Sentences with phrase «ecologist david»

Market Watch drills adventure ecologist David de Rothschild on what's wrong with the environmental discussion today...

Phytoplankton play key roles in several chemical and nutrient cycles, including taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and either cycling it through food chains or sequestering it in the deep sea, says marine ecologist David Hutchins of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who wasn't involved in the current study.

Some trace the new way of thinking about ecosystems — at least in formal research — to ecologist David Tilman at the University of Minnesota in St Paul.

Marine ecologist David Johnston of Duke University and his colleagues have taken a more Wikipedia - like approach.

A new, 20 - year study, led by University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign ecologist David Philipp, «provides the first direct experimental evidence that vulnerability to angling is a heritable trait,» the authors wrote.

The new species, Hakawai melvillei, is named after a «mystery bird» in Māori mythology and in honour of New Zealand - based ornithologist and ecologist David Melville.

Those sturgeon still plying the Yangtze today might end up being the last of their kind: «the living dead,» says aquatic ecologist David Dudgeon of the University of Hong Kong.

«We assumed the upcoming climate will be like the past 100 years — actually, probably, there will be more drought,» says ecologist David Breshears of U.A., who participated in the study.

«If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million,» reports ecologist David Pimentel of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

That this team was able to compare colonies like this over so many years makes the findings very valuable,» explains ecologist David Grémillet at the CNRS Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier, France.

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.

«It's a really cool paper,» says behavioral ecologist David Westneat of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

«There's a huge amount of skepticism about the result,» says ecologist David Schimel of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

«I know when I look at a tree that half the dry weight of it is carbon,» says ecologist David Tilman of the University of Minnesota, coauthor of the other study which examined the «carbon debt» embedded in any biofuel.

«There are 338 kinds of freshwater fish in the Yangtze River and 162 of them are endemic to the river — that is, found nowhere else,» says ecologist David Dudgeon of the University of Hong Kong.

Ecologist David Schindler, who energetically led the ELA for more than two decades, convinced the group to fund ELA to study the issue.

The library's closing did not surprise retired water ecologist David Schindler.

Not exact matches

As the authors - including kangaroo ecologists Dr Dror Ben Ami, Dr David Croft and Dr Daniel Ramp - show, the number of kangaroos necessary to supplant meat production from sheep (more if cattle and goats are included) is simply ecologically unfeasible.

That pattern makes sense to David Inouye, a 56 - year - old ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Fish behaviorist David Sims and ecologist Emily Southall videotaped feeding juvenile spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula).

Collaborator David Nelson, a stable isotope ecologist with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, tested the birds» feathers for stable hydrogen isotopes, which can be used to determine where the birds likely grew their feathers.

«The worst impacts on bees would have been removed» had it passed, says David Goulson, an ecologist at the University of Stirling, UK.

Ecologists Deborah and David Clark of the University of Missouri collected tree growth data from 1984 to 2000 for six species of trees at La Selva biological station in Costa Rica.

David Tilman, an ecologist at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who's been studying the environmental effects of biofuels, calls the EPA announcement «an important step in the right direction.»

The primary driver «We view this as the stage - setting event that has allowed more beetle events,» said David Thoma, a National Park Service ecologist studying factors behind the beetle outbreak.

The lack of free and easy access to reliable maps of Sumatran forests has limited Indonesia's efforts to protect its natural heritage, according to David Gaveau, a landscape ecologist based at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, who designed the site.

David Kline, a Scripps ecologist who wasn't involved with the coral surveys, said that he had «complete confidence» in the findings.

This study «helps to explain something that's been a big problem in the West,» says David Inouye, an ecologist and specialist in Rocky Mountain ecosystems at the University of Maryland, College Park.

But the study may raise more questions than it answers, says Merav Ben - David, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, who was not involved in this research.

Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in France.

They interact as if they are nest mates,» says David Holway, an ecologist at the University of California, San Diego.

A guest article from Dr David Barnes, a marine benthic ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, and colleagues Chester Sands, Narissa Bax, Rachel Downey, Christoph Held, Oliver Hogg, Kirill Minin, Camille Moreau, Bernabé Moreno and Maria Lund Paulsen from the Antarctic Seabed Carbon Capture Change project.

«This is a stunningly important paper,» says David Breshears, an ecologist at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Read on for an excerpt from «Cows, Carbon and the Anthropocene,» written by Jason West and David Briske, ecologists at Texas A&M University.

A guest article from Dr David Barnes, a marine benthic ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, and colleagues Chester Sands, Narissa Bax, Rachel... Read More

David Goodall was a botanist and ecologist who raised concerns about climate change and population growth long before they reached the political agenda.

Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer

Ahead of receiving the award â $ «which has previously been given to Sir David Attenborough, the ecologist James Lovelock, and the economist Amartya Sen â $ «Hansen told the Guardian that the latest climate models had shown the planet was on the brink of an emergency.

This study «helps to explain something that's been a big problem in the West,» says David Inouye, an ecologist and specialist in Rocky Mountain ecosystems at the University of Maryland, College Park.

David Johnston, a marine ecologist at Duke University, said the expedition is an «opportunity for science to understand how we're affecting the planet over the long term.»

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)