological importance.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

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.

There is a «paucity of scientific studies on the ecological impact of domestic dogs,» especially at the national level, they note.

The study of island populations is particularly valuable for detecting the effects of predators on local prey species, because of the relatively closed nature of island ecological systems (Blackburn et al., 2004; Swadling, 2010).

This study therefore shows that climate warming is not the only explanation of global ecological disasters in the past on Earth: it is important to continue analysing ancient marine sediments to gain a deeper understanding of the earth's climate system.

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

The findings of this study will be very useful to direct future studies on diversity of butterflies, ecological interactions between species and to improve their conservation by prioritising and avoiding mixing of divergent lineages.

As part of the workshop, Dave took the educators on a field trip to conduct a mini ecological study using DNA barcoding to identify plants, animals, and fungi from the local habitat.

Given the rapid spread of coastal pollution, field studies on their multi-faceted effects on ecological processes in coral reefs deserve a high priority.

Today, many ecological and evolutionary studies depend on a wide range of molecular tools to infer phylogenetic relationships, uncover population structure within species, and track quantitative traits.

Interests: Understanding impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling; conducts research at Harvard Forest LTER.

It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution warns that non-native trees invading a rain forest can change its basic ecological structure — rendering it less hospitable to the myriad plant and animal species that depend on its resources.

Studies on the ecological and evolutionary processes that structure the diversity of deep - ocean benthic communities, including larval dispersal, colonization, habitat utilization, genetic connectivity, and the evolutionary relationships of invertebrate fauna.

Until now, most microbial nanotoxicity studies mainly focused on pure cultures, but assessing real - world microbial communities should be better in terms of the ecological information that can be obtained.

This study aims to use ecological genomics and next - gen DNA sequencing tools to provide the baseline knowledge on the bio-geographic distribution of chromerids and apicomplexans on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), their association with different coral hosts, and their role in coral health and disease.