Sentences with phrase «ecologists at»

This year ecologists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied the first - ever underwater video of the strange fish.

New research led by ecologists at the University of York shows that certain species of moths and butterflies are becoming more common, and others rarer, as species differ in how they respond to climate change.

$ 120 Billion Approximate annual damage and control costs associated with invasive species in the United States, according to ecologists at Cornell University.

New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.

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.

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.

Ecologists at the University of Chicago tracked the acidity of the Pacific off an island close to Washington state over the course of eight years.

A study led by ecologists at UC Berkeley has found significant flaws in the research used to challenge the U.S. Forest Service plan to restore Sierra Nevada forests to less dense, and less fire - prone, environments.

Several rare upland bird species are being put at risk together with other ecosystem functions by the effects of climate change on the UK's blanket bogs, ecologists at the University of York have discovered.

This orchid bee was one of 16 outfitted with a radio transmitter backpack as part of a study of the insects» flight habits by ecologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

In 2012, evolutionary ecologists at GEOMAR showed for the first time that Emiliania huxleyi is able to adapt to ocean acidification by means of evolution.

Setting out to understand the spiking outbreaks, ecologists at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the U.S. Geological Survey turned to citizen scientists.

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

«This kind of deception is common in our society, but it is so difficult to prove that any other animal does it,» said lead researcher Aliza le Roux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Around 97 million sharks died because of human activity in 2010, according to research by Boris Worm, a professor and marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

«These practices represent the state of the art for conservation,» says Bryan Finegan, a forest ecologist at CATIE, the international research institute in Costa Rica that led the study.

John Williams Show - WGN Radio - January 20, 2015 Steve Sullivan, an urban ecologist at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, discusses the proper way to get rid of a bat in the house.

Dr. Richard Ostfeld is a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

A freshwater ecologist at the Millbrook - based Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies co-authored a paper on global trends in synthetic chemical pollution.

WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne spoke with Emma Rosi, an aquatic ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

Dr. Richard Ostfeld is a disease ecologist at the Millbrook - based Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.

A symbiotic shift between such distantly related species as the worms and the crab is rare because organisms in a mutualistic relationship tend to be specialized and completely dependent on one other, says study coauthor Momoko Igawa, an ecologist at Kyoto University in Japan.

«This sort of deep epidemiology is important,» says Raina Plowright, an infectious disease ecologist at Montana State University in Bozeman.

Adrian Barnett is a rainforest ecologist at Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus

The work is a «huge breakthrough» that should help conservationists protect this endangered predator, says Melvin Sunquist, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Within decades, advances in sequencing genes from ancient tissue could allow scientists to clone extinct dodo birds, saber - toothed cats, and woolly mammoths, says Jeffrey Yule, an evolutionary ecologist at Louisiana Tech University.

The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

«When narwhals detect humans, they often dive quickly and disappear from sight,» says Kristin Laidre, an ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who studies marine mammals in the Arctic.

«Desertification can occur anywhere except in a desert,» says Uriel Safriel, a desert ecologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Kevin Lafferty, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey, says the positive global picture hides shifting regional ones.

Charles R. Marshall, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, says, «It's so spectacular, out of control, and extreme.

A dearth of research According to Chris Harley, a marine ecologist at UBC who was not involved in the study, it has only been in the last five to 10 years that ecologists have begun to start studying the impact of carbon dioxide on species in earnest.

That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.

With the animal restrained, telling its sex is straightforward, says Murray, who is a physiological ecologist at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville.

Penelope Morgan, a professor and fire ecologist at the University of Idaho, said there «is no doubt» changes in climate are contributing to an uptick in fires, especially across the West.

Frank Chapman, an ecologist at UF who has worked with the tilapia industry in Latin America, calls the suggestion that MT originates on the farms «plausible.»

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

The discovery «shows that bees are not only amazing organisms, but perhaps more plastic than we suppose,» says Carolina Laura Morales, pollination and bee ecologist at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) in Buenos Aires.

Gathering the data was the first step in a multiphase project to identify strategies that will help all cities effectively sip, rather than chug, available resources, says the study's lead author Chris Kennedy, an industrial ecologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

«I'm surprised,» says Edward Ellis (no relation to Peter), an ecologist at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico, who led much of the fieldwork.

A crucial reason why the study of freshwater acidification has lagged until now is because determining how atmospheric carbon affects these ecosystems requires complex modeling, and is much less clear than that occurring in oceans, according to study author Linda Weiss, an aquatic ecologist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

«Avoidance was strongly related to the potential risk of infection,» agrees Janet Koprivnikar, a parasite ecologist at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, who was not involved with the research.

The results may not seem surprising, but they shed light on how the avoidance of parasites can shape an entire ecosystem through what some call an «ecology of fear,» says Vanessa Ezenwa, a disease ecologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who was not involved in the research.

«Ribbed mussels live in estuarine habitats and can filter bacteria, microalgae, nutrients and contaminants from the water,» said Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the Milford Laboratory, part of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and co-author of the study.

Whether the newcomer will fill the dorado's ecological role or prey on different fish and thus skew species assemblages is unclear, says Carlos Cañas, a river ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society here, who plans to monitor the migration of large catfish in the watershed.

Though handedness has been described in other whales before, this study «demonstrates that you really need to consider the context of how animals are feeding in their environment,» says study coauthor Ari Friedlaender, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

«At first, we thought our equipment was broken,» says co-author Brad E. Erisman, a fisheries ecologist at the University of Texas at Austin.

Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the CSIC National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, who leads a 20 - strong team, expects that «at least half» of his staff «will go within a year, for sure.»

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.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.