Sentences with phrase «ecologist also»

The ecologist also tested whether any gut microbes in the caterpillars helped the insects to survive in some way.

Most importantly for the study's researchers, «It puts the final nail in the coffin of the idea that small brains constrain insects»» cognitive abilities, says co-author Lars Chittka, a behavioral ecologist also at Queen Mary University of London.

«It's primarily done by females,» says Janet Mann, a behavioral ecologist also at Georgetown University and Patterson's dissertation adviser.

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.

Feminists and ecologists also introduced new creative challenges.

While historical land connections are the most surprising factor in determining the make - up of a geographically - clustered ant community, ecologists also have to consider current and recognized influences, such as the temperature.

Not exact matches

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

Included also are all those delicate balances of nature and those interacting systems and processes which the ecologists describe by which living things relate to each other and to their environments.

This conclusion was also reached by economists and ecologists in an international symposium on ecological economics edited by Robert Costanza (1991).

The finding also sheds new light on the geological history of the region, says John Priscu, a polar ecologist at Montana State University, Bozeman.

Led by paleontologists, the AP3 team also comprises geologists, anatomists, ecologists and biologists.

«It's not just a drip, drip, drip,» says ecologist Holly Ewing of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, who also worked with Dawson.

Preliminary work by other groups, similarly made up of both biomedical researchers and microbial ecologists, suggests that imbalances in the microbiome might also be linked to allergies, diabetes, and obesity.

Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is also excited about the method's potential to quickly signal impending collapses.

While most ecologists bemoan the sixth great extinction in the planet's history, Thomas says we are also «on the brink of a sixth major genesis of new life».

Phyllis Coley and husband Tom Kursar, plant ecologists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, reasoned that if young plants have stronger chemical defenses, they might also be a good place to look for potential medicines.

But the underlying cryptographic technology, a growing chain of time - stamped records or «blocks» that is shared between many computers, forming a «blockchain,» could also be used to help save the environment, according to a commentary published today in Nature by Guillaume Chapron, an ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Riddarhyttan.

In a new study, U.C. Davis ecologist Richard Karban found that the chemicals can also influence a plant's twin.

The deposition is also well in excess of all defined threshold limits and critical load levels, said Peter Vitousek, ecologist at Stanford University and co-author of the study.

Ecologists and engineers from Iraq and abroad launched efforts to not only preserve what was left of the wetlands but also restore them.

Such divisions may also occur by adaptation to new foods, suggests behavioral ecologist Jeffrey Podos of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

The idea that night light could have broad knock - on effects on daytime pollinators is still speculation at this point, says ecologist Darren Evans of Newcastle University in England, who also studies light pollution and pollination.

Still, Jack Gilbert, a microbial ecologist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois (who is also a guest editor at Microbiome), stresses that more work must be done to understand the consequences of these findings.

It also concerns some ecologists that the narwhal, the strange, arctic whale whose long spiral tusk may have inspired the unicorn myth, faces similar habitat threats.

But ecologists Kyle Van Houtan of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu and John Halley of the University of Ioannina in Greece wondered if other factors were also at work.

«Although the idea is nice, I am not totally convinced yet,» says Marcel Eens, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium who has also studied health effects of heavy metals in birds.

Anne Pusey, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who also worked in Gombe, notes that the infants» grunts are also «quite soft, so it's difficult to get within range and record them.»

It also helps make the connection between increased overgrazing and land degradation in the Eurasian grasslands and a surge in locust outbreaks, adds Stephen Simpson, a comparative nutritional ecologist at the University of Sydney, who also was not involved in the research.

There was a snag however: Margaret Ronsheim, an evolutionary plant ecologist and Long's spouse, was also on the job market.

And from his time, statisticians and ecologists have developed these models to such a level of sophistication now, I had a ready tool, both in terms of a ready camera that could take tiger pictures cheaply, and also these wonderful models, with whom Jim and I have been working for the last 25 years or so.

No one had tested whether animals could also be using it to show off their body size, says Lynda Sharpe, a behavioural ecologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

«It's always good to ask where will the genes go and what difference will it make,» says ecologist Allison Snow of Ohio State University, also an expert in transgenic gene flow.

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.

He adds that isolating these signals from the ecosystem is not only useful for predicting environmental catastrophes, but they can also be used to determine which habitats are most likely to respond to conservation, and so allow ecologists to direct their efforts.

Austrian ecologists recently found that the algae also protect against damaging ultraviolet radiation.

The researchers are also collecting information about weather patterns and other socio - ecological conditions that affect maple trees, said Rapp, a plant ecologist.

Past studies have also indicated that caterpillars don't have microbiomes, says Melissa Whitaker, an ecologist who studies the relationships between caterpillars and bacteria at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Founded in 2016 by Philipp and computational ecologist Amanda Schochet (also a Science Sandbox @ New Lab fellow), Micro brings together designers, scientists, storytellers and artists to squeeze the best parts of museums down into boxes that can go anywhere.

John Orrock, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, usually studies how animals behave when they're at risk of being attacked, but became intrigued by the ability plants have to also respond to threats.

Hip boots are also worn by ecologists and environmental scientists who do tests in swamps or lakes to determine the quality of water.

«That's why I'm wearing a mask,» says disease ecologist Kevin Olival, who's also with EcoHealth Alliance.

Members of The Ecology Consultancy's team of expert ecologists visit local primary schools to deliver wildlife themed, classroom based workshops to educate pupils about how the development is being carried out in a way that protects local wildlife and in conjunction with members of the developer's project team they also provide a broader view of the project's environmental activities.

Fruit orchard As well as the forest school, pupils were also involved with the academy's on - site fruit orchard, and an ecologist from Greater Manchester Ecology Unit was involved with the workshops, giving the pupils involved professional, hands - on guidance and practical skills to maintain the trees.

Sharon has also worked as an ecologist and resource specialist with the National Park Service, a resource planner with the Presidio Trust, and as an environmental consultant.

The ecologist in the group will also discover easy access to many natural attractions and eco parks.

Authored by independent ecologist Dr Guy Parker in partnership with leading UK conservation groups like the Grassland Trust and the Royal Society for Protection of Birds, as well as the Solar Trade Association (STA), the publication also includes guidance for solar farm operators to maximize their potential conservation benefits.

These are loose notes from Table 3, which had a mix of people, an ecologist (Gene Likens), a sustainability blogger (Revkin), an analyst of new economic models (Tim Jenkins), three grad students from New York University, and two people — a father, Michael Chender, and his lawyer daughter — from a metals industry consultancy (who are also involved in the mindfulness field).

«Mass extinction» is the term used by John Jaenike, University of Rochester ecologist, who is concerned that fungi also may be vanishing from the United States.