Sentences with phrase «ecologists used»

A team of ecologists used nets to capture 152 birds from 16 species inside and around the 2600 - square - kilometer exclusion zone.

The ecologists used a species of nightshade plant (Solanum rostratum), which was buzz - pollinated with captive bumblebees of varying sizes.

Ecologists used a big data approach to test the links between climate suitability and persistence strategies for nearly 100 populations of over 30 species of trees and herbs growing on 3 continents and 16 countries across the globe.

In a recent study published in the journal Movement Ecology, conservation ecologists used GPS tags to track 17 of those white storks through their normal migration period to figure out why.

Invasion ecologists use the term «biotic resistance» to describe how native species might fight back and drive invaders extinct.

Describe and interpret predator - prey cycles Explain how and why ecologists use quadrats and transects Required practical 9: measure the population size of a common species in a habitat.

In their study published in «Nature Climate Change» a European team of ecologists uses a new modeling approach which relaxes some of these assumptions.

Arguing that far more attention should be paid to validating ecological models before ecologists use them to predict the future, Dormann says his own paper «is intended to call on the scientist employing species distribution models... to reflect more thoroughly on their merits and limitations.»

Not exact matches

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.

The use of the term intrinsic value by deep ecologists misled us into thinking there was more similarity than may in fact exist.

As both an ecologist and long - time freelance science writer, I know how difficult it can be to interpret and summarize scientific analyses for public use, and the Rainforest Alliance impacts report is a fine effort.

I was simply applying the same standards to parenting information that I used in my work as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist.

She is an urban ecologist who uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to understand how landscape patterns affect ecosystem services in cities.

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.

Jacquelyn Gill, a paleo - ecologist and biogeographer known for her Warm Regards podcast, blogs and web presence taught the group how best to use social media to communicate their research.

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.

Ecologists will use the data to better understand the population size and advise captive breeding programs.

With this new, aggregate climate map in hand, they turned to a technique used primarily by ecologists and biologists, called species distribution modeling, to identify fire - prone regions of the globe.

The researchers provide a new mathematical model that can be used by population geneticists and ecologists to better predict how social groups will influence the way species maintain genetic diversity and evolve, and ultimately help in the conservation of species.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

That human land use destroys natural ecosystems is an oft - cited assumption in conservation, but ecologists have discovered that instead, traditional ranching techniques in the African savanna enhance the local abundance of wild, native animals.

The work done by Bárbara is important, as it provides a framework and a simulation tool that many ecologists and conservation biologists will be able to use.»

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.

Using data from 23 sites, Winifred Frick, an ecologist at Boston University, helped model the disease's impact on little brown bats.

Ecologist Ron Thresher got a sense of how the public might react to gene drives when he described his plan to use genetic engineering to rid the Australian waterways of invasive European carp, a voracious fish that can turn a crystal - clear stream into «a disgusting mudhole.»

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.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

Collaborator David Nelson, a stable isotope ecologist with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, tested the birds» feathers for stable hydrogen isotopes, which can be used to determine where the birds likely grew their feathers.

«The measurement we use for assessing biodiversity is focused almost entirely on loss of species,» says ecologist Daniel E. Schindler, lead author of the paper.

Last September John Endler, an evolutionary ecologist at Deakin University in Australia, reported that bowerbirds seem to use their trinkets to create a carefully plotted optical illusion.

For over one hundred years, the distribution of different sizes of trees in forests has been one of the core attributes recorded by foresters and ecologists world - wide, as it can be used to derive many other structural features, such as biomass and productivity.

Nonetheless, Doak, an ecologist at the University of Colorado, dutifully identified, mapped and measured the plants, using the toothpicks to mark the location of the smallest ones.

Even using the site occasionally can reap rewards, says Brenden Holland, a conservation ecologist at the University of Hawaii.

For close to 3 decades, as an ecologist at Pondicherry University — not far from her hometown — she has been doing research that conservationists can use to combat the loss of biodiversity.

Ecologists are using a network of «outdoor recording studios» to better monitor the subtropical Japanese island of Okinawa.

The study shows that «crows» natural abilities may indeed be based on sophisticated cognitive skills,» says ecologist Gavin Hunt of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, who discovered twig use in New Caledonian crows.

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.

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.

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.

Forest depletion ultimately contributes more GHG emissions than all the cars and trucks in use worldwide, says Werner Kurz, a forest ecologist with Natural Resources Canada, who was not involved with the study.

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.

«Results showed glyphosate use and transgenic traits were not factors in disease susceptibility,» says Martin Williams, a USDA - ARS ecologist and University of Illinois crop scientist.

Microbial ecologist Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and his colleagues used two ships to collect 200 samples from 17 deep water locations between May 25 and June 2.

That's one of several conclusions reached by University of Nebraska - Lincoln ecologist John DeLong, who has co-authored the first study to quantify the relationship between human population growth and energy use on an international scale.

Ecologists may be able to use this tool or ones like it as a quick and inexpensive approach to monitoring the status and health trajectories of coral reef communities.

In a paper published online today in Biology Letters, a group of ecologists argues that the guppies — and other nonnative fish used for mosquito control — haven't actually proven very effective mosquito fighters, but are known to pose ecological risks.

After the tracking device was removed and the shark released, the downloaded data revealed a wealth of information about her 3,350 km journey, uncovering important insights into habitat use and pinpointing key sites to be considered for protection by ecologists and conservationists.

«The flexibility of the jays» reactions in different social situations, and the use of these tactics across different sensory domains [sight and sound] supports the notion that the jays have something like a theory of mind — an understanding of others» points of view,» says Lisa Leaver, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the study.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

«Ecologists currently focus too much attention on measuring the variation of isotope data for consumers and their prey and not enough attention on quantifying the interactions of consumers and their prey using isotope data,» Hopkins explained.