Sentences with phrase «ecologists from»

Ecologists from the University of New South Wales assessed the likely impact of reintroducing Tasmanian devils to forests in south - eastern NSW and found they would assume the mantle of top predator, deterring cats and foxes.

Diverse plant communities are more successful and enable higher crop yields than pure monocultures, a European research team headed by ecologists from the University of Zurich has discovered.

The rest of the panel, two dam experts from Holland and Denmark, and two river ecologists from Germany and Austria, recommend that for now, the Danube should be allowed to flow along its original bed.

Ecologists from around the world are working with the very people who would seem their sworn enemies — rainforest loggers.

In an article in the March issue of the journal Fisheries, ecologists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues from around the world explore ways to protect fish from the phenomenon, known as barotrauma.

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

Salmon largely disappeared from our waters due to the construction of water mills, ecologists from Radboud University conclude (Scientific Reports, 20 July).

A study on humpback whales by ecologists from Denmark and Australia has revealed that baby whales communicate with their mothers in whispers to avoid the risk of attention from predators and other mating whales.

John Mathai, lead author of the overarching carnivore community paper in the supplement and a wildlife ecologist from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, studies Hose's civet in the highlands of Sarawak.

After decades of field work from dozens of sites around the world, and after two years of combing through and analyzing data, Matt Forister, associate professor and ecologist from the University of Nevada, Reno, and an international team have reported on global patterns in the diets of insect herbivores.

It was developed by Prof Cang Hui, a bio-mathematician from Stellenbosch University, in collaboration with two researchers from the United States of America, Prof Gordon A Fox, a statistician from the University of South Florida, and Prof Jessica Gurevitch, a well - known ecologist from Stony Brook University.

Losing the GBR and other reefs would be a massive blow to marine biodiversity and to the people that depend on healthy reefs for food, tourism, and protection from storms,» said co-author John Bruno, a marine ecologist from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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.

«The extra nutrients are good for fishers but are potentially disruptive to the rest of the benthic community,» says John Bruno, a marine ecologist from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

This transfer of carbon — or energy — up the food web is inefficient, says John Priscu, a microbial ecologist from Montana State University who was part of the team that discovered the Antarctic fish this month.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

Nevertheless, «In Spain, it is common practice for researchers to work alone in the field,» says Pedro Rey, a plant ecologist from the University of Jaén, «because we do not usually get public funds for a field assistant.»

«Plant breeding and cultivation methods should therefore be geared towards mixtures instead of improving the output of monocultures,» says the ecologist from UZH.

«I think that sounds ridiculous,» says Selina Ward, a coral reef ecologist from the University of Queensland who co-authored the petition.

«The data set is really impressive,» says Boris Baer, an ecologist from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland.

Co-author, Dr Clement Garcia, an ecologist from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Lowestoft said: «There have been concerns over the gradual erosion of our natural habitat for some time.

«There are multiple potential effects of climate and market variability on maple syrup production,» said Dufour, an ecologist from Quebec.

Robert Raguso, a behavioral ecologist from Cornell University, uninvolved in this study, is excited about the unique and creative approach taken by the authors in «interviewing» hoverflies.

Dr. Janet Jansson, a microbial ecologist from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State in the US, was part of the team trying to prove trans - poo - tion works.

Rebecca Dunlop is a physiologist and behavioural ecologist from the University of Queensland, Australia.

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.

Every Blade of Grass by Thomas Wharton (2014) A compelling historical fiction, Every Blade of Grass is the story of the correspondence between Martha, a New York journalist, and James, an ecologist from Vancouver.

Kinda fascinating to go back and read an issue of The Ecologist from 1970 (they all seem to be available as nice scans on their web site!)

(05/27/2008) Next generation biofuels could decimate tropical forests says a leading ecologist from the University of Minnesota.

Now, an ecologist from Cornell University, has done the carbon - accounting on a range of fossil fuels - and the preliminary results are not looking good for the energy industry's recent savior, shale - gas.

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.

But it has been Shepard's formulation and the conclusions he drew from it that have been of greatest importance both for deep ecologists and for me.

Furthermore, the proposals of deep ecologists illustrate the far too direct move from a new sensibility to policy recommendations that results from the depreciation of ethical reflection.

We have more to gain from the rich explorations of individual deep ecologists than from their formal conceptual statements and arguments.

Deep ecologists have pressed the question of why civilized human beings, and especially those in the modern West, have become so alienated from nature.

The difference, from the Whiteheadian point of view, is that whereas these deep ecologists think we must choose between an ethical - valuational approach to other creatures and an appreciation of our unity with the whole system of nature, Whitehead shows us the truth of both.

It is to ask that economists learn ecology and that ecologists learn economics; that science meets religion and both learn from each other; that our innermost human problems are seen, not simply as some personal aberration, but as intimately linked with the sort of society we create for ourselves.

And while the analysis that addresses these issues can be indebted to Christian tradition, the theologian who thinks about such issues may well be so innovative in relation to historic Christian reflection that his or her work on these topics is indistinguishable from that of the ecologist, the secular ethicist, or the economic theorist (cf. CNT 253).

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.

Our commitment to restoring the wetlands, along with the dedication of our Banrock Station ecologists and rangers, support from government and volunteer groups, as well

Guided by Karen Glennemeier, a Shedd conservation ecologist who specializes in amphibians, Ford volunteers helped clear sugar maple trees that were preventing important other native species from prospering.

The son of the late billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith, he was expelled from Eton for possessing cannabis and later edited the Ecologist magazine.

Well, to be fair, it should be noted that European values have not prevented service secrets from bombing an ecologist ship (Rainbow Warrior), supporting terrorist groups (GAL in Spain, Gladio in Italy) and executing terrorists (actual or supposed) without allowing for surrender (UK mainly).

Gustavo Castellanos - Galindo, a fish ecologist, recalls the conversation from last October.

Based on his experience as a marine ecologist and Congressional Fellow, he authored «Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease» (2012), among several other recent books.

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.

Astrid Caldas told the audience about her transition from ecologist and professor to climate scientist.

«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.

From ecologists, we learned cannibalism was often an important part of predation and foraging, while social scientists studied its relationship to courtship, mating and even parental care.

Ecologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his colleagues used data on hurricanes and the damage they have caused to estimate the total loss of biomass in US forests for every year from 1851 to 2000.