Sentences with phrase «ecologists find»

Repeating a century - old survey, ecologists find that global warming is forcing mammals in the national park up and, potentially, out

To really determine whether stowaway bacteria would survive on Mars, experiments need to use more complex surfaces, «not the kind of configurations that microbial ecologists find easy to count,» he says.

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.

With climate change, ecologists found an ally in physical science.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, if we look at the Jewish scriptures in light of some of the more extreme expressions coming from deep ecologists and others, we do find an emphasis on discontinuity as well.

He is editor - in - chief of The Ecologist magazine founded by his uncle Edward Goldsmith (known as Teddy).

After Lubchenco opened the floor to questions, Arianna Sutton - Grier, an ecologist with NOAA and the University of Maryland, noted that while she has tried to make a career of use - inspired, interdisciplinary science, it has been hard to find a fit at institutions that are not accustomed to those approaches.

A promising study published last autumn by ecologists Sarah Greenleaf of the University of California at Davis and Claire Kremen of the University of California at Berkeley found that the presence of wild bees increases the efficiency of sunflower pollination fivefold.

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

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

However, these predictions are not always consistent with the field observations carried out by ecologists, who found high - diversified groups.

«This finding may lay to rest a long - standing debate in tropical forest ecology,» says ecologist Steve Turton of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia.

The team of ecologists, based at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, found that trees close to the edges of glades grew faster and were generally larger than trees elsewhere in the savanna.

Ecologists from Radboud University together with German and English colleagues published these findings in the scientific journal PLoS ONE on October 18th.

«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.

Marine ecologist Daniel Kamykowski of North Carolina State University in Raleigh cautions that the study was conducted in a laboratory and not in the marine environment, but welcomes the findings nonetheless.

In 2007, quantitative ecologist Karthik Ram sought to find out why certain insect parasites appeared in some sand dunes but not others.

But the origin of Lepidodactylus lugubris, an asexual gecko found on many central Pacific islands, had remained a genealogical whodunit until Ray Radtkey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at San Diego, and his colleagues turned their attention to the problem.

To find out how an assortment of plants will react, last summer postdoc Kelly Wolfe - Bellin and others in the lab of Harvard ecologist Fakhri Bazzaz converted a greenhouse into a special tunnel.

The finding «seems intriguing,» says Doug Gill, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, who has worked on host - parasite interactions.

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.

To find out what eats what in this ecosystem, fisheries ecologists Jason Turner and Jay Rooker of Texas A&M University in Galveston first analyzed the composition of fatty acids in Sargassum, a green algae that grows on seaweed fronds, and phytoplankton — microscopic organisms that photosynthesize like plants.

Stanford ecologist Peter Vitousek, calls the finding «original and useful.»

It's too soon to say that the microorganisms found at 16 meters are in fact 2800 years old, since the ice could have melted and refrozen recently, says microbial ecologist Warwick Vincent of the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

The finding «addresses indirectly the evolution of organelles» within cells, says physiological ecologist Charles Fisher of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Research by Michigan State University, published in the current issue of Bioscience, explores the paradox that although ecologists share findings via scientific journals, they do not share the data on which the studies are built, said Patricia Soranno, MSU fisheries and wildlife professor and co-author of the paper.

The ecologists» findings underline the importance of assessing the persistence strategies of plants in any given habitat.

The findings suggest that «species are able to use different parts of these sites to gain a competitive edge,» says James Grace, an ecologist at the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.

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

Kim de Mutsert, a postdoctoral coastal ecologist from Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, is here on a blistering July day to find out.

«We found that prized sportfish, such as Brook trout and the smaller fish that trout eat, are disappearing from lakes where species of Bass have expanded their habitats,» said Karen Alofs, a postdoctoral researcher working with ecologist and conservation biologist Donald Jackson in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, describing a study published this week in Proceeding of the Royal Society B.

To find out, a team led by reproductive ecologist Mary Rieger, of the Cooperative Research Center for Australian Weed Management and the University of Adelaide in Australia, took advantage of a unique opportunity.

Modern - day marsupials such as red kangaroos do roam to find ephemeral food sources, says Stephen Wroe, a paleo - ecologist at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia.

Plant ecologist Gian - Reto Walther of the University of Bayreuth in Germany says it is unclear what this finding bodes for the broader ecosystem.

Since 2009, studies by Pan's group, and by tropical ecologist Luis Fernandez at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in California, have found high mercury levels in some species of fish, particularly large catfish and in fish that eat other fish.

«It's certainly a novel finding,» says John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Their study, published in this week's early online edition of the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, might surprise bear ecologists and conservationists who had long assumed that black bears in the Sierra Nevada rely on lots of protein from ants and other insects because their remains are frequently found in bear feces.

Rather than relying on indigestible foods found in bear feces for information about the importance of digestible bear foods, the UC San Diego ecologists looked at the digestible foods that were used to produce bear tissue.

Birds in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to — and may even be benefiting from — long - term exposure to radiation, ecologists have found.

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 findings raise important questions about the relationship between atmospheric change and soil ecosystems, says Michael Miller, a soil ecologist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

Ecologists» research into the tropic cascading effects of predators will assist decision makers by providing important scientific findings to prepare for the impacts of climate change occurring now and into the future.

An international team of ecologists and environmental scientists found that bird and mammal populations were reduced within 7 and 40 km of hunters» access points, such as roads and settlements.

Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

E. R. Jasper Wubs, an ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen, hoped to find a better way.

«What we've found is so amazing, even I have a hard time believing it is true,» says Walt Koenig, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University and the lead author of the paper.

In sodium - poor soil, a University of Oklahoma ecologist has found, small amounts of added salt boost invertebrate biomass and increase decomposition — so much so, his latest work suggests, that a lack of salt could have a major impact on the global carbon cycle.

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.

To find out, ecologists Kristina Stinson of Harvard University and John Klironomos of the University of Guelph in Canada and other colleagues examined a natural forest dominated by red and sugar maples and white ash.

The findings track with the growing body of research on the impact of insects on forest fire severity, said Carolyn Sieg, a research plant ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service.