Sentences with word «ecologist»
An ecologist is a person who studies and understands how living things (such as plants, animals, and humans) interact with each other and their environment. Full definition
A team of marine ecologists at Oregon State University has determined that the increased occurrence of dead zones may be directly tied to global warming.
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«It takes an extraordinary person to do what she's done,» says Vicki Fishlock, a behavioral ecologist with the Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Kenya.
Charles Sheppard, a tropical marine ecologist at the University of Warwick in England, says a warming spike in 1998 killed nearly all the coral in the reefs that ring the islands.
In September a team led by Jason Buchan, a molecular behavioral ecologist at Duke University, produced genetic evidence that male baboons are caring dads.
Last year, a group of ecologists at the University of East Anglia (U.E.A.) began a radical experiment: offering cash payments to communities who help conserve it.
«Spiders don't really have a brain, just a decentralized nervous system with three clusters of neurons,» says Jonathan Pruitt, an evolutionary ecologist who studies spider behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Perhaps, also, Whiteheadians can contribute to overcoming the animosity that still sometimes separates deep ecologists from animal rights activists.
And other labs working with Vostok ice haven't found any evidence of thermophiles, says microbial ecologist John Priscu, whose group published the first papers on bacteria in Vostok ice.
This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.
Of course, I am embarrassed at the arrogance today (especially because we had nothing but contempt for ecologists who we regarded as «stamp collectors») but it indicates the joy of doing science simply to learn about how nature works.
is a Research Ecologist in the Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program at the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory.
As a forest ecologist with training in a variety of field, lab, and modeling techniques, I'm interested in several broad areas:
We as ecologists don't always have the mathematical or statistical background necessary to solve quantitative ecological problems,» said Swanson.
«And that's where we drew the line,» says Muhlfeld, an aquatic research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Montana.
The biggest timber salvage operation in U.S. history was launched in the northeast U.S. after «The Great Hurricane of 1938,» says plant ecologist David Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, a 3000 - acre tract in Petersham, Massachusetts.
The full report, prepared by wildlife ecologist Dr Dror Ben - Ami, also includes material on contamination of kangaroo meat and sustainability issues.
Chelsea Rochman is an aquatic ecologist at University of Toronto in Canada.
«It never is a quick, easy solution» in which it takes one test to find a culprit, explains Danny Govender, a disease ecologist for South African National Parks.
«We do think that climate is playing an important role for a wide range of species,» said Malin Pinsky, a Rutgers University ecologist who led that research and who now is heading the joint researcher / manager study on summer flounder's changes.
The author is an editor of Ecologist magazine so there is both depth of information but also easy readability.
Perhaps the most alarming report came in late 2006, when Boris Worm, a marine conservation ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, reported in Science that for 29 percent of currently fished species, the catch had dropped to less than 10 percent of the historical maximum.
«It's a really cool paper,» says behavioral ecologist David Westneat of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
«Our work provides evidence that human hosts become more attractive to malarial mosquitoes during infection,» says Mike Birkett, a chemical ecologist in the Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection at Rothamsted.
(05/27/2008) Next generation biofuels could decimate tropical forests says a leading ecologist from the University of Minnesota.
High levels of predation can ripple through the food web in what ecologists call a «trophic cascade.»
She is an urban ecologist who uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to understand how landscape patterns affect ecosystem services in cities.
As Ryan Haugo, a senior fire ecologist with the Nature Conservancy, explained, «It was a traumatizing fire season.»
«Marine ecologists study the effects of giant kelp on groups of organisms in the underwater forest ecosystem.»
Jonathan Storm, a behavioural ecologist now at the University of South Carolina Upstate, in Spartanburg, briefly exposed lab - grown female crickets to wolf spiders whose fangs had been immobilised with wax, then studied the behaviour of their subsequent offspring.
Many ecologists believe that this has exacerbated Lyme disease prevalence in the region.
It has been conducted by tropical ecologists of the University Würzburg Biocenter, jointly with colleagues from the LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F, Frankfurt / Main) and the Institute for experimental Ecology of the University of Ulm....
It might sound surprising that cities spur tree growth more than the countryside does, says Eva Pell, a plant physiological ecologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Microbial ecologist John Breznak of Michigan State University, East Lansing, calls the work a «nice discovery» and suggests a dietary change «that minimizes how much hydrogen gas gets to the stomach» might control the ulcer - causing bug.
Dr. Hatch is a marine ecologist working for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US NOAA).
The measurements used by Luyssaert rely on the flux of CO2 levels over the forest, but this kind of metric can be skewed by young stands of trees within an old - growth forest or an increase in growth as a result of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, according to forest ecologist Mark Harmon of Oregon State University in Corvallis, who was not involved in the study.
«That's an important result,» says evolutionary ecologist James Collins of Arizona State University in Tempe.
Not all birds make vocal calls to alert companions, so behavioral ecologist Robert Magrath of the Australian National University in Canberra wondered whether they use flight sounds instead.
That's «a real exceptional feature of Homo sapiens,» notes Kim Hill, a human behavioral ecologist also at ASU who has studied small - scale tribal societies in South America.
One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call «mismatch» or «mistiming.»
``... it may be that conservation biologists and wildlife ecologists believe the issue of feral cats has already been studied enough and that the work speaks for itself, suggesting that no further research is needed.»
In a recent study published in the journal Movement Ecology, conservation ecologists used GPS tags to track 17 of those white storks through their normal migration period to figure out why.
It is the Whiteheadian insistence on this distinction that many deep ecologists find offensive, but Whiteheadians can not give it up simply to diminish opposition to our view.
One national park that is internationally - renowned among ecologists for its biodiversity (including big cats and tapirs) and where visitors can expect to see an abundance of wildlife is the Corcovado National Park.
Jay is a Certified Senior Ecologist with two decades of teaching and research experience in the biological and environmental sciences.
The organizer of the Copenhagen Climate Congress, held earlier this month, debates with Stanford University ecologist Chris Field whether the event exaggerated the scientific consensus.
Two theoretical ecologists show that predicting survivors sometimes depends on a fractal ¿ a curve so detailed that no measurement guarantees an accurate forecast
NAMSS graduate student Bodie Shaw (front left), OSU plant community ecologist Paul Doescher (front center), NAMSS undergraduate Bridgette Scott (front right), and the Warm Springs Indian Reservation's Culture and Heritage Committee collaborate on a research project in Warm Springs, Oregon.