Sentences with phrase «ecologist mark»

One of them is the specialised climate ecologist Mark Urban of the University of Connecticut, whose 2015 metastudy in Science offered a solid foundation for the Royal Society's overview of recent publications.

The graph represents the findings of a 2015 metastudy in Science by climate ecologist Mark Urban of the University of Connecticut.

The Guardian has called it «the biggest environmental problem you've never heard of,» and tells the story of ecologist Mark Browne, whose groundbreaking research in this field has gone largely ignored by the major clothing retailers whose shelves are stocked with the synthetic fabrics that are fuelling this problem.

(2013) by the marine ecologist Mark J Costello at the University of Auckland and colleagues, the rate of documenting new species was 17,500 a year over the past decade, rising above 18,000 a year since 2006.

While studying the evolution of GNBPs in termites, molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer of Towson University in Maryland got a hunch that the proteins weren't just sentinels.

«It's been shown now from cases right across the world, from the Caribbean and from the Pacific and Southeast Asia,» says marine ecologist Mark Spalding, lead author of the UNEP coral atlas.

At the University of California, Santa Cruz, marine ecologist Mark Carr has already had to let four technicians go.

Buckthorn, garlic mustard and many other invasive species do not pose as big a threat as some scientists think, says ecologist Mark Davis

«It eats about everything,» says marine ecologist Mark Bertness of Brown University.

Not exact matches

«I think that we have proof that we've entered a new age, a heat age,» says Mark Urban, an ecologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, who was not involved in the study.

Nonetheless, Doak, an ecologist at the University of Colorado, dutifully identified, mapped and measured the plants, using the toothpicks to mark the location of the smallest ones.

The project marks the first time that historian Van Bavel and ecologist Scheffer have worked together.

Using this historic field data, two ecologists at the University of Wyoming, Mark Williams and William Baker, developed a method that claims to calculate the area that a tree occupies, which is then used to calculate a forest's density.

On swaths of coastline where fishing is restricted, corals such as the tall and branching Acropora millepora rule, says study co-author Mark Hay, a marine ecologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Back in the lab, the ecologists counted up the attacks by different predators — they can tell the nick of a bird's beak from the teeth marks of a mouse or the paired piercings of ant, for example.

As ecologist Donald Strong — the beetle's namesake — showed in the 1970's, each beetle species leaves a unique chew mark on the plant's leaves.

Despite their extensive range, researchers know little about the behavior of these solitary creatures, says Mark Elbroch, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

«It's nice to see a complete story of egg shape,» says Mark Hauber, a behavioral ecologist at Hunter College in New York City who was not involved in the work.

A team led by Mark Stoeckle, a molecular ecologist at Rockefeller University in New York City, barcoded 260 bird species known to reproduce in the United States.

Human actions could also have created conditions that favoured domesticated plants over their wild brethren, says Mark Bush, an ecologist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.

An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.»

Mark Bush, an ecologist, noted that «The human population is, therefore, the root cause of most environmental problems, and the sheer number of humans plays a very significant role in degrading the environment.»

«They're not going back,» said Dr. Mark A. Davis, an ecologist at Macalester College in St. Paul who has been exhorting colleagues to stop viewing nonnatives as necessarily bad since, he says, most are harmless.

«Just having a green roof may not mean anything in terms of preventing water from reaching the street level, for instance,» said Dr. Mark Simmons, a center ecologist and the lead investigator on the study.

-- Mark Cochrane, a fire ecologist at South Dakota State University [9]

As early as 1958, pioneer ecologists were marking out areas of forest — usually a hectare in size — and returning every few years to record the size, number and species of the trees found there.