Sentences with phrase «ecologists study»

«When ecologists study biodiversity, they look at the present day by identifying the range of species in a particular forest.

He envisions ecologists studying satellite images of rangelands or other ecosystems to look for increases in recovery length.

The primary driver «We view this as the stage - setting event that has allowed more beetle events,» said David Thoma, a National Park Service ecologist studying factors behind the beetle outbreak.

Ecologists studying the relationships within ecosystems have found that species living in polluted environments do better when they include a greater variety of organisms.

The Op - Ed section has published «A World Without Coral Reefs,» a provocative and disturbing essay by Roger Bradbury, an ecologist studying resource management at Australian National University.

Not exact matches

Ecologist David Schindler, who energetically led the ELA for more than two decades, convinced the group to fund ELA to study the issue.

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.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

A thoughtful ecologist will try imaginatively to live the life of the creature being studied.

«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.

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.

Research ecologist Mourad Gabriel is one of the few scientists studying illegal grow sites in California's overrun national forests.

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.

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.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last fall marine ecologist Vincent Zintzen of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa published a study describing the first - ever observations of hagfish exploiting those glands to ward off predators.

«In these environments that are dominated by marine plants, photosynthesis and respiration cause large differences in CO2 concentrations and the addition of anthropogenic carbon make these day - to - night differences even larger than they would be without that extra carbon,» said George Waldbusser, an Oregon State marine ecologist and co-author on the study, who serves as Pacella's Ph.D. adviser.

Jonathan Storm, a behavioural ecologist now at the University of South Carolina Upstate, in Spartanburg, briefly exposed lab - grown female crickets to wolf spiders whose fangs had been immobilised with wax, then studied the behaviour of their subsequent offspring.

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.

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.

Ecologist Simon Levin discusses his work, including the study of how cooperation is achieved in slime molds, bacterial films and small societies in nature

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.

«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.

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.

Ecologist Amanda Subalusky of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., had been studying water quality in the Mara River when she and her colleagues noticed something odd.

«Toads are tough,» says evolutionary ecologist Rick Shine of the University of Sydney, who has studied cane toads.

«The dams are blocking the fish,» says Michael Goulding, a Wildlife Conservation Society aquatic ecologist in Gainesville, Florida, who has been studying the dorado since the 1970s.

The study «paints a realistic picture of how complicated the management of Arctic species will be going forward,» adds Mike Runge, a research ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

«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.

A study by Isabel Schmidt, for instance, an ecologist at the University of Brasília, examined what time of year different species release their nearly microscopic seeds in order to identify which species are most impacted by harvesting.

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.

Using a computer to study the same question, a team led by ecologist Anthony Ives of the University of Wisconsin simulated interactions between species and how they cope with unpredictable environmental events.

Leading wildlife ecologists applaud the study for putting forward a surprising hypothesis and bringing together so much evidence from around the world.

Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water scarcity and pollution — continue to intensify.

«Orangutan killing is likely the number one threat to orangutans,» says study coauthor Serge Wich, a biologist and ecologist at Liverpool John Moores University in England.

According to Peter Groffman, a microbial ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., northern hardwood forests have relied on thick layers of leaf litter that serve as a rooting medium.

To see whether the measurement would hold up in the field, Gore teamed with Lisandro Benedetti - Cecchi, an ecologist at the University of Pisa in Italy, to study algae along the shore of the small Italian island of Capraia.

While the study is the first to confirm this link between dolphin motivation and communication, some ecologists question its validity, since the dolphins were artificially separated and the female was directed to behave a certain way.

«Any biofuel that causes land clearing is likely to increase global warming,» says ecologist Joseph Fargione of The Nature Conservancy, lead author of the second study.

Yet, fruit flies rarely interact with the fungus in the wild — pests like the corn earworm caterpillar are much bigger threats — so it's unclear how applicable these results are to the real world, says Marko Rohlfs, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bremen in Germany who was not involved in the study.